Example sentences of "[adj] to them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was very prone to them at the time , mainly because I was undertaking only light and sometimes very spasmodic training . |
| 2 | When I postulated that the environmentalists might have a case , they were horrified that I of all people should express such a view , when it had been clear to them from the start that I was different from the others ( my sisters ) . |
| 3 | Calling them " temporary workers " merely made their situation clear to them from the start of their employment . |
| 4 | But manufacturers can sometimes move the goal posts to suit their own ends — or perhaps they were oblivious to them from the start . |
| 5 | Many of the herbs Chris uses for treating his fish would be accessible to them in the wild . |
| 6 | British officers on the Defence Adviser 's staff in our Washington Embassy , and in exchange appointments at US military establishments , see the products of the vast US research and development programmes and become wedded to them to the detriment of British-developed equivalents . |
| 7 | Will it all seem as quaint to them as the age of steam and the stovepipe hat now seems to us ? |
| 8 | Various aspects of the parties ' life , resources , and activities will be helpful to them in the conflict , but many of these are resources and activities that they will have possessed or engaged in or wished to posses or to engage in in any case , even if they did not take part in the contest . |
| 9 | On the contrary it is complementary to them in the sense that its comparative advantage rests with analyses of secular economic developments whereas the existing models ' comparative advantage rests with the short-term developments . |
| 10 | There were no significant differences between the total , autonomic , and neuroglycopenic scores reported by subjects to be important to them at the beginning of a hypoglycaemic attack or later during its progression . |
| 11 | ‘ … the impracticability of individual copyright holders administering their performing rights effectively means that membership of a performing right society is the only way in which composers , songwriters and music publishers can adequately protect their rights and receive what is due to them for the public use of their work . ’ |
| 12 | The suggestion , which received widespread support , was that members on retiring or resigning from the Bank would allocate all or portion of the sum due to them to the Frank Holden Defence Fund . |
| 13 | It was held by the Court of Common Pleas that the plaintiffs were entitled to be paid the reward due to them by the overseers who were in office at the date of sentence on the ground that until the keepers of the disorderly house had been sentenced there had been no conviction . |
| 14 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that some British companies have not received the compensation due to them from the Turkish authorities controlling northern Cyprus ? |
| 15 | You ca n't expect a man to walk around thinking he 's got to be grateful to them for the rest of his life — it 's ludicrous . |
| 16 | Young people , especially school leavers aged 16 and 17 , also have a number of training schemes available to them under the auspices of the Department of Employment ( formerly the Manpower Services Commission ) — some of these operate within the schools and FE colleges described in Chapter 5 , others outside . |
| 17 | Too often businessmen through reticence or unawareness neglect the resources available to them through the local banks and the purpose of this short article is to draw their attention to the servies and assistance available . |
| 18 | It will be sent unsolicited to all parents , so that there will be a great increase in the information available to them about the school . |
| 19 | The next facet of my approach was that I wanted to see more flexibility in the hands of local family health services authorities over the application of funds and the use of the substantial sums of money that are available to them for the development of primary health care . |
| 20 | Given all the information available to them at the end of period t - 1 , firms expect that the position of the aggregate demand curve in period t will be AD in figure 5.1 . |
| 21 | I , I actually think they probably did use up all that was possible available to them at the time , and so , in some ways , this is against the spirit of the policy , although the policies have been changed , and I hear what Councillor said about improvement to the place , and so I do n't think we 'd serve any useful purpose in stopping these people doing this , because they 're probably not the people who were responsible for the flagrant disobeying of the rules at the time . |
| 22 | 12 Hartley 's essay was available to them in the exhibition brochure , where Stieglitz had reprinted it , and a second commentary about O'Keeffe by Rosenfeld had appeared in Vanity Fair the previous october . |
| 23 | They have the right to insist on all relevant information being made available to them regarding the background of potential clients in order that employees can be briefed about possible risks . |
| 24 | Mrs Goreng had been too kind to them in the sense of what to expect . |
| 25 | But I mean there was er , they were so kind to them in the hospital if there would of been any sign of distress they would of , you know , usually anyway you do n't usually have distress at the end you 're usually at peace are n't you ? |
| 26 | Draw into your net all possible defendants , and then turn round and consider all the possible defences open to them on the facts given . |
| 27 | It is difficult to assess the long term benefit of such a campaign as individual cases now coming to light clearly heard some of the publicity which was beneficial to them at the time but did not result in them making a call at that particular time . |
| 28 | Neighbourhood watch schemes are by their nature genuine voluntary organisations , although they receive Government support , in that substantial resources are devoted to them through the funding of the police , who themselves assist neighbourhood watch schemes . |
| 29 | In the Cleggan every disappeared hillock and mound had a name that told and contained the kernel of its history and the people who knew the names , and why they were so called , were removed to another district as anonymous to them as the place they left behind had become anonymous ’ . |