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Example sentences of "them are [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	‘ There are lots of priests at Manchester United , ’ he said in typical Docherty style , ‘ and some of them are on the board . ’
2	Molecular evidence has shown that the old concept of great apes ( family Pongidae ) , as distinct from humans ( family Hominidae ) , is no longer valid because the African apes and humans are more closely related to each other than any of them are to the orang-utan .
3	Most of them are of the lancet type particularly associated with the commissioners ' buildings and many — for example , Christ Church , Meadow Lane , Leeds ( 1823–6 , demolished ) and Honley near Huddersfield ( 1842–3 ) — had thin arcade piers of cast iron ; but Chantrell was a serious student of Gothic .
4	‘ A lot of them are under the water and you ca n't see them .
5	Many factors affect the usage , and not all of them are under the control of the textile works .
6	Some of them are below the level you expect and below the standards we want to provide , ’ it says .
7	Most of them are in the name of Thomas Leavy , a cover identity originally provided by the CIA in 1982 and reinforced by the DIA in 1990 for Operation Shakespeare .
8	So that you may find that all the hesitations are by women , or most of them by women , or most of them are in the pub , or most of them are a after ten at night , or ar you know , you can look at the context in which certain words , certain conversational gambits that some of them use .
9	‘ Most of them are in the south of England , which could , in the next 10 years , see the top teams coming from Chichester or Eastbourne , ’ Roberts said .
10	Many of them are in the south of England , in seats held by Conservative Members of Parliament .
11	Some of them are in the library .
12	Yet double , triple and even multiple stars are surprisingly common in space , and some of them are within the range of binoculars or even the naked eye .