Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A ranked output IR system such as Okapi can also use several other kinds of knowledge about words to modify the way in which weights are assigned to them in an individual search . |
| 2 | Directors are treated as being in a position analogous to that of trustees , so powers conferred upon them are given to them in a fiduciary capacity . |
| 3 | Such interests are slowly diffusing to other feminist psychologists , who have previously been distanced from them by the constraints of the mainstream discipline . |
| 4 | I do not know whether the rules and procedures governing magistrates ' decisions on poll tax cases have been communicated to them in a proper training package . |
| 5 | The deputy head took a similar view , saying that it was constructive , that good points had come out — for example , that relationships were good — and that it had been taken constructively by staff in general because all the things that had been criticized had already been criticized by them in the self-appraisal . |
| 6 | We 're particularly proud of him in South Cambridgeshire , as we 're also proud that so many of our environmental health officers like Alan Hobson do sterling work for us , and we are looking to them in the in the future with this semi-autonomy that they 've been given to really take on board the opportunities which have been given to them under the 1990 Act to really go to town on environmental health . |
| 7 | There is nothing more I can do to help them , nor can they collect any low-preference votes that may have been given to them by voters whose higher-preference votes have been given to candidates of other parties . |
| 8 | If we decide to extend the rents-to-mortgages scheme and to make it nationwide , we shall take steps to ensure that no recalcitrant local authority can deny people rights that have been given to them by the House . |
| 9 | Schools are having to become more complex organisations in order to meet the varied responsibilities which have been devolved to them since the Education Reform Act ( 1988 ) . |
| 10 | Would it be in order if such marriages are arranged for them to be co-joined er downstairs in St. Stephens crypt ? |
| 11 | ‘ As long as the patients are volunteers and the risks are explained to them before the operation , I can see no objection myself . ’ |
| 12 | the merits of such proposals as are referred to them by the Select Committee ; |
| 13 | It has been suggested that the appropriate test is ‘ whether the parties are making some serious promises or undertakings ’ which are intended by them to be acted and relied upon . |
| 14 | About 60 per cent of self-poisoners take psychotropic drugs that have been prescribed for them in their overdoses ( Hawton et al. 1977 ) . |
| 15 | Recently many artificial fibres , such as nylon , made in chemical factories , have replaced cotton or wool , or they are mixed with them in the spinning or weaving process . |
| 16 | Up to 5,000 ethnic Turks and members of the Pomak community ( descendants of Bulgarians converted to Islam during Ottoman rule ) had held a vigil outside the National Assembly building on Dec. 28-29 , but had dispersed after the contents of the resolution had been disclosed to them by National Assembly Speaker Stanko Todorov . |
| 17 | Several groups of Americans were turned away despite protests that tables had been booked for them by Čedok or by their hotels . |
| 18 | Apartments had been booked for them in one block and they shared in couples . |
| 19 | Some of them may succeed in keeping abreast of course-work but will make little attempt to understand what has been presented to them during lectures and tutorial periods . |
| 20 | No material is given about their activities as Mufti , and no anecdotes are related about them in their capacity as Mufti , though something is related about each in his capacity as kadi . |
| 21 | The fact that we call both our mother 's brother and father 's brother by the same term does not mean that we are unaware of the fact that we are related to them in different ways or that we can not express this difference by using such phrases as ‘ my uncle on my mother 's side ’ . |
| 22 | Parents and others may want to know what has been said about them during the course of an investigation and what information has been recorded about the child . |
| 23 | Those forces that make agencies fail to generate change also make them slow to respond to changes that are thrust upon them from the outside . |
| 24 | Their powers are granted to them by the state and the courts ensure through the ultra vires or jurisdictional principle that they do not act outside their powers . |
| 25 | Why have they such an appalling record when ready-made Bills are presented to them by the Law Commission ? |
| 26 | The easiest format for the script is one in which the shot details are written down on one side of the page , while the corresponding words of commentary are written opposite them on the other side . |
| 27 | The council are aware that various complaints have been made to them concerning land opposite ours where tipping has taken place , including the disposal of asbestos . |
| 28 | Can anyone wonder that disbelief and despondency settled upon many schools in time to give way to anger and protest at the possibility of carrying out tasks that has been imposed on them under impossible conditions . |
| 29 | This is the thesis that women 's morality , which in certain vital respects , particularly in relation to sexual behaviour , often differs from men 's , has been imposed on them by centuries of conditioning by men . |
| 30 | As in the case of the banks , the assets of these institutions represent paper claims against money which has been lent by them to the public sector , to industry and to persons . |