Example sentences of "[prep] they [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why is it so important for them to say such things ? |
| 2 | For them to say either of these records sounds like The Stones or The Faces is insane . |
| 3 | So it 's definitely the latter , we are developing a fully capable Eurofighter two thousand aircraft and if erm any of our four participating nations do not want a particular facility then we will make provision for them to leave that out in production and if an export customer does not require the full range of capabilities we can also remove them for that export customer . |
| 4 | But when consumers have a choice which includes widely different types of credit arrangements , it may often be more sensible for them to give more weight to the total cost of credit or the amount of each instalment . |
| 5 | In rather special circumstances this can result in the creation of new dislocations but the much more usual effect is for them to repel each other . |
| 6 | If the obvious person to handle the case is busy will it be possible for them to delegate enough of the work for them to take it ? |
| 7 | The solicitors who gave him the court order for them to release all the details on that . |
| 8 | Although the Unix International/OSF wars seem to have abated at the moment , ‘ there is always an excuse for them to rip each others hearts out , leaving Bill Gates to have the market , ’ says Rothstein . |
| 9 | According to the steward they knew it was ‘ not right ’ for them to earn those wages . |
| 10 | Nor did their broadcasts attribute any part of the story to me — there was no reason for them to do that because I 'd told them nothing they did n't already know . |
| 11 | But male compositors made it easier for them to do this , and justified the division of labour , when they agreed that women could not attain all the skills of the trade . |
| 12 | And even women internalize the sense that it is inappropriate or especially difficult for them to do these things . |
| 13 | At the moment there are no plans for them to do any more work on the building . |
| 14 | The best that I can say for a personality explanation is that it prevents executives from thinking about changing their behaviour , because it understandably makes little sense for them to undergo some kind of therapy . |
| 15 | Wherever you take them , though , try , if it is possible and the weather is good , to arrange for them to spend some of the time out of doors — for the housebound elderly are often short of vitamin D , which most of us get from natural sunlight ( as well as certain foods ) and this deficiency can lead to the painful condition of osteomalacia , in which there is rarefaction of the bones . |
| 16 | She considered approaching him and asking if it might be possible for them to spend more time together , but the difference of nine years in their age put her in awe of him still , and she decided it was not her place to make such suggestions . |
| 17 | And I do n't want to wish to ask for them to answer that , that 's just the view of the whole of our community , and it did prompt us and it 's not on your records , over a thousand signatures were obtained proposing in fact what I 'm about to conclude with . |
| 18 | When people do cross the threshold of the church , do we make it easy for them to take that step ? |
| 19 | I was particularly thrilled with the guys who scored the points for us on the final day , Mark James , Jose-Maria Olazabal , Jose-Maria Canizares , Ronan Rafferty and Christy O'Connor Jnr. , because in the case of Canizares , Ronan and Christy they had n't scored a point in the games they played and it was nice for them to take some of the glory . |
| 20 | Sufficient copies of the draft are distributed to DTACs for them to notify all their activists . |
| 21 | The aim of creating a sense of prime loyalty among members of the colony , which was small enough for them to know each other , did not constitute any kind of a threat to central authorities in 1922 , but it would not have been tolerated in the 1930s , when family members were encouraged to spy on one another in the state interest . |
| 22 | They need those decision structures because it is impossible for them to know enough to control activities directly . |
| 23 | Towards the end of the Summer term it 's common practice in most schools to invite the parents of the new intake of children to visit the school to explain the routines and organisation , to give them a chance to meet the teachers and also to provide an opportunity for them to share any concerns they might have . |
| 24 | As it turned out my sperm count was too low for them to store any , because of my operation and the treatment . |
| 25 | The organisation has campaigned for oil tankers to be equiped with double hulls to minimise dangers of oil spills and for them to avoid such environmentally sensitive areas such as the Shetland isles . |
| 26 | Other naturalistic views , Marxist and some which indeed call themselves ‘ evolutionary ’ , have often proclaimed themselves free from any such picture , but it is basically very hard for them to avoid some appeal to an implicit teleology , an order in relation to which there would be an existence that would satisfy all the most basic human needs at once . |
| 27 | If they have 500 claims on a pro forma where people are simply asked to sign their name at the bottom , it is not unreasonable for them to consider those claims with a certain degree of scepticism . |
| 28 | The proposed closure of the USM , though not before the end of 1996 ( it will remain open to new entrants until the end of next year ) has thrown sharply into focus the debate on how smaller companies find a way of closing the much quoted ‘ equity gap ’ which they and their advisers have long argued makes it harder for them to raise any significant degree of long-term capital other than debt finance . |
| 29 | ‘ And it 's not uncommon for them to blame each other , as they get older , for taking the decision not to have a family . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ And it 's not uncommon for them to blame each other , as they get older , for taking the decision not to have a family . ’ |