Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You need to control the carrot and the stick , and only use them when you are prepared to put them into action . |
| 2 | Children who know the meaning of more or of both more and less are careful to distinguish them from each other and from nonsense words introduced in the same setting . |
| 3 | The old records at the Royal Greenwich Observatory contained a consistent error , and Eddy had been wrong to take them at face value . |
| 4 | It had even been easy following them from the racecourse , as when I went out to where my driver had parked his car I had a clear view from a distance of Daffodil at the exit gate being spooned into a royal blue Rolls-Royce by Filmer and her chauffeur . |
| 5 | ‘ Mr. H. A. Allbutt might have ventilated his views without let or hindrance from professional authority had he been content to address them to medical men instead of the public . ’ |
| 6 | I imagine they 're well ke , they 're well the , they 're old houses them in Weatherfields |
| 7 | There 's probably a list in there of the ones you 're supposed to give them to . |
| 8 | No , you 're supposed to cook them from frozen . |
| 9 | Erm we 're entitled to ask them for er entitled to ask the tribunal to say what terms of employment wou w should have been . |
| 10 | Are suitable writing materials easily available if the children are likely to need them for reflective work ? |
| 11 | This therefore tends to essentialize ‘ the prejudiced individual ’ — the prejudiced teacher or student — who becomes the target for pedagogies that are supposed to cure them of this pathology . |
| 12 | Most of all to listen to that deep reflective voice reciting the blessings , in Hebrew ; a service which touches the very soul of the traditions , as well as the souls of those who are privileged to share them with him . |
| 13 | At the beginning of book in , when describing the revolt of Lesbos in 427 , Thucydides says that the Lesbians ‘ had been wanting to revolt even before the war , but the Spartans had been unwilling to receive them into alliance ’ . |
| 14 | AIDS is , and if the gays do not respect self control , then the rest of us will be entitled to ask whether , having acquired human rights , they are unwilling to extend them to others . |
| 15 | Dentists have traditionally been paid for filling holes ; people are unwilling to pay them for much else . |
| 16 | This is not to say , however , that in certain applications , the use of ‘ normal ’ in-rack sprinkler systems is not perfectly satisfactory where the arrangement of sprinklers can be such that a number of them can be brought in early against the fire , or where the nature of the goods stored is such that flames are unlikely to damage them within the first few moments of fire development . |
| 17 | Alone in her room , Louisa had been unable to put them from her thoughts . |
| 18 | The four — and a sick Jon Tinker who had been unable to accompany them on the summit bid — scrambled from the disintegrating tent at 9am on Christmas Eve and fled downhill . |
| 19 | At the weekend she had visited her parents ' home and spent some time with her sister , Jennifer , but she had found that she had been unable to tell them about David Markham . |
| 20 | The study is particularly concerned with the extent to which social science research students acquire skills in quantitative methods and are able to use them after making the transition to employment in social science research . |
| 21 | He discriminated against them in his tariff policies and would have been happy to exchange them for land in Pomerania , Saxony or Mecklenburg . |
| 22 | Their daughter had provided all the labour-saving devices : dishwasher , washing machine , spin-dryer , all housed in a disused still room near the back door , although until she came the Copleys had been reluctant to use them in case they could n't turn them off , visualizing the machines whirling away all night , overheating , blowing up , the whole rectory pulsating with an uncontrollable power . |
| 23 | The stomach cramps had been coming back , off and on , all day , but so far she had been able to keep them under control . |
| 24 | It is unlikely that any of the missing diamonds had been picked up by persons involved in the rescue or who visited the site later as only an expert would have been able to identify them as precious stones . |
| 25 | I am happy to see them in this workmanlike state . |
| 26 | Thus it remains for discussion whether it would not be preferable to criminalize them by means of special ‘ endangerment ’ offences . |
| 27 | After detailed examination of the information fields , it was felt that it would be possible to categorise them by type as a basis for selecting areas for further study . |
| 28 | Perhaps Mr Smith 's book and the reaction to it imply that accounts should not have been like this : that it should be possible to take them as a straightforward objective statement of performance . |
| 29 | When questions , for example on morbidity , had been validated in the General Household Survey , it would be possible to include them in the Resource Allocation Survey . |
| 30 | It would of course be possible to give them to clarinets and bassoons ( let us hope that no one would wish to use an oboe for the top note of the chords — it would be terribly nasal and obtrusive here , on its bottom notes ) , but the low-placed clarinets would sound rather hollow and ‘ woody ’ for the rich effect we have in mind . |