Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , no accounting standard-setting body in the world has recognized them as serious propositions for replacing accruals accounting . |
| 2 | Does the Secretary of State not accept that our valley councils have lost more in rate support grant over the past 10 years than he has given them in new money in the latest package ? |
| 3 | They may even find time for a sustained effort to win the Premiership , a trophy which has eluded them since 1987 , the only way they can improve on their remarkable exploits of the last two seasons . |
| 4 | However , even if they do not make the play-offs , the Chiefs have achieved a degree of respectability that has eluded them in past seasons . |
| 5 | The dragonfish has expanded them into spectacular defensive weapons , each ray barbed with poison . |
| 6 | Where properties are untenanted , Retirement Assured has valued them at open market value with vacant possession . |
| 7 | Where politicians have challenged him , he has outmanoeuvred them until such time as he perceived his work to be done ; and then — Vienna 1964 , Berlin 1989 — he simply and quickly stepped aside to move on to fresh projects . |
| 8 | In his letter to Labour MPs , Mr Foster has asked for backing on the grounds that he has seen the parliamentary party through the dark years , and now wants to guide them through better times . |
| 9 | Generally middle-aged , they may even have children who are working for the left-wing opposition , but their own closed environment has protected them from any understanding of the reality of their country . |
| 10 | and if he wants to send them as one consignment , but now the value is twenty five thousand pounds collectively you can ring up Stubbings and as , or get your F and A to do this for you , Finance and Admin , ring up Stubbings and can you give me a special rate for these goods and ar , can you give me what I can charge them for special coverage to take it higher than our normal coverage of fifteen thousand pound ? |
| 11 | The heart of the problem has been governments ' concern with social justice and an egalitarian distribution of income which has led them into passing legislation which has increased the costs of doing business . |
| 12 | Their diligent enforcement of the Government 's industrial laws has helped to transform the role of the trade unions ; their role as guarantors of public order has led them into bitter conflict with pickets and demonstrators . |
| 13 | There are cases where owners genuinely believe that their pet cat has followed them by some mystical means to a new home several thousand miles away from the original one . |
| 14 | For those people whose ego ideal has ruled them with especial strictness , the group situation can appear particularly attractive . |
| 15 | Could you please explain to her what these are/mean and let me know if she wants to change them from this : needs to be finalized by lunchtime tomorrow . |
| 16 | Ian Porterfield 's young side immediately showed to the challenge from the start , showing the form that has taken them to fourth in the Premier League after just one defeat in their previous 11 games . |
| 17 | They could be joint bottom tomorrow if things go wrong and I know all about the Forest jinx that has haunted them in recent years . |
| 18 | He is amazed by the complex destiny which has put them before each other like this , two solid independent creatures face to face , two selves , with a common background and a common source of reference in Goethe 's Faust . |
| 19 | Yet in their own terms they seem fairly content with their lives , and they do not rail against the fate that has left them with this role . |
| 20 | She was always a busy , tidy little girl , going around the house at night making sure all the curtains were drawn and tucking up the zoo of small furry animals which crowded her bed — she has kept them to this day . |
| 21 | In a most interesting essay in the recent volume of Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia the great psychologist W. H. R. Rivers adduces evidence which has led him to believe that the natives of that unfortunate archipelago are dying out principally for the reason that the ‘ Civilization ’ forced upon them has deprived them of all interest in life . |
| 22 | Giving Martin Bramah and Marcia Scofield the flick has deprived them of more than just some choppily percussive guitar phrasings and deft keyboard work . |
| 23 | Giving Martin Bramah and Marcia Scofield the flick has deprived them of more than just some choppily percussive guitar phrasings and deft keyboard work . |
| 24 | Few Wedding Present records have found their way to the United States and Hallin , obviously backed by RCA , wants to introduce them to this most lucrative market in the world . |
| 25 | Because it says put them in individual glasses but er er |
| 26 | In Britain , for instance , Waste Management International , Shanks & McEwan and Severn Trent/Biffa are enraged that the government has decided to postpone the introduction of the landfill standards in the 1990 Environmental Protection Act , and refuses to apply them to existing landfills . |
| 27 | Mr. Kemp is entitled to his opinions but why he chooses to express them in such flippant and dismissive manner is puzzling . |
| 28 | Keeping braillers , typewriters and even magnifiers in their cases , or at least under covers when not in use , helps to maintain them in good condition , since dust and grime can cause damaged surfaces . |
| 29 | Other programmes are ‘ slipped to the right ’ , which means delaying them to later years in the Costing ; and the rest are pruned in size or cut out all together . |
| 30 | In practice , that means training them above all to teach beginners , since at present perhaps half of those who start learning a foreign language in the first year of secondary school have given it up by the end of the third year . |