Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] them [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their shells provide them with valuable protection but like all armoured species they are at certain disadvantages — they are nearly always less mobile , less flexible , and suffer the consequences . |
| 2 | The qualitative methods provide them with feminist validity , while the quantitative methods ensure the reliability which psychology values . |
| 3 | if you record your check lists keep them on separate tapes and correctly labelled , so that you can easily find what you want . |
| 4 | We join an organization feeling relatively neutral about an external group of competitors but within months regard them as malevolent enemies . |
| 5 | It can be suggested that the fiduciary duties imposed on directors subject them to similar standards of review by the courts . |
| 6 | When regional deals divert more trade than they create , economists regard them as harmful overall : such arrangements tend to shift production to less efficient producers . |
| 7 | They would also remove any personal belongings which were removable and next day place them on prominent display , according to Polperro 's Quiller Couch , ‘ … to disclose the disgraceful want of vigilance supposed to characterise the owner ’ . |
| 8 | These so-called ‘ comfort foods ’ may relieve stress because people associate them with pleasant feelings they had when fed these foods as a child . |
| 9 | Echoes of the signal alert them to possible prey , at ranges up to 80–90 metres in shallow waters . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , as Europe 's electronics companies demand that the European Commission protect them from Japanese competition , NEC is thinking of taking a stake in Groupe Bull , France 's loss-making state-owned computer maker . |
| 11 | It 's always difficult to come to a conclusion about portable computers because people buy them for different reasons . |
| 12 | Barber argues that the knowledge and skills of professionals provide them with considerable power and it is therefore essential for the well-being of society that this power be used for the benefit of all . |
| 13 | Being omnivores , badgers will get used to eating just about anything , though very little will interest them on rainy nights , when the chance of getting their favourite food — earthworms — is high . |
| 14 | ‘ A lover of nature , he was no lover of solitude , and like many whose occupations condemn them to long silences he seized eagerly on all opportunities of conversation . ’ |
| 15 | As a result of Section 89 of the Companies Act 1985 , if the Directors wish to allot the unissued shares for cash ( other than pursuant to an employee share scheme ) , they must in the first instance offer them to existing shareholders in proportion to their holdings . |
| 16 | Members of Headquarters Battery follow them with varying degrees of success . |
| 17 | Dad give them into little bits . |