Example sentences of "[v-ing] them [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Department of Trade and Industry has promised to examine whether charities may be able to get round this by using a clause , such as s 257 of the Companies Act , that contains special regulations for banks and insurance companies , allowing them different formats . |
| 2 | The next sixty years were to see a rise in the classroom autonomy of teachers allowing them growing discretion within their classrooms . |
| 3 | ‘ But they 'll welcome him with open arms , bringing them medical aid . |
| 4 | They want to assert that homosexual relationships are just as valid as heterosexual ones and that it is perfectly ‘ natural ’ for some people to be homosexual if their inclination is in that direction and that those who profess distaste for homosexuality are denying them human rights . |
| 5 | He reported standard surgical procedures on animals rendered insensible under a bell glass by denying them fresh air or by administering carbon dioxide , without evidence of pain and with full recovery . |
| 6 | erm And a lot of the time this gentleman would have been sorting through the data , finding out who owed how much money , writing them polite letters , and this is the sort of thing you can do very quickly with a computer . |
| 7 | Like , even if it meant writing them anonymous note , you know ! |
| 8 | England 's batsmen looked in decent enough form yesterday on a shirt-front pitch , nor does the heat appear to be causing them undue distress . |
| 9 | The allegation was that the defendants had supplied contaminated water to the plaintiffs thereby causing them personal injury . |
| 10 | Anyone causing them wilful death or injury will now face a fine of up to £2,000 . |
| 11 | In fact causing them extra trouble , extra work . |
| 12 | Suppose , for example , a particular spirit has chosen this lifetime to learn how to deal with the temptation to do deliberate wrong to others — whether by spreading malicious lies about them , stealing from them or causing them physical harm . |
| 13 | For example , the words ’ made ’ , ’ making ’ and ’ makes ’ are all inflections of the root form ’ make ’ , so there seems little point in assigning them separate indices when their origins ( and hence much of their semantic content ) are shared . |
| 14 | The emphasis put on the respect shown by the first Ottoman rulers for the dervishes by granting them generous plots of land can also be interpreted as a denunciation of Bayezid 's policy of abolishing the rights on the and lands . |
| 15 | Indeed , it would be unjustified ( and plain silly ) to strengthen corporate power further by granting them judicial privileges originally formulated to protect relatively powerless individuals . |
| 16 | He was much richer than Louis , able — as the French king was not — to hire large armies of mercenaries and to reduce his leading vassals , the Counts of Flanders , Boulogne and Blois for example , to a position of neutrality by paying them substantial pensions . |
| 17 | Indeed , for the local authorities ( many of whom were angry that the Government were treating nationalisation merely as a book-keeping transaction within the public sector and thus paying them little compensation for the takeover ) , the maintenance of uneconomically low prices was one way of getting their own back for the local ratepayers ( who were also usually electricity consumers ) . |
| 18 | NGOs have also caused a brain drain from the NHS by recruiting skilled Mozambicans and paying them high salaries . |
| 19 | It does n't take in the fact that you 're actually paying them double time for overtime . |
| 20 | Only after World War 1 did Fellows , Morton & Clayton , and then the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company , recognise their role by paying them formal wages . |
| 21 | Perhaps if there really was ( and is ) ‘ widespread discontent … about the quality of education ’ , the best remedy would be to enhance teaching as a profession so as to attract and retain the best recruits , by paying them proper salaries and by promoting those who teach well , in such a way that they stay in the classroom instead of becoming administrators . |
| 22 | pulling them blue jerseys over their heads |
| 23 | pulling them fly sheets was good cos Maureen was yanking 'em right off really hard , how many pegs got broke ? loads were n't there ? |
| 24 | Recent research such as that by Peter Knight of St Martin 's College , Lancaster , however , has suggested that the technique of bombarding pupils with " Why ? " questions , as well as feeding them historical information , might actually stimulate the earlier development of their historical thinking . |
| 25 | No er sorry that you 're always sending them duplicate letters are n't you ? |
| 26 | His talk made me think of the housing estates near Mum 's house , where the ‘ working class ’ would have laughed in Terry 's face — those , that is , who would n't have smacked him round the ear for calling them working class in the first place . |
| 27 | I am not wearing them tight trousers again ! |
| 28 | You should ask them both questions on the card , that way we 've got a better chance of getting them bloody card for yourself in n it ? |
| 29 | One would have thought that the principle of people living in glass houses not throwing stones would have warned Ivan off a career as a journalist , gossip , and so-called satirist , but it did not seem to occur to him that he was asking for trouble of a kind that she knew would cause him the most intimate anguish : but in fact , so appalling were Ivan 's features and physique that comment on them was rare , even his worst enemies ( and he had hundreds ) not considering them fair game . |
| 30 | And with the brightest students , who would have gone to Britain until the Thatcher government started charging them substantial fees , now studying in the US , it seems likely that the trend away from cricket to American sports will steadily continue . |