Example sentences of "[verb] them [to-vb] [that] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many thinkers such as Owen , Fourier , Saint-Simon and Blanc saw the root of injustice as the competitive system of free markets , which led them to argue that the gulf between rich and poor and the exploitation of the one by the other , would not be abolished until some form of socialist state was established . |
| 2 | ‘ We would n't want them to think that a girl from St Mary 's would eat all before her when she went out to tea , ’ said Sister Jerome . |
| 3 | Elcho told the House about Palmerston 's reaction to the delegation and , pointing to the Government 's slender majority , asked them to ensure that the subject would not become a ‘ see-saw ’ . |
| 4 | If this is true ( and it is not so far-fetched : if you carry on an intelligent argument with your readers in the columns of a newspaper , you can not expect them to believe that the responsibilities of self-government are beyond them ) , then it would seem a good example of propaganda having the opposite effect to that intended . |
| 5 | We 'd like them to say that the laws like the 1986 public order act , which after all was introduced to combat football hooliganism , and not to control people 's sexuality , should not be used to drag lesbians and gay men before the courts simply for showing their love for each other . |
| 6 | She opened them to find that the priest had come in and was blandly regarding her and her father . |
| 7 | The catastrophists ' notion of mass extinction allowed them to believe that the disappearance of species was not a part of Nature 's regular operations , but occurred only in those exceptional interludes when the earth 's normal stability was interrupted by some gigantic convulsion . |
| 8 | Goulston and McGovern found no benign strictures in the right colon among their 13 patients , leading them to speculate that a stricture on the right side is more likely to be malignant than benign . |
| 9 | It was disappointing to discover on asking if I could have them to find that the museum had only just got round to registering what appeared to be Audubon 's proofs . |
| 10 | Home burials are particularly important to children , partly because it helps them to understand that the pet has gone forever and also because seeing their parents ' sorrow teaches them that it 's normal and acceptable to grieve . |
| 11 | But Ferranti said yesterday : ‘ The report confirms that Coopers & Lybrand have found no information which would lead them to suspect that the Ferranti International balance sheet exposure to fraud was any different from that referred to in the letter to shareholders dated 29 September . |
| 12 | The French men were identically garbed in black trousers and " le smoking " — a white dinner jacket cut away at the waist — while the women wore dresses from shops in the Rue Catinat fashionable enough to allow them to forget that the Rue de la Paix was a twelve-thousand-mile sea journey away . |
| 13 | It said there was sufficient material to entitle them to hold that the £18.1 million losses were attributable to the negligence of senior members of staff in the council 's finance department , including Mr Lawrie . |
| 14 | For example , adding a little recycled paper to a package enables them to claim that the item is made of recycled materials and convey a sense of ecological responsibility . |