Example sentences of "them [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | One of them is at the post-compulsory level of schooling , where people no longer have to be at school . |
| 32 | Second , that any official who ignores them is on dangerous ground . |
| 33 | The best place to keep them is on your feet . ’ ’ |
| 34 | The view through the small rear mirror is rather limited , as Jill Stanton has mentioned before , and the manual wing mirrors are so stiff that trying to fine-tune them is like trying to thread a needle wearing boxing gloves . |
| 35 | point to point may be amateur but there 's a few pounds to be won by following the form … the bookies are here of course … lets face it a race meeting without them is like a bottle of champagne with no bubbles … |
| 36 | and distribution to them is within the ambit of the law . |
| 37 | A perfect way to serve them is in a tart of shortcrust pastry , mixed with three or four free-range eggs and plenty of sugar , and baked for half an hour or so in a medium-hot oven . |
| 38 | While Lynch had developed his punching power , Benn needed boxing lessons and the time-honoured way of getting them is in sparring . |
| 39 | While Lynch had developed his punching power , Benn needed boxing lessons and the time-honoured way of getting them is in sparring . |
| 40 | Maist of them is in flats , backrooms and that . |
| 41 | One of them is in health and medical care . |
| 42 | Most of the animals that live along the hedgerows unfortunately only come out at night and the best way to see them is in the light of a car 's headlamp . |
| 43 | Danger , from the Piaroa point of view , is from the predatory activities of beings from other worlds , and the responsibility for protection from them is in the hands of the shamanic ruwatu . |
| 44 | The most striking difference between them is in the amount they wrote — Beccaria so little and Bentham so much . |
| 45 | Again , the difference between them is in the language used to describe this process : for determinists manipulation is achieved by altering the factors that cause criminal behaviour ; for indeterminists it is achieved by making crime a relatively less attractive choice . |
| 46 | But is the consciousness of a beautiful object properly conceived as consisting in two distinct things , consciousness and the object , standing in a certain relation ( of the one being directed at the other ) which makes no difference to what each of them is in itself ? |
| 47 | One of them is in the only escape pod that ejected from the starship . |
| 48 | She does fulfil his hopes , in a way ; and the fulfilment of them is in itself a kind of disappointment ; and her name is Rose . |
| 49 | Each one of them is in some way cut off from the rest of society : Hywel because he 's a miserable sod , Angharad because something went awfully wrong , and Beuno because he 's fallen in love with God . ’ |
| 50 | An air of double-dealing and deceit hangs over those negotiations , as if to suggest that the record of them is in itself a distortion . |
| 51 | It may be standard practice in France for one state enterprise to give to another large sums of money when one of them is in financial trouble ; but it is doubtful whether private undertakings would have considered this particular transaction as ‘ normal ’ . |
| 52 | The effect of such clauses seems to be that the party relying on them is in breach of contract in the circumstances covered by the clause , but is not legally liable for that breach . |
| 53 | Number three , do you think any of them is in bad taste , if so what are your reasons ? |
| 54 | If your kalanchoe is in the house , the most economical and easy way to deal with them is by using a proprietary spray , such as Fisons Insect Spray for Houseplants . |
| 55 | They also did their best to lose the great dome in a jostling scrum of office buildings , so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they induce . |
| 56 | I suppose every one has to earn their keep , and the way to catch them is by using the old , traditional Scottish fishing method of trolling . |
| 57 | The air around each of them is by no means as sweet-smelling as it was then and the water that flows over the falls into the harbour is certainly not as pure . |
| 58 | One way of explaining them is by reference to institutional features of these societies . |
| 59 | The Town Boys in a way are an enigma , and how one joins them is by no means easy to discover . |
| 60 | Perhaps the best way of tricking readers into seeing but not seeing what you put in front of them is by stating your fact in a way that seems clearly to be doing so for a different purpose than that of playing the game . |