Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] those [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long before the doors of the Chinese empire opened to the West , travellers in other parts of the globe were sending plants and seeds back to the motherland to enrich or replace those native collections which had existed in some cases from early times . |
| 2 | The difficulty is I want to try and be helpful erm er er my Right Honourable Friend has , has made a number of conceptions and we have er put down in my name a number of these amendments to the Bill in order to try and meet those very concessions and those the anxieties which your Lordships have have expressed . |
| 3 | The role of dreaming in all this was to provide a channel of communication for the gods to inform and warn those few mortals sufficiently significant to attract their attention , at critical moments in their lives . |
| 4 | ‘ Part of my function is to supervise and instruct those junior to me , male or female . |
| 5 | If this had n't happened … how many times do we think and feel and say those immortal words , a strange mantra that underscores the mystery of who and what and where we are in this mysterious world . |
| 6 | She would smile and smile while he unbuttoned his flies , trembling and muttering those nervous endearments as he had more than eight years before . |
| 7 | Charity began at home , and , though there were larger claims on him in the world outside , what was the worth of his work there if he ignored and hurt those nearest to him ? |
| 8 | Providing for Retirement — making sure that you will be able to afford to retire and to enjoy those golden years without being beset by financial worry in old age . |
| 9 | because if you 've bought first class stamps and you 've got a load of them then you have n't got to go and buy those tuppeny P pieces to put on . |
| 10 | This is an attempt to bring a greater level of uniformity than we have achieved so far , but we are bound by agreements made at the time of amalgamation and we can not undermine or contradict those particular decisions , and that 's why in a few cases , particularly in relation to the size of conference , there is some slight imbalance . |
| 11 | Political sociologists , in so far as they are not engaged in mainly descriptive and historical studies , now devote much of their effort either to analysing methodological problems of the kind which I outlined in the Introduction , or to reappraising and reinterpreting those nineteenth-century theories in which the ideas with which I have been concerned throughout this book — democracy , class , capitalism , socialism , the nation — were originally formulated and diffused . |
| 12 | Coffee will help — blessedly hot liquid to scald or drown those shaggy beasts in the brick shelter so many miles away from here in the place I once called Home . |
| 13 | Unrealised gains or losses on revaluation of net assets of overseas subsidiary and associated companies and on revaluation of Group borrowings arranged to finance or hedge those net assets are taken directly to reserves . |
| 14 | … and my right-hand Moderatus controls a power-fist for close quarter work , for scooping and crushing those miniscule Marines whose explosive bolts will be like stings … |
| 15 | According to this book , contributions of goodness have been made to the Created God , albeit unknowingly , by the countless thousands of individuals who , through many centuries have deliberately lived their lives constantly expanding , supporting and practising those human traits universally acknowledged as virtues . |
| 16 | The insistence by scientists that the World is merely a series of chance collisions of indifferent forces of nature is to him a dangerous road , since they believe they can discover and harness those indifferent forces through determining Nature 's ‘ laws ’ . |
| 17 | Here , we outline and evaluate those urban initiatives that can be seen to have resulted from the drive for deregulation and decontrol . |
| 18 | It would therefore have followed civilized custom if the government of the United States had sought both to relieve the burden of the disaster on all those affected by it and to pursue and punish those responsible . |
| 19 | Yeah , so try and bring those two together |
| 20 | I would n't I would n't give them the option , I would go and ask those same ones you had in last week . |
| 21 | Now , go and get those three lads some tea . |
| 22 | The Alexander Technique does not set out to cure specific symptoms , but it does help to uncover and change those harmful and unconscious habit patterns which , all too often , are the underlying cause of a problem . |
| 23 | Miguel smiled and greeted those nearest to him , and fell into step beside Lopez , bending to speak a few words quietly to him and his wife . |
| 24 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that , in the 1990s the citizens charter , particularly the charter mark , should continue and intensify those excellent developments ? |
| 25 | A dozen Valences of those days were among the host of drafted hive gangs and planetary troopers who fought their way across the ash wastes , spearheaded by a company of Space Marines , to relieve and purge those ravaged hives , which ever since had loomed abandoned like smashed skulls . |
| 26 | It is not surprising that such symbolism should unconsciously echo or evoke those infantile structures of representation through which identities and differences are first negotiated and invested with a sense of mastery , or that these models should be reproduced in the way racism is itself conceptualized . |
| 27 | How he yearned to attack and injure those burlier youths who stood watching , grinning . |
| 28 | The frontages were the work of the architects and they worked not in new styles but in revival styles — Gothic , classical , Renaissance , baroque — to comfort and reassure those concerned about the newness of it all . |
| 29 | identify and recommend those whole school strategies which appear to enhance the confidence and achievement of pupils |