Example sentences of "them to an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This problem can be overcome by subjecting them to an external force , strong enough to alter their spatial distribution by a significant amount in a short time . |
| 2 | They have a very distinctive taste and are not to be wasted by offering them to an indifferent chef to prepare . ’ |
| 3 | In 1550 three London gentlemen paid £18,744 11 2d , which entitled them to an annual income of £939 2 5½d from the various properties . |
| 4 | In this sense one is neutral only if one can affect the fortunes of the parties and if one helps or hinders them to an equal degree and one does so because one believes that there are reasons for so acting which essentially depend on the fact that the action has an equal effect on the fortunes of the parties . |
| 5 | Narrow neutrality consists in helping or hindering them to an equal degree in those activities and regarding those resources that they would wish neither to engage in nor to acquire but for the conflict . |
| 6 | Mr. Wall argued that the exercise of the discretion which arises as a result of the finding of ‘ acquiescence ’ made by the Court of Appeal , is limited to considering the nature and quality of the acquiescence itself and would not entitle the court to take into account ‘ welfare ’ considerations relating specifically to the children unless the court were able to find that there had been established a grave risk that the return of the children would expose them to an intolerable situation under article 13 ( b ) . |
| 7 | Ever increasing reproductive technologies are re-ordering social aspects of reproduction , specifically women 's fertility , sexuality and pregnancies , by taking them to an industrial level , making them more and more scientific/medical procedures in need of ’ expert ’ interference , and so moving them even further out of women 's control . |
| 8 | But , Himmelfarb ( 1968 p 78 ) argued , its designer was not concerned by the building 's intrinsic potential for despotic control : " To Bentham … if it was in the interest of society to confine them in a Panopticon , to subject them to an absolute master , to exploit their labor … [ then ] it was necessary and proper that all this be done . |
| 9 | If A then sells and delivers them to an innocent purchaser , the latter will acquire good title . |
| 10 | Typically then they operate to defeat the title of the unpaid seller ( let us call him C ) who has entrusted his goods to a buyer who , without paying C , has in turn sold them to an innocent purchaser . |
| 11 | In the old deed of settlement company , which was merely an enlarged partnership with the partnership property vested in trustees , it was clear that the members ' ‘ shares ’ entitled them to an equitable interest in the assets . |
| 12 | ( 27 November 1777 ) Among his complaints were that Mozart and his mother had stayed too long in Munich and Augsburg using up their money on lodging expenses without having any means of earning money , that Mozart was not keeping him fully apprised of exactly where his plans lay , how he was proposing to get from one place to another and by which route and when , that he was not keeping up with his composition , nor arranging to have existing works copied so that he could present them to an influential Prince or noble , and that he had not taken the right sorts of composition with him — too many symphonies and not enough church music . |
| 13 | They coughed their way through All Things Bright and Beautiful , and when they came to the bit about ‘ God made them high and lowly , and ordered their estate , ’ he waved them to an unceremonious halt and plunged into his sermon : |
| 14 | Dolly 's voice brought them to an abrupt halt . |
| 15 | The whole family dreaded going to court , so Theresa took them to an empty courtroom , showed them where everyone sat and explained what would happen . |
| 16 | The wicked Dr Mamuk has stolen the secret plans for a virtual reality chamber and is trying to sell them to an alien race . |
| 17 | Gallacher made 174 league appearances for Newcastle , steering them to an English League Championship victory as captain in 1927 , and eventually amassing a remarkable 143 goals for the club . |
| 18 | If you do not know what documents you have and how they relate to one another , your priority should be to put them in order rather than to transfer them to an electronic system . |
| 19 | Anderson captained Ireland on their short tour of France , led them to an unexpected victory over a French XV and keeps the job now but age and waning powers put a question-mark over his selection for the team at all . |
| 20 | Despite this , on the marshy peat fens , even limited traffic reduced them to an impassable morass for long periods of the year . |
| 21 | Her employers had been in general the aspiring mothers of young daughters of tradesmen — the honest working citizens whom her father would have disparagingly stigmatised as ‘ cits ’ — hoping that a little of Theda 's quality might rub off on their uncouth girls to help them to an advantageous marriage . |