Example sentences of "[prep] them be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It starts off essentially defining them as people who are impartial , and in no time at all we are talking about them being nominated from different sector interest . |
| 2 | Because there are no constraints placed upon the timing of the volunteer 's activities in such a time-free environment , these are called free-running experiments and the rhythms measured during them are known as free-running rhythms . |
| 3 | The difference between them is given in syntactic terms : " Equative prolongation … is usually articulated by overt repetition or apposition … |
| 4 | Rereading More Women than Men , I ask myself each time whether the relations between them are suggested with extreme subtlety , or whether something is lacking . |
| 5 | Now the pillars of flesh between them were stiffened with bony rods and the first pair of these bones , slowly over the millennia , gradually hinged forward . |
| 6 | There may be 32m cars on the road in a country of 123m people — but , as yet , only 6% of them are fitted with compact-disc players . |
| 7 | Erm Of the total of goods that are sold in industrialized countries , such as , that have been manufactured , only three percent of them are made in developing countries . |
| 8 | Now , with Government aid , most of them are employed in new light industries . |
| 9 | Three-quarters of these offences each year are ‘ cleared up ’ , and it transpires that most of them are committed by young males aged between 14 and 29 . |
| 10 | Such enterprises now account for more than 60 per cent of industrial employment in countries as far apart as Ghana and Tanzania ; more than half of them are located in small towns and villages , and the extended family is their most important source of labour ; they contribute at least a quarter of total manufacturing output ; and typically they employ between one and ten workers . |
| 11 | Another reason why you should never go near the line is that many of them are used by electric trains . |
| 12 | Some of them are returned to normal prisons before they ever make the intensive group therapy regime . |
| 13 | The disk is round , sack-like and often raised up , diameter up to 9 mm ; covered with small semi-transparent scales , many of them are armed with large simple rods . |
| 14 | None of the others had escaped unscathed either , each of them being lashed in varying degrees with myriad points of searing pain . |
| 15 | many of the critics I most admire have taken all the latitude in the world , and have earned the right to such freedom by the extraordinary power of their perceptions , many of them being achieved by critical reverie . |
| 16 | Restricted access to benefits for the young has , paradoxically , led both to more of them being ejected from parental homes and to them having less to live on when they are . |
| 17 | Most of them were shot at close range . |
| 18 | They did not yet have the economic means to raise enough hard currencies to pay for their oil and gas imports from the Soviet Union , and most of them were burdened with heavy levels of external debt , also denominated in hard currencies . |
| 19 | Since all of them were built in traditional style , it was difficult to tell which were old and which new . |
| 20 | Since a great proportion of them were engaged in growing corn and other basic needs of life , there must already have been a considerable proportion of the European population who needed to be fed by the labour of others . |
| 21 | Approximately 600 policemen , mostly Tamils , were apparently abducted and according to unconfirmed reports over 100 of them were massacred in Amparai district on June 12 . |
| 22 | Most of them were named after mythological characters , though there were also a few everyday objects such as a Triangle and an Altar . |
| 23 | Some of them were dressed in Ottoman regalia or Arab dress or even French cavalry uniform , serious-looking young men who — in the later pictures — were carrying Lee-Enfield service rifles . |
| 24 | There were very large claims from members of the Territorial Army for loss of earnings and most of them were met in full . |
| 25 | Few of them were caused by melancholy to sit staring slackly into the middle distance . |
| 26 | My failure to identify them is doubly frustrating because of the likelihood that most of them were copied from published anthologies . |
| 27 | Many of them were chosen by public meeting and Cropper and Sturge were prominent in encouraging organisation for the convention in the north and the West Country . |
| 28 | These researches and others like them are based on innumerable hours of field study in remote places . |
| 29 | Those lysines in GH5 with an asterisk above them are protected against chemical modification in chromatin . |
| 30 | The WISARD machine and logical neural nets have structure and function resembling multi-layer perceptrons , but the individual nodes in them are made from 1-bit direct access memories . |