Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] them [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 SCOTVEC is always interested to hear from people who feel that they have the subject expertise and commitment to National Certificate to enable them to undertake the job of subject assessor .
2 These costs include the re-filling of fire extinguishers or damage caused by the fire brigade to a building to enable them to put the fire out and would be covered under the fire section .
3 Like legislators , doctors set themselves up as women 's protectors and the preoccupation with women 's reproductive systems as the source of their illness and weakness led them to assume the role of moral guardian .
4 Making their way through the extensive 4th floor they were stopped when a massive explosive caused them to hit the floor .
5 A computer programme allows them to plan the food he 'll have to take for the 12 man crew on the Group 4 yacht .
6 Subjectively worded regulations were treated literally , and the courts eschewed any attempt to persuade them to judge the necessity or reasonableness of such regulations .
7 I disputed the latter with Tony who conceded that the differential existed more because it was ‘ expected ’ by customers than in any attempt to persuade them to buy the beer in preference to another .
8 If BR does not come up with the money the council is warning it may take action to force them to remove the ticket office .
9 It was agreed that any club invited to the Glenfiddich will be paired with a local side to allow them to play the fixture in midweek either before or after the trip to Glasgow .
10 At a meeting of the Finance Committee members will pr , make a progress report on how the poll tax collection is going , and campaigners say they intend to put pressure on councillors in an attempt to get them to review the collection process .
11 They realise that Compact enables them to have a say in the shape of education for the 1990s and to help them meet their projected employment needs .
12 At the end of his judgment he said , at p. 356 , that mandamus would not lie to direct the benchers of Gray 's Inn to compel them to call the applicant , who was a student member of the Inn , to the degree of a barrister-at-law and added that , if there was a ground for mandamus , the party must take the ancient course of applying to the 12 judges .
13 The bacteria have , embedded in their cell membranes , receptor molecules — that is , proteins whose molecular architecture enables them to recognize the glucose molecules — and tiny whip-like projections ( flagella ) which , by beating in unison , can row the bacteria up the glucose gradient .
14 There is no doubt that their super-sensitive barbules detect our lines just as easily as they detect food , but , fortunately for us , they usually accept our offerings in spite of the obvious danger they have felt , though the same danger compels them to take the bait ‘ hit-and-run ’ style .
15 ( 3 ) The Director may by notice in writing require the person under investigation or any other person to produce at such place as may be specified in the notice and either forthwith or at such time as may be so specified any specified documents which appear to the Director to relate to any matter relevant to the investigation or any documents of a specified description which appear to him so to relate ; and — ( a ) if any such documents are produced , the Director may — ( i ) take copies or extracts from them ; ( ii ) require the person producing them to provide an explanation of any of them ; ( b ) if any such documents are not produced , the Director may require the person who was required to produce them to state , to the best of his knowledge and belief , where they are .
16 the usual practice for liners in the vicinity of ice in clear waters was ‘ to keep course , to maintain the speed and to trust a sharp look–out to enable them to avoid the danger
17 The year before , Maxims services had been tried out when the Ministry of the Court commissioned them to provide a banquet in the desert for a hundred people .
18 The therapist encouraged them to consider the possibility that the act might be understood in terms of both these motives and that this highlighted the need for improved communication between them .
19 The plaintiff vendors sought to set aside the expert 's decision and to have the court decide the matter , but the defendant purchasers said that the plaintiffs could not do that because the contract bound them to accept the expert 's decision .
20 Yet the importance attached to this scheme of distributive justice by advocates of choice theory encourages them to ignore the contradiction which we noticed above between the liberal ideal of individual autonomy and the moral paternalism of the principle that promises ought to be kept which lies at the heart of their theory of contract .
21 The growing materialism of the age led them to envisage the hereafter as the eternal ‘ Now ’ , and depict survival in terms of the senses .
22 The creation of Job Clubs for redundant members is providing a most valuable lifeline to help them to solve the problem of coping with the trauma and making a constructive approach in the search for employment .
23 In such cases the affected owner can serve a notice on the local authority requiring them to purchase the property at an ‘ unblighted ’ price .
24 Their experience of programming and software engineering enables them to accept the need for discipline and good design , and to understand the problems of handling really large documents .
25 That sort does all sorts of silly things , till experience tells them to put a sock in it .
26 The introduction of the cascade model , in which the member of staff reports back to colleagues , has been introduced to alleviate this reaction , but this too has met with three fairly substantial problems : first , the idea of cascading presumes that the teachers will return from the course keen and willing to share their experience ; second , that the teachers will have the expertise to allow them to cascade the experience effectively ; and third , that group dynamics between course members in which security , confidence and understanding can develop from the shared experience is frequently dissipated when the groups disperse .
27 The caller told them to say the man 's full name out loud .
28 Colin Liddle , of Wylam Road , Shield Row , Stanley , has contacted every county councillor urging them to reconsider the closure of Hustledown House in Stanley , home to 38 pensioners including his 81-year-old mother Florence .
29 In general the railways , at all events in Britain , took little interest in third-class travel , though the government forced them to provide a minimum of it .
30 B and K claimed that the Board should give them sufficient information to enable them to answer the case against them .
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