Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] them [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prisoners may be left locked in their cells for longer , because there is not the staff to supervise out-of-cell activities or to escort them from place to place . |
| 2 | But student attendances after Christmas were appreciably lower , as cars stayed at home and public transport was withdrawn , and several branches decided not to start a spring course at all , or to restrict them in length . |
| 3 | Furthermore , it is more advantageous for management to subscribe shares than to acquire them by transfer , because they may then be entitled to income tax relief pursuant to s574 Taxes Act 1988 if the venture fails . |
| 4 | Unmarried teenage mothers are more likely nowadays to keep their children than to place them for adoption . |
| 5 | The effect of that test would be to pick out those reckless killings which occurred when D had already manifested substantial moral and legal culpability , and to classify them as murder . |
| 6 | James finally agreed to 70 , and signed a requisition form , agreeing on behalf of the appellants to pay for the services of the men provided at certain specified rates per diem and also for their travelling expenses and to provide them with food and sleeping accommodation . |
| 7 | Dementia sufferers therefore need people to help them with personal and house care ; to safeguard them ( and others who may be affected ) from risks such as gas or road traffic , from harming themselves or others , or from being harmed by others ( for they may become vulnerable to attack , theft , etc ) , and to provide them with companionship and emotional support in their frequent loneliness and depression ( see Norman , 1982 ) . |
| 8 | An important role of the office is to alert researchers in UK higher education establishments to the opportunities available , and to provide them with advice on the programme most relevant to their research needs . |
| 9 | It was the policy of Henry III , moreover , to dislodge ecclesiastical and lay magnates from the great offices of state , and to replace them by Household officials who would make the central administration a more pliant instrument of his will . |
| 10 | A series of contacts with the CNAA from 1965 produced the controversies over the attempt to introduce full-time courses in various disciplines , and to combine them with sandwich courses , with Brighton 's first full-time courses in engineering being approved at the end of that year . |
| 11 | The instructor is advised to encourage the trainees to generate others and to submit them to group discussion . |
| 12 | The slow transit rate of fibre-depleted diets is also thought to encourage the formation of these potentially dangerous substances within the body — and to leave them in contact with the gut for too long . |
| 13 | But it is up to you to make some decisions , however small , and to put them into action . |
| 14 | It is important to write these plans down and to keep them under review . |
| 15 | They are the weaknesses which can be exploited to keep men at work producing the goods which this society needs , and to keep them in subjection . |
| 16 | The governors decided to give all these matters priority and to consider them in detail at the next meeting . |
| 17 | As applies in the treatment of fungal attack , in the eradication of insect pests it is necessary to identify the unhealthy conditions which have invited the attack , and to cure them at source . |
| 18 | English Hops works closely with the hop research centre at Wye Valley and with the British Brewing Foundation in Surrey to develop new varieties of hops and to test them in brewing conditions . |
| 19 | Royal servants were therefore anxious to extend the boundaries of their bureaucratic empires whenever possible , and to defend them against encroachment at all times . |
| 20 | Now , says Mr Donald Pais , GM 's vice-president of materials management , practice is shifting toward what he calls ’ collective progress' — The idea is to establish longer-term relationships with suppliers , and to involve them in product development much earlier — almost like internal departments of the company . |
| 21 | At the same time , using Todorov 's distinction , it does seem possible in relation to television narrative genres or subgenres to identify classical tendencies which depend — in the last instance — on conformity to rules and conventions for their verisimilitude , and to distinguish them from naturalist tendencies whose verisimilitude makes claims to be grounded in social reality — or at least claims to represent what people believe to be true . |
| 22 | In January 1986 , President Reagan had signed a secret directive — ‘ They can run , but they ca n't hide ’ — instructing the octopus to identify terrorists responsible for crimes against American citizens abroad and to bring them to justice in US courts . |
| 23 | His alternative was to increase the army 's number of permanent divisions from thirty-one to forty-seven , to maintain them at a relatively low level in peacetime , but to triple them in size on the outbreak of war . |
| 24 | … But to conform them into Rule , |
| 25 | The economy was not expanding in such a way as to absorb them in work , even if mothers of young children , children themselves , the aged and the disabled who made up the bulk of out-door paupers , had been able to take advantage of such expansion . |
| 26 | Inflation called for an uplift in many maximum fines , with a power being conferred upon the Home Secretary to adjust financial limits in the future by order , having first obtained the approval of both Houses of Parliament , so as to keep them in step with subsequent changes in the value of money . |
| 27 | By design they had entered the grounds quite close to the front entrance , and they angled their progress so as to bring them into contact with the main driveway as quickly as possible . |
| 28 | Under a presidential decree of Aug. 6 , oil and gas export prices were deregulated so as to bring them into line with world prices . |