Example sentences of "some [prep] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It makes fifty stops en route , some of them of considerable duration , and , as has been shown , much time must be wasted at stations . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | More than seven thousand have gone on to become officers , some of them of high rank . |
| 7 | Rain had met some of them on previous occasions . |
| 8 | We will discuss some of them at various points in this book . |
| 9 | The meeting of the Central Committee lasted two long days , during which eighty-eight delegates spoke , some of them at great length . |
| 10 | She would be almost glad when they were gone — some of them at any rate . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He made some of them with solid necks for playing slack-key instead of slide — there were a number of different models . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I had twenty village girls to teach , some of them with such a strong country accent that I could hardly communicate with them . |
| 18 | But this week 's guerrillas numbered more than 1,000 , some of them with heavy weapons . |
| 19 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 20 | Here he met the most notable trade unionists of the area , some of them with national reputations . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The lenders of the Consumer Credit Association , also formed in 1975 , were aware of the reputation of some of them for irresponsible lending . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | Anally-retentive collectors will be pleased to note that , from Monday , Virgin Vision is packing some of them into two handy , three-tape boxed sets , available from Our Price record shops . |
| 26 | The closures are mainly smaller , less profitable branches or those with overlapping parishes : 150 full-time and 93 part-time staff will lose their jobs , some of them through voluntary redundancy and early retirement . |
| 27 | Jesus had had many interviews with people , we 've looked at some of them over these past few weeks , the time when he met with Nicademus , the religious leader , the time he went out of his way to meet with a woman of Semaria in her dyer need , the other occasion that we looked at er a week or so back when he called Anzakias from that tree of which he was hiding , last week his judge , pilot , but of all those interviews and as many others that we have n't looked at this surely must be one of the strangest as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need , but Jesus your need is as greatest as any body elses , your pain , your suffering , your physical suffering was every bit of great as those around you , why be bothered with others is n't that so often our story , when we are in need we can forget all about other people , it does n't matter there need , its poor me , what about me , what about my need , what about my requirements , what about my suffering , but we see here how Jesus apart from any thing else deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people , and this surely then must be one of the most strange and one of the most interviews that our lord ever had when he was here on earth , with this dying thief , but he was more than a thief he was a er , he was a re a rebel , he was a terrorist or a freedom fighter depending on which way you wanted to look at it and he was dying for his crimes and he was n't alone because there there was this man we 've been talking about , there was Jesus and there was another one , another criminal on the other side and we find that this is all in keeping with what god had promised , all there in , in line with his prophecy way back in Iziah chapter fifty three , it tells us that he was numbered with the transgressors , that he died with sinful men with , with law breakers and here it is its happening right in front of the , the very eyes of the Jewish leaders and the jewish authorities our lords intention in coming into the world was to save men and women , to seek out and to save sinners , remember thirty odd years previous to this event the word had come , for Mary his mother , to Joseph , we will call his name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins and later on writing to Timothy the apostle Paul in the first chapter of the first book in verse fifteen he says it is a trust worthy statement deserving full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners , this was his purpose , this was his reason for coming into the world , not to be a good man , not to be a , a great leader , not to give us some model that we can , you know , that we can plan our life out and try and live up to his standards , he says I 've come to give my life as a ransom , I have come to save and to seek that which was lost and here in this incident as he himself is dying and is in physical pain and torment he is carrying out this very work , of seeking out and saving of those who will turn to him , those who will put their trust in him , he is saving the lost , and we see in a wonderful how great the compassion of Jesus was and is , in reaching out and rescuing those who are lost , here we see our lord suffering the most terrible agony and yet in the midst of his own sorrow and pain and , and torment he thinks of this dying thief and extends his grace and mercy to him . |
| 28 | Jesus had had many interviews with people , we 've looked at some of them over these past few weeks . |
| 29 | The dominant approach to behaviour problems in schools is based on identifying and categorizing individual pupils with a view to removing some of them from mainstream schools . |
| 30 | Some of the poems in the present book , only his second , are so old that I seem to remember some of them from another world . |