Example sentences of "[to-vb] them [prep] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assembler does not directly offer these facilities , but it is possible to implement them by using other features of BBCBASIC(Z80) . |
| 2 | You have to train people to become doctors or engineers or professors , and at the same time to train them in questioning all that — not only in a critical way , but I would say in a deconstructive way . |
| 3 | Techniques have been devised by Operational Research scientists to enable organizations to work out the Economic Order Quantity ( EOQ ) for individual stock items , and to aid them in setting optimum re-order levels ( ie the levels at which stock needs to be replaced ) . |
| 4 | Riven wriggled his toes inside his boots in an effort to keep them from going numb . |
| 5 | NEWSAGENTS will today be urged to back calls for a change in the law to protect them from becoming innocent victims of the law which prevents tobacco being sold to under-age youngsters . |
| 6 | Central was a commitment to the universality of natural rights and the need to protect them by maintaining balanced systems of government in which concentrations of power were avoided . |
| 7 | Help to protect them by following these rules : |
| 8 | The Hammonds had placed Luddism as the resort to violence by traditional workers who had failed in the face of a growing laissez-faire |
| 9 | For example , as tax avoidance schemes are dreamt up by corporate accountants and lawyers or financial entrepreneurs , so the law attempts to encapsulate them by making that specific tax avoidance scheme illegal . |
| 10 | He used to keep their pay packets in his safe and only dole out enough money on a daily basis to see them through , to save them from getting robbed . |
| 11 | In practice the trailblazers lack international support to assist them in developing serious education tools to further information and debates which would provide the right climate for social change . |
| 12 | But he repeated his promise that there would be extra help for poor pensioners and families on income support to assist them in meeting increased heating bills . |
| 13 | If the legislation could only help Catholics , West Belfast Protestants who too lack a supporting network of friends and relations able to assist them in obtaining well-paid employment , could complain . |
| 14 | IBM has filed a civil suit against Hitachi and two silicon Valley companies to recover its stolen property and to prohibit them from using any illegally-obtained information in future computer designs . |
| 15 | For example , they may force the potentially inefficient firms either to join them in adopting cost-saving innovations which involve some disruption of current working practices , or to go to the wall . |
| 16 | TODAY launched a campaign after customers claimed high-pressure selling techniques were used to push them into signing misleading agreements . |
| 17 | Some people allow this fear to block them from forming close relationships of any kind ; while others face the challenge of deep intimacy despite their fears . |
| 18 | The trouble was going to be to stop them from getting over-enthusiastic . |
| 19 | He disapproved of the casual obscenity of barrack-room conversation , but as he groped for words to express his triumphant passion , he found to his surprise that he could not say them to Bridget They would sound to her like a string of incoherent obscenities : — the Army and — second stag on East Wing Guard and — Sergeant Towser who cancelled his last leave pass and — the troop train back to Catterick on Sunday night and — the cold walk from the station to the camp and — the platform where he kissed Bridget good-bye at the end of leave and — the street corner where he had to run for his bus and — the Teddy-boy who had attacked her and — all the people and all the regulations and all the time-tables and all the clocks that had tried for so long to stop them from having this . |
| 20 | Reynolds sought to unite them by avoiding unnecessary controversy . |
| 21 | The then Minister for Home Affairs , Buta Singh , defended the extension against protests from opposition members saying that it was necessary to proceed with the panchayat ( local council ) system as a prelude to assembly elections in the state , and that the continued detention of some Sikh leaders was necessary to prevent them from causing further trouble in the region . |
| 22 | There has always been protection to prevent them from working long hours and being exploited and bullied . |
| 23 | Firstly , cats need an amino-acid called taurine to prevent them from going blind . |
| 24 | One major source of pesticides in our diet is potatoes , because these are sprayed after harvesting with a pesticide called thiabendazole , to prevent them from going mouldy . |
| 25 | They are all cold-pressed virgin oils and should be kept in the dark and refrigerated after opening to prevent them from becoming rancid . |
| 26 | Mainly , the first part provides examples of potential problems occurring in everyday living and what might be done to prevent them from becoming actual problems . |
| 27 | It is to make them by accelerating two beams of protons up to energies of 20TeV and then colliding them head on . |