Example sentences of "divide them into " in BNC.

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1 They sorted through the books and divided them into two lots .
2 Bragg tipped the contents of the drawer on to the table , and divided them into two piles .
3 Only one Egyptian historian is known to us , the priestly scribe Manetho who compiled the list of all the pharaohs and conveniently divided them into the particular groups or dynasties which Egyptologists still employ today .
4 Bryant and Bradley chose 65 of the children who had not been very good at categorising sounds at the beginning of the study and divided them into four groups .
5 The Buddhist-managed Lakrivikirana divided them into two categories .
6 Legally those having less than the minimum of 40s. in goods should have been assessed on wages or ‘ profits for wages ’ , which were often treated as interchangeable , though sometimes carefully distinguished : in Goldspur hundred on the Kentish border assessments on profits were specified in 1524 , but in the next year the assessments roped in more small taxpayers and divided them into fifty-one on wages , forty-six on profits and seven on goods .
7 For example , Williams calculated the cost per QALY of a range of health care interventions and divided them into ‘ strong candidates for expansion ’ and ‘ less strong candidates for expansion ’ 1 to illustrate what could be achieved by using available data and to argue for further refinements .
8 In one such experiment , L. R. Donaldson and G. E. Allen took 72,000 young salmon at the ‘ fingerling ’ stage ( when they are about one year old ) from the Soos Creek Hatchery in Washington ( for locations see Figure 4.5 ) and divided them into two groups .
9 He took a group of young boys and monitored their play , divided them into three groups and showed each group one of three scenarios and then monitored them again .
10 Bentham tries to show that on no useful classification of motives can one divide them into those which are always good or bad .
11 In considering the health care provision agencies we may usefully divide them into two main types : primary care and secondary care .
12 As I 've indicated before you can divide them into patha and physiological effects and membrane damage more specifically than what I said before membrane damage is the i i is a particularly important thing .
13 If you think about people in very large numbers , you can divide them into groups in a variety of ways : age groups , different sexes , marital status , numbers of children , where they live , what they do , how much they earn , how many GCSEs they have , whether they own a car or a colour TV , the colour of their skin … the list is , in practice , endless , especially if you add in ( say ) readers of Punch , or buyers of Beecham 's pills .
14 Because we reinterviewed the same people at different times throughout the year , we were able to divide them into persistent readers of Tory tabloids , persistent readers of Labour tabloids , persistent readers of broadsheets and , finally , those who changed papers or read no paper regularly .
15 During the period 1560 to 1640 , virtually all these conformist English Protestants shared a set of common doctrinal beliefs , but in terms both of liturgical preference and intensity of commitment it is possible to divide them into two broad and fluid categories : a mainstream Protestant majority which was relatively content with the hybrid character of the Elizabethan church ; and a minority , labelled ‘ Puritan ’ by their contemporaries , which aspired to bring about further reform of that church in the direction of continental Protestantism .
16 While each college is to a large extent sui generis it is possible to divide them into three main groups .
17 On Friday of week 12 the examinations office extract all records of students with such recommendations , divides them into three groups ( Stage 1 , continuing Stage II and graduating students ) , and these records are printed as the examination booklet which is available for collection by staff centrally involved in examinations committee business by noon on Monday of week 13 .
18 The book conveniently divides them into Staffordshire and non-Staffordshire , this is an entirely justifiable division , for throughout the period when lustre decoration was used ( from 1805 to the present ) Staffordshire was the workshop of the world as far as ceramic production was concerned .
19 Dig out the clumps of roots and divide them into smaller portions to replant or pot-up .
20 It will be of value to itemise those aspects peculiar to that situation , and for convenience I divide them into ‘ helps ’ and ‘ hindrances ’ :
21 Books on these five traditions commonly divide them into two major categories .
22 Divide them into groups of the same number ( pencilling them out lightly or placing a dot beside them as you do so ) .
23 Divide them into two teams and the game is for them to head the balloon over the string and hope the opposing team do not succeed in returning it .
24 When you make these dishes , or other obviously easily freezable recipes which you particularly like , it is a good idea to cook several portions at one time and then divide them into individual portions and store them in the freezer in bags .
25 In the sections below we divide them into policies affecting imports , exports and countertrade .
26 As the Fabian Women 's Group ( FWG ) pointed out , contributory insurance was bound to reflect the existing economic position of women and divide them into those living as their husbands ’ dependants and those living as economically independent individuals .
27 We divide them into two main kinds , exploratory and expressive .
28 The answer will depend on the nature of the work , but have it ready before you divide them into groups .
29 erm equally if you ca n't get any significant differences between the five different groups of five people you can try and split the stuff up , once you 've got the data you can try and split it up in other ways , divide them into two groups and see
30 One of the problems that will be encountered is that we may find words which are obviously complex but which , when we divide them into stem + affix , turn out to have a stem that it is difficult to imagine is an English word .
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