Example sentences of "[vb -s] them to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then transports them to earthly space for human use . |
| 2 | He offers them to his friends . |
| 3 | Doody notes that Leapor picks up Swift 's characters or anti-characters and turns them to her own purposes . |
| 4 | An interesting aspect of any ‘ counter-revolution ’ is that it takes the terms of the ‘ revolution ’ and turns them to its own purposes . |
| 5 | Telling their own story from childhood to an interviewer is for most people an intimate experience which encourages them to be remarkably open about themselves . |
| 6 | Between 60 and 70 per cent of Salisbury 's clergy wives now work , and the church hierarchy encourages them to . |
| 7 | Certainly the education system encourages them to , by valuing only the Standard in most territories . |
| 8 | It also sort of encourages them to farm as much land as they can to presumably rent more out . |
| 9 | In the different sense of the priest ‘ representing ’ the people to God in worship the role is more that of an intermediary or go-between — a role more akin to that of a Member of Parliament who understands the needs of his constituents and represents them to the Government in Parliament . |
| 10 | And the society investigates them , and if they are deserving , either refers them to some appropriate charity or grants them relief or refers them back to us with a note of recommendation . ’ |
| 11 | For ants , matricide is an act of special genetic madness and formidable indeed must be the drug that drives them to it . |
| 12 | Very few studies have sought to position shoplifting within a broader social and political sphere , where women in particular are vulnerable to a consumer fetishism that drives them to lawbreaking … |
| 13 | The concretion of the Christian religion drives them to its edge ; indeed makes them wonder whether there is a place for them within it . |
| 14 | As these animals roam around their home ground , any unaccustomed mark alerts them to the passage of a stranger . |
| 15 | And so , through the link , I receive an impression of Ace 's thoughts , if Pool channels them to me . ’ |
| 16 | If the spiritual realisations become bogged in the mud of the stagnant pond , materials stagger about pulling this way and that on the lead that joins them to their master . |
| 17 | They have to compete for telescope time , to make sure that no one beats them to crucial measurements . |
| 18 | The farmers see a danger that their products will become uncompetitive ; the road freight carriers have similar fears about what will happen if 1992 and the advent of the European single market exposes them to competition from foreign firms unfettered by the restrictions and burdens imposed on the Dutch . |
| 19 | For instance , it softens the shells of crayfish , and exposes them to disease . |
| 20 | Thus ministers no longer feel that the doctrine exposes them to special risks in the House but , by confining all the advice of the departments to ministers , it does ensure that they are so much better informed and briefed than their critics . |
| 21 | The reproductive role of women exposes them to many health problems , including diseases associated with malnutrition , infections and diseases brought on by inadequate prenatal care . |
| 22 | The mind puts together certain things and deems them to be of the same kind . |
| 23 | To undertake strategic research , which takes the new ideas coming out of basic research and develops them to the point where the possibility of commercial application can be identified . |
| 24 | So the novel frees Stavrogin from ‘ to be or not to be ’ and all other trammels of the notebooks , and transfers them to Kirillov . |
| 25 | The accused agrees to transfer shares to the victim but before doing so he transfers them to a third party . |
| 26 | At this stage , he was firmly opposed to federation ; ‘ Federation is harmful because it sanctions segregation and alienation , elevates them to a principle , to a law . ’ |
| 27 | [ She goes on to note that ] … the needs of squeezing religions into manageable units can easily lead to unhelpful emphases on the superficial , the external and the exotic on the one hand , or the conservative , the established and the institutional in religious traditions on the other hand , at the expense of such less obvious and less accessible factors as the profound interiority of faith , the mundane ordinariness of discipleship , and the radical reforming zeal within traditions which challenges them to continually renew themselves . |
| 28 | As the name implies they do not harden permanently but will soften repeatedly if one subjects them to some temperature between about 100° and 150°C . |
| 29 | This makes them rather like Health Maintenance Organisations ( HMOs ) in the United States , which receive a fixed annual sum of money to provide health care for enrolled patients ; the system subjects them to the same financial incentives and may lead to the same adverse effects . |
| 30 | Under this new dispensation things foreign and far removed from our own polluted urban world acquire all exotic piquancy , an exciting glamour , which causes them to be approached with a mixture of reverence and hope . |