Example sentences of "are [adv] [adj] [to-vb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though most women experience the feelings I did , they are only willing to discuss them with other mothers . |
| 2 | Five people who 've been nominated for awards are not available to receive them from her Royal Highness . |
| 3 | Thus the large datasets are still there , but those who manage them are more likely to place them on a file server with appropriate network access ( Knight 1993 ) . |
| 4 | If the examiner has exercised his fancy by using fictitious names , like Tomkins , you are perfectly entitled to abbreviate them to the initial letter — unless , of course , two parties in the same problem have the same initial letter . |
| 5 | Plumbers refer to these as ‘ fifteen mil ’ , ‘ twenty-two mil ’ and ‘ twenty-eight mil ’ , but are equally likely to call them by the names of the premetrication pipes they replaced : ½in , ¾in and lin . |
| 6 | We do not see why the advantages should not be extended to working class people whose wages are too low to bring them within income tax limits ’ ( my italics ) ( Labour Party/TUC , 1929 , para. 4 ) . |
| 7 | There is usually little they can do and , even if they could , the imprisoned creatures are too demented to thank them for it . |
| 8 | They are too scared to hug them in case that innocent action is misinterpreted , and too scared to smack them when they do wrong in case they are accused of assault . |