Example sentences of "them to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spectrum denies the EGM was illegal and says existing shareholders can not sell shares to outsiders without first offering them to inside investors . |
| 2 | Because of the doubt attached to their estimates , they want all governments to publish their inventories and submit them to international supervision . |
| 3 | Harry led our team by example — although perhaps what some of his colleagues needed was a skipper who could also drive or cajole them to better things — but it was a mark of the respect in which he was held by Palace supporters that his well-deserved Benefit in 1953–54 was so well attended . |
| 4 | And in the end the district council were able to afford a bit of funding towards staff , which broke a tradition that district councils tended only to fund premises , erm , and indeed the district council have done that as well in our case , recently by moving them to better premises . |
| 5 | A The ordination of women as priests is specifically excluded from its provisions , as is giving women permission to minister as priests and appointing them to certain offices that only priests may hold . |
| 6 | Take them to Boots and Help the Aged will distribute them to needy people around the world . |
| 7 | The local police had had a busy evening with an exceptional number of hoax calls that led them to non-existent road accidents drunken brawls and even — a touch that showed a nice appreciation of British susceptibilities — a rabid dog on the loose . |
| 8 | The men had only been out of jail for about two years after being sentenced to 10 years for firearms offences and plotting to kidnap an Eton schoolboy and hold him to ransom , but the judge said he accepted the men had both paid the price for these crimes and sentenced them to 4 years in prison . |
| 9 | The purpose of this chapter is to outline the elements involved in resource management in schools and to apply them to current practice . |
| 10 | The fact that investment trusts do not continually take in new funds and channel them to ultimate borrowers obviously raises the question of whether they should be considered as financial intermediaries at all . |
| 11 | But if a landowner deliberately collects rabbits or game on his land for any purpose , he is liable for damage by them to neighbouring owners if it is caused by his ‘ extraordinary , non-natural or unreasonable action . ’ |
| 12 | Obliquely flattering his readers by introducing them to boys near their own age involved in surprising and exciting events , he also invited them to wishful thinking , if not to identification , by emphasising the youth of his heroes and underplaying the responsibility and enforced maturity belonging to midshipmen in the early and mid-teens in reality . |
| 13 | A United States State Department travel advisory warning to US citizens on April 21 , alerting them to alleged security risks in Kenya , drew an angry response from local media and from an official of the ruling Kenya African National Union ( KANU ) the following day . |
| 14 | According to the theory of social representation , anchoring is a mechanism which ‘ strives to anchor strange ideas , to reduce them to ordinary categories and images , to set them in a familiar context ’ ( Moscovici , ‘ 1983 : 29 , emphasis in original ) . |
| 15 | Stewart , who managed England 's Test side for six years and steered them to successive World Cup finals , said : ‘ When I was brought up during the war , serving Queen and country meant a lot to my generation . |
| 16 | But she was also aware that no matter how she felt , her family would never allow her to relegate them to second place . |
| 17 | Yet , the appeal by definition , asks them to second guess |
| 18 | With the lines stretched out , have a friend apply tension on the ends to be prepared and scissor them to equal length . |
| 19 | By adopting such beliefs and applying them to contemporary society both found sustenance in elitist moral and ethical beliefs which were far removed from contemporary reality . |
| 20 | They have to compete for telescope time , to make sure that no one beats them to crucial measurements . |
| 21 | At first they were quite crude and it took little skill and expertise to forge the signature , and then fraudulently put them to financial advantage . |
| 22 | The decision arose from a claim lodged with the ECJ by a group of mainly Spanish-owned fishing companies , employing vessels registered as British , that amendments to the UK 1988 Merchant Shipping Act which excluded 95 of their vessels from British waters were illegal under EC law and had exposed them to financial ruin . |
| 23 | By precisely how much we shall see when we come to look at the attempts to sell them to private investors . |
| 24 | In America small town-dumps have been closed , or sold by the cities that owned them to private operators . |
| 25 | SFA 's rules relating to futures follow this tenet by application of the relevant rules only to circumstances where they are required , for example by limiting them to private investors , to contingent liability transactions or to margined transactions . |
| 26 | People would play the tapes back afterwards and would sometimes send them to distant relatives . |
| 27 | He trained them to regular confession , and whenever any one of them was dying would prepare them for death , and be thankful when they died in penitence , peace and hope . |
| 28 | Even in this case , some work needs doing to the back of the bevel to bring them to optimum usefulness . |
| 29 | If you put them to shallow they come up |
| 30 | A key concept in understanding such major shifts , and relating them to wider economic change , is uneven development . |