Example sentences of "they [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd found them through an ad in Private Eye , and they always welcomed his business — but then , the tottering co-operative would welcome anybody 's business . |
| 2 | I met them through an advert . |
| 3 | Or see them through an abortion , |
| 4 | Their migration route to the Alaskan feeding grounds takes them through an area of ocean which is cluttered with drift-nets . |
| 5 | While special programmes for older viewers undoubtedly offer information and support , television companies may use them as an excuse for not including realistic portrayals of older people in their mainstream peak-time programmes . |
| 6 | Like spinning tops we dash from from one emergency to another , always citing them as an excuse for our unfailing refusal to face up to the global urgency staring at us |
| 7 | Even if the workers themselves made no contribution to the scheme it was argued that the cost of family allowance schemes to the employers would be used by them as an excuse to reduce wages or at least hold back wage increases or to put up prices . |
| 8 | Perhaps she had heard our voices and used them as an excuse to break away from Henry Clerval . |
| 9 | The regarders accused one of them , Ralph of Abinghall , of having impounded in Walmore Green the animals belonging to the men of the district , extorted sixty geese from them as an amercement , and kept the beasts for himself , although all profits of such attachments belonged to the king . |
| 10 | If we can talk of " prose norms " in Latin generally , we will presumably define them as an order of clause elements according to which , in principal declarative clauses at least , the Subject precedes the Object , which is followed by the Verb . |
| 11 | The Bidston Dock cranes have been a feature of the Wallasey landscape but unpopular with some local residents who regarded them as an eyesore and the cause of television reception problems . |
| 12 | Historically it has been convenient to explore them as an evolution from the works of Euclid . |
| 13 | In the beginning , a team of French builders was hired , but when they did not respond to his treatment of them as an army detachment , he fired them and barked orders at Anthony instead . |
| 14 | So it becomes a relatively straightforward matter to list them as an inventory . |
| 15 | And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you to inherit them for a possession ; they shall be your bondmen forever . ’ |
| 16 | What a challenge to transform and use them as an asset ! |
| 17 | If others can see them as an engine driving innovation around the world , rather than a sump draining it off , they may find there is much to gain . |
| 18 | Dublin regarded the revelations with dismay , but also saw them as an opportunity to renew and step up its criticisms of the regiment . |
| 19 | Many look upon them as an opportunity to put training into practice , or as a means of getting their first introduction to the tasks that will face them should they be posted to Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | When it was suggested to them as a possibility it was understood by them as an opportunity for a breathing space in the absence of any other alternative . |
| 21 | It 's quicker to sort those rather than those because what tends to happen is that you process them as an entity rather than as single figures . |
| 22 | The first is problematic in the light of the theory that living organisms ‘ see ’ with their eyes ; the second was problematic for the supporters of Galileo 's theories because it clashed with the ‘ force of a vacuum ’ theory accepted by them as an explanation of why the mercury does not fall from a barometer tube ; the third was problematic for Roentgen because it was tacitly assumed at the time that no radiation or emanation of any kind existed that could penetrate the container of the photographic plates and darken them ; the fourth was problematic because it was incompatible with Newton 's theory . |
| 23 | One sort of explanation sees such practices as permanent employment and seniority wage systems as being related to Japan 's unique cultural traditions and the carry-over to modern industry of patterns of social relationships and obligations which characterised feudal Japan.7 Other , perhaps more convincing , approaches ( as these practices are not characteristic of smaller-sized firms ) see them as an employer response to the exigencies of the labour market and as a control device to elicit and reward loyal workforce behaviour ( Jacoby , 1979 ) , since lifetime employment is not a practice of very long standing in Japan . |
| 24 | The aim of the project is to increase understanding of how companies can best develop a strategy for both acquiring new technologies and for effectively exploiting them as an instrument of competitive strategy . |
| 25 | Well , of course , it did not take very long for people to realize that if someone wanted to sell his company and retire to the country with the proceeds , these provisions could be used to postpone payment of capital gains tax almost indefinitely so long as he was prepared to continue to hold the shares issued to him and to treat them as an investment . |
| 26 | He describes them as an investment , but critics describe the paintings as worthless rubbish . |
| 27 | By now it had become clear that the way to approach the show would be to do the linking material as near to Joyce 's as I could , but to do the sketches very much more as I would approach them as an actress . |
| 28 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |
| 29 | As the prices of wireless guitar systems drop , more people are turning to them as an alternative to the shackles of the guitar lead . |
| 30 | A recent innovation has been to allow the investigation committee to give members who are the subject of a complaint an opportunity to accept a judgment ( and appropriate penalty ) against them as an alternative to prosecution before the disciplinary committee . |