Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] them [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you are to provide them with decent motives for a murder , and decently different ones as well , you will need room to do it in . |
| 2 | The answer until now has been to put them in geriatric units . |
| 3 | The idea of getting everyone away is to isolate them from mundane worries so that they can concentrate wholeheartedly on the task in hand . |
| 4 | All you need to do is to wipe them with absorbent paper . |
| 5 | The trick with infantry is to use them in large units , at least four ranks deep , preferably more , and to always give them a banner . |
| 6 | Of course many committees are composed of old chums , but a way of making meetings less forbidding to those outside the circle is to hold them on neutral ground outside members homes . |
| 7 | The modern way is to have them at right angles . ) |
| 8 | This is a great piece of garden machinery but only if your land is already free of perennial weeds such as dandelion , dock and , the worst pest of all , creeping buttercup ; if not , all it will do is to chop them into little pieces , and where you had one when you used it , you 'll have a hundred or more next year . |
| 9 | A helpful device is to print them on separate index cards which you carry around with you for a while . |
| 10 | Curtis , meanwhile , as the result of his meditations on how a federated empire might collectively discharge its duty to the backward races under British rule , had begun to reach the conclusion that the answer was to train them for eventual self-government . |
| 11 | Before banks or even locks and keys were invented , the usual way of protecting valuable objects and money was to hide them from other people . |
| 12 | ‘ Our trick was to put them in different situations . |
| 13 | The aim was to transform them into permanent subsistence farmers or labourers . |
| 14 | All this training was to hold them in good stead for the war to come , when the older members were to form the backbone of a very efficient Fire Brigade . |
| 15 | There was no time to hand pick and develop enough trainees , and the only solution was to capture them from other firms . |