Example sentences of "be [to-vb] them [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The students , both in this series of interviews , and in another pre-structured evaluation interview , said that the main advantage of the course in information retrieval had been to give them an overall , systematic view of scientific information flow , which helped them to understand how to look for the information they required : |
| 2 | To read these words as ‘ held in any other computer ’ , as the trial judge had done , would be to give them a meaning quite different from their plain and natural meaning . |
| 3 | To read those words in that way , in our judgment , would be to give them a meaning quite different from their plain and natural meaning . |
| 4 | An initial reaction by the Highlander staff to an approach from a new community group may be to show them a video made by another similar community group about their own activities , then possibly video the reactions of the new group to what they have seen . |
| 5 | The rationale for school self-evaluation is that the most effective means of improving the quality of the education provided by schools is to give them the responsibility for reviewing their own performance and for carrying out any reforms which seem necessary in consequence . |
| 6 | All it achieves is to give them an air of generosity , and so put Abraham at an even greater disadvantage in the rounds to come . |
| 7 | It is to save them the need to refer to the very foundations of morality and practical reasoning generally in every case . |
| 8 | The only leverage I have to make the users act rationally is to show them the effect these price hikes have on my book fund , about which they are just a tad sensitive . |
| 9 | The object was to give them a sense of purpose and once they were harnessed to that proposition , they policed themselves , so to speak . |
| 10 | ‘ The decision was to give them a lot of freedom , letting them take the pictures they liked so long as their interpretations were true to the general concept . |
| 11 | The prescription was to offer them no reason for distinguishing between employers who , as custodians for the State , managed those centre-pieces of Socialist attainment , the nationalised industries ; and those who managed privately owned industries . |