Example sentences of "them be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , I am tired of hearing from experts that so many of the world 's problems are insoluble : poverty , malnutrition , pollution , road accidents , bureaucracy , illiteracy , inflation … there are literally hundreds of such problems , and most of them are getting worse . |
| 2 | In fact over two million people in the UK have the disease , but only a quarter of them are getting any treatment . |
| 3 | The governing body of the agency is the board of directors consisting of eleven members , all appointed by parliament , but five of them are appointed pursuant to the recommendation of the following bodies , namely : the organizations dealing with the environment , one by the trade unions , one by the employers ' organization , one by Social Security , and one by the various organizations presently dealing with state assets . |
| 4 | Well see Carole and them are bringing that back tonight at her erm his son is gon na come back and then |
| 5 | Most of them are riding high on a feeling that all politicians and most of the media now put the environment at or near the top of the political agenda . |
| 6 | The situation with non-US tuna vessels is far worse , as most of them are operating free of any regulations whatsoever . |
| 7 | Sorry One of the other tables you 've got shows you a comparison between the elements which are present in crustal rock and in the sea and from that you can see which ones are a good reflection , I E whi which elements have been transferred to the sea by direct weathering , and which of them are undergoing other processes , either other sources or other sinks . |
| 8 | All those are practical methods , all of them are working , and all of them are delivering better health care and will deliver faster health care . |
| 9 | These three big creatures dominate the composition , but around them are introduced small figures . |
| 10 | Some of them are missing six years and their families do not know if they are alive . ’ |
| 11 | Much to mummy and daddy 's despair , none of them are showing any inclination to . |
| 12 | Again the stone walls are dark and streaked with rain and age , and along them are ranged carved figures , many badly worn and now almost unrecognizable . |
| 13 | Actually , not one of its members is a day over 50 ( although all of them are coming close ) but you might reasonably have expected age to leave Daltrey , Townshend , and Entwistle looking worse than well-travelled . |
| 14 | Negative , extremist , in them are fused sectarian party orthodoxy and individual self-deliverance . |
| 15 | A lot of them are having nervous breakdowns or sort of ruining their family life because |
| 16 | Many of them are having more babies . |
| 17 | A lot of them are studying other things besides Italian and so they take time off to prepare for exams . |
| 18 | Nor does the Chancellor demand free elections for East Germans immediately , his aides say , but would first like to see them be given greater personal freedom and basic human rights . |
| 19 | A group of residents in an old peoples ' home may between them be confronting many occasions of loss and death ; the handling of these matters requires sensitivity too . |
| 20 | Would the other , these other enquiries you made , would the major part of them be asking other police officers or is there any other way of getting information ? |
| 21 | A new scientific report casts doubt over evidence which led to them being cleared last year of running a bomb factory . |
| 22 | Idly I wondered why he insisted on them being cooked sunny side up . |
| 23 | After Mary 's accession in 1553 , considerable numbers of images , vestments , chalices , and crucifixes did indeed reappear in parish churches throughout the country , but only a few years later many of them were to fall foul of renewed attacks on images at the beginning of Elizabeth 's reign . |
| 24 | The position of the Dip.HE courses offered by the colleges and institutes of higher education has been causing the Welsh Office some concern because some of the units in specific subject areas which make up the courses have been recruiting small numbers of students : in 1980–1 , for example , between 30 and 40 per cent of them were enrolling fewer than eight students . |
| 25 | Is it not time that many of them were made available to schools , colleges , banks and building societies so that the treasure trove of Britain is available to everyone ? |
| 26 | On the first night , most of them were watching Bionic Showdown : The Bionic Woman Meets the Six-Million Dollar Man on a rival channel . |
| 27 | Originally some of them were painted yellow but these days they are almost always painted flame-orange . ) |
| 28 | Three of them were sacked last month , leaving Mark Franklin and Tony Dorie as hosts . |
| 29 | We soon found that some of them were using this for various extra-curricular activities . |
| 30 | People standing around them were looking shocked and embarrassed . |