Example sentences of "them [be] a [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most noticeable of them is a throbbingly emotional ballad — as if from some oriental Tom Jones — which intermittently wells out to remind you of the popular nature of the love dramas you are witnessing . |
| 2 | Outstanding among them is a previously unknown type , a silver , parcel-gilt strainer with the handle in the form of a dolphin with garnet eyes . |
| 3 | Beneath them is a freshly lettered gravestone being carried from Sedbergh to Hawes : |
| 4 | The psychological well being of the victims and their ability to put the crime behind them is a very important part of their needs . |
| 5 | ‘ Khmers Rouges do n't listen to anyone ; how to persuade them is a very big problem , ’ Prince Norodom Sihanouk , the former king of Cambodia and one-time captive of the Khmers Rouges , told Taro Nakayama , Japan 's foreign minister , this month . |
| 6 | One of them was a strikingly beautiful woman in her mid-thirties . |
| 7 | A long prison sentence is the penalty for an unlicensed firearm and to keep the three men on bail , year after year , with this terrifying threat hanging over them was a most effective way to deter them from exposing the monstrous injustice of their treatment either in the media or with the European Commission of Human Rights . |
| 8 | Standing in front of them was an extremely old man with a beard that trailed on the ground and long flowing white hair . |
| 9 | Hundreds of Trekkies queued for up to three hours to spend what for them was an almost perfect day at the cinema . |