Example sentences of "they [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | This helps them to see a 3-D object as a simpler , two-dimensional configuration of lines and shapes . |
2 | For some of these adults , aged from their twenties to forties , expert counselling on a one to one basis is helping them to go a great deal further . |
3 | So spoke Arnold Wesker at the Riverside Studios where , next week , he will take the unusual step of mounting eight rehearsed readings of his play , Shylock , formerly titled The Merchant , in a bid to raise enough interest from commercial backers to persuade them to mount a full production . |
4 | ( b ) it enables them to cultivate a particular part , or segment , of a market . |
5 | Many of the reformers of the 1870s and 1880s believed that women would earn both a new respect , if they could eschew the frivolities of fashion , and a new freedom which would liberate them to perform a useful role in society . |
6 | On 18 August it met with the Health Authority 's officials and asked them to conduct a public health survey which it would pay for , mainly to reassure the public that , although the EC limits for aluminium had been exceeded over 500 times , and those for sulphate , copper , zinc and lead had also been broken , there was no long-term harm . |
7 | Moreover should you persuade them to attend a local rally or the Crystal Palace Reunion they will immediately reap the benefit of obtaining their tickets at a reduced rate . |
8 | Malatie and her husband were prepared to make sacrifices so that their children might get a decent education : they were paying for two of them to attend a special boarding school for Harijans . |
9 | The names of the other two workers have been placed on the waiting list for the test to permit them to drive a mini bus . |
10 | The names of the other two workers have been placed on the waiting list for the test to permit them to drive a mini bus . |
11 | Take one or more of the elements of humour you discovered in yourself and use them to write a funny story . |
12 | The family doctor advised them to try a well-known rehabilitation unit , not realizing that it specialized in orthopaedic rather than neurological cases . |
13 | They want them to obtain a good position and be independent , preferably in the city . |
14 | To them mathematics will be relevant if it helps their children gain a qualification which , in turn , will enable them to obtain a good job . |
15 | ‘ We 're now asking them to accept a revised model and we expect some opposition . ’ |
16 | When banks withdraw funds , the Bank of England relieves the resulting discount market shortage at that rate of interest which it thinks appropriate , nudging rates upwards perhaps to reduce the demand for bank lending or lowering them to counteract a rising exchange rate . |
17 | Baird rarely adds eggs to the purée as the scallop meat tends to be firm enough without them to absorb a fair amount of cream . |
18 | First , and most simply , though it was not at all uncommon for administrators to feel exasperated by Masai obduracy , or disapproving of certain aspects of the Masai way of life ( such as collective fornication throughout the years of early manhood ) , it was rare indeed for one in close contact with them to conceive a personal dislike for them . |
19 | There 's it will still enable them to provide a tolerable service , and when it is a question of assessing priorities in any kind of cash limitation exercise you 've got to look at your priorities . |
20 | It enables them to find a suitable assistant and agree with them the hours , times and tasks required . |
21 | Some are combatants and others work in agriculture , They describe their music as giving culture back to the people , allowing them to find a new identity and respect for their collective cultural history . |
22 | I think we have to be a little bit careful about this because , of course , erm the feeling is not that once they 've been in the job for a little while that they are still amateurs , it 's merely that we do n't require them to know a great deal about what they 're going to do before they start . |
23 | Large GP practices to be able to apply for their own practice budgets to enable them to purchase a defined range of services direct from hospitals . |
24 | If polar bears are dominant in the Arctic , then there would seem to have been no need for them to evolve a white-coloured form of camouflage . |
25 | This degree of organisation was sufficient to allow them to remember a large part of the information in the passage so that when the theme was finally presented the remembered information could be re-structured . |
26 | Now having said that , then we had every entitlement to argue the case you know , on a mutually agreed basis , I E to get the management to recognize that there was a fulfilment required from them to reach a mutual agreement with the individual . |
27 | The secret is to use them to create a striking feature , and not just hide them away in a shady corner of the garden . |
28 | They did not hope for any tangible support for their undertaking , but a charter would give them some standing in England , allow them to create a legal government , and possibly convince any enquiring Spaniards that they were not simply setting up a pirate base . |
29 | Here he began to crystallise the wisdom of some of his best poetry , writing and songs ; for it was here that he was reborn , where he truly began to find himself ; where , not least , the music of Greece entered his soul , evoking earlier memories and melodies , combining with them to suggest a new style , a new mystique . |
30 | In a number of overseas countries the role of actuaries has been enhanced by requiring them to fulfil a statutory role . |