Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] of them " in BNC.

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1 They got eight copies of them video shop
2 We shall come across specific forms of them later .
3 We can contemplate many pictures of large-wheeled carts , for example , and a few scraps of them remain ; but the details of land transport are still obscure , though we become ever more aware how much must have travelled on exceedingly inadequate roads .
4 As we have seen , unc is satisfied by two linearly independent vectors ( in our example , { 1,2,4 } and{ 1,0 , -1 } and therefore by any linear combinations of them .
5 Lingering public images of them as men with heathery legs have been swept aside now that they are forced to protect their livelihoods by keeping in touch with the movement of sterling against the franc — or even the deutschmark against the lira .
6 ‘ I got some pictures of them at home .
7 For such , ( and I have very clear pictures of them sitting illiterate and uncomprehending in the back of classes ) , school attendance is merely a sort of ‘ protection money ’ to pacify inquisitive authorities .
8 These earliest faces and the French versions of them , which were derived during the first half of the 16th century by type-founders such as Garamond , remain the models for most type-faces .
9 There are about a million of these large pieces of apparatus in a cell , and there are more than 2,000 different kinds of them , each kind specialized to do a particular operation in the chemical factory-the cell .
10 In spite of this I still have fond memories of them as they were such a soft , comfortable pair of boots from day one .
11 Individuals use their radio and television sets in different ways and for different purposes , and expect different things of them .
12 And they said there 's some details of them shops .
13 His description of the galleries of Dent on either side of the narrow street is all that is left to remind us of their undoubted presence , ‘ I regret the loss of the grotesque and rude but picturesque old galleries , which once gave character to the streets ; and in some parts of them almost shut out the sight of the sky from those who travelled along the pavement .
14 Dwelly in fact lists many of the plant names in Cameron , on occasion presenting corrected forms of them , but also draws on other sources which he cites at the front of his dictionary .
15 A certain amount of confusion is often generated by the interchangeable use of such concepts as ‘ the executive ’ , ‘ the state ’ and ‘ the government ’ , because there are no universally accepted definitions of them .
16 Oh , geniuses inspired in all the arts , who draw from things only such elements of them as are to be shown to the mind !
17 I think that the idea of offsetting imbalances on on one project er with transfer the work in other is certainly very interesting but of course as far as the erm tornado programme is concerned I think it it is now really far too late because production is over apart from the the second Saudi Arabian order and we are really only working on the manufacture of spares and given that the existing suppliers are all tooled up for those and indeed her are way down the learning curve having produced vast quantities of them , it really would n't be economic to transfer any of that work now I do n't think .
18 ‘ The Church must stand alongside every family like that — not actually put the Royal Family on a pedestal and expect impossible things of them . ’
19 At the end of the day Child and I were cursing our luck and Douglas Hamilton was waxing lyrical about the placidity of the beasts , who had allowed him to come within six yards of them .
20 It is even more original and varied in type than the consort music , including not only fantasias , ‘ In nomines ’ , stylized dance-music , arrangements of music from masques and of popular songs , but also miniature genre-pieces , essays in programme music and pure impressionism such as Byrd 's ‘ The Battle ’ and ‘ The Bells ’ , variations on ground basses , and sets of variations on popular tunes as distinct from simple arrangements of them .
21 Size of population is the first question : some polyptychs enumerate not only peasant households but individual members of them ( as for instance : " X , his wife Y , and their three children A , B and C have one mansus [ peasant-holding ] " ) .
22 No fewer than six sets of them will be appearing .
23 Such banquets are portrayed for us on the Bayeux Tapestry , or at least the early stages of them .
24 The cell is the unit of which all living organisms are composed , and most organisms contain vast numbers of them .
25 She uncovers the familiar haunts of shoemakers , wool-workers , dyers , armourers and lantern makers ; of judges , notaries , doctors and chemists ; of prostitutes , vast numbers of them , concentrated in the districts of Santa Maria Novella and San Giovanni ; and of artists .
26 This states that the weights of two or more substances which chemically react separately with a fixed weight of a third substance are also the weights which react with each other or simple multiples of them .
27 My boss , Min , and I , and one other editor , will take on the ‘ people ’ at the dictionary and write or condense tiny biographies of them , as well as short descriptions of ‘ institutions ’ , which includes buildings , works of art , monuments , battles etc .
28 Thanks to his hobby some splendid pictures of his son and daughter 's early life were preserved — on their tricycles , walking through the local park , playing with their cousins , skating and skiing , and some more imposing ones of them with the grown-ups — getting into the car while Kerry the chauffeur holds the door open ; looking very serious with the uncles and aunts , their mother appearing to be taken up with the idea of not being photographed with them !
29 If you can hear me you must be within five or six miles of them but if they get to the Motorway first they 'll be able to lose you .
30 But at the same time , we must pay careful attention to what such young people are actually doing rather than to the easy caricatures of them which some seem to prefer .
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