Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] them [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | So when the station came clean , they had to field several angry calls accusing them of pro-Nottingham Forest bias . |
2 | Their shells provide them with valuable protection but like all armoured species they are at certain disadvantages — they are nearly always less mobile , less flexible , and suffer the consequences . |
3 | The teacher 's function is to decide what these chains are to be and to take steps to establish them as permanent ways of responding . |
4 | The qualitative methods provide them with feminist validity , while the quantitative methods ensure the reliability which psychology values . |
5 | It is in these circumstances that there occurs , according to Merton , a situation of anomie , with people striving for goals of material success , but not having the opportunities to reach them through legitimate means . |
6 | A managerial perspective on organizations presents them as social entities with a collective purpose . |
7 | if you record your check lists keep them on separate tapes and correctly labelled , so that you can easily find what you want . |
8 | What do you think of that ? ’ and when Jess stayed quiet , she sighed , moving towards the books to touch them with loving fingers . |
9 | We join an organization feeling relatively neutral about an external group of competitors but within months regard them as malevolent enemies . |
10 | Although his groups , ‘ Tiddlers ’ , ‘ Ritz ’ , and ‘ Boys ’ , reflected increasing involvement in delinquent activities , they served the same function of enabling young people to achieve the sort of reputations and images denied them in mainstream society . |
11 | An enormous number of Polish nobles , therefore , had survived the government 's attempts to relegate them to lesser estates . |
12 | The projects focus on maintaining and protecting the species ' habitats , and in some cases establishing them in new habitats . |
13 | By precisely how much we shall see when we come to look at the attempts to sell them to private investors . |
14 | Strains developed over the migration of the ‘ vyezzhye belye Kalmyki ’ to Russian territory , since the prince of the Teleuts regarded them as traitorous subjects and demanded their return . |
15 | Be wary of some people in high places whose duties involved them in prolific correspondence . |
16 | If , however , mutations affect both juvenile and adult survival equally , selection against their early effects keeps them at low frequency , and prevents the collapse of late survival . |
17 | Ways of maintaining and improving communications include : a ) establishing a management structure within the Partnership , with clear lines of communication into the schools and into employment ; b ) circulating minutes of management meetings to schools and employers so they know what is being discussed and what is being decided ; c ) bringing teachers and employers together at both Partnership and school level to plan , discuss and review the progress of the Compact ; d ) establishing School Compact Teams with regular meetings ; e ) circulating Compact documents , including such things as pupils ' Work Experience reports widely ; f ) holding Open Evenings for parents to brief them on Compact developments ; g ) producing a regular Compact Newsletter . |
18 | But the Australians imported them in large numbers . |
19 | It can be suggested that the fiduciary duties imposed on directors subject them to similar standards of review by the courts . |
20 | Their exploitation of this recently opened path aroused jealousy among the knights , one of whom refused to answer a charge levelled against him by the Erembalds in the court of Charles the Good , on the ground that his accusers ' lowly social origins barred them from comital justice . |
21 | Periodic meetings are held with the co-ordinators to inform them of current activities and this important group of staff have been very responsive and supportive in disseminating information to their departments . |
22 | Subsequently , European partners were bought out and Arab banks transformed them into international banking subsidiaries . |
23 | Perhaps the Minoans regarded them as fearful intermediaries — essential but frightening go-betweens . |
24 | The deal means the French bank will get some of the money it is owed , Madagascar will get debt relief and the Missouri garden will be able to increase its efforts to conserve rare plants , which include training botanists and collecting plants to screen them for medicinal value . |
25 | The tension in the films draws them towards minimum surface area . |
26 | Nevertheless , they require their casual workers to furnish them with appropriate identification and evidence of their tax status . |
27 | When regional deals divert more trade than they create , economists regard them as harmful overall : such arrangements tend to shift production to less efficient producers . |
28 | Soviet citizens were given three days to exchange them for lower-denomination notes . |
29 | Students had to attend special political classes to remind them of socialist values , the four basic principles and other tenets of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist thought . |
30 | Such entries would have to be flagged in the tree structure to show that they are misspellings to distinguish them from correct words ( as mentioned previously in section 4.4.3 during the discussion of the flagging system and the 12 codes necessary to represent proper nouns , compounds and phrases ) . |