Example sentences of "[prep] them [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , Eoin O'Duffy , who led an Irish contingent to Spain to help Franco , maintained that they had gone to fight the battle of Christianity against Communism , a view which was confirmed for them by the Irish Dominican father , Revd Paul O' Sullivan when he said : |
| 2 | In many cases the husband and wife will be living apart at the time of the court order , or at a time when agreement is reached between them concerning the former matrimonial home , in circumstances that are likely to prove permanent . |
| 3 | Full assimilation of them into the old upper class would seem unlikely . |
| 4 | Organic molecules , some of them of the same general types as are normally only found in living things , have spontaneously assembled themselves in these flasks . |
| 5 | So , for instance , if you wanted access to a management information system on your Unix computer , to an accounts system running on a mainframe , and to a spreadsheet running locally on the PC , it would be possible to reach all of them via the same windowing front-end . |
| 6 | Richards and King put on 139 for the fifth wicket in just seventy-seven minutes , King annihilating the bowlers to the tune of three sixes and ten fours in his 86 , most of them from the three part-time bowlers who conceded , by coincidence , 86 between them . |
| 7 | It will now be a limited handicap which should mean avoiding the farce of last year when only three went to the post , two of them from the same stable . |
| 8 | The article gives the possibility of legal action against individual sellers or suppliers , or groups of them from the same economic sector , or against their trade associations . |
| 9 | Since 1947 a total of about 570 has been recorded , about a third of them in the two severe winters of early 1956 ( c. 44 birds ) , and 1962/63 ( c. 154 birds ) . |
| 10 | We stand with them for the last gloomy minutes till the clock strikes the hour . |
| 11 | Afterwards , the old gentleman walked with them to the little white house . |
| 12 | There was a deathly hush , no sound but the beautiful music rising up and swirling above them to the glittering pointed icicles in the illuminated cavernous roof . |
| 13 | For instance , in a dry country , animals and plants work to maintain the fluid content of their cells , work against a natural tendency for water to flow from them into the dry outside world . |
| 14 | As they came up , Meredith was surprised at the amount of body-heat coming from them in the low outside temperature . |
| 15 | The research will monitor what coping strategies governing bodies are using to deal with the tasks and responsibilities given to them by the new educational legislation and will also focus on the identification of power relations ( including gender and race/ethnicity ) , decision making processes and networks of influence operating in the eight governing bodies . |
| 16 | The committee declined to accept the view put to them by the Joint Permanent Secretary to the Treasury that tribunals ought to be regarded as part of the machinery of public administration for which the Government should retain a close and continuing responsibility . |
| 17 | Even as far away as Australia commentators talked about a quiet revolution in the way Australians and their communities were responding to the types of learning challenges being presented to them by the changing social conditions of the 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 18 | Dependent on relief helicoptered to them by the American armed forces , the mountain refugees are still losing their young and their old to malnutrition , cold and disease . |
| 19 | Whereby the task of the local planning authority , and the onus is on them without the initial negative presumption , the task before the local planning authority in refusing permission is made that much more difficult . |
| 20 | Spring this on them at the worst possible time ; make sure they 're all in the corridor if possible , so you have the maximum number of potential victims . |
| 21 | In the Preface he described the superstitions of the Irish peasantry and the rigid hold on them of the Roman Catholic priests , who used all means to confine them to the Irish language , lest if they learnt English they might converse with members of the Church of Ireland or attend its services . |
| 22 | We are used to looking at faces , the faces of people , for their emotions and feelings ; and when we wonder about the emotions of animals we tend to look at them in the same limited way . |