Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They should be placed where horses can have free access to them without the fear of being trapped and hurt by a more aggressive horse higher in the pecking order . |
| 2 | Well the honourable gentleman for Great Brimsea is quite right to say that these matters er had some consideration given to them during the passage of the the legislation er but it is also true to say that er er th in the Bingham report there was a broad acceptance that the present s system of supervision of banks should continue . |
| 3 | The point in both appeals was whether the jury should have been allowed to hear the tape recording of the appellant 's interview with the police when they requested it after retirement , it not having been played to them during the course of the trial . |
| 4 | John and Norma were escorted out of Jeffrey Archer 's Bridal Suite and back to their own and since it was not safe to leave the hotel , Lady Thatcher accompanied them , as she wanted to talk to them about the progress of her Foundation . |
| 5 | ‘ We talk to them about the style of service and food they are planning and the figure we recommend is often less than they had estimated , ’ he says . |
| 6 | To talk about God to starving men is simply a waste of time for to them God is bread ; he can only appear to them as the bread of life . |
| 7 | Those social scientists who regard human actions as undetermined will look to them as the basis of counterfactual claims . |
| 8 | Will it all seem as quaint to them as the age of steam and the stovepipe hat now seems to us ? |
| 9 | I suggest to them at the beginning of each session that they will learn about a different existence from any they may already have experienced . |
| 10 | There were no significant differences between the total , autonomic , and neuroglycopenic scores reported by subjects to be important to them at the beginning of a hypoglycaemic attack or later during its progression . |
| 11 | Others wrote about what Walter Machin 's books had meant to them at the time of their publication , and to these Viola wrote faintly magisterial replies of thanks and interest which usually also contained subtle plugs for the two books which were as yet unpublished . |
| 12 | For the purpose of its own capital gains base cost the purchaser of assets buys those assets at the value attributed to them at the time of purchase . |
| 13 | They must be considered reasonable by the parties to them at the time of entering into the contract and they must also be seen as reasonable from an objective point of view . |
| 14 | As these appear as themes threaded through the discussion it may be useful to identify them here , although I shall return to them at the end of the chapter . |
| 15 | I shall come back to them at the end of this chapter , having reviewed the empirical evidence . |
| 16 | I would rather see people that are going to start work , even if it is only for a year , at the same time where they are working that year that somebody take an interest in what 's going to happen to them at the end of that year . |
| 17 | Given all the information available to them at the end of period t - 1 , firms expect that the position of the aggregate demand curve in period t will be AD in figure 5.1 . |
| 18 | and maybe like read to them at the end of the day or whatever . |
| 19 | But what could be worthier of my human intelligence than to discriminate between and interrelate the parts of a painting or musical composition with the concentration of a mathematician solving a problem , yet respond to them with the immediacy of a dog pricking up its ears ? |
| 20 | Woodruffe pushed it open , and the organized moan of pleading chords reached out to them with the smell of cold masonry and dusty matting and faintly dinging incense . |
| 21 | When we return to them with the scrutiny of our adult minds , they appear as towering shelters , full of colour and minutely-remembered detail . |
| 22 | He asked permission to make the tea , which he did — and brought it in to them with the air of an old family retainer . |
| 23 | Now er i i if you 're buying gilts individually , you 've got to know what you 're doing unless you want to hang on to them to the end of the terms , cos gilts are government securities , and they have the different rate , rates of return , different maturity dates . |
| 24 | British officers on the Defence Adviser 's staff in our Washington Embassy , and in exchange appointments at US military establishments , see the products of the vast US research and development programmes and become wedded to them to the detriment of British-developed equivalents . |
| 25 | It is an important point of reference to banks because it is probably the best indication to them of the cost of raising immediate marginal funds . |
| 26 | On one occasion he complained to them of the insubordination of two of the officers . |
| 27 | He is lead to changes of the dosing of remedies because the ‘ variety among patients as to their irritability , age , spiritual and bodily development necessitate a great variety in their treatment and administration to them of the doses of medicines ’ . |
| 28 | Neighbourhood watch schemes are by their nature genuine voluntary organisations , although they receive Government support , in that substantial resources are devoted to them through the funding of the police , who themselves assist neighbourhood watch schemes . |
| 29 | Young people , especially school leavers aged 16 and 17 , also have a number of training schemes available to them under the auspices of the Department of Employment ( formerly the Manpower Services Commission ) — some of these operate within the schools and FE colleges described in Chapter 5 , others outside . |
| 30 | Within a mere three weeks the Smolensk Party authorities also required all uezd executive committees to collate , check , and comment to them on the minutes of every single peasant meeting on mutual aid . |