Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] them [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The money we lifted was hardly intended for them in the first place , was it ? ’ |
| 2 | The chief preoccupation of Methuen 's later years , apart from his painting , and one for which he denied himself many luxuries , was the restoration , maintenance , and improvement of Corsham Court , the family seat , and of the collection of pictures which hung in the magnificent gallery built and furnished for them in the 1760s . |
| 3 | Along with many a public body that felt pushed around by the Tories , the BBC must have gone to bed on April 8 with dreams of a quieter life on the night ; already swinging , as it were , in the hammock slung for them by a hung parliament . |
| 4 | Often this is because they fail to understand what is expected of them under the broad , general duties of the Health and Safety at Work Act . |
| 5 | Theoretically one can have the best materials taught by the best teachers , but although a number of films have been made , and probably will continue to be made , they have not had the success that was expected of them in the fifties . |
| 6 | Once territories have been established by young fans , occupants are physically confined within them for the entire duration of the match . |
| 7 | Along the colonnade under Upper School were recorded 1157 names of Old Etonians killed in the First World War ( 748 others , including my brother Dermot 's , were added to them after the Second World War ) . |
| 8 | First-class writers can defy this rule-of-thumb , but anyone else doing so risks alienating readers who have come to them for a particular sort of entertainment . |
| 9 | Will my hon. Friend the Minister bear it in mind that many of the frauds that have come to the attention of our regulating authorities were first discovered and reported to them by the American SEC ? |
| 10 | Ankhu and Nebamun would have it easier , but for the majority of privileged men work was a nominal activity as they laboured more or less intelligently in the upper ranks of the army , the civil service and the priesthood ; most of the graft was done for them at a humbler level . |
| 11 | Economic management was largely a matter of measuring resources of manpower and materials and adjudicating between bids made for them by the armed services and the major industries . |
| 12 | It is particularly interesting , however , to discover that a small group of white collar workers at Rolls Royce did not want an intellectually taxing job and provisions were made for them in the final design . |
| 13 | And , of course , people who do help by sponsoring these items could even choose to have a rare creature named after them in an unusual form of immortality . |
| 14 | The easiest format for the script is one in which the shot details are written down on one side of the page , while the corresponding words of commentary are written opposite them on the other side . |
| 15 | How much business have you done with them over the last year ? |
| 16 | Landowners within the forest regarded the restraints imposed upon them as an arbitrary intrusion upon the rights of property which was contrary to natural law and justice . |
| 17 | The shapes of the things we make are , as a general rule , imposed upon them from the outside : we do not make ‘ embryo ’ machines which acquire complex shapes by intrinsic processes . |
| 18 | For rather than being the locus of action , choice , etc. , the individual is to be seen as a ‘ conjuncture ’ of social practices ; each person 's intentional properties can be ‘ explained away ’ as the result of constraints imposed upon them by the structured whole . |
| 19 | As a consequence , they are likely to be faced with the necessity of balancing priorities — within the various demands being made upon them by the inchoate changes which characterize the present assessment climate . |
| 20 | We used to embrace the comfortable doctrine that the Roman cities of Britain survived as the shells of walled towns — with cathedrals often built within them in the seventh and eighth centuries , but little other semblance of civic life — until English towns were revived in the late ninth century by King Alfred , who enjoyed a vision of urban life which could owe nothing to the English civic scene in which he had been brought up . |
| 21 | Even as far away as Australia commentators talked about a quiet revolution in the way Australians and their communities were responding to the types of learning challenges being presented to them by the changing social conditions of the 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 22 | The region 's new political masters turned to them in a desperate hope that their expertise would make good their own helplessness . |
| 23 | It was here , in the Syrian capital far to the north of Damascus , that the term ‘ Christian ’ was to be applied to them for the first time . |
| 24 | The key to the achievement of a consensus lay in Hawke 's agreement to increase the financial autonomy of individual states by expanding their powers to raise taxes and by loosening controls on how they spent money transferred to them by the federal government . |
| 25 | Although the survey vessel was now travelling at a speed faster than light , its occupants experienced no sense of progress other than that which was fed to them through the navigational telemetry . |
| 26 | The appeal was made to them in the early 1970s to offer their home to ‘ special needs ’ children and they responded well , Now they are being asked to accept both the challenge of ‘ special needs ’ children and the possibility of continuing contact with members of the original family . |
| 27 | Perhaps some forgiving souls might protest that former East German athletes had faced a particular difficulty in giving up the bad habits imposed on them by the success-seeking machine of the old Communist regime , and that it would be unfair virtually to close off their future just because they had n't yet properly learned another way of doing things . |
| 28 | The best trainees and established dealers had little beyond brief academic demands made on them in the early days . |
| 29 | As in the case of the banks , the assets of these institutions represent paper claims against money which has been lent by them to the public sector , to industry and to persons . |
| 30 | Despite some of the language problems he grew to know and like the black and white constables of the patrols to which he was attached ; and to be accepted by them as a trusted companion under fire . |