Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] them [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rhee hoped the United States and Britain would recognise his provisional government ; a British Foreign Office minute from March 1945 reads , ‘ These people can not in any true sense be said to represent Korea and Anglo-US recognition of them might well lead to those [ problems ] we have experienced over the ‘ London Poles ’ . |
| 2 | Although we would not be able to see them because the light from them would not reach us , we would still feel their gravitational attraction . |
| 3 | For , ‘ trust between a company and its external auditors is very important and interposing another committee between them will only make the relationship fraught ’ . |
| 4 | Both Fanny and Henry enjoy literature so therefore we can predict that a marriage between them would not have been a total disaster . |
| 5 | If occasionally he still dreamed of Madeleine , of holding her in his arms , kissing her , he had reconciled himself to the belief that marriage between them could only have ended in disaster . |
| 6 | the university has a new duty , we are told : there is a besieging host , everincreasing , of Indians , Africans , Commonwealth people in general , Levantines , who aspire to become university teachers of English literature , and must therefore have a PhD — preferably a Cambridge one ( though it is admitted that a large proportion of them could n't hope to take the English Tripos with much credit — even if they could pass ) . |
| 7 | Sensibly avoided , a sex session with them would probably lead to repentant tears and an under-age sex charge . |
| 8 | Even if the technological aspects are fully understood , the application of the law to them may still perplex . |
| 9 | As they expanded , the energy of the field in them would slowly decrease until the inflationary expansion changed to an expansion like that in the hot big bang model . |
| 10 | It follows that any increase in the militancy of trade unions which intensifies the competition between them will also tend to raise the rate of inflation . |
| 11 | The choice between them should thus rest entirely on simplicity of key — the piece as a whole with all its modulations and sectional key-changes being taken into consideration . |
| 12 | The belief that there are no votes in concern for them wo n't wash with the Bishop . |
| 13 | The maid who opened the door to them could not take her eyes off the great fat woman in the biscuit straw hat with big cloth roses on its brim , and the cape that just covered her shoulders and showed an expanse of blue cotton bosom , the like she had never seen before . |
| 14 | Thus , as long as the marriage between the husband and wife ( assuming them both to be domiciled in the UK ) is not dissolved , transfer of property between them will not incur a liability to inheritance tax . |
| 15 | ‘ Aye , well , so , a pallet for them will not take up that much room , ’ he grunted grudgingly , his heart leaping . |
| 16 | It may though be useful to do just that , since our perception and understanding of them will also condition the way we approach the more focused sections following . |
| 17 | We have all had these emotions but when they reach such a pitch that our suppression of them can not cope , we explode , turning against whoever or whatever is in our way in an attempt to destroy it . |
| 18 | Even if they were all trying like mad , a lot of them would n't get jobs . |
| 19 | ‘ A lot of them can not come to us , because we are near the projects . |
| 20 | A drainage ditch around them would probably do more good than anything else . |
| 21 | One look at them will also show quite clearly that they are not too distantly related to the Scats , bearing a very similar body shape and positioning of their anal , caudal and dorsal fins in particular . |
| 22 | Last night the atmosphere between them could not have been more different . |
| 23 | The flashes of hostility between them could only make things worse . |
| 24 | Again , it has been held that the Prison rules are merely ‘ regulatory ’ and that breach of them can not give rise to a cause of action for damages although it may found an application for judicial review . |