Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So you would , for instance , have lunch with people in government departments to talk to them about particular policies . ’ |
| 2 | The housewife refers to them as external obligations to which she feels a deep need to conform . |
| 3 | We shall be concerned with the first category of nomic correlates , and refer to them as nomic correlates , but it is their nature rather than their name that is important . |
| 4 | In Figure 3.1a the organisations are shown as solid lines , and the direct payments to them as broken lines . |
| 5 | Police are anxious to eliminate the two men , who were seen near her home , from their inquiries , and would like to speak to them as potential witnesses . |
| 6 | Finding that the Middlesbrough , Shields and Seaham branches had been accumulating funds , the Sunderland officials demanded that any surplus cash should be handed over to them at head office , threatening , according to Wilson 's account , " drastic action " if they failed to do so . |
| 7 | Oxford Molecular exists to ensure that the latest research software is made available to them at acceptable prices . |
| 8 | Their role is to deal with routine business delegated to them at weekly or monthly meetings ; |
| 9 | It is essential , though , that the knowledge and skills people have are not taken from them , repackaged and sold to them at exorbitant prices . |
| 10 | Even experienced mountain walkers take to them with varying degrees of enthusiasm — so you should consider if that sort of thing will be to the taste of everyone in your group . |
| 11 | You would not have gone to them with a theory of the death of Jesus — you would have gone to them with great wonder saying : ‘ It is incredible , but our Lord is alive . |
| 12 | I listened to them with great interest . |
| 13 | If we spot the fish we can cast directly to them with strong tackle and a big bait , or we can move from swim to swim until we find where a big barbel or two are feeding . |
| 14 | Unaware that they were being treated to a rhetoric bath , foreign reporters demanded a translation , whereupon Mohamed Salam , a Lebanese AP staffer , turned to them with grim cynicism . |
| 15 | Crime — Evidence — Discretion to exclude — Trick by undercover police resulting in camera and sound records of sale to them of stolen jewellery — Judge considering unfairness at common law and under statute — Whether Codes of Practice applicable — Judge 's discretion to admit evidence — Whether properly exercised — Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 ( c. 60 ) , s. 78(1) — Codes of Practice , C10.1 |
| 16 | The Fund would review the Soviet economy in the same way as it did the economies of members , would provide the Soviet Union with technical assistance on agreed projects , would invite a Soviet representative to appropriate IMF executive board and other meetings and would " give favourable consideration " to requests from union republics for the extension to them of similar undertakings . |
| 17 | By using computer simulations , researchers can rapidly acquire a body of knowledge not previously available to them through traditional laboratory methods , and explore chemical events that would otherwise be too dangerous , speculative or costly to pursue . |
| 18 | Rejecting pluralist and other writings as a conscious decision by academies to defend the privileges which this new system of power gave to them through military and industrial contracts , Mills argued that the power elite could be defined in terms of the institutional positions which people commanded in society . |
| 19 | Their customers often come to them under considerable stress , dependent , short of money , embarrassed and afraid of rejection . |
| 20 | In former Yugoslavia these soldiers from the Dalton barracks in Abingdon will be expected to meet all the British contingent 's supply needs and get it to them under constant risk of shells and sniper fire . |
| 21 | On the picket lines themselves , the police made uncompromising use of the discretion available to them under public-order law . |
| 22 | But I knew that it was time to leave , and we said goodbye to them on New Year 's Eve . |
| 23 | The biologists and the applied scientists have done this , have offered lectures to school children , mostly in response to requests that have come in to them for specific lectures . |
| 24 | Operational planners viewed L Detachment as a parachute force pure and simple , which should be available to them for short-term aims . |
| 25 | The world looks to them for decisive leadership on this issue , as on others " . |
| 26 | THE Government last night moved to avert a threatened mass exodus of dentists from the NHS and put on ice plans to cut fees paid to them for dental work . |
| 27 | But it does not feel to them like real work and there is no financial reward and rarely any specific long-term achievable objectives which can be shared with others . |
| 28 | The names would only have sounded to them like unfamiliar ritual incantations . |
| 29 | SCD acted on behalf of a primary housing co-operative , Ekarro Housing Co-operative , who were active in the area , housing single people referred to them by various caring agencies . |
| 30 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that many companies find that the loyalty given to them by disabled people more than makes up for any days that they may have to take off work to undergo treatment ? |