Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [prep] them [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Of course , as with any investment in stocks and shares , the value of units and the income from them can go down as well as up , and an investor may not get back the amount originally invested .
2 A preliminary assessment suggests that perhaps three quarters of these specimen clauses would be caught , but that the remainder of them would need specific implementation .
3 Although creeks are thought to be largely areas of non-deposition rather than areas of erosion , the scour of the tide along them may cause some lateral erosion and water draining at times of very high tides from areas behind the zone of creeks may plunge into the heads of the creeks and so cause a certain amount of headward erosion .
4 Those are important and worthwhile projects , and we must ask the Government where the money for them will come from , especially if £1.4 billion is gobbled up by the proposals for King 's Cross .
5 Hopper heads are generally considered unsanitary as they are not self-cleaning ( and can get coated with dried soap ) and the smell from them could enter the bathroom through an open window .
6 At all events the rent from them must have been very considerable .
7 Certainly , this broader remit seems eminently sensible , partly because the existence of strict demarcation lines between advanced and non-advanced further education is harmful to both and partly because the distinction between them will become more blurred as and when the provision of recurrent and continuing education is expanded .
8 The bond between them might help to heal old family conflicts .
9 The distance between them would indicate a gate with at least two portals .
10 That way , every time she turned her head to address one section of the audience , the rest of them would have something to be surprised about .
11 They dumped his body outside the Hizbollah 's offices with a note saying that the rest of them would die in a similar fashion if the three diplomats were not released .
12 The thin man said Crane should be left to make his own way so that the rest of them could ride as fast as they could down one of the tracks to the south .
13 If they are not moving relative to each other at one time , the attraction between them will cause them to start falling toward each other .
14 One or the other of them would insist on having you to stay .
15 Do n't over-do it with styling products — the alcohol in them can make your hair dry and if allowed to build up , make it look dull .
16 If government wanted such powers , it could obtain them only through Parliament ( Parliament itself has never sought to exercise executive powers ) and the granting of them could take place only after deliberation and approval by the triumvirate of monarch , Lords , and Commons .
17 The present trend of setting up courses only in response to staff shortages will be superseded in the future by any forthcoming legal requirement , and so the administration of courses and the rationale behind them will have to change accordingly .
18 Investors are reminded that as a consequence of the general nature of the investments held and of possible exchange and interest rate fluctuations , the value of their shares and the yield from them may go down as well as up and that past performance is no guide to the future .
19 The garden for them should feel like an extra sitting room , gnat-ridden perhaps , damp occasionally , but an important overflow of living space .
20 Such a transfer will be appropriate whether the property was held by the husband and wife as beneficial joint tenants or as tenants in common : in the latter case , as the transfer to the husband and wife will not have contained a declaration to the effect that the survivor of them could give a good receipt for capital monies , a restriction will have automatically been entered on the register to the effect that no disposition by a sole proprietor of the land ( not being a trust corporation ) under which capital money arises is to be registered except under an order of the registrar or of the court ( Land Registration Act 1925 , s58(3) and Land Registration Rules 1925 , r213 as amended by Land Registration Rules 1989 ( SI No 801 ) ) .
21 ‘ These are enormously strong roots and the melding of them may give us an organisation far more formidable than either could be on their own . ’
22 Finally she returns to her original distinction between female , feminine and feminist , and suggests how the relation between them might have implications for possible developments in the practice of philosophy .
23 He said this was the worst moment of his life , and the various carpetings he received ultimately had their effect ; years later the memory of them would have a deep effect on his attitude to captaincy .
24 Fine golden hairs , which but for the sunlight on them would have been invisible , shone against the soft brown skin of her thigh .
25 If the floor plates have ever been removed then the sealer around them may have been damaged and need replacing .
26 Both sides agree that these behaviours lead to much if not most of the premature mortality as well as chronic morbidity of adults today , and that a reduction in them would lead to reduced mortality and an enhanced quality of life .
27 A gang of them would meet there , graduating from Meccano and toy farms to risqué games of Dare , illicit cigarettes , speculation about sex .
28 So loud are these calls that a single insect can be heard half a kilometre away and a chorus of them can set a whole forest ringing and echoing .
29 Many pioneers of women 's education made it quite clear that they did not accept Emily Davies ' view that girls might be trained in the same way as boys , and argued that they should be given an opportunity , by way of , for example , domestic science classes , to prepare for the lives a majority of them would lead as wives and mothers .
30 Yet a recent survey showed that a quarter of the ‘ patients ’ do not need to be in a mental institution at all and a half of them could live in the outside world given proper support .
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