Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] them [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 When the deadline for judging whether the republics should be recognised arrives in January , will the 12 Foreign Ministers meet again to decide collectively whether the criteria have been met and whether all of them will recognise or not recognise the republics ?
2 Such methods are outside the scope of this book , but those who are interested in reading more about them will find relevant books in Suggested Reading on p. 141 .
3 There was nothing any of them could do to save him , scattered and outnumbered now as they were .
4 There was nothing any of them could do .
5 There was nothing any of them could do .
6 In that case both of them will move inwards under the effect of magnetic force .
7 They should be er both of them could have put that all in black .
8 Soon after the introduction of GREAs the government recognized a danger that some authorities might use them as targets , with the consequence that some authorities spending below their GREAs might be encouraged to spend more , while those spending far above them might find the task of cutting back to GREA level too difficult .
9 Sitting at right-angles to them ( on either side of the corner of a table ) or even alongside them will make for more harmony .
10 ‘ I wo n't allow myself to be tortured , ’ Raskolnikov tells Porfiry , but our sense of their three long encounters is that there 's nothing either of them can do about it .
11 But it will hurt , and each time it happens , it will feel like a shock , and a sad renewal of the realisation that a loved companion is beginning to drift away from her , and that there is nothing either of them can do about it .
12 The investigation he 'd instigated would , by its nature and scope , prove far more efficient than anything either of them could do alone or in tandem .
13 Nothing either of them could say would convince Roman that she had a twin .
14 The quantities of waste water are often great , so that a treatment plant designed to cope adequately with them may have to be large and therefore expensive to install .
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