Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] them [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 The idea is that people on the street could tell at a glance that I 'm a proctor , which of course only the more informed of them can .
2 The conflicts of interest between those who monopolize public authority and those managed by and dependent upon them can not usefully be analysed in terms of class but rather in terms of the social division of labour ( Feher , Heller and Markus 1983 , pp. 114–33 ) .
3 Here then , get a bit too cold for them would n't you ?
4 The most ambitious of them could see that the largest gains were to be made in politics , and to politics they turned .
5 The introduction , in 1951 , of the General Certificate of Education made it easier to enrol secondary-modern pupils for such examinations , since at ordinary level ( O level ) the more able among them could now take one subject or a few subjects , without having to take a whole group of subjects at the same time .
6 Bank loans and , particularly , credit cards may account for a much greater volume of spending than the total debt outstanding on them might suggest .
7 Those who are familiar with them will have no trouble using oil pastels .
8 The spread of population , the numbers of visually handicapped pupils in a particular area and the range of educational provision available to them will influence the way in which the advisory service is organised and implemented .
9 Directors will only act according to professional standards of behaviour and the range of decisions available to them will be indicated by their own expertise .
10 The absence of any prospect of being able to do more than survive on the finances available to them can be deeply depressing .
11 Uppermost among them will be how they begin to devise a strategy to defeat a man who is both boxer and puncher .
12 The drinks machine was in the passage leading to the library and sometimes one or other of them would sit down for a break , and she found it a relief to talk to a real human being .
13 One or other of them would surely employ her .
14 The fact that the company never had and was never entitled to have some of the documents and that certain of them could only be obtained by litigation with the appellants , in so far as they were relevant to issues in that litigation , are factors to take into account in the balancing exercise to be set against the purposes of the administration set out in section 8 of the Act of 1986 .
15 The most energetic of them may form themselves into pressure-groups of a not wholly child-centred kind .
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