Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When his call was refused by Sir Derek Alun-Jones , the chairman , on the grounds that it was likely to form the basis of future litigation , Mr Mackeson-Sandbach said the trustees would be seeking ‘ legal advice on the means open to them to examine this report ’ . |
| 2 | They ‘ function not as technical specialists but as polyvalent managers ’ , and expect to have technicians assigned to them to do detailed and routine tasks . |
| 3 | Indeed there is , if anything , a tendency for the final events to be revealed early in the investigation while the factors which led to them remain obscure until a much later stage , and some do not ever emerge at all . |
| 4 | English winegrowers are about to harvest a record crop of grapes — but it could lead to them facing new restrictions on production in the future . |
| 5 | Former employees of Maxwell companies say they 're hoping the MPs new initiative could lead to them receiving some compensation . |
| 6 | However they do acknowledge that many children can be more confident and more assertive than others , but that this is due to them receiving unconditional love . |
| 7 | Before I approach BIFU with a view to them taking this up for bank staff ( and others ) in general , I thought it would be good for staff morale and also for our members if we adopted a practice which was , after all , in use in 2,550 BC . |
| 8 | In addition , there is a multiplicity of grants available to them to allow full-time education ; no such grants are available to the whites , poor or otherwise , who have to pay for their education themselves . |
| 9 | Wimbledon pay my wages and my commitment to them takes top priority . |
| 10 | And and that eventually led on to them contacting other interested groups in the area erm like some lawyers from a legal action group , and er other other groups who meet together for whatever purpose in the area , and and setting up Free Legal and Welfare Rights , which was a a formal advice session run on a Thursday night . |
| 11 | It also comes naturally to them to include any musical form with a sharp sense of its own absurdity ; ska , for instance ( there are touches of Madness here ) or a hyperactive brand of rhythm and blues ( they become almost a French Blues Brothers on Marcelle Ratafia ) . |
| 12 | Servitors hurried to them bearing great foaming stone steins — one red , one black — to drink in one draught , then smash together into shards . |
| 13 | In contrast to Mallet and Naville , they do not appear to believe that there is any fundamental conflict of interests between capital and labour which would lead to them expressing opposing preferences with regard to the taking up of the job design principles they advocate . |
| 14 | Notices attached to them make this plain . |
| 15 | The teachers ' accounts of what happened to them make disturbing reading . |
| 16 | ‘ We regret that the Department has encouraged parents to expect schools to report to them using these measurements so prematurely . |
| 17 | I do n't have to talk to them to see that . |
| 18 | But the secular mind looked to them a starved mind , desolate of passion because robbed of faith , and it never occurred to them to doubt that religion possesses and monopolises the spiritual life . |
| 19 | While our sports leaders recognise the contribution they can make to providing a ‘ healthy outlet ’ , they are concerned that , although government looks to them to play this role , it is often not prepared to assist them . |
| 20 | However , when the trial judge came to deal with the case against the second appellant , the trial judge directed the jury that it would be open to them to interpret alleged statements by the second appellant as a confession by him that he was one of a group who assaulted the deceased , and that accordingly he would be responsible for everything done by every other member of the group that he knew was being done or was likely to be done . |
| 21 | In a clear sense , people apparently do not use all the information available to them to interpret these sentences , at least in certain contexts . |
| 22 | By its nature , metaphysics almost never provides us with certainties ; so rather than bother with it , most people ’ believe ’ what to them seems most plausible . |
| 23 | This assumes that social worker has the information available to them to make correct decisions . |
| 24 | Restricted access to benefits for the young has , paradoxically , led both to more of them being ejected from parental homes and to them having less to live on when they are . |
| 25 | Our investigation reveals that we 're continuing to ask the armed forces to meet a series of commitments and all the time we 're reducing the resources available to them to meet these commitments . |
| 26 | Although at first sight the answers to them seem obvious , they become much more complex and contestable when subjected to closer examination , and they have never been systematically brought together , or the questions definitively resolved . |
| 27 | Children are special — and problems relating to them need specialised care . |
| 28 | A combination of pressure , staff shortages and the feeling that no-one is listening to them makes many more inclined to take a day off . |
| 29 | Due to unforeseen problems , they became so heavily involved in the project that both found it necessary to develop new skills which led to them becoming competent programmers in their own right . |
| 30 | CIBSE plans to make CPD mandatory for all except fellows , and ICE has well structured continuing education requirements for its members prior to them becoming chartered engineers . |