Example sentences of "them [prep] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been tacitly assumed that someone , somewhere in an organization collates economic facts and integrates them through a rigorous form of evaluation , so that decisions become almost self-evident provided only that the decision-makers realize that no one can make perfect predictions and that some allowance for uncertainties is needed . |
| 2 | She had enough tins in the larder to see them through a few days at least . |
| 3 | You can say that if they do n't keep to the agreed rules of the drama , then the magic will start to fail ; if they climb up the wall-bars when you have asked them not to , you can say that the magic only works when their feet are touching the ground , thus using the fiction of the drama to limit the space they work in and remind them through a dramatic device of those rules which you will have agreed before the lesson begins ( see also the section on " Control " in Chapter 4 ) . |
| 4 | Which means that we talk to them about a reasonable rate at which they can pay their rent . |
| 5 | Who should we not embrace them as a general strategy for legislation whenever the community is divided over some issue of principle ? |
| 6 | Even if you do like meat , poultry and fish and wish to keep them as a regular part of your diet , it would be wise to cut down appreciably on animal protein and up your vegetable quotient . |
| 7 | Outside the field of fiction ( and possibly , biography ) , coverage is not wide enough for librarians to use them as a regular source of selection information . |
| 8 | Also , in Germany firms such as Siemens originally joined employers ' associations yet never fully relied on them as a collective means of defending managerial prerogatives and curtailing union activities in the workplace . |
| 9 | You could use them as a decorative device on invitations , or as part of the design on your personal writing paper . |
| 10 | Eileen O'Brien , IDC 's director of terminal services , says the surge in PC X server sales was n't forecast to happen until 1994 , attributing the rise to people who use X technology buying PCs and running X server software on them as a cheap alternative to X terminals and the improving quality of the software . |
| 11 | After his accession Richard parted with all his East Anglian estates to Howard , an indication that he regarded them as a peripheral part of his power base . |
| 12 | After his accession Richard parted with all his East Anglian estates to Howard , an indication that he regarded them as a peripheral part of his power base . |
| 13 | Thus regions may make a case for transport links with the Tunnel on the grounds that current levels of business demand it , but may not request them as a necessary precondition to the creation of that demand . |
| 14 | Yet that person with AD may be ‘ positioned ’ differently , both by themselves and others , if they avoid the games because they perceive them as a mindless waste of time and prefer to go for a walk instead . |
| 15 | It is also probable that the many forest tribes who were familiar with orang-utans simply regarded them as a different-looking lot of wild people . |
| 16 | I unite with all who protest against them as a grave menace to youth , to home life , to country and to religion . |
| 17 | Some have seen them as a fine declaration of faith , but they are not . |
| 18 | Though — at the earliest — the registers will not be available before 1994 , the property industry sees them as a further blow to a sector already reeling from recession . |
| 19 | We shall treat them as a special type of word and give them the following rule : when a pair of prefix-plus-stem words exists , both members of which are spelt identically , one of which is a verb and the other is either a noun or an adjective , the stress will be placed on the second syllable of the verb but on the first syllable of the noun or adjective . |
| 20 | Much as I regard them as a social nuisance on a par with the Orange Walk and invented by the devil to prevent churchgoers getting to church on time , I can not claim that marathons have ( yet ) been proved to kill enough people to justify banning them . |
| 21 | The courts recognise these limitations , which are inherent in any system of taking evidence abroad ahead of the trial , but can not regard them as a sufficient objection to the making of the order . |
| 22 | Do you avoid the responsibility of countering sexist attitudes by viewing them as a natural part of the society 's framework which students expect you to reinforce ? |
| 23 | Those responsible for initial teacher training , for example , were apparently relieved that the Polytechnic , upon its merger with the Lady Spencer Churchill College of Education in 1975 , was not intending to leave them as a monotechnic island in the interdisciplinary sea of the Polytechnic , particularly when it remained possible ( as confirmed by subsequent experience elsewhere ) that isolation would mean a low ranking in whatever prioritization exercises the Polytechnic might be forced to undertake . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Either they ca n't afford private health insurance or the American insurance companies regard them as a bad risk to be acceptable . |
| 26 | Having decided to show all the four seasons in one picture ( as opposed to other occasions when I have made them as a matching set of four separate pictures ) , I had to find a mount that would blend well with all the seasons and colours , so chose an earthy brown . |
| 27 | As the comments run into hundreds of pages in total , it was not feasible to append them as a single annex to this report . |
| 28 | They have subsequently been developed by other thinkers , but for clarity 's sake we shall treat them as a single body of thought . |
| 29 | Many sociologists take these statistics at their face value , and use them as a ready-made source of data for their research . |
| 30 | They walked like robots until Doyle yelled , ‘ Stop ! ’ with half his voice whirled away by the wind so that it came to them as a little thread of sound . |