Example sentences of "they [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rincewind looked around nervously for a tall figure in black ( wizards , even failed wizards , have in addition to rods and cones in their eyeballs the tiny octagons that enable them to see into the far octarine , the basic colour of which all other colours are merely pale shadows impinging on normal four-dimensional space . |
| 2 | In many cases , the parents of the brighter children wished them to go to the secondary school in Jarrow , an overcrowded building housing about 400 pupils in which good scholarship results were achieved , but there were serious difficulties facing their children : |
| 3 | The headmaster would not allow them to go into the sixth form here . |
| 4 | When the Minister next talks to the local authorities about this issue , will he point out that many of them no longer give rehousing priority to ex-service personnel , but expect them to go through the normal homeless families procedures ? |
| 5 | This level of provision represents a very substantial commitment of resources to the enterprise bodies and it should be sufficient to enable them to carry through the wide range of tasks expected of them and to build on their excellent first year of operation . |
| 6 | Christian Democrats voted by 66 to 28 to accept the Tories as ‘ allied members ’ , allowing them to sit in the same group as the Christian Democrats in the Strasbourg Euro-parliament from May 1 . |
| 7 | Some of the details are nicely done such as the antiquated ceramic water bottle offered by the porter to enable them to cope with the freezing bedrooms . |
| 8 | There was a great yearning among lay people to understand in terms of their own vernacular this inner experience of the faith , which , through the institutional influence of the Church , formally governed the structure of their lives , although their education may not have been such as to enable them to cope with the official language of the Church or highly intellectual theological exposition . |
| 9 | All four species live in the surf zone of the lake and have a reduced swim-bladder which enables them to cope with the rapid water movement . |
| 10 | You see , Great-Aunt Jane was a skilled dressmaker and made clothes for quite a number of young ladies in Baldersdale , and it was usual for them to try on the new clothes and have the final fittings in the kitchen . |
| 11 | The manager would have had them all in at 8 a.m. , forcing them to try on the latest zipper tops over their Iron Maiden T-shirts , and making them practise slouching around the sales floor trying to look cool in clothes designed to save lives in sub-zero temperatures . |
| 12 | It takes the form partly of encouraging them to relate to the personal and subjective while boys begin to grapple with the impersonal and objective . |
| 13 | Do n't overfeed them to compensate for the fasting stage . |
| 14 | Many health policies in Third World countries are based on at least the vocabulary of this approach though the political climate does not always encourage such radical rethinking of health care nor does the training of most health workers prepare them to work in the new ways implied in the PHC philosophy . |
| 15 | We might , therefore , expect them to work in the same sort of way as the visual system . |
| 16 | The prevention of purprestures was his responsibility : he threw down houses , sheepfolds and other buildings and enclosures erected without licence in his bailiwick , and attached those who made them to appear at the next Forest Eyre . |
| 17 | I have made it abundantly clear that the licences of the regional electricity companies require them to purchase from the cheapest suppliers . |
| 18 | They were to suffer still further as their captors immediately stripped them of everything , even their boots , and forced them to march to the Turkish camp . |
| 19 | This will force them to progress to the fifth stage of the information process . |
| 20 | This , however , makes it impossible for them to feed during the larval stage , as free-swimming tadpoles can do , so they have to nourish themselves with specially large quantities of yolk . |
| 21 | If someone is going to put off a lot of their own money in order to get into parliament , we can , then we can hardly trust them to look to the general interests once they 're there , they 'll want a return on their investment of some sorts . |
| 22 | The holistic approach of phrenology taught them to look at the body-mind dichotomy and to think in terms of prevention rather than quick cures that were often spurious . |
| 23 | This bids them to look at the common law ( i.e. the legal position ) before the Act , and the mischief that the statute was intended to remedy ; the Act is then to be construed in such a way as to suppress the mischief and advance the remedy . |
| 24 | It reached a point where a number of people 's art collections began to be more valuable than the businesses that had allowed them to buy in the first place . ’ |
| 25 | I think there 's no doubt at all that erm from a Conservative point of view I actually believe that schools , under their heads , know best , and I am quite happy to trust schools with a budget of money which will enable them to buy in the specific needs that their school requires . |
| 26 | They were rumoured to wait until dark and them to cross into the white suburb and steal wallets from trousers draped across bedroom chairs while their white owners slept . |
| 27 | Giving the ladies three courtesy shots and allowing them to play off the front tees . |
| 28 | Dorothy L. must be describing them to put over the dramatic picture of the abandoned easel , but I 'll take all that for granted . " |
| 29 | And all of them to do with the dull task of bringing people to their deaths . |
| 30 | Like Michels , Schumpeter thought that parties are internally oligarchic , and the autonomy of party elites permits them to collaborate against the expressed interests of party members . |