Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] them [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there is to be a rehearsal you may prefer them to bring a practice leotard in order to keep any specially chosen outfit for the performance . |
| 2 | We thought we should force them to bring the price down . |
| 3 | It is important that we do not hand to our successors decisions made at the end of a dying Parliament ; we should leave them to take the decisions in future . |
| 4 | 17.66 The SATs at ages 14 and 16 should provide pupils with a wide choice , but should require them to produce a number of contrasting pieces of writing within both long and short timed tasks and spanning the range from imaginative literary uses of language to the clear and orderly presentation of information and argument . |
| 5 | As they carried Robbie into the yard she glanced towards the staircase door and wondered if she should ask them to wait a moment until she went and got a coat and hat . |
| 6 | What they want to do next is to use deuterium and tritium together in the machine , since the dt reaction releases more energy per fusion than does the dd , and so Princeton hope that the faster energy release might enable them to cross the breakeven threshold . |
| 7 | No , we 'll get them to light the fire . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll get them to cut a swath through the brambles to widen the path and save the costumes from snagging . |
| 9 | They have exposed the army 's weaknesses with a three-month campaign of economic sabotage , and show little interest in a government offer of talks that might allow them to join the assembly . |
| 10 | ‘ In the case of others , having this qualification might help them to find a job . ’ |
| 11 | Just as the hunted may use disguises to escape from hunters , so the hunters may use them to lay an ambush . |
| 12 | These higher-order shaikhs had no power to intervene in the affairs of component lineages , although again , as senior and widely connected men , they had other roles which could entitle them to express an opinion . |
| 13 | You could use them to study the language and techniques of advertising . |
| 14 | The French lawyers are waiting there now , and I 'd like them to hear the C.O. actually make the charge . ’ |
| 15 | Organisers of the biggest air rally in Europe say that military red tape could force them to stage the event elsewhere . |
| 16 | If those at the Tate do not believe that the acquisition of one picture a year is sufficient to keep its contemporary art collection up to date , the Government could tell them to use the powers in the Bill to dispose of works of art . |
| 17 | She could get them to broadcast an announcement for her , spread the word around the gallery that Mr James Worsdale was to come to the main entrance . |
| 18 | He wondered if he could get them to pay the mortgage . |
| 19 | He knew as he could come to me er he used to bring me lock keys of all sorts and er he could get the castings or the patterns or what it is like that and he knows I could fashion them to fit the lock and all that sort of thin and we were very |
| 20 | If someone would come he could ask them to check the brake on the van . |
| 21 | However , the permeability of state agencies to external influence may lead them to serve the interests of private groups , and in extreme cases to become ‘ colonised ’ by them . |
| 22 | If , as my hon. Friend suggests , there is cheaper electricity to be obtained from coal-fired power stations than from gas-fired power stations , I would expect them to use the electricity from coal-fired stations , in accordance with their licence obligations . |
| 23 | ‘ If anybody knows anything about what might have happened to her I would beg them to contact the police and tell them anything that might help . ’ |
| 24 | If the children in Durham Cathedral do not have a sense of what it would cost them to break the vow of sanctuary they can not have much interest vested in keeping it . |
| 25 | It would enable them to take the surrender of the 200,000 Croats on their arrival in Austria and hand them back to the " local Jugoslav forces " , without having to be concerned by the general instruction that all surrendering Yugoslavs should be retained pending a political decision as to their ultimate disposal . |
| 26 | Such recordings would enable them to monitor the effectiveness of certain maintenance and operational procedures by means of automatic read-out and computerised analysis . |
| 27 | They also stressed the importance of maintaining a price structure which continued to attract off-peak loads , such as cooking , water heating and non-winter space heating , and which would enable them to increase the consumption of small consumers to more economic levels . |
| 28 | If accepted , this would enable them to construct a continuation of Light Railway No. 3 from the Croydon Boundary to the centre of Croydon . |
| 29 | In each of the corners of the civilised world , men and women pondered the flawed and tragic conditions of human life and attempted to find solutions that would enable them to survive the suffering that flesh is heir to . |
| 30 | Taiwan 's telecommunications industry is objecting to a plan by the Directorate General of Telecommunications to invite only foreign bidders for its Intelligent Network project : domestic companies claim to have 80% of the necessary capabilities for the $285,000N project , and are arguing that agreements with foreign partners would enable them to fulfil the conditions . |