Example sentences of "them [was/were] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them were clearly already frozen . |
| 2 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 3 | ‘ My God , they were n't just hitting it sideways , some of them were n't even making contact . |
| 4 | In fact , some of them were not even valued , so anxious were the Government to get rid of them . |
| 5 | Whereas many developed countries are learning to resolve the contradictions and find new sources of advantage , we found that in our three countries the choices forced on them were not readily perceived as necessarily beneficial . |
| 6 | Many of them were also completely cut off from the normal trading conditions that enable people to exercise choice . |
| 7 | There were very few respects in which any of them were even slightly prepossessing . |
| 8 | Those who were running them were thus also engaging in transnational practices and were thus , potentially at least , members of the transnational capitalist class . |
| 9 | On the night of 6 September 1830 , more than 500 of them were out there breaking up bridges , hedges , and ditches . |
| 10 | Most of them were so badly damaged that they sank or were forced to withdraw as shell splinters cut their steering lines and tracer set fire to fuel tanks , but they gave a good account of themselves because the port was defended by well-sited , quick-firing guns used for anti-aircraft or anti-ship fire . |
| 11 | The plight of the aptly named Victim and hundreds like them was n't enough to deter Steven Morrissey into a search for everyday employment . |