Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [prep] them [art] " in BNC.

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1 I daresay if we get someone sensible to look after them a few hours a day , they wo n't suffer too much .
2 If true observation statements are given , then it is possible to logically deduce from them the falsity of some universal statements , whereas it is not possible to deduce from them the truth of any universal statements .
3 She , speaking Slovene , had managed to understand their primitive Russian , and they were delighted to have found a civilian who was able to communicate with them a little , and who reminded them of their mothers .
4 And some companies are of such eminence in the world that , for an appropriate emolument , retired politicians , diplomats and higher civil servants are more than happy to bestow on them the benefits of the business acumen and personal probity for which they are rightly renowned .
5 The datasets are not likely to become obsolete in the foreseeable future ; however , it will be essential to keep with them a record not only of the modifications made to them , such as imputation , sampling and Barnardisation , but also information on how these will affect results derived from the data .
6 These people might indeed be said to have had a right to move once again centre stage , and so it is hardly surprising to find among them the great names of the first Napoleonic age .
7 At the same time he thought it desirable to submit to them a brief record of his work ( Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers , 1899 , pp. 3–11 ) , in view of what were in his opinion the less than adequate references to it in the 1899 James Forrest lecture on ‘ Magnetism ’ by J. A. Ewing [ q.v. ] , in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers ( vol. cxxxviii , pp. 289–311 ) .
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