Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had introduced them to mechanisms which suggested a terminology applicable to their own science making it possible for them at last to give the behaviourists , who had been giving those not of their ilk a hard time , some of their own medicine . |
| 2 | It was important to remember that it was only a few hours since Floy and Snodgrass had left Tara , the Shining Citadel , the Bright Palace , and that there was not very much that could have gone wrong for them in those few hours . |
| 3 | By the middle of the eighteenth century about 70,000 slaves a year were being taken across the Atlantic , half of them in British ships . |
| 4 | Today there are some 600,000 Portuguese there , half of them from this small island . |
| 5 | One in six of the older workers had experienced redundancy prior to 1979 , over half of them among those with less than ten years service with the company . |
| 6 | On one unsettling day 13 professionals were released , 12 of them on free transfers . |
| 7 | The observation that a CR may be less likely when the CS is presented in a context other than that used for training is open to a number of explanations , some of them of little theoretical interest . |
| 8 | Emus wandered over the open country hooting their hollow cries ; and troops of kangaroos , some of them of gigantic size , grazed peacefully in their primitive pastures . |
| 9 | It makes fifty stops en route , some of them of considerable duration , and , as has been shown , much time must be wasted at stations . |
| 10 | The friction which has always existed between the two camps was made worse in the early 1970s when a number of colleges of art , some of them of considerable distinction , were swallowed up by polytechnics . |
| 11 | It is , however , due to the large number of copies which the Romans had made of Greek masterpieces , some of them of high quality , that we owe our wide knowledge of such work today . |
| 12 | More than seven thousand have gone on to become officers , some of them of high rank . |
| 13 | Rain had met some of them on previous occasions . |
| 14 | We will discuss some of them at various points in this book . |
| 15 | The meeting of the Central Committee lasted two long days , during which eighty-eight delegates spoke , some of them at great length . |
| 16 | She would be almost glad when they were gone — some of them at any rate . |
| 17 | The research is based on the assumption that most of the contemporary ideas on this crucial topic date back to the 19th century , and that some of them at any rate are by now dated . |
| 18 | If you talk to people in the street the majority of people who have young children are certainly saying we need day care , we need opportunities for ourselves erm and are quite prepared , some of them at any rate , to go and say that to their local councillors and to write to their M Ps . |
| 19 | Apart from one draper and one mercer all were clothiers , some of them worth several hundreds , and one , Thomas Spring of Lavenham , ranked among the richest men in the land with no less than £3,200 . |
| 20 | More liberal constituencies in the party , some of them with close links to Hillary Rodham Clinton , the president 's wife , then spent the last half of 1992 making sure that their claims on the presidency were not forgotten . |
| 21 | He made some of them with solid necks for playing slack-key instead of slide — there were a number of different models . |
| 22 | It is thus quite clear that whatever he said about Shakespeare 's plays , Tolkien read some of them with keen attention : most of all , Macbeth . |
| 23 | I had twenty village girls to teach , some of them with such a strong country accent that I could hardly communicate with them . |
| 24 | But this week 's guerrillas numbered more than 1,000 , some of them with heavy weapons . |
| 25 | About three quarters of the contestants at each board are graded as suitable for the candidates ' list , some of them with recommended restrictions ( the Indian doctor was reckoned ‘ suitable for consideration for an ethnic seat ’ ) . |
| 26 | Here he met the most notable trade unionists of the area , some of them with national reputations . |
| 27 | As to the much discussed pearwood wall panels , Italo Rota explains : ‘ We were looking for a simple idea that would allow visitors who had already looked at a good many paintings to connect some of them with unfamiliar settings ; the art of memory tells us that it is easier to retain images in one 's head if one can link them to a specific space ’ . |
| 28 | What makes it appropriate right now to recognise the great promise of the Orbital engine is Ford 's bold decision to manufacture 60 prototype two-stroke Fiestas and lend some of them to high-mileage users . |
| 29 | The lenders of the Consumer Credit Association , also formed in 1975 , were aware of the reputation of some of them for irresponsible lending . |
| 30 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |