Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mr. H. A. Allbutt might have ventilated his views without let or hindrance from professional authority had he been content to address them to medical men instead of the public . ’ |
| 2 | No , you 're supposed to cook them from frozen . |
| 3 | Are suitable writing materials easily available if the children are likely to need them for reflective work ? |
| 4 | It is unlikely that any of the missing diamonds had been picked up by persons involved in the rescue or who visited the site later as only an expert would have been able to identify them as precious stones . |
| 5 | ‘ If he shares his uncle 's hostility towards the female sex he might very well be prepared to treat them with similar contempt ! ’ |
| 6 | ( That is to say , even if it were the case that e.g. broad-class syllables were easy to find , it would be pointless to use them for lexical access if the number of words described by a string of such units was huge . ) |
| 7 | I felt a little shy : all those things we had written — would I be able to translate them into physical action , into real , spoken words ? |
| 8 | To be able to change them into different fractions . |
| 9 | Are these sufficiently closely defined for us to be able to apply them to particular cases ? |
| 10 | We may or may not be able to convert them to electrical use . |
| 11 | Food is also sometimes a problem and it may be necessary to feed them with live food , coral or coralline until they have acclimatized to tank life . |
| 12 | Various people were due to address them at various moments , in particular Winston . |
| 13 | Three days later , on 23rd. , the Stukas returned to the skies over Malta , and on this occasion the defences were able to engage them without undue fighter interference , although Plt.Off . |
| 14 | Because we reinterviewed the same people at different times throughout the year , we were able to divide them into persistent readers of Tory tabloids , persistent readers of Labour tabloids , persistent readers of broadsheets and , finally , those who changed papers or read no paper regularly . |
| 15 | The survival of many stone walls and buildings , and especially churches , from the centuries of this book , testifies that even before the mid twelfth century their wealth and pride and religious sentiment were sufficient to beautify them in lasting materials — and often , and especially with the smaller ones , their condition reflects the declining prosperity of later centuries which saved their older buildings from being replaced . |
| 16 | In drawing such sections it is normal to have them at equal distances at right angles to the guide line which ensures that they are correctly related . |
| 17 | Towns vary widely , although it is possible to group them in various types . |
| 18 | Special cages have been developed for wild mice to reduce the need for handling during cleaning but it is possible to keep them in standard mouse cages . |
| 19 | Having built up the reserves , it is prepared to use them in difficult times , and that is the right thing to do . |
| 20 | As such there is controversy about the extent to which it is justifiable to describe them as political systems in their own right . |
| 21 | ‘ They are so well rewarded it 's hard to motivate them for international football . |
| 22 | Recently a new group of drugs , cytosine and adenosine arabinoside , have been used with considerable success against generalized viral illness , particularly in people whose natural defence mechanisms are below par , but it remains to be seen whether it is feasible to use them on localized herpetic infection . |
| 23 | It is important to market them to young people , teachers , parents and employers as well as to providers of further education and training " ( CBI 1990:22 ) . |
| 24 | However , their resale value is generally poor , and it is advisable to consider them as good value furnishing items , rather than investment pieces . |
| 25 | Whenever animals are to be brought into an animal house from an outside source it is advisable to keep them in strict isolation for 28 days while health checks are carried out . |
| 26 | Other forms of the occult , I believe , certainly mislead and abuse youngsters spiritually and mentally , but it is unjust to accuse them of physical abuse . |
| 27 | When fine materials are present it is necessary to separate them by wet sieving so that sands and the silt/clay fraction may be examined separately using different size determination techniques . |
| 28 | From the presence of enlarged joints and marine gastropods on these shelves , he was prepared to attribute them to marine action since the sea has stood at its present level . |
| 29 | He drove himself hard , expecting his workforce to do the same , but he was quick to provide them with social benefits — housing in 1901 and 1908 , a hospital and benefit scheme in 1917 , holidays with pay , and a consultative board of directors and workers ' representatives in 1927 . |
| 30 | A Country Diary : OXFORDSHIRE : On the first morning of this month , whilst watching the usual passage of gulls to the local refuse-dump , I spotted a flock of waders , estimated at between 300 and 400 , much higher up and heading due south , and , a matter of seconds later , a similar party followed them on the same course , and I was able to identify them as Golden Plover . |