Example sentences of "them [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is always dangerously easy to write superficially about human relationships , particularly this one of the mother and daughter living together in old age , picturing them enjoying endless winter evenings by the fire , with never a cross word , and long summer afternoons in a garden of roses , sitting in deckchairs on a lawn that never needs mowing . |
| 2 | There is a revolution taking place today in the way that executives are obtaining information to help them make critical business decisions . |
| 3 | These accounts are also used to settle banks ' foreign exchange transactions and to enable them to conduct normal correspondent banking relationships ( see Chapter 3 , Foreign Exchange Market : Correspondent Banks ) . |
| 4 | He left them cooking each other supper and drinking brandy . |
| 5 | It is difficult for them to obtain overseas development funds , and it is even hard to mail a letter to another country because Eritrean stamps are not yet internationally recognised . |
| 6 | It is difficult for them to obtain overseas development funds , and it is even hard to mail a letter to another country because Eritrean stamps are not yet internationally recognised . |
| 7 | Munich , in other words , was expressly orchestrated to destabilise public opinion at home , to terrify whole populations with the threat of war and coerce them to accept reactionary government measures in exchange for peace ; ( c ) the British and French governments recoiled from inflicting the diplomatic humiliation on Hitler that would have resulted from resorting to the anti-fascist resistance offered by Washington and above all by Moscow . |
| 8 | Until now Turkish protection of the Crimean Tatars had enabled them to launch repeated slave raids on Russian territory , prevented settled cultivation of wide areas of the Ukraine , and blocked Russian access to the Black Sea . |
| 9 | Children , it is suggested , need to be inducted into the main forms or aspects of the culture they live in , partly because this will equip them to lead full adult lives , and partly because culture seems to some as inclusive a concept as one can find for planning a general education . |
| 10 | Many insects communicate through wingbeats , some even using them to create special courtship songs . |
| 11 | Rising living standards for those in work have also enabled them to buy more consumer goods . |
| 12 | Some of the more expensive enhancers , or processors , can produce trick effects ( see Chapter 14 ) , and practically all of them incorporate audio mixing facilities . |
| 13 | Middlesbrough 10 Northern 9 NORTHERN are hoping to persuade David Johnson , the country 's leading points scorer , to help them regain National League status . |
| 14 | I might see if I can persuade them to do some practice bits with Therese . ’ |
| 15 | Do encourage them to do this exercise routine too . |
| 16 | To assign them to a calendar scale and determine the sizes of the intervals between them requires absolute dating methods , such as those described above or those based on radioactive decay . |
| 17 | A number of studies have brought out the bargaining strength of trade unions during the period of near full employment [ Brown , 1981 ] , which enabled them to reinforce long-established work practices which were an incubus on British industry in the form of overmanning . |
| 18 | Well it 's not a yes yes for the garden because I would n't have room for it but it 's certainly a yes yes in my shelter delt because the birds love the berries and it really encourages them to use that shelter delt but it is n't as , as easy to grow , it 's , one tends to think of the nature plant as a tough plant but I 've been trying to establish about thirty of these in the shelter delt and I 've found they object to any form of total weedkiller round the root , so all the , the weedkillers that you would use for the first couple of years maybe to , to keep the , the weeds from growing round the stems , they tend to get chlorotic and die . |
| 19 | For example , back injury is common among nurses and there is growing concern about the need to instruct nurses in proper lifting techniques ( p. 252 ) and to encourage them to use mechanical lifting devices as much as possible . |
| 20 | NEXT month 's Budget should provide tax concessions for owners of historic houses to help them meet crippling maintenance costs , according to Earl Haig . |
| 21 | The aims of the workshop are to help young people in the South Pacific to understand and respond to the mass media ( TV , video , radio and print ) and to enable them to recognise better quality media programmes . |
| 22 | Instead the system connects computers made by only one firm — Apple — so letting them share expensive disc files , printers and so on . |
| 23 | As Josephus says : ‘ They also do not value dying any kind of death , nor indeed do they heed the deaths of their relations and friends , nor can any such fear make them call any man Lord … ’ |
| 24 | Groups can help members to discuss their feelings and needs more safely , and the mutual support given can help them develop new coping strategies for dealing with them . |
| 25 | Bernard Whim , technical marketing manager in the solvents marketing department at ICI Chlor-Chemicals , said that ‘ we are encouraging them to understand that carbon tet is being withdrawn and that their customers should find alternatives . |
| 26 | They had both of them brought mysterious plastic carrier bags about which they ostentatiously avoided asking one another . |
| 27 | Sympathetic members of a local education committee could often be usefully approached : many of them kept special surgery hours for such consultations . |
| 28 | And of course I loved the town and although the station was about a mile from the town centre , people used to come from the town centre in their cars , they had lunch at our place er er at Cambridge , you see , and there , there were two waiters and one , one of them took part-time cellar work , you see , and er , they were two brothers and er their name 's |
| 29 | The military officers among them wore full dress uniform of horizon blue while civilians wore frocked coats and chapeau hauts de forme — top hats . |
| 30 | Tim Hayward , head of corporate recovery at KPMG , said : ‘ Liquidation is the form of insolvency particularly common to smaller companies and many have simply not had the cash reserves to enable them to survive difficult trading conditions . |