Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] them [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This topic is meant to improve pupils ' awareness of ‘ danger ’ areas in houses and to inform them of basic safety measures and precautions which should be taken at home . |
| 2 | The latest version of the SDI concept , originally introduced in 1983 , centred on the " brilliant pebbles " idea , which proposed that up to 100,000 small space-based rockets would be placed in orbit , where they would be able to track enemy missiles and to destroy them through direct collision . |
| 3 | The purpose of this chapter is to outline the elements involved in resource management in schools and to apply them to current practice . |
| 4 | His is a temperament well calculated to flatter and intrigue readers in the early teens and to draw them into vicarious adventure . |
| 5 | A TEI electronic bulletin board is also maintained at the University of Illinois at Chicago : this is used to announce availability of TEI drafts and other publications , and to distribute them in electronic form , as well as providing an open forum for comment and discussion of the TEI recommendations . |
| 6 | It included the need to separate officers from other ranks , and to place them in separate confinement ( the intention of this was to prevent the officers from leading their followers in opposition to the repatriations ) . |
| 7 | But one can not help thinking that a far greater contribution to the preservation of the World 's rain forests would be made if companies could be persuaded to make their annual brochures less glossy and to print them on re-cycled paper . |
| 8 | ‘ We do agree in Vestry held at the Bull Inn in Potton the 13th day of October 1812 that Roger Johnson , breeches maker of Potton , Beds. aforesaid shall farm the workhouse after the rate of 4s.6d per head old and young , to have their earnings and to employ them in any way to his advantage , to provide a sufficient quantity of good wholesome food and to have their meals hot three days in the week ( commonly called pott days ) … ’ |
| 9 | I 'd like if I may , to take this opportunity of paying tribute to the er helpful , cooperative attitude that the auditing practices board displayed in what were often long and very complex discussions and to thank them for the clear and helpful statement with which they shortly er plan to issue er to er accompany these order and to bring them into practical effect . |
| 10 | ( ‘ Every nation is to be considered advisedly , and not to provoke them by any disdain , laughing , contempt or suchlike , but to use them with prudent circumspection , with all gentleness , and courtesy . ’ |
| 11 | The correct policy with respect to them was thus not to abolish them but to subject them to constructive supervision . |
| 12 | Hopefully , he can use the creativity which exists between the experiential inside view and observational outside view of a cultural system to formulate an ethnography which incorporates ‘ a continuous dialectical , tacking between the most local of detail and the most global of global structures in such a way as to bring them into simultaneous view ’ ( Geertz ibid. 235 ) . |