Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] they to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much prefer them to the open streets . |
| 2 | The University 's approach to financial planning ( as has been explained on previous occasions ) is essentially conservative , in that its systems are aimed at forecasting what funds will be available during the planning period and deciding how best to apply them to the academic priorities already identified . |
| 3 | The task will fall to the manager to persuade advice workers to attend race-awareness training in addition to popular updating in welfare benefits ; managers may have the task of explaining to management committee members why they now need training after so many years without it ; it will be the manager 's job to be attuned to advice workers ' weaknesses and tactfully point them to the relevant additional training ; the manager must find a balance in workers ' meetings between training , casework and group support . |
| 4 | Earlier in the year fittingly , during Passover , the festival which celebrates the Israelites ' escape from Egypt and the beginning of the journey which eventually took them to the Promised Land — Rabbi Moishe announced with quiet satisfaction that their contributions had mounted up to a sum sufficient to buy three hundred dunams of land in Palestine , that the purchase was in the process of being arranged on their behalf by the Jewish National Fund , and that he himself would lead an advance party of settlers from Cork before the end of 1920 . |
| 5 | It closed the banks and immediately sold them to the Richmond-based Signet Banking Corp . |
| 6 | A church that is dedicated to a gentle , caring man who cared about the poor , instead of helping the man who needs help and who is literally sitting on the doorstep , is showing tourists paintings , especially commissioned to educate the illiterate about God , is not even showing them to the illiterate . |
| 7 | A truly political art , he realised , would not content itself with the message alone ; it would it had to engage the viewer in a questioning of the nature of the institutions and the pressures they exert , and thereby subject them to the necessary critique . |
| 8 | We have yet to integrate them one with another , and we have yet to relate them to the practical demands of learning and teaching foreign languages . |
| 9 | The House of Lords has concluded that our Sunday trading laws are unclear and has therefore referred them to the European Court of Justice to clarify whether they are compatible with European law . |