Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] them [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One other scheme allowed for one-to-one tests but left the decision about including them to individual teachers . |
| 2 | The other was the search in living tissues for the carriers or agents which determined these properties , i.e. the genes responsible for producing them in successive generations . |
| 3 | He says that the council is obliged by the government to take full responsibility for young offenders — and that includes paying for keeping them in secure units . |
| 4 | A particularly interesting feature of the trestle piers was the method used for founding them on irregular river beds . |
| 5 | A group of Czech teenagers allegedly made a few hundred copies of locally-produced computer software packages and sold them for $10 a piece , after advertising them via direct mail-shots . |
| 6 | Mr Behbehanian , his banker , who believed that the British controlled every event in Iran , was still pressing him to repair there and to apologize to the British for insulting them in recent years . |
| 7 | It attempted to identify these needs , and addressed detailed recommendations for meeting them to central government , LEAs , examination boards , teachers , training institutions and funding bodies for research and curriculum development . |
| 8 | There are possibilities for encouraging pupils to listen to their own reading on tape , and to discuss what is going on , with the aims of helping them toward cognitive clarity and the expression of their feelings about the text . |
| 9 | She had a way of shaping them into round balls , raising her arms in a wide , swinging movement and hurling them straight at Elizabeth . |
| 10 | This , presumably , is because they make the journey at very great depths , far below the reach of drift nets or trawls and since they are no longer feeding there is little chance of catching them on baited hooks or in traps . |
| 11 | One of the most successful ways of giving a different quality to the steps and poses of classical dance and of transforming them into demi-caractère style is to relate them intimately to appropriate music . |
| 12 | I had worked hard while I was on Amantani , reconstructing the bones of my experiences without the satisfaction of cradling them in apposite language . |
| 13 | England lost all three of their Tests and West Indies won two of theirs , but neither side liked the arrangement of interspersing them with one-day games that were part of the new Benson and Hedges World Series Cup . |
| 14 | But classifying animals and plants , living and fossil , is more than just an attempt to find a convenient way of slotting them into different categories , like stamps in a stamp album , for neatness and convenience . |
| 15 | Ideas can , and do , occur in a variety of ways , and the process of translating them into successful innovations can be understood better through the uncertainty map . |
| 16 | As far as chartered accountant trainees are concerned , Mr Jones argues , ‘ you have all the aggravation of training them on high salaries and the disruption to a small office with their going off for long periods of study leave , and at the end you do n't keep them . |
| 17 | Above all the parties have failed in the task of presenting clear alternatives to the questions of the day and thus of deciding them by public debate … |
| 18 | In which case it would make more sense to elect proven adulterers instead of discouraging them from public life . |
| 19 | As Evans-Pritchard explains , ‘ in every Zande household there is a fowlhouse , and fowls are kept mainly with the object of subjecting them to oracular tests . |
| 20 | Why can not this Tory Government honour their pledge under the treaty to get rid of nuclear weapons , which will mean the withdrawal of Polaris — which is literally cracking up — and the saving of £10 billion on Trident , to be spent on the national health service to care for lives instead of threatening them with mass murder ? |
| 21 | The CAR are studying the feasibility of converting them to electronic warfare trainers . |
| 22 | The interpretative work of field staff , particularly the procedures by which they graft meaning onto the behaviour of polluters for the purpose of categorizing them for future decisions about enforcement , is , then , a central theme . |
| 23 | The didactic approach of preaching to ‘ learners ’ ( rather than ‘ students ’ ) and of spoonfeeding them with preset values and objectives is gradually being replaced by a much more human approach where students are enabled to question and study , and to add to knowledge themselves as they extract the best from individual learning experiences . |
| 24 | Neither have we overlooked the youngsters — in fact we have created the ‘ Acorn Club ’ for the sole purpose of entertaining them with exciting excursions and activities while you relax elsewhere . |
| 25 | Does the Chancellor of the Exchequer recall that , in its report on the Budget , the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee stressed that it was important that the so-called automatic stabilisers should be allowed to operate fully and that there was a case for supplementing them with discretionary increases in public expenditure ? |
| 26 | — Members of Framwellgate Moor and District Royal British Legion branch have used the Framwellgate Moor WMC as a meeting place for over a quarter of a century and Legion members said thank you to the club for providing them with free accommodation during that time . |
| 27 | This was regarded and listened to with some incredulity by the majority of the airmen , whose main ambition regarding Waafs had much to do with getting them into dark corners , like behind the Naafi , and nothing whatever to do with playing the flute or any other instrument . |
| 28 | Interviews with local people in the state of Tamil Nadu revealed increased incidences of unconsciousness , vomiting and other physical symptoms among people using pesticides ; a decrease in soil fertility and numbers of earthworms and insects ; and the prevalence of a range of unsafe practices in the use of pesticides ( such as mixing them with bare hands or using old containers for food storage ) . |
| 29 | In summary , his presentation allows readers to suppose that the Pioneers were wrong in establishing , or attempting to establish , the producers ' societies as bodies separate from the consumers ' societies , and wrong even in seeing them as genuine co-operatives . |
| 30 | WCS is also useful for testing micro-instruction sequences , before lacing them in read-only storage for permanent use . |