Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] them [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This food was also an invaluable help to passage migrants such as the finches and buntings , helping them put on a few extra grammes of fat to carry them through the next leg of their long journey to winter quarters . |
| 2 | As for companies from other member states , which by virtue of the first paragraph of article 58 are equated to natural persons for the purposes of the application of the provisions on the right of establishment , the Act of 1988 deprives them of the right to establish themselves in the United Kingdom through the intermediary of agencies , branches or subsidiaries , since it provides that only companies set up under the laws of the United Kingdom may be owners and operators of fishing vessels , and restricts their right of participation in the capital of companies or firms , as the corresponding right of natural persons is restricted by the Act . |
| 3 | But most one-roomed flats or studio apartments are box-like spaces with little to commend them in the way of interesting detail or character . |
| 4 | ( Hartman has shown that the average person has one or less nightmares a year ; and only one person in 500 has them on a weekly basis . ) |
| 5 | But it is unreasonable from this to extrapolate ‘ the school ’ as one of the cornerstones of society — for what are schools but institutions in which , in the name of knowledge , we ghettoize the young , and keep them from adult company , coop up the violent with the meek , those who like learning with those who do n't , and in general fit them for the modern world , which one quick glimpse of the television will show them to be a violent , murderous , greedy , vulgar and horrid place , in which people in a good mood throw custard pies at one another and in a bad mood chop each other to pieces ? |
| 6 | And on the occasions when there was an epidemic of sheep scab we all went to the sheep dipping tub kept by the Fawcetts , and later the Thwaites at High Birk Hatt , to double dip them in a special drench . |
| 7 | In you preliminary discussions with local client , do not make any detailed commitments with respect to fees or services without first clearing them with the participating member . |
| 8 | It was also an implicit protest at what many in Co-operation had seen as an exercise which at best fundamentally misconceived the Movement 's nature and aspirations , at worst misused them for the purposes of a political performance . |
| 9 | Not only madrigals but canzonette and balletti , under anglicized names , were modelled sometimes all too closely on Italian originals and printing at last gave them to the public . |
| 10 | They are removed by first moving them inside the ALT |