Example sentences of "them [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well one of them 's on the second one , and one 's on |
| 2 | One of them 's over a G |
| 3 | ‘ And do you know what each of them 's worth ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ In case one of them 's from the kidnappers . ’ |
| 5 | Erm , unfortunately one of them 's in hospital at the moment . |
| 6 | I think one of them 's in a wheelchair . |
| 7 | The net six games after Oldham do n't contain a real toughie , so I think 13 points from them is about par . |
| 8 | ‘ The easiest way to catch them is with a three-pronged spear , but do n't tell that to fishermen . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ There are several ways of treating eye melanomas and one of them is with proton beam therapy using a cyclotron . |
| 10 | None of them is worth this sort of money . |
| 11 | But none of them is worth measuring , like our old place . |
| 12 | The best place to site them is over the table , or shelf , or other handy surface . |
| 13 | The first of these is best achieved through " criticism " and the second through " scholarship " , while the most effective means of combining them is through the study of English literature . |
| 14 | The modern architect makes sure his church and his school are built of less stern stuff , for the landscape around them is of shifting sand . |
| 15 | However , despite the complications , each of these types of function has a relatively clear central core , and the distinction between them is of importance in several areas of administrative law . |
| 16 | The distinction between them is of considerable importance . |
| 17 | It will be pleasing if the features of this sketch seem intuitively natural , as indeed we would claim , but justification for them is of course to be sought primarily in the observations of Chapters 2 to 10 and the way that these observations fit our assumptions about the bases of adjectival syntax . |
| 18 | Soldiers , psychiatrists , and priests might on this basis be classified together as social controllers ; doctors and perhaps teachers should be classified as sustainers : the proper theoretical place for them is as the maintenance engineers of labour power ; playwrights , philosophers , accountants , sociologists , and lawyers must be classified together as conceptive ideologists . |
| 19 | The most extreme way of protecting them is for the mother to carry them around within her own body . |
| 20 | Do you know how much a new one of them is for that game , that ? |
| 21 | The young Edward Fitzgerald , who became a sceptic , wrote to his friend Thackeray , ‘ I think the evidence for them is to be doubted . |
| 22 | The reasons for obeying these moral rules are egoistic , that to disobey them is to forward the perils of social chaos , or to risk punishment . |
| 23 | To mess around with them is to court death , to allow them to be messed around with is a breach of our social duties towards each other … |
| 24 | That the Government , and the Bank considered as an instrument of the Government 's policy , will blame them is to be expected . |
| 25 | I tell her of my travels , although none of them is to a place you could easily find on a map , and of the people I have met . |
| 26 | Prime amongst them is to d to undermine nationally agreed wages and conditions , to undermine rights embodied in industrial law , to undermine trade union membership and organization . |
| 27 | If a taxpayer has two residences he can elect which of them is to be treated as his main residence ( s222(5) ) for the purpose of the exemption and notwithstanding the terms of the above concession the husband can avoid difficulty if he makes a positive election . |
| 28 | You know , the only way , the only way you can stop them is to . |
| 29 | I wonder if I could have belonged to revolutionary movements , even if they were as just as — I find the panthers ' movement and the Palestinians ' movement to be very just — but this belonging , this sympathizing with them is at the same time dictated by the erotic charge which the Arab world in its totality or the black American world represents to me , to my sexuality . |
| 30 | People functioning on an imposed bias may be severely handicapped when what they think is expected of them is at some level distonic to their whole being . |