Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If he shares his uncle 's hostility towards the female sex he might very well be prepared to treat them with similar contempt ! ’ |
| 2 | ( That is to say , even if it were the case that e.g. broad-class syllables were easy to find , it would be pointless to use them for lexical access if the number of words described by a string of such units was huge . ) |
| 3 | I felt a little shy : all those things we had written — would I be able to translate them into physical action , into real , spoken words ? |
| 4 | To be able to change them into different fractions . |
| 5 | Are these sufficiently closely defined for us to be able to apply them to particular cases ? |
| 6 | We may or may not be able to convert them to electrical use . |
| 7 | Food is also sometimes a problem and it may be necessary to feed them with live food , coral or coralline until they have acclimatized to tank life . |