Example sentences of "[to-vb] them the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tiny Regency houses had no doubt been listed to spare them the attentions of developers ; from the state of the paving stones and the grass-studded cracks in the roadway , it seemed that the town council too had passed them by . |
| 2 | To help them the government of the EEC , in Brussels , fixes the lowest , or minimum , price for each product each year . |
| 3 | He indicated that , without specific application to children 's hearings , the nature of the children 's hearings system ‘ leaves [ it ] outside the benefit of this Bill ’ , and he added : ‘ It would be wrong to deny them the benefit of the Bill when , if they had committed serious offences and appeared before the courts , they would have had its protection . ’ |
| 4 | To give them the benefit of the doubt , this may well be necessitated by their unique position , but at times it appears alarmingly like arrogant behaviour . |
| 5 | And to do it without a lot without a lot of support from the a from the people who actually lived in the flats , although they organized things and got it going , and the people living there did n't seem to be motivated to give them the kind of encouragement erm |
| 6 | Were were would you suggest that they have a lot of unresolved feelings about that , or maybe they had emotional scars because no-one was there to give them the kind of hope that might be available now ? |
| 7 | It aims to bring the best of Kenya 's young biological scientists and , at a different level , the children from surrounding communities , to a variety of purpose-designed training and educational programmes on site and to give them the experience of seeing wildlife being managed alongside the traditional keeping of domestic stock . |
| 8 | Decisions of the court upon the meanings of phrases used in Acts of Parliament may come , in the course of time , to give them the quality of terms of art which Parliament may well be assumed to have intended them to bring with them when used in subsequent legislation . |
| 9 | We must allow them to benefit from the presence of the reserves and , where feasible , to give them the use of the products of the wilderness areas without reducing its natural capital . |
| 10 | Now Diana wants to give them the sort of holiday she believes young boys should have … not shut up in old castles . ’ |
| 11 | They might be short of one or two quality players , but in such a yo-yo season Villa have as good a chance as any , particularly if Dalian Atkinson returns from injury to give them the sort of finishing power they lacked last night . |
| 12 | The ship 's doctor tried to give them the kiss of life but they could not be revived . |
| 13 | A SURVEY by the St John Ambulance Brigade came up with the remarkably interesting finding that the man most women would prefer to give them the kiss of life , assuming it was necessary or even if it was n't , would be TV doctor Hilary Jones . |
| 14 | where a special area in one housing estate has been set aside for problem families , where they are given daily supervision combined with training and instruction designed to teach them the elements of home craft and mothercraft so that in due course , when they have proved they can manage their affairs , domestic , financial or otherwise , they can return to a better house in a more desirable neighbourhood . |
| 15 | It is wise , however , to teach them the basics of radio and how to construct an interesting letter ! |
| 16 | Small children can sometimes be persuaded to eat cow cake in the same way that old people will eat cat food , but the chief result of all this farming was to produce huge food mountains which we could then refuse to give to the Third World , or to the socialists of Eastern Europe , in order to teach them the error of their ways . |
| 17 | Peculiar to Children , was not to teach bad Latin , harsh French , as if the children were ‘ a parcel of Parrots or Magpies ’ , but ‘ to teach them the Government of themselves , their Passions and Appetites ’ . |
| 18 | A good example of this is provided by the reaction provoked by the influx of the Palatines , fleeing religious persecution in Germany , and the Whig ministry 's decision to allow them the benefit of naturalisation in 1709 . |
| 19 | Although I believe they are improved as a class , many of them are rough diamonds ; at times they are light-fingered , they are not invariably sober , their education leaves much to be desired and it is impossible to allow them the run of the works after closing hours . |
| 20 | The Catholic Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ) did not co-operate because the assembly failed to offer them the opportunity of power-sharing which they gained in 1973 . |
| 21 | We were able to make contact with Christians from several of the churches and to offer them the possibility of ordering books in their own language via the Christian Literature Crusade in the appropriate countries . |
| 22 | ALWAYS call a restaurant first to ask them the price of an average meal . |
| 23 | Oh I , I think one had to consider erm , I , I 'd have to ask them the size of the room , what , what sort of a room it was , er , it was no use getting the fitting which erm was either far too big for the room in it 's , in it 's physical size |
| 24 | An experienced armourer came into the hangar with a group of new armourers and proceeded to show them the wonders of the Washington . |
| 25 | Nikos had been busy , too , and he summoned them to show them the result of his labours . |
| 26 | Now God begins a series of judgements to teach Pharaoh and his people who the Lord is , and to show them the extent of his power over all creation ( 7:5 , 17 ; 8:10 , 22 ; 9:14 ) . |
| 27 | Face to face meetings with parents and others is usually the best way to communicate but meeting two hundred or so parents on an individual basis to tell them the date of sports day is n't a practical or worthwhile activity . |
| 28 | He had met commanders from both sides to tell them the killing of L/ Cpl Edwards was being treated as murder . |
| 29 | We 've only got two now , but they like us to tell them the details of the day . ’ |
| 30 | New season 's potatoes offer a promise of summer bounty , and it 's fun to make them the focus of a feast , as in the following recipes . |