Example sentences of "[v-ing] them [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | take better policy decisions by assisting them to work out the implications of their basic strategy in terms of policies in specific areas , to establish the relative priorities to be given to the different sectors of their programme as a whole , to identify those areas of policy in which new choices can be exercised and to ensure that the underlying implications of alternative courses of action are fully analysed and considered . |
| 2 | Finniston is in no doubt that making decisions and seeing them implemented properly are the most important aspects of a chairman 's job . |
| 3 | For the woman who is already a mother , the challenges are now those of coping with growing children and seeing them leave home ; the challenges are always somehow different from how you have imagined them . |
| 4 | Mothers enjoy protective and caring episodes in dealing with their children as much as they enjoy seeing them grow more independent Such episodes are a simple arid direct affirmation of the maternal role . |
| 5 | Rory , seeing them moving past , abruptly opened the driver 's door and hauled himself out . |
| 6 | But biological weapons are unlikely to be much used on troops in combat , mainly because of the difficulties of getting the aerosols on to them without seeing them drift back on to those who released them . |
| 7 | I could do the English and the intelligence tests , but I was hopeless at mental arithmetic : for some reason my mind would go blank whenever I tried to visualise numbers instead of seeing them written down . |
| 8 | The prosthetists with amputations noted that patients could be discouraged by seeing them cope so well . |
| 9 | Both were short , dumpy and energetic and , seeing them scurry together down the street in their black garb , they looked like a pair of hunting spiders . |
| 10 | On the other hand , I remember seeing them dancing together at a ball shortly before the birth of Prince William . |
| 11 | Hating the enemy as he did — it was , after all , their aim to deprive his father of the throne — Cumberland was incensed at seeing them get away . |
| 12 | They were a friendly family and very helpful when Breeze , seeing them take so much trouble over finding a suitable board , told them what she hoped to do with it . |
| 13 | I ca n't remember once seeing them talking together . |
| 14 | it helps children to make sense of different situations and different points of view in role-play and simulations , by allowing them to act out situations and formulate things in their own words ; |
| 15 | Take care with the magnets by the way , as allowing them to snap together causes them to break . |
| 16 | She had spent the evening smouldering with resentment after his callous dismissal of her father 's death , but now the biblical phrases Luke had employed earlier were suddenly hammering at her brain and heightening her agitation , although she suspected that she was playing into his hands by allowing them to do so . |
| 17 | Many other vegetables do not produce seed until the second year , and it is n't worth allowing them to take up valuable space for that extra time . |
| 18 | The relationship between herbivores and plants has often been seen as some kind of arms race , but there have been opposing views in that , for example , spittle-bugs in the dry tropics of West Africa , rather than depleting valuable water resources may promote microbial activity beneath particular tree species , allowing them to take up nutrients in the dry season from the surface layers of the soil , provided that other roots can tap a deep water source . |
| 19 | Instructors should test every student before allowing them to go solo to make quite sure that they are not seriously affected by reduced ‘ g ’ . |
| 20 | The couple gave just a hint of the trauma they faced in an open letter thanking the press for allowing them to put together the pieces of their relationship in private . |
| 21 | This will not so much create a two-tier structure within the Division , as enable a wider spectrum of students to participate in the profession , allowing them to stop off , by way of academic attainment , economic circumstances or job notice , at different levels , secure in the knowledge that they have professional status , capable of being upgraded if they so wish . |
| 22 | To comply with the EC Directive 79/7 , complex rules were introduced allowing them to claim under very restrictive circumstances . |
| 23 | The films were thus split into sections of five seconds each , this interval appeared to be long enough to give subjects a feeling for what was going on while still allowing them to give fairly comprehensive descriptions of the objects and events contained within each film section . |
| 24 | Tivoli says the TME will speed and simplify users ' transition to Solaris 2.1 by allowing them to manage both operating environments from a common set of applications . |
| 25 | The rest of this section describes in detail how this is all achieved , since there are some problems which can affect your users by allowing them to access more than one LIFESPAN Process , and by your stopping of the LIFESPAN Process to which they had attached on login . |
| 26 | The Sri Lankans move their herds in stages , allowing them to move freely back and forth between intermediate stages and gradually cutting off their retreat . |
| 27 | The discount houses provide an important service to the banks by allowing them to hold extremely liquid assets ( money at call ) which nevertheless earn interest . |
| 28 | This makes ultrasound ideal for rodents , allowing them to chat privately in their enclosed runs and burrows without being hear by predators . |
| 29 | The sophisticated , 7ft tall Robodoc produced an exact match , cutting down on space between the bone and implant , allowing them to bond more quickly . |
| 30 | There was a master over-ride switch outside each of the stages , allowing them to pass swiftly through until they were at the deepest level . |