Example sentences of "[vb -s] they [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then transports them to earthly space for human use . |
| 2 | If he plays games to while away the tedious time , thought Cadfael , he plays them by noble rules , even those he makes up as he goes . |
| 3 | The draft orders are again the subject of consultation , following which parliamentary approval turns them into legal binding requirements . |
| 4 | As John Cook pointed out in the preceding chapter , it mistakenly assimilates the concepts of capacities like understanding , thinking , remembering , and the other psychological verbs to those of sensations like pain , and thus turns them into specific yet insubstantial and wholly mysterious inner states , available only to private introspection , which correlate in some way with their behavioural signs . |
| 5 | Turbobat is a very powerful multiple pass batch file compiler that takes DOS batch files and turns them into binary code that can execute up to four times faster than the original . |
| 6 | When the time is right Shamans pick the special fungus and make the vile brew which sends the Fanatics crazy and turns them into uncontrolled whirling maniacs . |
| 7 | Older people , on the basis of chronological age , are progressively removed from economic life , which provides them not only with income , but structures their daily routines and integrates them into regular social relationships . |
| 8 | As a result the public interest is increasingly defined by expert professional administrators , and administrative decisions designed to promote the public interest are articulated in a language that screens them from effective parliamentary criticisms and public debate . |
| 9 | Their narrow perspective alienates them from broad-minded people who value the business in broader terms , who value certain immeasurable bit critical factors such as morale , expertise and goodwill . |
| 10 | They need to be educated properly , and society desperately needs them as educated members . |
| 11 | It is evident that the expertise and contacts Grampian companies have developed through supplying the North Sea oil industry stands them in good stead to take advantage of oil related opportunities in the Middle East . |
| 12 | They have to compete for telescope time , to make sure that no one beats them to crucial measurements . |
| 13 | Thus ministers no longer feel that the doctrine exposes them to special risks in the House but , by confining all the advice of the departments to ministers , it does ensure that they are so much better informed and briefed than their critics . |
| 14 | Aquatic birds that spend much of their time in water , well insulated by fat and waterproof plumage ( Figure 6.1 ) , are pre-adapted for life in cold lands ; the insulation of marine mammals in temperate seas pre-adapts them for polar seas . |
| 15 | Whereas America has visitors with little bodies and big heads , Russia has them with big bodies and little heads . |
| 16 | As for the case made against the versions in the Classic Anthology — that by using rhyme they align themselves with the closed poetry of print and not with the open poetry of the speaking breath — the obvious retort is that , although in these poems Pound often rhymes , he writes them in free verse , and in a free verse where the syllables are weighed , and the varying pace controlled , as scrupulously as in anything else he has written . |
| 17 | Other cars that try hard to embrace traditional concepts of luxury use leather and wood as add-on decoration ; the Bentley uses them as raw materials . |
| 18 | To overcome the delay , the robot 's software ’ dreams ’ approximate solution pairs ( I' , J' ) and uses them like observed entries . |
| 19 | The borough council blames them for serious defects found in the building . |
| 20 | Ryes and rye-wheat hybrids are sometimes prone to ergot — a fungus disease that destroys the individual grains and replaces them with black spores which look like mouse droppings . |
| 21 | Will the Minister tell the House and the people of the Province what measure he intends to take to assist people over 45 whose age condemns them to humiliating interviews and , indeed , rejection ? |
| 22 | At the same time , of course , it assures them of comprehensible input . |
| 23 | The weekly UK journal " Marketing " noted that " computer power … takes larger , geographically organised databases , of which published Census statistics are the most important , and links them to other sets of marketing information , intelligence and research data . |
| 24 | The normal posture hides these bright colours ; the display reveals them at close quarters . |
| 25 | When the Savage Orcs go to war their shaman marks them with tribal tattoos using a strong magical concoction . |
| 26 | ‘ Where goods are sold in market overt , according to the usage of the market , the buyer acquires a good title to the goods , provided he buys them in good faith and without notice of any defect or want of title on the part of the seller . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Where the seller of goods has a voidable title to them , but his title has not been avoided at the time of the sale , the buyer acquires a good title to the goods , provided he buys them in good faith and without notice of the seller 's defect of title . ’ |
| 28 | Are women being exploited by a system which sees them as easy targets ? |
| 29 | And when he comes to the richer and more respectable inmates of the borough who can veil their defects behind money , he remains sardonic , and sees them as poor people who have not been found out . |
| 30 | He sees them as little jokes , the same way he sees Miro . |