Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The birds are stocked at a rate of 5,000 per hectare in a fenced off pasture to protect them from foxes and other predators . |
| 2 | Detectives are applying to magistrates for permission to hold them for a further 24 hours . |
| 3 | Has he for instance consulted them with their rights under the Tenants Charter ? |
| 4 | Did it make them stronger in their faith so that when they leave school and face the terrible temptation of the world , the fact that they danced on the altar during mass strengthen them against the temptation ? |
| 5 | was going out of this area to the providers of er of capital , for opportunities within this area we can go to London for example be many bankers there who will be being approached by companies within the northern region , north west region asking them for money to support them in their in their ventures . |
| 6 | And they 're ideal in kids room we 're gon na , we got , if we can get up after Christmas get them for Lee |
| 7 | However , when the researchers reached the shop floor they discovered that robots were far too expensive for management to waste them on unskilled jobs . |
| 8 | Surround crowns with straw during winter to protect them from frost — in colder areas you may need to earth up the stems first . |
| 9 | This uncertainty might , on the one hand , encourage social commentators in the attitude expressed by a writer in The Economist in 1848 : ‘ In our condition suffering and evil are nature 's admonitions ; they can not be got rid of ; and the impatient attempts of benevolence to banish them from the world by legislation , before benevolence has learnt their object and their end , have always been productive of more evil than good . ’ |
| 10 | And it could take more than a change of luck to lift them off the bottom of the table . |
| 11 | Donegal 's insistence on playing the short ball out of defence cost them at least two points , a luxury they could never afford in a close scoring game . |
| 12 | ‘ Determination in favour of [ the first and second respondents ] of their defence of settlement entitles them to judgment on [ the petitioner 's ] claims … |
| 13 | So acting for a buyer , if no protective entries appear on the Register you need have no qualms ; if they do , you will of course question them by requisition or otherwise . |
| 14 | From what we have seen it might be supposed that private judicial patronage was more trouble than it was worth , but the offices were in fact received as a sign of favour by many lawyers , who could of course use them as stepping stones to better things . |
| 15 | Such an astigmatic view of course excludes them from the main focus of research . |
| 16 | A decision was taken in principle to require agencies with independent sources of income to transfer them to the central treasury . |
| 17 | What gave rise to the protest of the intelligentsia , and what lay behind the revolutionary protest of its extreme wing , was the lack of opportunity afforded them by tsarist society . |
| 18 | He urged people not to let the short-term problems of recession blind them to the long-term truth . |
| 19 | But I do not accept the submission of Mr. Everall ’ — who appeared for the father — ‘ that she should go so far as to establish that by their return they would be exposed to a grave risk of harm to bring them within the ambit of article 13 ( b ) . |
| 20 | Half way round the first lap a short sharp guest of wind took them by surprise and they found themselves having an early bath . |
| 21 | Prime ministerial power , and therefore prime ministerial government is challenged ; Cabinet government and collective responsibility are challenged because of the claim that the first allegiance of a Labour minister is not to the Cabinet but to the mandate given by the party conference ; parliamentary government and the autonomy of MPs to deliberate as representatives is challenged through the notion of mandate reducing them to delegates ; and liberal-democracy itself is challenged because of a refusal to accept limits to participation and to the role of the state in the struggle to attain socialism through democracy . |
| 22 | On this basis he maintains that these adults should not be seen ‘ as agents of social control repressing the young — as reductionist social history might suggest — but as agents of socialization preparing them for their future roles as citizens in a society to which most adolescents gave unthinking and willing allegiance ’ . |
| 23 | The review of directors ' managerial decisions can be viewed as being motivated by a similar desire to ensure that directors exercise their powers only in accordance with the will of their constituents ( the shareholders ) and that they are subjected to the controls often associated with the Rule of Law to prevent them from using their power arbitrarily . |
| 24 | Jones ' tally lifted Marchwiel to 143–7 , Nick Brown adding 31 on a day when Mold 's fielding was below par leaving them with 11 points to Marchwiel 's 30 . |
| 25 | ( This explains the small amount of attention given them by contemporary theorists of enlightenment in contrast to the adulation lavished on the Prussian and Russian rulers . ) |
| 26 | The large families in class V were born of ignorance and fear of sex and contraception , and of reluctance to discuss them by parents . |
| 27 | Even in the half-tones of night she could see the narrowing of those dangerous sapphire eyes , see sparks of desire bringing them to their full colour . |
| 28 | Immediately , a cloud of mist hid them from their pursuers and , before it cleared , a messenger came and called the Dragoons off to another duty . |
| 29 | The facts that huissiers are appointed or licensed by the state and have a defined role in Codes of Civil Procedure in respect of service enable them to be treated as in a similar position to the competent state officials , and direct communication from huissier to huissier ( who will then act in the state of destination to involve the local parquet ) can be authorised . |
| 30 | This was again very close with only one goal scored by Cyril Bailey of Mullingar putting them into the Final . |