Example sentences of "them [be] [adv] [adj] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Domal uplifts with rifts cutting across them are particularly common in East Africa where the East African Rift System comprises a whole series of such structures ( Fig.4.11 ) . |
| 2 | That will not be easy because most of them are heavily involved in funding of all sorts of other organisations and they have their own interests . |
| 3 | The books which were in the house were of another kind and pursued a different and more old-fashioned simplification ; some of them were indeed Victorian in fact as well as in tone , relics of her grandmother 's childhood . |
| 4 | Some of them were really interested in meteorology , others only tolerant of what they considered to be a very inexact science . |
| 5 | There was sex , of course , but although both of them were extremely interested in sex , and enjoyed nothing better than discussing it , neither of them , if the truth be told , was quite so interested in actually having it , or at any rate in having it very frequently . |
| 6 | One of them is critically ill in hospital . |
| 7 | By 1982 one of them is seriously ill in hospital with pneumonia ; by 1983 much more is known about the HIV virus ; by 1985 another of the men is clearly dying . |
| 8 | One of them was seriously ill in hospital , the other was making a satisfactory recovery . |