Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] them [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they do anything which affects anybody , your only recourse is to take them to a High Court for a judicial review . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ They have suffered so many times in recent years and some think disappointment is staring them in the face again . |
| 3 | Erm the the er Professor Lock was saying well you know the way you get your footloose industry is to present them with an absolute guarantee of planning permission . |
| 4 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
| 5 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
| 6 | The railways are now in division three and the government 's plan is to take them into the non-league . |
| 7 | He knew well enough that convincing politicians was a tough job , so his plan was to present them with an informed and insistent electorate of the future . |
| 8 | Hundreds of smaller , locally organised anti-war actions have occurred nationwide , but little attention is afforded them by a media cowering under government charges that it contributed to the US defeat in Vietnam . |
| 9 | Now all they have time to do when they 're working on the site is to put them in the trays and wash them . |
| 10 | As long as people want to buy cakes which suggest that an old lady wearing a mob-cap is baking them in a Victorian farmhouse , the food firms will continue with dotty deceptions which add nothing to the nutritional value of our food . |
| 11 | Flowers looked at fault , but the happy Town fans chanted ‘ Goddard for England ’ while the band was serenading them during the interval . |
| 12 | The aim was to put them on the spot — or at least to impress the Inspector with your knowledge and concern . |
| 13 | His aim was to reconvert them to a Unitarian Christianity devoid of superstition . |
| 14 | As they returned to Swinbrook on Grye , the gipsy horse , the trees of Wychwood closed in about them and Carrie imagined the sadly diminished yet still proud forest was protecting them from the rest of the world . |
| 15 | We must make it clear to students that they can appeal against their rent to a tribunal so that the tribunal can decide whether the landlord is overcharging them on the council tax element . |
| 16 | And the final tribute was paid them by the Ferrarese organist Luzzasco Luzzaschi ( 1545 ? -1607 ) , a pupil of Rore , in his Madrigali … per cantare et sonare a uno , e doi , e tre soprani ( Rome , 1601 ) in which the lower parts of the madrigal were played on a harpsichord . |
| 17 | To ground the many provisions of , let us say , the UN Declaration of 1948 in the mere possibility of their being defended by moral argument is to consign them to a very combative arena indeed , the vagaries of which we have explored in this chapter and are precisely those exploited by Hare in his gloomy quotation . |
| 18 | The ideal is to coat them with a good flexible roofing compound while still sound , which can extend the life of a roof by up to 20 years . |
| 19 | Old Ladjang remonstrated with him quietly , but the others were silent , and we realized that our captain was infecting them with a subtle but poisonous hostility towards us . |
| 20 | Jaguar is offering them on every new model and Audi is said to be phasing out its Procon-Ten safety system in favour of driver's-side airbags . |
| 21 | Part of the success is to sow them at the right time . |
| 22 | Such structural components are often called objects , and one approach is to combine them with the logical objects we have just described into one uniform mechanism . |
| 23 | The man was watching them from a bedroom window , the bat visible . |
| 24 | The best man was driving them to the airport for their flight to Greece , and Ellie made sure she was right in the middle of the crowd as they all surged down the front path to wish them bon voyage . |
| 25 | My first thought was to put them in the dustbin . |
| 26 | Does it really matter that those were early days , when the joke on campus was that the only way to kill anyone with a laser was to hit them over the head with it ? |
| 27 | Mrs Verity 's expenditure turned out to be far more than she guessed and their decisions were also affected because the bank was overcharging them for a time . |
| 28 | ‘ To make lips look fuller , the trick is to define them with a brown eyeliner and outline the shape you want them to be and then go for a light coloured lipstick . |
| 29 | One way is to crawl up the staircase of preferment on your belly ; the other way is to kick them in the teeth . |
| 30 | She sees natural sex differences as providing the basis for a critique of certain philosophical conceptions which exclude women , and in that way is enlisting them on the side of feminism . |