Example sentences of "them be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All around the oval churchyard can be found the sunken tracks that were once the village streets and paths and raised above them are the grassy mounds that cover the foundations of houses and cottages long since gone . |
| 2 | Necessarily some favourites have been left out of the selection and among them are the two larger than life , cast stone sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck — the ‘ Kneeling woman ’ of 1911 and the ‘ Standing youth ’ of 1913 ( two of the museum 's earliest acquisitions , by the way ) — which have always within living memory afforded a moment of tenuous serenity in the same room with Kokoschka 's simmering double portrait of the Tietzes and Max Beckmann 's horrific ‘ Departure ’ . |
| 3 | The most powerful ‘ lessons in wizardry ’ are those taken for the learning of shamanic powers , and in the Piaroa theory of knowledge , men who do undergo them are the best hunters in Piaroaland , even if they rarely hunt ( Overing 1988 ) . |
| 4 | Gone too from both of them are the dark circles under the eyes , the complexions grey with tiredness and lined with worry . |
| 5 | Tristan has two near neighbours , both uninhabited , Nightingale and Inaccessible , and a third a couple of hundred kilometres further south , Gough Island ; all of them are the battered remains of extinct volcanoes . |
| 6 | All that 's left for them are the smallest triumphs , revenges or consolations — together with a fascination for the England of 15 or 20 years ago . |
| 7 | At any instant , three of them are the current required settings of the three motors ; three are the previous required settings , a third of a second earlier ; three are the required settings a third of a second before then ; and so on . |
| 8 | Between them are the tall , narrow , round-headed windows . |
| 9 | Among them are the four remaining pictures shown by Betty Parsons , whose checklist notes seventeen works , the complete set of five White Paintings conceived in 1951 and recreated , under Rauschenberg 's instructions , by Brice Marden in 1968 , twelve Black Paintings , three gold leaf paintings , fifteen collages created in Rome and North Africa in the last months of 1952 , and thirteen box sculptures incorporating stones , thorns , an insect and other material . |
| 10 | Below them are the four archdeacons ( Wiltshire , Sarum , Dorset and Sherborne ) who , Bishop John says , are ‘ key people in the modern church ’ . |
| 11 | The Kuwaiti population is about one point seven million erm about six to seven hundred thousand of them are the Kuwaiti nationals . |
| 12 | Suspensions and the risk of them are the common denominators of today 's European proceedings . |
| 13 | Not all of them are the high mileage though are they ? |
| 14 | Whatever your Dreams , the steps towards achieving them are the same . |
| 15 | Musicians and artists to them are the same as tramps and winos , whereas , in a place like Germany , musicians are respected for their occupation . ’ |
| 16 | The variation in name appears to be the major difference between the two types of minor authorities : the functions allocated to them are the same . |
| 17 | Amongst them are the last great wild gardens of the earth still harbouring uncatalogued varieties of creatures and man . |
| 18 | But when they were originally written erm I think it were f seen as fairly low key but now they 've taken , assumed a much greater importance in terms of them being the actual service specification for the new careers services under the , the employment legislation . |
| 19 | In the meantime , archery had retained its appeal in a few places around the country , two of them being the neighbouring Ayrshire towns of Irvine and Kilwinning , in both of which contests were held annually . |
| 20 | Second , the ‘ crisis ’ of 270 minutes without a goal does n't stop them being the Premier League 's joint top scorers with 34 . |
| 21 | Beneath them were the usual departments associated with a great medieval household : bakehouse , pantry , spicery , laundry . |
| 22 | Encouraging them were the new links between British and American film companies that grew out of the quota legislation . |
| 23 | For a long time the furious rhythms of the storm and the grunting of the exhausted men around them were the only sounds to be heard inside the hut . |
| 24 | The first people to appreciate them were the ancient Egyptians , who were able to draw on supplies from Sinai . |
| 25 | Amongst them were the rare white , or pink , variety unique to the Toraja , with china-blue eyes like a Siamese cat , and each worth twenty times more than an ordinary buffalo . |
| 26 | The majority of them were the surviving members of Yorick 's fan club . |
| 27 | Now they were thinner and leaner and much dirtier and all they were taking with them were the torn and grubby clothes they stood up in . |
| 28 | All you could send to them were the printable characters , plus a few simple commands like ‘ carriage return ’ and ‘ line feed ’ . |
| 29 | The sugar plantations and the slaves on them were the first British overseas investment of any size , at a time when investment of this sort was unusual , and in several eighteenth-century wars the British fought to defend this property , though it was not a central cause of any of the wars in which they were involved . |
| 30 | All of them were the worse ( or better ) for much use . |