Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] they [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These jobs are usually seen as benefits , certainly by the workers who flock to take them up , and by the governments that have established incentive programmes to attract them in the first place . |
| 2 | The Germans occupied them in the second world war , the Americans rebuilt them afterwards , and then the north-west Europeans came back in the shape of the European Community and its powerful money . |
| 3 | Bloom et al. " s study of how to is acquired in infinitival complement constructions led them to the clear conclusion that " the children learned to with the meaning " " direction towards " " and not as a meaningless syntactic marker " ( 1984 : 391 ) . |
| 4 | A Mr Big character showed the pre-pubescents the gigging ropes , a set of Status Quo covers taking them to the giddy heights of 600 capacity community discos . |
| 5 | Farmers will be offered money to cut the use of pesticides and fertilizers , and those who choose to convert to organic methods of cultivation will receive support premiums to assist them during the lean transition period . |
| 6 | Their worthlessness is discovered only when the duped client attempts to sell them on the legitimate market . |
| 7 | People whose parents baptised them into the Roman Catholic Church will probably be counted as Catholics all their lives — even if they never go to church ; for people to be counted as Baptists , however , they will have to have expressed a strong commitment to their faith and to have undergone adult baptism . |
| 8 | I used to wear jeans and jackets and shirts but my parents burned them on the same day my dad beat me up , and after that I had to wear saris . |
| 9 | It has been agreed to call these antibodies perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies to differentiate them from the classical cANCA present in Wegener 's granulomatosis . |
| 10 | As Pound confessed in another letter in 1933 : ‘ Most Cantos have in them ‘ binding matter ’ , i.e. lines holding them into the whole poem and these passages do n't much help the reader of an isolated fragment … |
| 11 | The question is whether the institutions will adopt the same rather altruistic attitude that they did then now that their income from even the best-performing companies will shrink permanently unless action is taken by the companies to leave them with the same net effect . |
| 12 | The strong-smelling ‘ stewed ’ strips of blanket were hot , and as I wrung out the excess water , I needed tongs to hold them for the first few minutes . |
| 13 | You connect them and they have arrangement with funeral directors to get them on the cheap . |
| 14 | If they were made any thicker , they would grip the batteries too tightly to allow the springs to push them against the positive contact . |
| 15 | Within months , some clients had in excess of 25 dealers contacting them from the same firm ; many were also being contacted from other licensed dealers . |
| 16 | ( E.g. if fine-class phonemic descriptions unambiguously described spoken utterances , it would still be pointless to use them if it took the processor weeks to find them in the acoustic input and half the time it got them wrong . ) |
| 17 | Riders from the Empire sent word to Bretonnia , Kislev , and the southern kingdoms warning them of the inevitable approach of the armada . |
| 18 | But it could provide the electricity in the factories to build them in the first place . |
| 19 | No such fears limited them in the 1880s and 1890s . |
| 20 | His description of these two conditions places them within the normal range of problems in profoundly deaf children : |
| 21 | Does she agree that haemophiliacs and others who are given contaminated blood transfusions receive them from the national health service ? |
| 22 | During the more prosperous years of World War II , the Board of Trade reported an unsatisfied demand for shoes , which it explained by referring to a backlog of demand created by the inability of families to buy them during the 1930s . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , he was retained and the secretary was instructed to write to the parish officers informing them of the same ; they were told to pay the subscription within a few days otherwise Spies would be discharged from the infirmary . |
| 24 | The staves were subjected to heat , usually from a small fire of shavings to form them into the characteristic shape . |
| 25 | , ‘ Other Cattle ’ market manager , has just completed a national roadshow around all the sales teams to brief them on the new range . |
| 26 | Other sources of unease were the unfulfilled aspirations of the minority Shiite community , mostly concentrated in the region south of Baghdad , and the occcasional stirrings of the Communist Party which had gained strength during the Qasem period and become solidly represented in the army until efforts to purge them in the 1970s . |
| 27 | Whatever the means by which they were transported to their present location , many evolutionists agreed that species must undergo changes adapting them to the local environment . |
| 28 | Treatment is refused on the basis that it 's a better use of resources to spend them on the young . |
| 29 | Webs of bilateral deals protect them from the full brunt of competition . |
| 30 | Boni homines or échevins ousted them in the self-governing towns ; and slowly the day-to-day work of running courts in the non-franchised areas was taken over by knights or clerks with special knowledge of the law , leaving castellans to revert to their military role . |