Example sentences of "of they [be] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them are sons of friends I 've known for years . |
| 2 | These particles , this particular matter is generally given the sort of generic term seston some of those particles are mineral particles some of them are colloidal aggregates as the iron tends , iron , iron , ions tend to come together to form colloids in solution and some of them are particles of biological origin . |
| 3 | He recognizes in Raskolnikov a fellow-struggler , and repeatedly he says that the two of them are birds of a feather ; but he also bids him farewell with a pointed ‘ You to the right and I to the left , or the other way round if you like ’ towards the end of their final meeting , because setting off for America , unlike the North Pole , while it may or may not amount to doing anything ( Crime and Punishment does n't raise the question ) marks a parting of their ways . |
| 4 | The other teenagers he meets there are mainly criminals — thieves , prostitutes and drug pedlars — and most of them are members of the infamous teenage gangs which sometimes turn the city into a battleground . |
| 5 | At the moment , less than 10 per cent of S&N 's senior managers are women , but none of them are directors of any of the subsidiaries , let alone of the main board . |
| 6 | Two thirds of them are inbreedings of one kind or another , several twice over . |
| 7 | Now if that is correct perhaps a minister could say so and clear in explicit terms er because it is very , very important because increasingly er a number of firms act in er in er in in both capacities and indeed for the large firms I think many of us are aware of the difficulty that 's now arising and there are only half a dozen very large accountancy firms that are capable of providing accounting and auditing services in this country and indeed most of them are beneficiaries of this government 's largesse in awarding public service contracts er to a surprising degree and so the government will be well aware of the problem . |
| 8 | I think she felt wi , you know , some of them are sort of like , a bit unimportant . |
| 9 | And , in our English language we actually make this mistake when we talk about birthdays French , in some ways are for more sensible with language , and you only ever have one birthday , the rest of them are anniversaries of your birthday . |
| 10 | But it is n't easy we have a lot , what complaints we get bearing in mind what I said a short while ago , what complaints we get now are very much biased towards defects in street lighting systems provided currently here and there in Suffolk , so I 'm conscious of this , we are working with the Eastern Electricity Board on an improved maintenance contract whereby certain benefits , and one of them is immediacy of response to repair work will be I hope put forward , very conscious of it indeed so and er we are struggling with what the , the basic cause of it all of course is the , the , the quality of some of our street light and equipment here and there throughout Suffolk is old or very out of date and even run down indicator procedure , so we have got a large real programme as well as repairing ones already there . |
| 11 | However , nobody has recorded the progress of the likes of Peter M'kata , Eric Majola , Solomon Mhlaba , Gassiem Jabaar , Bomza Nkohla , Salie Fredericks , Ronnie Louw , Cissie Damons , Lenny Mathews or Desmond Kramer , although virtually all of them were players of note , arguably the best of their generation . |
| 12 | Some of them were ex-members of the committees of poor peasants ( kombedy ) that had requisitioned in military style during War Communism , a style that lingered on . |
| 13 | Here , before the recent upheavals , there were ten colleges of education : seven of them were members of the University of Nottingham Area Training Organization : one , Loughborough College of Education , was attached to Loughborough University of Technology ; and two to the University of Leicester . |
| 14 | Most of them were members of the FPMR and they included some of those who had tried to assassinate Pinochet in 1986 [ see p. 34986 ] . |
| 15 | As you may have heard there were not many of these and most of them were copies of his biography . |
| 16 | Despite Joyce 's denunciation of intellectuals , a number of them were allies of the Fascist cause in the 1930s . |
| 17 | Charles Temple , Richmond Palmer , Donald Cameron , Philip Mitchell — none of these were men who showed anything less than enthusiasm for the task of imperial government , and all of them were men of dominant personality and exceptional strength of will . |