Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 2 | TWO escaped prisoners were back behind bars yesterday after police re-arrested them in an early morning swoop . |
| 3 | A total of 1,681 left-wing guerrillas , representing about 20 per cent of the forces of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) , reportedly handed over their weapons to members of the UN Observer Mission in El Salvador ( ONUSAL ) on June 30 in return for certificates identifying them as ex-combatants eligible for bank loans and training programmes . |
| 4 | Ways of maintaining and improving communications include : a ) establishing a management structure within the Partnership , with clear lines of communication into the schools and into employment ; b ) circulating minutes of management meetings to schools and employers so they know what is being discussed and what is being decided ; c ) bringing teachers and employers together at both Partnership and school level to plan , discuss and review the progress of the Compact ; d ) establishing School Compact Teams with regular meetings ; e ) circulating Compact documents , including such things as pupils ' Work Experience reports widely ; f ) holding Open Evenings for parents to brief them on Compact developments ; g ) producing a regular Compact Newsletter . |
| 5 | Noctuid moths are eaten by bats , and have evolved a special pair of ears to warn them of approaching danger . |
| 6 | Similarly , they can persuade other holders of bills to exchange them for time deposits in banks , by offering a higher rate of interest on time deposits ; something they can do if the demand for advances is high and hence higher interest rates can be charged on advances . |
| 7 | When someone who was a protégé of the Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna , a close friend of Nikolai Miliutin , and the tutor to the heir to the throne decided to run the risk of going into print , conservatives realized that they were being subjected to a deliberate attempt on the part of reformers to prevent them from treating serfs harshly . |
| 8 | During the more prosperous years of World War II , the Board of Trade reported an unsatisfied demand for shoes , which it explained by referring to a backlog of demand created by the inability of families to buy them during the 1930s . |
| 9 | Treatment is refused on the basis that it 's a better use of resources to spend them on the young . |
| 10 | They 've seen language labs , which are great , more or less mould away for lack of resources to keep them in working order , and they see micros coming in at a time when everything else is being cut . |
| 11 | The staves were subjected to heat , usually from a small fire of shavings to form them into the characteristic shape . |
| 12 | It would be quite wrong to expect society to pay potential polluters ( minerals companies ) hundred of millions of pounds to compensate them for not damaging the environment . |
| 13 | It would be quite wrong to expect society to pay potential polluters ( minerals companies ) hundred of millions of pounds to compensate them for not damaging the environment . |
| 14 | In addition , an input in posture is to be made into the training of officers to educate them in ways of preventing back injury . ’ |
| 15 | The meeting was held as advertised and Kinloch addressed it in a wordy speech in which , after pleading with his audience to keep the peace , he criticized the government for excessive taxation , and declaimed : ‘ In short , the whole of our misfortune as a nation , the whole of our misery , the whole of our distress , can be clearly traced to the circumstances of the people being deprived of their share of the British Constitution by not having a voice in the election of persons to represent them in the House of Commons . ’ |
| 16 | With backing from Citrine and Self , Smith tried to exercise such leverage , and ( when he failed to persuade the existing boiler manufacturers to respond ) proposed to attract new firms to the industry by the promise of orders to keep them in business . |
| 17 | Less self-satisfied social reformers , while not denying improvement — in the case of the elite of workers whose relative scarcity of qualifications put them into a fairly continuous sellers ' market , the substantial improvement — gave a less rose-tinted picture : |
| 18 | Others swore they tasted fine , if only you could find an army of friends to devour them with . |
| 19 | Lloyd 's Register , which carries out structural surveys of ships to enable them to be insured , believes that structural failure was to blame for many of the losses and is mounting an urgent investigation to establish whether this is the case . |
| 20 | Mr Gordon Green , a senior executive member , said the recent educational changes were doomed to failure unless the Government recognised the true value of teachers implementing them by improving pay and conditions . |
| 21 | In specifically educational matters , stress was laid on both initial and in-service training of teachers to attune them to the needs of ethnic minority groups and to improve their understanding of a multicultural approach to education . |
| 22 | Barber argues that the knowledge and skills of professionals provide them with considerable power and it is therefore essential for the well-being of society that this power be used for the benefit of all . |
| 23 | Bernard Arenson , Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs , claimed that the relaxation had been made to assist the poor in Haiti who had suffered unduly from the effects of sanctions depriving them of jobs and wages . |
| 24 | When the Boundary Commission looks at these matters over every 10 years or so , demography and demographic conditions have to be considered , and it is less easy than it appears on paper simply to provide consistency in terms of the demographic relationship of the people living in the country and the number of Members representing them in the House . |
| 25 | Storage of transparencies allows them to be used at a later date , therefore time spent in careful production is time well used . |
| 26 | In order to obtain data on the difficulty of the questions at different levels it was necessary for the sample of pupils taking them to be drawn from the complete range of target pupils in the schools . |
| 27 | While it is easy to understand why the drug makers pursue the will-of-the-wisp of the ultimate painkiller ; it is less easy to understand why the Committee on Safety of Medicines licenses them with no evidence of improvement in either safety or effectiveness . |
| 28 | Senada and her children , Mevlida ( 16 ) , Sanel ( 15 ) , Saliha ( 12 ) and Jasmina ( 11 ) , now have changes of clothes to see them through the week , cash in their pockets , and the run of Bob 's kitchen and store-cupboards , which were pre-stocked with macaroni and pasta for their arrival . |
| 29 | Many hotels use specially designed sets of documents to provide them with their required information . |
| 30 | Nearly three out of four adults own a video recorder but only one third of women use them without any problems , compared with two thirds of men and half of children . |