Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] they [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only plausible way historically to guarantee the authority of such rights has been to see them as the issue of a divine law-giver . |
| 2 | An alternative explanation for price rises , for example , has been to relate them to the amount of money in circulation or the bullion value of the coinage . |
| 3 | It seems , however , always to have been associated by those who employed it with the idea that Britain 's historic policy towards its dependencies had been to lead them along the path towards self-government — a belief which had for its principal inspiration the history of Canada since the Durham report . |
| 4 | All you would have to do would be to lead them to the smugglers ' rendezvous and supervise the action . ’ |
| 5 | The best precaution would be to deposit them with the bank . |
| 6 | Given the shortage of good creative talent , this is not that unusual , and if you find that your agency is using freelances , your immediate reaction should not be to fire them on the spot : give them credit for both knowing their own limitations and for buying good work from outside , always assuming that it is good ; but press them to get a permanent team working on your account soon — it is not in your interest to lose continuity of creative work on your account . ) |
| 7 | The best solution may be to leave them with the society . |
| 8 | But if England and Wales were to provide them with the right context come this Saturday , Mike Teague — who has been shortening in the betting and who was integral to the Lions ' strategy under the same coach , McGeechan , in Australia in 1989 — and either Emyr Lewis or Richard Webster could win the two blindside berths . |
| 9 | I believe that we would get on better with our men ; we would have less friction and less legislation if we were to meet them round the table and discuss mutual affairs with them in a suitable manner . |
| 10 | Then , scientists were to puncture them in the leg with a large hypodermic to extract a sample of muscle tissue . |
| 11 | Copies were to be sent to all sheriffs , who were to publish them to the people ; others were to be kept in all cathedral churches and read twice a year . |
| 12 | The next task is to tackle them in the most sensible way . |
| 13 | way of categorising the names is to list them by the of medium in much the same way as they are listed ie media guides . |
| 14 | Such structural components are often called objects , and one approach is to combine them with the logical objects we have just described into one uniform mechanism . |
| 15 | Part of the success is to sow them at the right time . |
| 16 | Now all they have time to do when they 're working on the site is to put them in the trays and wash them . |
| 17 | The most common method of distinguishing between production systems or types of production is to separate them into the three categories of jobbing , batch and mass production . |
| 18 | The wholesaler 's only sanction against non-cooperating members is to expel them from the group , whereas in the case of the variety multiples a recalcitrant manager can be quickly removed . |
| 19 | One way is to crawl up the staircase of preferment on your belly ; the other way is to kick them in the teeth . |
| 20 | According to Jensen , the most effective way of disposing of the chemicals is to spray them over the land according to the manufacturer 's directions , allowing them to be broken down by the sun and weather . |
| 21 | The second is to present them to the three million visitors each year in ‘ an educative and enjoyable way ’ . |
| 22 | The railways are now in division three and the government 's plan is to take them into the non-league . |
| 23 | All I can do is to tell them of the number and variety involved , and point them to some background reading . |
| 24 | Perhaps the most important point to be made about postverbals is to distinguish them from the adjectives in the last remaining position , the extraclausal adjectives , which occur in an identical sequence of syntactic elements , but which correspond to a different surface structure as in : ( 45 ) the two reformers persevered undaunted two stagehands appeared , breathless They have the different intensional structure : |
| 25 | Does it really matter that those were early days , when the joke on campus was that the only way to kill anyone with a laser was to hit them over the head with it ? |
| 26 | I have to pay 80p for one piece of Vallis , Cabomba etc at any of the fish centres in this part of the world and £1.50 each if I was to buy them in the little pots . |
| 27 | The aim was to put them on the spot — or at least to impress the Inspector with your knowledge and concern . |
| 28 | They were in costumes that , in spite of their crumpled shabbiness , recalled the garb of Count Arnheim in the opera of ‘ The Bohemian Girl ’ , and looked like fugitive kings and emperors beside the thick-set railway porter , in capacious velveteens , whose duty it was to put them on the right track towards the ‘ free land ’ . |
| 29 | My first thought was to put them in the dustbin . |
| 30 | Flavia Sherman had elected to spend the day shopping on the Rue Catinat and was to join them for the first hunt next morning . |