Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [to-vb] them [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is significant , and ironic , that their twentieth-century successors were to define them as an ‘ intellectual aristocracy ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The recommended treatment for infested books is to put them into a sealed tin with a jar of paradichlorobenzine for a week . |
| 4 | A simple method for remembering the names of the three areas is to associate them with a particular point of the body . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Then , scientists were to puncture them in the leg with a large hypodermic to extract a sample of muscle tissue . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 : |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |