Example sentences of "[to-vb] they [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some nectar-eating ants cut down on the time they spend searching for food by using their body clock to alert them to mealtimes . |
| 2 | ‘ They should change the law to include them with dogs like pit bulls which have to wear a muzzle . |
| 3 | But , bold as they are , giant colour prints of segmented bodies , rough skins and the centrepiece of a kiss in rich colour close-up , it is difficult to see them as challenges to a visual or a political status quo . |
| 4 | Farming families worked hard and long for scanty remuneration , and it is difficult indeed to see them as beneficiaries of the government 's development policy . |
| 5 | Since each member of the ring is only one mutational step away from the central biomorph , it is easy for us to see them as children of the central parent . |
| 6 | For justification , and the very baptism which is its outward symbol , means dying with Christ and rising again ; dying to the old sinful ways , and being prepared to see them as characteristics of the unregenerate nature that was dealt with on the cross by Jesus and must be kept there . |
| 7 | National Park rangers eventually managed to speak to the two men but were unable to see them for clouds of steam . |
| 8 | When he appeared in the Home Circuit Court at Kingston before Theobalds J. on 26 September 1983 both counsel invited the judge to see them in chambers and he agreed to do so . |
| 9 | The other table what we had before was better , was no much so much time involved , by the time you 'd screw them round and turn 'em , to saw them into blocks there was a lot of time involved in it . |
| 10 | whether it is not in the public interest to treat them as benefits ; and |
| 11 | It seems more elegant , and closer to the linguistic facts of the case , to treat them as cases of underlexicalisation . |
| 12 | The people looking after chickens do not identify with individual chickens and , as has been said already , very large numbers of animals should not be being looked after by very small numbers of people who have no incentive to treat them as individuals . |
| 13 | We 're extremely interested in the women we try to treat them as individuals we cope with a lot of problems and I think if we look as women as individuals , each individual woman has a different problem . |
| 14 | Some top runners swear by it and arrange to have an expert on hand to treat them within minutes of hitting the tape . |
| 15 | To enable them to police such a large and inaccessible area he recommended the building of a number of new fortresses , to be linked , by road and water , for rapid reinforcement . |
| 16 | You have to like them as feet . |
| 17 | I think the alum actually was so because this recipe enabled you to paint them with flowers if you wanted to . |
| 18 | ‘ Quasi-syntactic ’ ambiguities require careful consideration because there may be a temptation to diagnose them as cases of lexical ambiguity . |
| 19 | A cleanliness CAT team discovered the front desk was blocking rooms which had not been cleaned , and groups were arriving to claim them between shifts , so communication between housekeeping and the front desk was improved . |
| 20 | You can use coloured dividers to classify them into subjects . |
| 21 | The Dyaks of Borneo , for instance , have always referred to the orangutan as the " man of the forest " , treating him at least with the dignity accorded to neighbouring tribes , whereas the Europeans , on examining the first Tierra del Fuegans brought back to the West , could not decide whether to classify them as humans or animals . |
| 22 | The first is to try to classify them in terms of the kinds of knowledge , procedures and criteria of judgement they involve . |
| 23 | One way of showing them respect was to enclose them in reliquaries and enrich these with precious substances . |
| 24 | my Lord well no doubt then the answer is that erm that would eventually have to meet them through funds which they will bring in to the market and which will go into the , the central fund |
| 25 | In fact on erm on one of the erm sheets that I 've brought up there 's a notice of how to repair them with bits of cycle inner tube . |
| 26 | And he might bear in mind that muddled dispositions in his will could somehow be validated if the jurists were able to construe them as trusts . |
| 27 | But the Americans do not seem likely to force the Japanese to overcharge them for chips again . |
| 28 | And I want you to try them in groups so that acid alkali |
| 29 | During the 1950s and early 1960s a lot of effort was devoted to attempts , in the first place , to identify and measure parental attitudes and , in the second place , to relate them to characteristics of child behaviour . |
| 30 | If we are to support children in their reading we need to encourage them into libraries , to assure them that libraries are pleasant places , and that librarians are pleasant people equipped by education , training , attitudes , and commitment to serve them . |