Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [verb] them [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Even as the guards are ushering them into the corridor , the carriage rolls into an immense echoing workshop .
2 Those educationalists who deny children these opportunities are confining them to the ghetto , to a restricted discourse which will close to them access not only to the professions but also to leadership in national politics .
3 DJs are whipping them into a frenzy of anticipation from a stage perched above the masses .
4 It is significant , and ironic , that their twentieth-century successors were to define them as an ‘ intellectual aristocracy ’ .
5 My own preference when using these elite units is to mass them in a body to provide the heaviest punch possible and then unleash them against one section of the enemy line with the hope that the breakthrough will start a general rout of the enemy force .
6 The recommended treatment for infested books is to put them into a sealed tin with a jar of paradichlorobenzine for a week .
7 Their parents were sending them to the Wimbledon Islamic Day Independent Boys ' School because they wanted them to grow up English .
8 Springfield himself was standing beside the open door of his car , which he had drawn up on the verge opposite the gates , angled so its headlights were bathing them in a pool of bright luminescence .
9 A simple method for remembering the names of the three areas is to associate them with a particular point of the body .
10 Now part of the er exercise which the marketing exec does when he or she round to the surgeries is to provide them with a certain amount of information of course .
11 ‘ They are based on a freelance design and one of the main things was make them with a view to easy maintenance , ’ explained Mr Blackhurst .
12 way of categorising the names is to list them by the of medium in much the same way as they are listed ie media guides .
13 My hon. Friend knows that our policy on interest rates is to set them in a way that is compatible with our commitment to the pound 's band within the exchange rate mechanism and to bear down on inflation .
14 Then , scientists were to puncture them in the leg with a large hypodermic to extract a sample of muscle tissue .
15 The Bermuda discussions were brought before the British Cabinet on 4 February ; Lord Winster said that the talks were only preliminary , but the Americans were treating them as a final agreement .
16 The wholesaler 's only sanction against non-cooperating members is to expel them from the group , whereas in the case of the variety multiples a recalcitrant manager can be quickly removed .
17 Perhaps the most important point to be made about postverbals is to distinguish them from the adjectives in the last remaining position , the extraclausal adjectives , which occur in an identical sequence of syntactic elements , but which correspond to a different surface structure as in : ( 45 ) the two reformers persevered undaunted two stagehands appeared , breathless They have the different intensional structure :
18 Following his experience of the 1880s , Wilson 's initial approach to the problem of foreign seamen was to regard them as a danger to his union , both in providing cheap labour and in posing a threat to its policy of restricting the manning of ships to its own members .
19 According to Jensen , the most effective way of disposing of the chemicals is to spray them over the land according to the manufacturer 's directions , allowing them to be broken down by the sun and weather .
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