Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | For one motive that drives men to commit a real crime there are a thousand that drives them to commit those indifferent acts which are called crimes by bad laws ; and if the probability of crimes is proportionate to the number of motives , to enlarge the sphere of crimes is to increase the probability of their being committed ( p. 94 ) . |
| 2 | This is scorched-earth commentary , razing to the ground everything that might provide some cover for his quarry , stripping the plays of all that renders them humanly habitable . |
| 3 | So what is their mental state , that causes them to behave in this very unfeline-like way ? |
| 4 | What is communicated can easily be a view that ignores other religions , or that interprets them inadequately within terms of a comparison with one 's own , or that accepts them without trying to relate to them so that they exist in a kind of schizophrenic soup in the mind and emotions . |
| 5 | ( Hartman has shown that the average person has one or less nightmares a year ; and only one person in 500 has them on a weekly basis . ) |
| 6 | Better ( > ) slow gentle motion ; this soothes them both generally and their specific complaints — pains , headaches etc . |
| 7 | Wheat beers also use top-fermenting yeasts ( they are not lagers , contrary to widespread belief ) , and this renders them doubly fruity . |
| 8 | This renders them sterile and has resulted in their virtual elimination from the Southampton and Solent coastal waters . |
| 9 | If mothers receive a benefit which they are expected and indeed do spend to service the needs of their families , then this re-confirms them as the day-to-day managers of household finances , which for millions of women is not only a chore but also a source of considerable anxiety ( McClelland , 1982 ) . |
| 10 | Community relations and neighbourhood policing reverses the process of depersonalization , and with regard to the police this encourages them to develop a more subtle set of typifications which categorize the majority of residents in West Belfast as decent , honest , and , at root , friendly . |
| 11 | This encourages them to listen to the responses and to each other . |
| 12 | This involves them in the same difficulties as those faced , or evaded , by psychologists . |
| 13 | This causes them to argue for a loosening of the legal duties that define the objectives of management decision making , which currently emphasise the maximisation of shareholder wealth , to enable a broader range of purposes to be pursued . |
| 14 | I will pay the agency 's usual commission for your services , plus a bonus for any inconvenience this causes them in their scheduling . |
| 15 | First , cases of ‘ excessive defence ’ have a grounding in legal justification , in that the occasion was one which justified the use of some force , and this places them on a higher social plateau than killings with no element of justification at all . |
| 16 | This places them intermediate between categories 2 and 3 . |
| 17 | The reason is that the folding of the ears brings them forward and this places them in a posture that is not part of the usual ear-lowering signal . |
| 18 | Some people stress the need to protect innocent children from the misuse of adult power ; others see the way forward as one of liberating and empowering children , even if this places them at risk . |
| 19 | In addition , even medium-sized plants can dominate the labour markets of small towns ( for example , in the cases of Westland at Yeovil and Clarks at Street ) , and this places them in a strong position in their dealings with the labour force ( Lever 1978 ) . |
| 20 | If they are right , this spares them the refusal which would have otherwise shown up in the main survey as reported difficulty in getting credit . |
| 21 | This forces them to expand beyond their resting length , both braking the fall and supplying energy , which the muscles can retrieve by contracting just after footfall . |
| 22 | The popular tabloids , on the other hand , charge considerably less for their advertising space per thousand readers than do the qualities and this forces them to try to maximize sales . |
| 23 | This allows them to generate a plausible pronunciation for a non-word like ‘ blasp ’ , but means that they can not pronounce many irregular words correctly . |
| 24 | This allows them to build without hindrance places d'armes on the Japanese islands against the Soviet Union and those countries of Asia which have risen to fight for liberty and independence against the forces of imperialism and reaction . |
| 25 | This allows them to proliferate their model ranges faster to cater for the growing demand for variety in each sector of the market . |
| 26 | However , some on-the-job training , in skills such as cash handling or food preparation , is usually given to seasonal workers and this allows them to be moved into tasks which would have been denied them at the start of their employment . |
| 27 | This allows them to be produced at virtually any size and in a number of different styles as required . |
| 28 | This allows them to choose merchandise in comfort and in relaxed and friendly surroundings . ’ |
| 29 | The prosecution alleges this links them with the 3 lorry attacks . |
| 30 | The subject is similar — the Edwardian English abroad — but this shows them at their bigoted best . |