Example sentences of "them and to " in BNC.

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1 But this market was new to them and to their own investors and trustees .
2 ‘ I straightened my back , and I walked down the stairs to my parents and I said goodbye to them and to the servants lined up on the front steps .
3 because the situations dealt with by professionals are unique , the professional must be given authority to solve them and to be responsible for the outcome .
4 In addition to them and to other kinds of instrumental validation , consent can be given non-instrumental validation in many contexts .
5 These and many other factors are of great importance to practising physicians , but to do justice to them and to the controversies which they provoked is beyond the purpose of this book .
6 The major concern is to ensure that they have a realistic chance of completing a course : this is clearly of special importance both to them and to the University .
7 In the days when hummingbird feathers were fashionable costume accessories , the plumage hunters of Trinidad used to imitate the hooting of owls to draw the unfortunate hummingbirds towards them and to their deaths .
8 By keeping it more or less behind them and to their left they could be sure of travelling north-west which was the direction they believed right but the inequalities of the ground often forced them out of their way and although they always returned to their line they had to guess what corrections to make to allow for obstacles .
9 There were several behind them and to the south , but on their right , to the north , there were many more .
10 What they most prized was the untitled Freedom of Bristol which was accorded to them and to two more of their relations .
11 The walkers are expected to be grateful for the left-over street space that is allocated to them and to not object when more is taken for road widening and comer-shaving , or when motorists use the remaining pavement to park on .
12 Our openness to them and to our real selves are brought to our celebration and ministry of the Eucharist .
13 They have become impotent — a fact which naturally causes a great deal of anxiety to them and to their wives .
14 Our thanks to them and to everyone who gave so generously of their time and money to help us through this difficult time .
15 There are certain properties we inherit but it is the conditions we live under which dictate how we will develop them and to what purpose we will put them .
16 Can you spot them and to which pilot they apply ?
17 What is common to all of them and to others , as it is to the first two sorts of " if " statements , is that none states the kind of connection of one thing with another which is expressed by any dependent conditional .
18 To this he added a determination that existing regulations which restricted the number and quality of foreign seamen employed on British ships should he enforced and strengthened , drawing attention to the abuse whereby shipowners discharged British seamen at foreign ports and hired cheaper foreign crews to replace them and to the need to repeal the Indian Merchant Shipping Act which permitted owners to employ lascars on worse terms than British seamen .
19 they desperately want a child between them and to them a child that is born by the mother but is from a different origin than than the partner is is the next best thing an , and most of the couples , and we do n't advise them that this should all be kept secret , we leave that decision to be something that they will erm , come to later on when the child is older , and many of these couples will decide that this child will be brought as their own biological child , and I do n't really see that as being any different than many relationships where children are conceived out of wedlock , or out , with the relationship and people make a a a decision to keep this erm to themselves .
20 Even if the rules were obeyed , the system was clearly oppressive both to the families whose best sons were torn from them and to the young boys who would never see their parents again .
21 His extraordinary personal library of cuttings , plus his first-hand knowledge — ‘ I have been lucky enough now , of course , to be able to talk to them and to those who know them well , and to see inside their homes ’ — makes Vickers one of our foremost Royal watchers .
22 Certainly I pay tribute to them and to their colleagues from other countries .
23 Several republics had objected to the size of contributions being sought from them and to the division of tax revenues , while the USSR Supreme Soviet had run out of discussion time because of arguments over defence spending .
24 The quality of the relationships is greatly affected by the approach to them and to the task adopted by the project manager .
25 A user can only enter or retrieve a module , or collection of modules , by reference to a LIFESPAN package which contains them and to which the user has appropriate access privileges .
26 However , first larger jennies and then the application of power to them and to the mules took spinning from the cottage through the workshop to the factory where , as we have seen , it became a male employment .
27 How can it help me do my job ? point of view the reason is that it can help you do your job is very simply that to involve members of the public er local councils , local authorities , decision makers and allows the outcome to , to erm entertain them and to erm hope for and communicate what it is they 'll come erm in a non-threatening , non-selling , non-hard sell environment where they can come along , they can enjoy themselves and go away and form their own opinions without somebody over the head with what they 're try to sa trying to do erm
28 which was in the middle of the road , but I phoned them and to be fair to them they responded very politely , very pleasantly , and dealt with it straight away , so erm
29 ‘ We very much need to speak to them and to anyone else who lived in the area at the time or thinks they know anything , ’ Mr McEwan said .
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