Example sentences of "[vb -s] them [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's not a yes yes for the garden because I would n't have room for it but it 's certainly a yes yes in my shelter delt because the birds love the berries and it really encourages them to use that shelter delt but it is n't as , as easy to grow , it 's , one tends to think of the nature plant as a tough plant but I 've been trying to establish about thirty of these in the shelter delt and I 've found they object to any form of total weedkiller round the root , so all the , the weedkillers that you would use for the first couple of years maybe to , to keep the , the weeds from growing round the stems , they tend to get chlorotic and die . |
| 2 | ‘ Profit-centre ’ managers in their turn submit to the iron law of quarterly or annual return-on-investment ( ROI ) calculation , which hardly encourages them to become far-sighted captains of industry . |
| 3 | For one motive that drives men to commit a real crime there are a thousand that drives them to commit those indifferent acts which are called crimes by bad laws ; and if the probability of crimes is proportionate to the number of motives , to enlarge the sphere of crimes is to increase the probability of their being committed ( p. 94 ) . |
| 4 | It causes them to suffer temporary lapses of memory and to have difficulty in concentrating for a short period of two to three hours . |
| 5 | But the gas also causes them to grow extra arms and legs ( at a rate for the average adult male Vascar of one limb every two months , slightly longer for women and children ) . ’ |
| 6 | As almost all TDs are now willing to admit , the obligation inherent in the STV to compete for votes by looking after the interests of constituents forces them to give less than proper attention to their prime constitutional responsibility as legislators . |
| 7 | Fuel is these young mothers ' greatest problem : it takes a large chunk of their small income , and many mothers are also housed on estates with either excessive heating costs or minimal heating provisions , which forces them to use expensive alternatives . |
| 8 | However , some consumers , and these will be the poorer ones , will be worse off under the two-part tariff regime because they consume fewer than x units under average cost pricing , so charging a lump sum fee unc makes them pay a higher effective price for their units or forces them to consume fewer or even to drop out entirely . |
| 9 | These rooms are nothing but a dangerous hazard for the adventurers , and best avoided , unless you are using an adventure theme which forces them to enter these terrains to regain some lost object or person ( see Adventures in Castle Drachenfels ) . |
| 10 | Poverty forces them to have good qualities and pride in other things besides money . |
| 11 | Feminist psychology is becoming conscious of its theories ' unadventurousness , their distance from other feminist debates , and the way their focus on individual subjects forces them to neglect social relations . |
| 12 | Against the arguments of writers such as Poulantzas , that the state is not an intrinsic entity , a subject capable of exercising power in its own right ( e.g. 1978 : 128 ) , she maintains that it is ‘ an organization-for-itself ’ ( Skocpol 1979 : 27 ) , which extracts resources from society and uses them to support coercive and administrative organizations . |
| 13 | Organisational learning , where the ‘ organisation ’ stores experiences in forms , procedures and rules , and uses them to teach new staff and retrain others , can encourage adaptiveness to change . |
| 14 | The department making the greatest use of external libraries uses them on quite a regular basis , ‘ at least once a month ’ ; , and uses them to obtain any general type of information . |
| 15 | In her most fundamental expression , the Queen of the Night draws on primitive currents of energy and uses them to fulfil instinctive drives that know little of honour , justice , compassion , or other civilized values . |
| 16 | The tolerance of adults is important only in so far as it allows them to feed high on the shore , exposed to rain . |
| 17 | This underlying biologism allows them to preserve traditional concepts of gender . |
| 18 | First , they may create an ‘ internal ’ market that allows them to control all the activities involved in cross-border transactions . |
| 19 | Instead , some multinationals have invested in knowledge systems that provide access to state-of-the-art breeding , disease control and cultivation techniques in a form that allows them to control much of the total chain without investing directly in all stages . |
| 20 | In the third term they embark on a general survey of the History of Medicine and Science which allows them to put other subjects which the study into their historical context . |
| 21 | Because of the scattered distribution of food , the orang-utan population is split up into small dispersed foraging units and the flexible nature of orang-utan society allows them to exploit irregular fruit distribution better than territorial monkeys or gibbons , for example . |
| 22 | ITV also announced this week that , with the agreement of the Football League , they had taken out the Arsenal v Liverpool match from the fixtures for February 24 and it would be played at a later date , invoking a clause in their contract with the League that allows them to use three matches a season in this way . |
| 23 | Ecstasy allows them to do that . |
| 24 | But if women do want change , they may have to give up what they have invested in men — the idealisation which ( temporarily ) allows them to avoid uncomfortable things in themselves . |
| 25 | Instead the new meter allows them to read current anywhere along the cable length . |
| 26 | That going in the form of higher spending power to the workers themselves allows them to buy more goods or services . |
| 27 | It feels very reassuring to the person and at the same time it allows them to become accustomed to your touch . |
| 28 | But more experienced workers have found the use of packages slow , as the conventional system allows them to skip irrelevant parts more easily . |
| 29 | Finally , the mass media also have an interest in keeping alive this potent myth , for it allows them to present political events to voters — consumers in simplified and personalized narrative forms which can be readily understood . |
| 30 | But it can be altered as time goes by , if a client can afford extra premiums , their salary allows them to have extra increases , it can be altered , but would nec would possibly want medical underwriting for any future increasing . |