Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] they [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nurses everywhere are working under intense and growing pressure and today 's announcement will be a heavy blow since it says clearly that the Government does not value their efforts and is not prepared to treat them with fairness or justice . ’ |
| 2 | If they are to deter wasteful and unnecessary spending , it seems foolish to impose them for sight tests and dental check-ups ( preventive care usually saves money in the end ) but not for old people 's prescriptions . |
| 3 | You need to control the carrot and the stick , and only use them when you are prepared to put them into action . |
| 4 | The hand was hot , the skin dry and the slender fingers lay in her palm like splinters of fine porcelain — she was afraid to squeeze them for fear they might snap . |
| 5 | The old records at the Royal Greenwich Observatory contained a consistent error , and Eddy had been wrong to take them at face value . |
| 6 | This would make it easy to disconnect them in case there was a need to make changes , or if problems arose at a later date . |
| 7 | But although ‘ In Place of Strife ’ was in accord with majority public opinion , it was certainly not in accord with Labour Party and union opinion , and although that in itself has not always blocked the parliamentary leadership , this time it became obvious that sufficient Labour MPs would reject the proposals to make it impossible to establish them as law . |
| 8 | And while the injunctions are subject to unwitting acceptance , it is impossible to call them into question . |
| 9 | It is impossible to place them in context so they are virtually worthless . |
| 10 | The fact that the area is an expanding and highly mobile community with a high percentage of nominal church-goers means that it is relatively easy to bring them into church services . |
| 11 | Parents need time to understand how their problems affect their children and that it is possible to help them with management issues if they work together and support each other . |
| 12 | It is unusual to consider them in conjunction with the ostensibly different milieux and traditions of broadcasting . |
| 13 | Incidentally , vitamins were applied percutaneously to treat severely vitamin-deficient ex-prisoners too ill to take them by mouth after the Second World War . |
| 14 | TELEVISION 'S merciless eye does footballers few favours and perhaps it is unfair to take them to task too readily for their occasional excesses . |
| 15 | At the beginning of book in , when describing the revolt of Lesbos in 427 , Thucydides says that the Lesbians ‘ had been wanting to revolt even before the war , but the Spartans had been unwilling to receive them into alliance ’ . |
| 16 | The doctor told me they were strong : in fact he prescribed them for me but it seems more logical to give them to Mum since it 's her that stops me sleeping . |
| 17 | Since , however , the interpretation of these items is strictly controlled , and since they are susceptible to paraphrase , it is unsatisfactory to analyse them as metaphor . |
| 18 | Since numbers of kin are a function of demography , it is possible to calculate them by simulation from a knowledge of birth rates , marriage rates and death rates . |
| 19 | " You have come here chiefly to hunt the rare wild animals in our jungles so that the people of America will be able to see them on display in the Sherman Museum in Washington . |
| 20 | In another sense they may seem to know them too little , to be too little able to see them in relation to other , contemporary , young people : as much chance of a fair assessment from a family as from a school . |
| 21 | We discuss some of the implications of these potential trade-offs in detail in Chapter 6 , but it is important to bear them in mind within this chapter as we discuss a variety of theories about the relationship between new technology and job satisfaction . |
| 22 | These might now be labelled ‘ fundamental principles ’ and it is important to bear them in mind when looking at the limitations of the legal aid scheme ( Pollock , 1975 ) : |
| 23 | While some were happy to espouse them without question , others were more critical , the more so because of the Authority 's failure to consult any but a small number of heads about their content . |
| 24 | That 'll please the BEF … be able to handle 'em in practice even if they never fire 'em in anger . ’ |
| 25 | Their daughter had provided all the labour-saving devices : dishwasher , washing machine , spin-dryer , all housed in a disused still room near the back door , although until she came the Copleys had been reluctant to use them in case they could n't turn them off , visualizing the machines whirling away all night , overheating , blowing up , the whole rectory pulsating with an uncontrollable power . |
| 26 | There is no sense in training to use fancy navigation aids when we would be unable to use them in wartime , and besides — that 's cheating . |
| 27 | The key leaders of NICRA arrived late , after the march had already started ; if they had any plans for preventing a clash with the police , they were unable to put them into operation . |
| 28 | They 've got less fat to insulate them from cold . |
| 29 | The stomach cramps had been coming back , off and on , all day , but so far she had been able to keep them under control . |
| 30 | Western economies are certainly prone to crises , but the state seems able to keep them in check . |