Example sentences of "[prep] them [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anderson ( 1971 , pp. 125–7 ) argues that the good wages which young people could earn in the cotton towns in the mid-nineteenth century altered the balance between parents and children and put them on more equal terms when they shared a household , and also made it more possible for them to leave the parental home — although boys did this more often than girls . |
| 2 | This is the relevance of rules ; for the courts to embrace such an issue would be for them to breach the long-standing settlement with regard to the boundaries of parliamentary privilege ( see below , pp.113–19 ) and they would not do it . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , there is still a sufficiently good chance that they are the father for them to undertake the major share of parental duties . |
| 4 | ‘ Ricotta , ’ he explained , opening the bag for them to inspect the fluffy white mound with the whey still running out of the cheese paper . |
| 5 | It may perhaps be objected that the distance may prevent the pupils of the Hospitals from attending the Lectures of the Veterinary Professor — I will first answer to that — that it would be dangerous for the progress of the Veterinary science to give them too free admission into the College — because it might give a disgust to the residing pupils from their application to the Veterinary Medicine and many of them would change their mind and apply themselves to the anatomy of the human body , thinking that it would be more honorable for them to cure the human species than Animals , this happened in France and the best Veterinary pupils are now Physicians and Surgeons to the human species — this prejudiced ideal would inculcate itself into the minds of young men , the more so as the Veterinary Science is still in its Infancy in this Country , and in an abject state , for this reason it would be equally dangerous to permit residing pupils to attend medical or anatomical lectures , of the human body , or to frequent Hospitals : Therefore a certain distance from the Town would be more useful than otherwise for the progress of the Veterinary Science . |
| 6 | In either event , it is argued that the residual rights of the shareholders create an appropriate incentive for them to activate the relevant disciplinary mechanisms . |
| 7 | It has been almost impossible for them to acquire the artistic infrastructure that should surround those works so that they can be seen in the right scholarship context . |
| 8 | Someone had given the impetus to sort the outside external improvements for starters , and that provided the spur to for them to do the internal work . |
| 9 | Central government not only mapped out extended statutory territory for local councils to develop , but also provided a large financial incentive for them to cultivate the new territory . |
| 10 | Controlling for them tests the original relationship between X and Y , and checks that it holds up . |
| 11 | While waiting for them to reach the outer limit of their seaward tack , we fished for our enormous aviator 's chart which was larger and more colourful , if little more useful , than theirs . |
| 12 | Friedan psychopathologizes women 's frustration with domesticity , and proposes the male-identified tactics of better education and paid work outside the home as ways for them to reach the male-associated goals of high self-esteem and strong identity . |
| 13 | When the Tories briefly took control of the council , they implemented current Conservative philosophy — to sell council homes and encourage what for them represents the truest democracy , a property-owning democracy , which is less about one-man-one-vote than every man a home-owner . |
| 14 | It was appreciated that , being obese , it was not easy for them to climb the three sets of stairs leading to our house . |
| 15 | But the lads have been tremendous , and there 's a buzz around the club now all we want now is for them to show the same attitude tonight . ’ |
| 16 | Unfortunately , the research revealed a high tendency for them to recruit the wrong people . |
| 17 | He needs to persuade foreigners that it is safe for them to lend the best part of £1000 million a week to the Treasury ; and he needs to persuade Britons that it is safe for them to start spending their money again . |
| 18 | Macromolecules in solution are usually much smaller and it would take years for them to overcome the Brownian motion and form a sediment . |
| 19 | Although these sentences differ in sense , it is quite possible for them to have the same reference , and the same truth value . |
| 20 | The thrust of their work points away from the particularities of individuality to engage in different ways with the significance of the Incarnation which for them provides the ultimate pattern of meaning for all men . |
| 21 | Today the Royals can not relax for a second , can not step one foot outside their own home without being met by a barrage of photographers waiting for them to make the smallest slip . |
| 22 | The time taken for them to enter the dark box is noted , and if they have not done so by the end of a fixed time , say one minute , the experiment is terminated . |
| 23 | It is hard for them to convince the rich countries to make sacrifices on their behalf . |
| 24 | It 's a shared responsibility between them to create the right environment so that the magic can happen . ’ |
| 25 | Moreover , advancing west and northwest respectively , as the two armies were , produced a potentially calamitous separation of the two forces , for between them lay the Masurian Lakes , a complex of waters stretching some 80km/50mls north to south . |
| 26 | While it would be dangerous to build too much analysis on the characteristics of the three main public representatives of the DUP , Paisley , Robinson and McQuade between them represented the full spectrum of DUP support . |
| 27 | Upon the balance between them depends the enormous variety of societies seen in the animal kingdom . |
| 28 | Internally the school is organized into separate departments , primary and secondary , which between them cover the entire school age range . |
| 29 | The Limousin and Charolais have between them absorbed the dual-purpose Marchois of La Creuse . |
| 30 | Sex having been invented this way ( and later used to help the individual to develop disease resistance and the species to evolve more quickly ) a new problem arose : when an egg and a sperm fused during sex , a battle ensued between them to monopolise the resulting offspring . |