Example sentences of "them is a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Recovering them is a matter of great urgency ; and a start has been made , but there 's a long way to go — especially with Upward , whom oblivion has enveloped with a completeness that is startling and significant . ) |
| 2 | Not least among them is a picture of young Davies in football kit , posing for a picture with the England Schoolboys Under 18 team . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Nudity to them is a much more relaxed affair . |
| 5 | Fabricating a complex structure from them is a skilled and lengthy process , one that can be beyond even small , specialist marques — as Panther discovered with the ill-fated Solo . |
| 6 | The willingness of England to welcome foreigners into its communities , celebrated during wartime in the pleasantries of Tawny Pipit ( 1944 ) , is thrown into question by the searing melodrama of Frieda ( 1947 ) , where the ‘ kindly , good-natured people ’ of Denfield become vicious xenophobes when the stranger amongst them is a blonde German girl . |
| 7 | To say that he does n't patronise them is a laughable understatement . |
| 8 | Perched to the left of them is a bulky wooden figure which came from her village of Ibusa . |
| 9 | What seems to be driving them is a desire to create the small-town feeling that is fast disappearing in America . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | One thing that appears in his discussion of them is a preparedness to say that a ‘ simple ’ idea may not be absolutely , and in all contexts , simple . |
| 12 | Learning to play with other children and to form close friendships with some of them is a vital part of growing up . |
| 13 | Nails are easier to use than screws ; all you need to drive them is a hammer ( see below ) . |
| 14 | The player who trespasses against the rules or ignores them is a ‘ spoil-sport ’ . |
| 15 | These drugs are still widely used , and for many people one or more of them is a regular part of everyday life . |
| 16 | A benefit to them is a benefit to society , and a body of students personally ‘ enriched ’ by their education is an ‘ enriched ’ society . |
| 17 | Underlying all of them is a form of thinking which might be called the ‘ urge to quantify ’ . |
| 18 | But many must involve both ; and reconciling them is a purpose to which the Cabinet is specifically suited . |
| 19 | They know about the development of science and its effect on their environment : one of them is a radio ham , another an electronics freak . |
| 20 | Or maybe it is simply that a second to them is a vastly longer subjective experience of time than it is to us and other creatures , possessed of a slower metabolic rate . |
| 21 | But what becomes of them is a mystery , for none has ever been found , even in deep Atlantic . |
| 22 | Partnering for them is a means to the end of parenting . |
| 23 | Predicting needs and evaluating how successfully courses fulfil them is a key area for any further development of the training scheme ’ . |
| 24 | I learn and I learn and I learn , but each one of them is a faraway mystery and I tremble in my ignorance . |
| 25 | An election campaign in which the two principal parties find it difficult to believe what the opinion polls are telling them is a rum do . |
| 26 | Behind them is a combination of speed in Northern Transvaal flier Johan Visagie and Roland Beck of second division Currie Cup side Boland , and power — centre Johan Van Deventer at 6ft 3ins and 16st 4 lb is a human battering ram . |
| 27 | REFUSING drugs to a person who needs them is a disgrace to the medical profession — but this is exactly what some heart-care units in opt-out hospitals are doing . |
| 28 | The rapist who wins women 's trust and then abuses them is a more sophisticated , devious and frightening operator . |
| 29 | Making them is a bit like making mayonnaise : waxy or oily ingredients and water are blended together with emulsifiers to produce a lotion or cream . |
| 30 | America 's threat to hit back at them is a frightening prospect for all of Europe . |