Example sentences of "of them [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Registration at an exchange was not to be compulsory for the unemployed ; their large numbers and the mismatch of many of them with the available jobs would have led the scheme into immediate crisis . |
| 2 | After all , the Minister is surrounded by a large number of them on the Conservative Benches . |
| 3 | Many people , both men and women , take up kung fu , not all of them for the same reasons . |
| 4 | Nor did he for any of the other hopeful interviewees , most of them from the national papers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Oh , no , never say that he did not like them , after all her hard work and the writing of them in the small hours after her demanding duties as a dogsbody had already tired her ! |
| 7 | They were her Aladdin 's caves and , ever since her inheritance , open to her as often as she chose , though for most of the year she contented herself with a reminder of them in the small parcels . |
| 8 | Yet none of them in the triple realms of Theatre , Television and Film would be anywhere without the Designer . |
| 9 | There are 1,250 officers in the branch in England and Wales , 30 per cent of them in the Metropolitan Police in London . |
| 10 | There are only a few thousand maleos left , most of them in the northern parts of the island . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Being certainly lost an opportunity by not being it 's only body there is an editing element in the book publishing section from the P G B and there are elements relating to us in the S P G of the Periodical Training Council and there will be bits of them in the public relations in the marketing one of which I 've got a copy of the draft , but you know there is nothing all embracing B T E C do graphics and journalism but there is no single forum , I mean that 's what so astonishing and interestingly somebody at B T E C told me the other day there 's been a bit of a problem about the the book editing part of the editing level three element um , and that 's partly political as to editing versus production because production 's level four and editing is level three , and that has made some problems apparently |
| 13 | In 1980–81 , for example , there were 62,000 students in Wales following non-advanced courses , the majority of them in the 35 colleges , as compared with 14,000 on advanced courses . |