Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] they to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early stages it was finding them a deal , or moving them to the next level up . ’ |
| 2 | We argue out the whys and wherefores of putting our aged relatives in geriatric homes , taking early retirement , buying a pet for the children , or taking them to the circus . |
| 3 | Insofar as English law requires the directors to take into account the interests of groups other than the shareholders it adopts the position that these interests do not fundamentally conflict with those of the shareholders and that it is therefore possible to arrive at a decision that balances all the relevant interests , subsuming them under or subordinating them to the vaguely defined collective goal of the organization . |
| 4 | The decree stated that the events of the coup proved that the CPSU was never a political party , but " a special mechanism for exercising political power by merging with state structures or subordinating them to the CPSU " . |
| 5 | When she comes to Henry VIII in her History of England , she observes that ‘ nothing can be said in his vindication , but that his abolishing Religious Houses & leaving them to the ruinous depredations of time has been of infinite use to the landscape of England in general ’ . |
| 6 | A warehouseman with whom goods have been deposited is guilty of no conversion by keeping them , or restoring them to the person who deposited them with him , though that person turns out to have had no authority from the true owner . ’ |
| 7 | Many of the great fortunes in this country are still in the hands of the landed aristocracy who tend to be preoccupied with maintaining their great estates and country houses , no doubt feeling that opening them to the public is in itself a form of patronage . |
| 8 | If the algorithms for correction of the above four types of spelling errors were to be applied to our system , it is unlikely that applying them to the highest-rated allowable string ( if there are any allowable strings ) is going to find the intended word . |
| 9 | The challengers have also all adopted a slightly different approach to PageMaker in that they have provided many of the creation tools within the desktop publishing program rather than leaving them to the more specialised stand-alone products . |
| 10 | After fulling , the cloth was well rinsed and , now reduced from 35″ to 27″ in width , was taken to the tenter ground to be stretched to shape by fastening hooks in the selvedge and attaching them to the tenter frames . |
| 11 | This is not , in fact , a problem , since LIFESPAN provides the tools for creating other DCs as the need arises and attaching them to the same package . |
| 12 | Of course , this consequence follows because the building society is in effect attracting funds from the public sector and channelling them to the borrowers that we identified in section 4.1.1 . |
| 13 | Right across the village , men and women stooped over , black forms against a world of white , shovelling great heaps of snow and tumbling them to the ground in frothy white cascades . |
| 14 | As we go to press , however , LEAs are still drawing up their formulae and submitting them to the DES for approval . |
| 15 | Mr R. Batson , Hyssington for preparing the plans and submitting them to the Local Authority for planning permission . |
| 16 | In fact these forms provide particularly striking examples of the process of struggle — crossing the lines of development of media , content and practice , and relating them to the positions of different groups — which is a more accurate picture of the general history than any simple structure of antitheses . |
| 17 | So you know what this is a measure of it 's not a measure of anything it does n't mean that one group 's done better than the others it just means that 's the way it 's been measured the work that they 've done has been measured by another group which is n't good or bad it 's just hopefully picking out the important criteria and applying them to the work that we 've done and the notes we 've produced and the way we 've marked other people 's . |
| 18 | Once the fry have hatched , both parents remain on guard , leading the fry out of the cave in a school to feed , and returning them to the safety of the cave at night . |
| 19 | Farmers and landowners are being offered annual payments of up to £300 per hectare for conserving and re-creating traditional English habitats and opening them to the public . |
| 20 | Or , you can use a stopwatch in which case you can increase the accuracy by doing the timings on slo-mo and correcting them to the normal-speed equivalents . |
| 21 | The support worker has to create a delicate balance between giving advisers the ‘ answer ’ for a client and directing them to the relevant part of the information system . |
| 22 | In his extremity he put down the punch he could not hold steadily , and began to handle the half-shaped blocks of stone , dragging them forward and turning them to the light . |
| 23 | A single simulation is made by generating random numbers from these probability distributions and adding them to the observed geographic coordinates ( defining point , line or area features ) with these random values . |
| 24 | But in some instances research assistants may have been primarily concerned with digging out tables from published sources and presenting them to the writer to work on ; in this case the data are certainly secondary and practically tertiary . |
| 25 | ‘ And I thought I could make mine by designing and making better products , and selling them to the world , ’ said Mark . |
| 26 | The market dealer acquiring the shares and selling them to the company is subject to a special tax regime ( ICTA 1988 , s95 ) . |
| 27 | In June too , after an attempt to repel the rebels had failed , and the leaders of the royal force , Sir Humphrey Stafford and William Stafford , had been killed at Sevenoaks , the government had tried to placate the Kentishmen by arresting Crowmer and Say and sending them to the Tower , and when Cade 's men entered London in July , those two were among their earliest victims ( 16 , p.192 ) . |
| 28 | This job consisted of picking up thirty-six containers from the jetty Where they were being unloaded from HMAV Arakan ( one of the two Army Landing Craft Logistic ) and moving them to the container park . |
| 29 | He has accordingly built , in the heart of Islay , the only brewery in the Western Isles , for preventing the evils alluded to , and for gradually weaning off his tenants from a taste for ardent spirits , and accustoming them to the more nourishing and wholesome beverage of ales ; and has , by these means , not only improved the agriculture , but also the morals of the island . |
| 30 | This job involves taking a constant stream of compliments and criticism from staff members within your area and relaying them to the relevant parties . |