Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [be] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best thing about them is their smell . |
| 2 | Their turnover rate is somewhat slower than undergravels and what could be worrying about them is their ability to deal with sudden surges in load . |
| 3 | The LP has just confirmed the fact that the most interesting thing about them is their hard-earned reputation as the hell-raising punks that everyone loves to hate . |
| 4 | After the heights scaled in that quarter-final , Ireland plunged to six feet under in this match proving , in the course of the game , that the only predictable thing about them is their unpredictability . |
| 5 | The nicest thing about them were their names . |
| 6 | The things they like about me are my gai-jin attitudes , and they laugh at a lot of my conclusions , I 'm sure — not to my face , but among themselves . |
| 7 | So for example if I was doing Saint Paul 's I 'd say right erm erm I 'm a building in the City of London , very old , very big and extremely famous on of the most obvious things that really stand out about me is my very large domed roof with a little cross on top of it . |
| 8 | About that and about me being his girlfriend . |
| 9 | One physiological process of the leather corals which must be considered when designing an aquarium for them is their mechanism for excreting waste products . |
| 10 | Drawn up waiting for them were their friends : the men landed early that morning by their companion ships at the mouth of the Leven . |
| 11 | As for them being my mates they 're not . |
| 12 | For both countries , the special relationship between them is their primary foreign policy priority , and the European Community remains principally an instrument of their foreign policy needs . |
| 13 | The worst age group for me is my own , because I sometimes think they see me as a bit of a know-it-all . |
| 14 | Behind the bottles stood Mrs Crumwallis — tall , bony , straggly of hair , the only memorable feature about her being her large , round , immensely thick-lensed glasses . |
| 15 | Each real animal is surrounded by a little cluster of neighbours , most of whom have never existed , but a few of whom are its ancestors , its descendants and its cousins . |
| 16 | Edith Granger 's mother ; she lives upon ‘ the reputation of some diamonds and her family connexions ’ , the chief of whom is her nephew , Lord Feenix . |
| 17 | Then there were the courtiers , the greatest of whom was her husband , Denis . |
| 18 | He was sentenced to pay a large fine , and to surrender his office to trustees ( one of whom was his own brother-in-law ) , although the intricacies of the case were not settled until at least 1636 . |
| 19 | Examples are an orphaned marital child adopted by a couple neither of whom were its natural parents ; a marital child adopted by a couple one of whom was the natural parent ; a non-marital child adopted by a couple one of whom was the natural parent ; or adopted by a couple neither of whom was the natural parent . |
| 20 | He had had to make do with friends ' children , many of whom were his godchildren . |
| 21 | ‘ It was a marvellous afternoon with a huge turnout of people , most of whom were his patients at one time or another . ’ |
| 22 | The more serious uses of the theatre and adjoining laboratories were acknowledged by some of the leading scientists of the day — William Thomson ( first Baron Kelvin ) , ( Sir ) J. Ambrose Fleming , ( Sir ) James Dewar , and ( Sir ) Joseph Swan [ qq.v. ] — most of whom were his personal friends . |
| 23 | Despite the constent media bollocks about the scum the one criticism constantly made of them is their lack of a truly great passer like Macca or Strach . |
| 24 | What people make of them is their business , and if they have something to hide then you ca n't expect me to weep for them . ’ |
| 25 | It has two doors , one , four windows , I , I do n't have the garden or , oh , in my house there are six rooms and one of them is er , one , one of them is my , is my room and a picture and a |
| 26 | Typical of them is our local priest , Don Marco . |
| 27 | well — it looks like we have to rely on Speed and Macca for them goals — i guess one of them is our ‘ top-scorer ’ right now ? |
| 28 | George Milton has very few weak points , but one of them is his hastiness and lack of forethought . |
| 29 | All the Scots lords were afraid of Bothwell , and many of them were his enemies . |
| 30 | I was aware how much I owed to their unobtrusive help ; several of them were my friends . |