Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , when the researchers reached the shop floor they discovered that robots were far too expensive for management to waste them on unskilled jobs . |
| 2 | Ways of maintaining and improving communications include : a ) establishing a management structure within the Partnership , with clear lines of communication into the schools and into employment ; b ) circulating minutes of management meetings to schools and employers so they know what is being discussed and what is being decided ; c ) bringing teachers and employers together at both Partnership and school level to plan , discuss and review the progress of the Compact ; d ) establishing School Compact Teams with regular meetings ; e ) circulating Compact documents , including such things as pupils ' Work Experience reports widely ; f ) holding Open Evenings for parents to brief them on Compact developments ; g ) producing a regular Compact Newsletter . |
| 3 | What gave rise to the protest of the intelligentsia , and what lay behind the revolutionary protest of its extreme wing , was the lack of opportunity afforded them by tsarist society . |
| 4 | Jones ' tally lifted Marchwiel to 143–7 , Nick Brown adding 31 on a day when Mold 's fielding was below par leaving them with 11 points to Marchwiel 's 30 . |
| 5 | ( This explains the small amount of attention given them by contemporary theorists of enlightenment in contrast to the adulation lavished on the Prussian and Russian rulers . ) |
| 6 | Mr Gordon Green , a senior executive member , said the recent educational changes were doomed to failure unless the Government recognised the true value of teachers implementing them by improving pay and conditions . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Although Norman horsemen used stirrups , a major invention and development in terms of medieval warfare , it is not certain if the warriors of Charlemagne used them to any great extent . |
| 9 | Nearly three out of four adults own a video recorder but only one third of women use them without any problems , compared with two thirds of men and half of children . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Gestures of this kind were part of the vocabulary of politics ; an astute politician like Philip used them to great effect . |
| 12 | The SEC 's case , according to BASF finance director Max Dietrich Kley , is that the chemical giant 's figures understate profits , making it difficult for investors to compare them with those of other concerns . |
| 13 | The Blackmen made their way down Lower Ormeau to the city centre , where they connected with buses to take them to Last Saturday marches elsewhere in the province . |
| 14 | ‘ Charles and Diana — It 's Really Over ’ ran the headline in the daily Parisienne , above photographs showing them in happier days . |
| 15 | Stations throughout these areas invariably have their quota of migrants lying on the platforms waiting for trains to take them to another instalment of toil . |
| 16 | Although notice accounts are normally worthwhile , the return on them has been cut so much that there 's little reason for people to choose them over postal accounts . |
| 17 | Brezhnev responded with an appeal for the Great Powers to adopt certain norms in relations with Third World states including respect for the status of non-alignment chosen by them and abstention from attempts to draw them into military-political blocs of powers . |
| 18 | In spring 1981 Brezhnev responded with his formal proposal for the West to accept certain norms in relations with the Third World , including respect for their status of non-alignment and ‘ abstention from attempts to draw them into military-political blocs of powers ’ . |
| 19 | At the junction of the Welford branch , a boat from Welford met them with ample supplies of refreshments to fortify them against the passage of Bosworth tunnel . |
| 20 | We join an organization feeling relatively neutral about an external group of competitors but within months regard them as malevolent enemies . |
| 21 | The visitors were 82–2 but two run outs followed by a four wicket burst from Mannion reduced them to 94 all out . |
| 22 | Imperial Airways built a fort for passengers and planes in Persia to protect them from unwelcome visits by local tribesmen . |
| 23 | And of course I er wirelessed the office headquarters in Edinburgh told them about this so they sent a mine sweeper out from Tobermory . |
| 24 | Notation or codes are appended to a sequence of topics in order to arrange them in some clearly defined order . |
| 25 | The discretion of directors is to be exercised in the choice of means to attain that end , and does not extend to a change in the end itself , to the reduction of profits , or to the nondistribution of profits among stockholders in order to devote them to other purposes ’ . |
| 26 | There was nothing in the original Bill about academic freedom and universities were to be permitted to dismiss senior staff in order to replace them with younger and cheaper people . |
| 27 | Referring to recent studies indicating that some people are particularly vulnerable to the effects of sleep disruption , the authors of this report suggested that work should be done to identify those doctors who are most at risk , in order to assign them to other duties . |
| 28 | Vélez was on a list of judges ( jueces sin rostro ) whose identity had been kept hidden in order to protect them from such attacks and to encourage their independence . |
| 29 | We will call inferences of this type bridging inferences in order to distinguish them from all the possible inferences which could be drawn from a particular sentence . |
| 30 | It became customary to refer to all bovines as ‘ black cattle ’ in order to distinguish them from other ‘ cattle ’ such as horses , sheep and pigs . |