Example sentences of "[to-vb] they [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They should change the law to include them with dogs like pit bulls which have to wear a muzzle . |
| 2 | National Park rangers eventually managed to speak to the two men but were unable to see them for clouds of steam . |
| 3 | The recognition of interests and groups in society , and a concern to see them in relation to government and the development of public policy represented an important breakthrough in the study of British politics . |
| 4 | Fortunately , many of them know that their relatives and friends will be calling in to see them from time to time ; but ‘ from time to time ’ does not take care of those long days and nights in between , when , apart from their often desperate need for company , they feel frighteningly cut off from the world of people who would come to their aid at once if they fell ill , if only they had the means of contacting them . |
| 5 | It seems more elegant , and closer to the linguistic facts of the case , to treat them as cases of underlexicalisation . |
| 6 | In fact on erm on one of the erm sheets that I 've brought up there 's a notice of how to repair them with bits of cycle inner tube . |
| 7 | During the 1950s and early 1960s a lot of effort was devoted to attempts , in the first place , to identify and measure parental attitudes and , in the second place , to relate them to characteristics of child behaviour . |
| 8 | I went on tour frequently from Simla to most of the main cities of India , speaking to Indian audiences and getting together groups of refugees from Burma to give them the latest news and to encourage them with hopes of victory and return . |
| 9 | terms and conditions of engagement and as I said previously they are looking for us to provide them with spreads of expenditure of fees and , and Trevor 's looking into that . |
| 10 | Although it is not common practice , some firms place wives in employment within the company overseas , where this is appropriate , or take steps to provide them with details of employment opportunities abroad . |
| 11 | Prisoners may be left locked in their cells for longer , because there is not the staff to supervise out-of-cell activities or to escort them from place to place . |
| 12 | For the Lord revealed , ‘ I intend to baptise them with tongues of fire ’ ( Wagner 1973:16 ) . |
| 13 | If you were prone to feeling miserable , for example , the aim is to prevent feelings of misery rather than to swop them for feelings of ecstasy . |
| 14 | Because these are so individually made , they 're rather like instruments which have been devised for a specific individual , and so to criticise them for details of design is hardly fair . |
| 15 | Other issues with which I shall not detain the House but which have been mentioned by other hon. Members include the design of motor vehicles , the admirable Which ? survey , the question of insurance and rewarding those who take adequate precautions to secure their vehicles by having the means to immobilise them in case of theft , safety improvements and cases such as those in Swansea , where , for example , the local authority has now put attendants in several of the key car parks . |
| 16 | Costs of this magnitude and doubts about the ability to recoup them through improvements in efficiency or other gains are likely to be a significant disincentive to attempting a take-over and their scale suggests that they constitute a barrier behind which sub-optimally performing boards can find a substantial measure of protection . |
| 17 | But chimpanzees do not breed well in captivity , partly because of a long pregnancy and childhood , and trapping them in the wild is expensive and wasteful enough to put them at risk of extinction . |
| 18 | Yeah you know what I 've done , it 's that er thing there well before I had it I used to put them on floor at side of ashtray , and now I leave it on settee and you know when I put me legs up , you know when you move over and watching telly ? |
| 19 | She helped the children with their lessons each morning , then took them for walks and on shopping excursions in the afternoons , finally helping to put them to bed at night . |
| 20 | We 'd like you to put them in order of priority to agree with our judges ' decision . |
| 21 | Seniority provides committee chairmen with an independent power base and helps to insulate them from control by party leaders and presidents . |
| 22 | These charges and interest rates are variable and the Bank reserves the right to amend them from time to time . |
| 23 | how could that have been developed among a people whose public granaries were crammed with provisions and whose public officials were authorized to distribute them in case of need ? |
| 24 | They are one of the first candidates for food irradiation , which will replace the chemicals that are used to protect them from pests during storage . |
| 25 | Water voles have fairly specialized habitat needs : rivers or streams with steep banks and thick vegetation to protect them from birds of prey . |
| 26 | It is , therefore , our intention to seek to increase the range of NVQs offered by the Board and to market them to employers in co-operation with the Chamber movement . |
| 27 | While market forces may undoubtedly bring many positive benefits , both socially and politically , there are many occasions when it is legitimate to subject them to regulation in order to secure confidence and fairness in the operation of the financial markets . |
| 28 | His own contribution was to suggest ways in which the legal process exerted a powerful influence over delinquents : it provided them with a vocabulary which enabled them to justify their delinquent actions ‘ in the circumstances ’ ( ‘ techniques of neutralisation ’ ) and with a sense of injustice which helped to release them from feelings of obligation to conform . |
| 29 | IT probably wo n't be enough to save them from relegation to Division II , but Dundee HSFP reproduced some of last season 's promotion-winning style in regaining much lost pride at Mayfield on Saturday . |
| 30 | Preference rules may be broken ; in fact it would be very difficult not to break them from time to time as some of them conflict . |