Example sentences of "[verb] they [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and have proved that putting a phone in each guest 's room encourages them to keep in touch with their office or home . |
| 2 | If this also makes mathematics classrooms places where girls feel more comfortable and therefore encourages them to stay with mathematics longer , that is all to the good . |
| 3 | Mr Waddington was apparently considering allowing them to take into account the need to protect the public from even quite minor offences . |
| 4 | Darlington Labour candidate Alan Milburn ‘ Labour will bring lasting prosperity to Darlington and put people 's talents to use rather than allowing them to go to waste . ’ |
| 5 | Fly transmission of stable transformants : Tsetse flies ( Glossina morsitans morsitans ) were infected by allowing them to feed on blood mixed with procyclic trypanosomes through artificial membranes ( 20 ) . |
| 6 | He was not picked up by A.S.R. largely due to the delay in allowing them to put to sea . |
| 7 | To round up clans of Ayoreo Indians with the dubious intent of rescuing them for Christianity , massacring those resistant to ‘ taming , imprisoning the remainder and allowing them to sink into ill-health and torpor , seems monstrous . |
| 8 | The formula ‘ protects ’ the incomes of second families by not allowing them to fall below income support levels plus £8 and 10 per cent of the difference . |
| 9 | Some Western conservationists have welcomed Martin 's departure but local conservationist groups generally supported his policy of giving local communities an interest in preserving wildlife by allowing them to benefit from wildlife management schemes . |
| 10 | Then the rod was twisted by the spinner , who pulled strands out from the fleece , allowing them to twist into thread by the action of the revolving spindle . |
| 11 | Their revolutionary strategies and organizations reflected not their leadership of popular protest but a near-total isolation which led them to resort to conspiracy and manipulation . |
| 12 | One of the less well-known consequences was that , when the companies who wrote unit-linked business wished to introduce personal pensions , they found that their natural mode of operation led them to return on death the fund which had built up for the policyholder , rather than any specific guaranteed rate of return . |
| 13 | Their increasing interest in the New Testament and the Life of Christ led them to concentrate on poverty and preaching — which previous authorities had seen to be dangerous . |
| 14 | However this radicalization in land policy had allowed them to defeat the K M T and essentially led them to get into power so one has elements of pragmatism in their ideology and that how that you 've got to realize that the Communist Party was in a very precarious situation throughout these years , that how that although they did have a kind of er policy in th there ultimate aim of socialism , and although it seare appeared s quite strange that they were almost promoting capitalism , that how that their aim during this period was to eliminate feudalism which was the s and then to establish capitalism in order that socialism could take place . |
| 15 | Could we qualify that that we do not want them to go down School Lane ? |
| 16 | It was the best choice for her , because she could decide which weeks she wanted free — and timed them to coincide with school holidays . |
| 17 | ‘ But I would prefer them to stay on land . |
| 18 | She suggests that the ‘ board ’ money which young people paid for living in the parental household was seen as an exchange , especially for daughters : they handed over their wages to their mothers and in exchange their mothers equipped them to enable them to go into service . |
| 19 | It is reported that they are being given Namibian identity cards to enable them to vote for pro-South African parties in the elections . |
| 20 | We should consider the supply of metal detectors and the regular retraining of police officers to enable them to deal with knife problems . |
| 21 | As is argued at length in the Kingman Report , substantial programmes of teacher training are required if teachers are themselves to know enough to enable them to design with confidence programmes of study about language . |
| 22 | Of those who take the tests , few score high enough marks to enable them to apply for assistance from their own government or overseas institutions . |
| 23 | Or at best everybody could just come up to but nobody would be creating re er a surplus , nobody would have the resources to invest to enable them to come above subsistence |
| 24 | Lord Oliver described the relationship in the following way : ‘ … the purpose for which the auditors ’ certificate is made and published is that of providing those entitled to receive the report with information to enable them to exercise in conjunction [ with others ] those powers which their respective proprietary interests confer on them and not for the purposes of individual speculation with a view to profit . ’ |
| 25 | Most elderly parents who are living alone will be widows or widowers , and the understanding of their feelings of loss , and ways of helping them to cope with bereavement , were discussed in Chapter 2 . |
| 26 | It was too late to begin to take action when the war fever had maddened the blood of the people , but if the warmongers in Germany and in this country knew beforehand that the working class of the two countries had come to an understanding , and would stand by it , the influence of that knowledge upon their counsels would be such as to compel them to submit to arbitration the points which would otherwise have been submitted to war . |
| 27 | Only three boys understood and I got them to explain in Arabic to the rest . |
| 28 | No : if we want them to fall in love with us , we 'll just have to ignore them , and hope they do n't go away . |
| 29 | want them to go down School Lane . |
| 30 | The EIS supports small schools in cases where communities want them to stay in existence . |