Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These section 52 agreements became the object of increasing contention in the 1970s , with local authorities seeing them as a means of bargaining for planning gain , while developers , at the extreme , regarded them as blackmail . |
| 2 | How many uplifts should I use , and do I need special adaptors to connect them to the filter ? |
| 3 | Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks . |
| 4 | He quotes the view of Aristo , who produces two arguments : first , that by analogy with relegatio dotis and the stipulatio emptae hereditatis the word ‘ sums ’ should be held to include objects as well as money ; second , that intention is particularly important in trusts , and it appears to be the testator 's intention in first speaking generally of ‘ sums ’ and then mentioning certain objects to include them in the expression too . |
| 5 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 6 | So when the station came clean , they had to field several angry calls accusing them of pro-Nottingham Forest bias . |
| 7 | You can use coloured dividers to classify them into subjects . |
| 8 | It was found that there were problems which were common to both the payroll and the interface projects enabling them to be solved by the same remedy . |
| 9 | If superiors involve them in decision-making , they are more likely to be management-minded . |
| 10 | These jobs are usually seen as benefits , certainly by the workers who flock to take them up , and by the governments that have established incentive programmes to attract them in the first place . |
| 11 | Thousands of warriors collect from the huge Masai district to have their heads shaved by their mothers before undergoing rituals to launch them on their new — somewhat dull — life as elders . |
| 12 | ‘ Cyclists in bus lanes may also cause delay to buses , although banning cyclists places them in danger if they are required to ride in the main carriageway , with buses passing on their nearside . ’ |
| 13 | Aelian reports that ‘ the Brahmins honour them above all other birds . |
| 14 | Here their superiors criticise them for failing after they have been given such brilliant training . |
| 15 | The Germans occupied them in the second world war , the Americans rebuilt them afterwards , and then the north-west Europeans came back in the shape of the European Community and its powerful money . |
| 16 | They hired dragomans to escort them round the tombs and temples in the shade of parasols . |
| 17 | Bloom et al. " s study of how to is acquired in infinitival complement constructions led them to the clear conclusion that " the children learned to with the meaning " " direction towards " " and not as a meaningless syntactic marker " ( 1984 : 391 ) . |
| 18 | This teacher 's view that the Afro-Caribbean pupils felt obliged to live up to the labels given them by the school was reiterated by other teachers . |
| 19 | The proposals were given a cautious welcome by politicians on the left , but the right-wing parties decried them as an attempt to distract from the President 's and the government 's current unpopularity . |
| 20 | Candidates using them for project or course work may have an advantage if spelling is one of the skills being tested . |
| 21 | No black on wings and no long trailing legs distinguish them from all other large white birds in flight . |
| 22 | Camcorders on the other hand have to be given a little help to cope with different kinds of lighting by adjustment of their internal white balance settings to enable them to ‘ see ’ white as the same neutral colour regardless of the conditions . |
| 23 | No doubt a finder of perishable commodities would be justified in taking any reasonable steps to preserve them pending the ascertainment of their owner ; e.g . |
| 24 | Loretta and Bridget stood up to join him , bending and stretching their cramped legs to restore them to life . |
| 25 | I was still more surprised when some of their parents arrived in motor cars to see them at the weekend |
| 26 | Because they worked for large , modern firms , the state was closely involved with their employers , which meant their industrial grievances led them into conflict with the state . |
| 27 | Council Courier continued to be circulated to regions and branches to inform them without delay of the decisions of Council . |
| 28 | Jeannie — ’ They kissed again and then he was gone , running after the uplanders to catch them at Camserney mill . |
| 29 | Although it is not common practice , some firms place wives in employment within the company overseas , where this is appropriate , or take steps to provide them with details of employment opportunities abroad . |
| 30 | As long as the market continues to see older people as objects of pity rather than profit , it will take limited steps to attract them as customers . |