Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I will expand further on this dichotomy between quality and quantity of ‘ crime ’ in Chapter 5 , but would argue that the chase for numerical detections in which detectives everywhere are immersed moves them across another conceptual boundary and takes them into a statistical world away from their previous world as ‘ real polises ’ where the central classifier of conflict with the ‘ prig ’ remains , as ever , in a power struggle over the body ( Foucault 1977 ) .
2 I shall work in , because I mean I 'm the one who 's been pushing to get them on this .
3 We 're going to push them on this one , Clarac .
4 The Mercedes which had been promised to take them to All Saints ' Church , Deganwy , for the wedding on Saturday was sold .
5 Because we all try to twist circumstances in such a way that they conform with our subconscious picture of ourselves , those who see themselves as permanent victims will automatically seek out people who are going to treat them as such .
6 But if we are going to accuse them of this then we had better also accuse them of inventing the doctrine of the Trinity , for although the New Testament provides evidence for such a cardinal Christian belief it does not set it out in a clear or distinct fashion .
7 An electronic system 's been introduced to alert them to any emergency .
8 An electronic system 's been introduced to alert them to any emergency .
9 Sheep would not safely graze nor would spring lambs nor calves ; the average farmer could hardly be expected to stock them for old times ' sake .
10 As seen in Fig. 5 , these residues are in the vicinity of the same duplex of DNA as the recognition helix , although adjustments to the model will have to be made to bring them into proper position to interact with DNA .
11 For those nurses relocating from the acute sector to community services , training will be needed to prepare them for new ways of working .
12 In a news conference on Nov. 9 , however , the Philippine spokesman Rafael M. Alunan appeared to indicate a softening of the government 's stance by differentiating for the first time between " sovereign control " and " operational control " , noting that Philippine personnel would not be fully ready to take over the bases by 1991 and that US personnel would be needed to operate them under Philippine sovereignty for a transitional period .
13 When a colleague discovered that I was coming here to do this er she saw it as laughable and she also saw it as something that I would prefer to keep quiet from my colleagues and tried a bit of moral blackmail on me as well to say I 'm going to tell them about that if you do n't them about this sort of thing .
14 This determines how much money , time and effort should be spent to bring them to acceptable levels .
15 Likewise any prisoner with skills in a basic trade will be encouraged to share them with other inmates .
16 Once we introduce Christian values at one point we are forced to introduce them at all points .
17 He added that attempts were being made to snare them by hanging nets between trees .
18 An attempt is being made to provide them with some form of base organisation without which they can not develop full effectiveness .
19 As vesting day , 1 April 1948 , approached , the shape of the organisations which were to take over the industry , and the men who were going to lead them at national and regional level were known .
20 You were going to sell them at one and tuppence each .
21 Since a rise in interest rates can cause quite a severe fall in the price of bonds , banks could make a considerable capital loss if they were forced to sell them at such times .
22 There undoubtedly are cases of parents who exaggerate their child 's ills , and who are determined to blame them on some physical cause , when family .
23 We have had remarkably good figures over the past year and we are determined to beat them in 1992 .
24 This whole issue about er children , junior church , other activities , children being compromised , adults finding it difficult to insist or persuade their children , that they should be in junior church , when other folks are trying to tempt them in other directions .
25 A small proportion ( about 20 ) of the 660 people living in the hospital in 1984 were widely regarded as presenting such serious challenges that it had been planned to move them to new sub-regional institutions rather than community services .
26 Its owner , Okan Guney , has been trying to breed them at this home in Kidlington for two years .
27 The seminar is intended to educate them on climatic change and global warming .
28 The job 's expected to take them until next Sunday to complete .
29 Once the Chairman has signed the minutes no one is empowered to alter them in any way .
30 Some proportional series , however , can only be extended along one axis at a time ; if an attempt is made to extend them along both axes simultaneously , unfillable structure points are created .
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