Example sentences of "[det] [prep] them in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Then I must have applied to half of them in the last four years . " |
| 2 | Critics of multimedia say that it is a solution looking for a problem , but during the past few years it has delivered many useful applications , some of them in the financial sector . |
| 3 | There are frequent reports , some of them in the Soviet press , of bungling and inefficiency in both exploration and production , yet expert opinion on what the Soviet oil industry can achieve has been shown over the past few years to be wildly wrong . |
| 4 | We shall look at some of them in the next chapter , but before closing this one it might be pertinent to speculate why it was in St. John 's Gospel , of all places , that we get such stress laid on the Spirit as Paraclete . |
| 5 | J.D. had told her on her last visit , when she had handed in the column she had just read , that there had been a large number of letters about Vesta 's contribution and he would be publishing some of them in the next issue . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's intending to drop in and have a social drink with a few of them in the next day or so , have lunch or dinner , participate in old boys ’ chat , that sort of thing . ’ |
| 7 | We shall consider each of them in the chronological order in which they came to Anselm 's attention . |
| 8 | The sheer volume of the many assessments externally required by the Act and now under design by SEAC runs the danger of forcing the less confident teachers — indeed all of them in the first instance , as they ascend the steep learning curve — into ‘ rote teaching ’ , a much more dangerous activity than rote learning because it tends to shut down that sense of intellectual curiosity without which children are not really being taught . |
| 9 | And it 's not just Cancer and Heart Disease and Child Abuse and the Homeless and the Disabled — all of them in the utmost need of support . |
| 10 | No fewer than 39,000 members of the Merchant Service lost their lives in the Second World War , many of them in the Western Approaches , yet they are invariably overshadowed by their more glamorous allies in the Royal Navy . |
| 11 | Faced , however , with the catastrophic increase in unemployment and the need to occupy large numbers of workless people without directly employing them ( which would have run counter to the economic doctrine which had led to the redundancy of many of them in the first place ) , the Government poured money into any ‘ voluntary ’ agency willing to put in a bid for government-funded cheap labour . |
| 12 | ‘ What we found initially was that individual mussel meats were small because there were so many of them in the one place . |
| 13 | But such enthusiasts were not numerous , and there were not many of them in the papal Curia . |
| 14 | Neath were blamed and given that there were so many of them in the Welsh team it is impossible to argue against Neath , in the sense that the Neath style and philosophy were also Wales ' bearing some of the blame for the national decline . |
| 15 | The exigencies of war were such that those with long years of service to their name ( and there were probably more of them in the fifteenth than in the fourteenth century ) almost inevitably found themselves in positions of command . |
| 16 | From a practical point of view , however , you can not have a public inquiry into every accident — though heaven knows there were enough of them in the 1950s — so the alternative is an inquiry held in private . |
| 17 | that wh who in the government would he dispose of and he sat and smiled gently and said well he would n't have appointed any of them in the first place . |
| 18 | So , against Clark , it must be argued that it is misleading to claim that because animals , imbeciles , and normal infants are all weak , defenceless , and at our mercy , to treat any of them in the same way ( say by killing them for food or using them in research ) is ‘ in moral terms , the very same act ’ ( Clark 1978 : 149 ) . |
| 19 | Before 1290 two successive chief justices of the King 's Bench were clerics , but the next two — from 1290 to 1307 — were laymen ; out of the fifteen judges of that court during Edward 's reign , eight were laymen , most of them in the later years . |
| 20 | An increasing number of factories and other enterprises were being constructed in foreign countries : by 1989 over 3,500 had been built , most of them in the socialist world but nearly 900 in developing countries . |
| 21 | Préval , the deposed Prime Minister ( who like the rest of the former Cabinet was in hiding — most of them in the French embassy ) issued leaflets calling for non-violent civil disobedience campaigns , as did Aristide in radio broadcasts beamed from neighbouring Dominican Republic . |
| 22 | There are only a few thousand maleos left , most of them in the northern parts of the island . |