Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Then we 've done our work , I would say that my average of ten company representatives went over , perhaps two would find it was useful , useful fact finding mission , but it did n't achieve much , two would click instantly and have orders while they 're there , and the remainder would over the period of six or nine months later , if they worked at it , gain orders or perhaps , perhaps more importantly agents or distributors to sell their products for them in that country .
2 The committee said that because ministers occupied positions of power there were particular risks for them in any activity which overlaps the border between their public duties and private interests , however worthy the motives may be in any individual case .
3 However , parameters for them for individual writers could be extracted from an initial training phase for a script recognition system .
4 Dana Gillespie : ‘ This was about the time The Beatles were just starting and they were considered to have long hair , but if you look at the pictures of them in those days , they had almost crew-cuts compared to David 's which was honestly long , bright yellow , bleached blonde from a bottle .
5 Included in the four Lifetime Learning targets are that 50% of the workforce should be aiming for NVQs or units towards them by 1996 , and that by the year 2000 , 50% of the workforce be qualified to at least NVQ level 3 or equivalent .
6 I would hasten to say that I have never yet had the misfortune to operate anywhere which possessed all these undesirable features , but every one of us has seen some of them , or combinations of them in different circumstances , and everyone knows , from their own personal experience , how demotivating these characteristics are .
7 In the dormitories I identified the beds in which I had slept , with the same trays beneath them for dirty clothes and the same chairs beside them .
8 He must be for ever two steps behind them on complicated murder cases .
9 They attract crowds of 450 for their home matches in the Luxembourg league and brought 26 fans with them for this UEFA Cup first round tie .
10 I have explained some of the ways of getting to know members of the media and why it is important to have relationships with them within that framework , you must build a portfolio of individual contacts in the media world with whom you liaise , send material and can give special items and ideas from time to time .
11 The Ministry of Works and Public Services was authorized to sell them or arrange concessions in them within 90 to 180 days .
12 Many thanks to them from all our branch members for taking on the job of producing our newsletter which is such a vital link and source of information for the membership .
13 The term ‘ merchant adventurer ’ was originally applied to any merchant trading in cloth overseas ; there were groups of them from various towns including Newcastle and York , and others were drawn from several of the London companies , but gradually the term was limited to a group within the Mercers .
14 We can examine individual finds or groups of them in different ways , depending on how the find was made , the area in which it occurred or the problem on which it might throw light .
15 This is because , owing to the existence of what Paul Willis calls the ‘ objective possibilities ’ ( and limitations ) of material and ideological structures , it is easier to find links and analogies between them in some cases than in others ( Willis 1978 : 198–201 ) .
16 I 've not heard any grumbles about them at all .
17 Aegina grew 700–800 tonnes of them in 1992 , nearly twice as much as in 1982 , and in principle looks forward to growing twice as much again by the late 1990s .
18 He connects large sheets of handmade paper into vast surfaces ( one of his works is six by fourteen feet ) and then copies out texts onto them in long , continuing penmanship .
19 It is worth looking at , for from it sprang his fund of knowledge along with the all-important Jewish scriptures and his family 's experiences with them in eastern Europe .
20 In the first quarter of 1991 exports to former Eastern bloc countries fell by 79.1 per cent and imports from them by 67.3 per cent , whereas exports to hard-currency areas rose by 28.5 per cent and imports from them by 100 per cent after a 58 per cent devaluation in the zloty in January 1990 to a rate of US$1.00=Zl9,500 , and further devaluation in May 1991 to $1.00=Zl11,100 [ see p. 38208 ] .
21 In the first quarter of 1991 exports to former Eastern bloc countries fell by 79.1 per cent and imports from them by 67.3 per cent , whereas exports to hard-currency areas rose by 28.5 per cent and imports from them by 100 per cent after a 58 per cent devaluation in the zloty in January 1990 to a rate of US$1.00=Zl9,500 , and further devaluation in May 1991 to $1.00=Zl11,100 [ see p. 38208 ] .
22 Was , was there more fear , wa wa was it more likely that the press would fear repercussions on them in some way , if they were to break confidences .
23 I thought you would be interested to see some of the questions raised by Members so far , and I am enclosing these and the responses to them at this current stage of our thinking .
24 Now I personally believe that most erm policy makers in Britain , and indeed in most other industrial countries , do n't really believe the Third World matters to them at all .
25 Both volumes adopt the lowlands study formula and examine the changes and the reasons behind them in 12 ‘ type areas ’ ranging from northeast to southwest England as shown in Table 8.5 .
26 She was involved in some of the student protests against them during that period ; but at the end of the day she still felt that an English education was a necessary tool for survival for her children .
27 Not only the Headingley crowd would testify to this ; Lillee , Thomson and their friends saw him reach his century from 71 balls against them in 1975–6 , and go on to his highest Test score of 169 .
28 There 're no additives in them at all .
29 interim and preliminary announcements and annual reports or precise extracts from them by listed companies
30 The publication of interim and preliminary announcements and annual reports or precise extracts from them by listed companies is subject to the exemption contained in Section 58(1) ( d ) ( i ) of the FSA , as supplemented by SI 1992 No 813 , which exempts from the investment advertisement provisions any document required or permitted to be published by listing rules issued by the London Stock Exchange or any other market specified by the SI , which includes the USM , and most major overseas stock exchanges .
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