Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] them [prep] [art] [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 | Popular images of parent-child relationships put them in a special category , distinct from other kin relationships , and suggest that this is where we will find the strongest feelings of duty and obligation . |
5 | They have evolved separately and thus we discover that monkeys with prehensile tails serving them as an extra hand only come from the New World . |
6 | Other waste products , such as faeces and urine also break down into ammonia and these levels will build up to where they are harmful to the fish , unless you take steps to lower them via a biological filter . |
7 | As we shall see in Chapter 8 , the only way to make thermosetting plastics reasonably tough is to incorporate fibres of one kind or another , in other words to use them in a composite material . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | His dazzling skills lifted them to a four-goal victory as he scored one and set up two of his striking partner Kevin Campbell 's three goals . |
11 | Their worthlessness is discovered only when the duped client attempts to sell them on the legitimate market . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | It has been agreed to call these antibodies perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies to differentiate them from the classical cANCA present in Wegener 's granulomatosis . |
15 | Decisions should also be reached as to whether appointment lists should be displayed in the school and parents invited to come in to choose a discussion time or whether staff will decide and write to parents informing them of an allocated time . |
16 | Children are deeply affected by their family life and to help parents provide them with a satisfactory experience and model is likely to be an investment in the future when they will become parents in their turn . |
17 | 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 … |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | This charity , sponsored by all the water authorities , aims to bore wells in Third World countries to supply them with an uncontaminated source of water . |
21 | You connect them and they have arrangement with funeral directors to get them on the cheap . |
22 | If they were made any thicker , they would grip the batteries too tightly to allow the springs to push them against the positive contact . |
23 | This female lays her eggs some distance away in a rabbit burrow and when the ducklings hatch , both parents take them to a different feeding position on the mud flats where , for a while , they again maintain a territory . |
24 | Either they ca n't afford private health insurance or the American insurance companies regard them as a bad risk to be acceptable . |
25 | All we want to do is go along and put forward our policies to discuss them in a well-mannered reasoned way . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | Flunkeys led them into a private part of La Noblesse where they were warmly greeted by an expansive Grunte , who presented the ladies with a flower and with grave courtesy showed each to her seat . |
28 | ( 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 . ) |
29 | Olson suggests that these organizations are sometimes artificial creations required by governments to provide them with a representative body they can negotiate with . |
30 | Riders from the Empire sent word to Bretonnia , Kislev , and the southern kingdoms warning them of the inevitable approach of the armada . |