Example sentences of "be [vb pp] to 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ As long as the patients are volunteers and the risks are explained to them before the operation , I can see no objection myself . ’ |
| 9 | the merits of such proposals as are referred to them by the Select Committee ; |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Why have they such an appalling record when ready-made Bills are presented to them by the Law Commission ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ The way they talk , anyone would think the £50 billion debt had been handed to them on a plate . |
| 17 | Although children will already have had everyday experiences with water this may be the first time that water has been offered to them as a material to play and experiment with . |
| 18 | The , the amount of money is allocated on a weighted mileage basis so it 's to do with the length of mileages in the area and it also reflects the various types of surveys that are done to assess the condition of the , the roads in the various areas , so that 's how the money is first divided up on an area basis , but within that all the schemes that are listed here have been promulgated either from such as yourself , from members of the general public , or as a result of our own inspections er and a priority has been assessed to them in a methodical way . |
| 19 | The point in both appeals was whether the jury should have been allowed to hear the tape recording of the appellant 's interview with the police when they requested it after retirement , it not having been played to them during the course of the trial . |
| 20 | However , extracodes are usually distinguished by the fact that operation codes have been allocated to them at the computer hardware design level , either because they will be normal hardwired instructions in some models , or because an instruction requirement has been recognized that is uneconomic to implement in hardware . |
| 21 | First , it distanced the riots from the social , economic , political , and other grievances which had been linked to them by locating the cause outside the ‘ social problems ’ of inner-city dwellers and in the ‘ simple greed ’ of the drug barons to accumulate ‘ loot ’ . |
| 22 | The usual sausages and spuds had been brought to them between the shows . |
| 23 | But for many stall-fed cattle and pigs the crops are brought to them from the fields . |
| 24 | And the ones that did are completely bewildered at the siege of journalists outside and everything has to be explained to them in words of one syllable . |
| 25 | But he said the people must be well educated on this and everything must be explained to them before any steps are taken . |
| 26 | But he said the people must be well educated on this and everything must be explained to them before any steps are taken . ’ |
| 27 | My theories with it , my er great cynical look at it is , they they need a hundred offenders and a hundred non offenders to be referred to them for these tests . |
| 28 | If the application is made on the grounds that debts have been paid or secured and it is known that there are creditors who have not proved their debts , the court may direct that notice be given to them of the application and order the trustee ( or official receiver ) to advertise the application and , in the meantime , adjourn the application for not less than thirty-five days ( r 6.209 ) . |
| 29 | Seek not after new light for the searching into the private records of God … the event is registered in heaven , and we can expect no other certain notice of it , but that it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared by the Father of mercies . ’ |
| 30 | There are fewer generally accepted criteria about what environmental adaptations are necessary or desirable for pupils with problems in seeing and some debate as to whether any special attention needs to be given to them at all . |