Example sentences of "to them [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Thus Verity , the generation construction engineer , replied to an enquiry in September 1949 as to why the engineers had not reacted to a draft contracts procedure sent to them six months ago : |
2 | The opportunity to do so did not arise until Racedown was offered to them six years later , by which time Wordsworth could contemplate a life whose course , since his Norfolk visit , had done much to shape his political and poetic character , and had left him with more than a little to repent . |
3 | The clerks and scholars of the University of Oxford were reported to have gathered ‘ to them great numbers of evil-doers in unlawful assemblies , with no small power by night and by day ’ . |
4 | To imagine that the Labour leaders could have thwarted and de-mobilised such a force for all these years is to attribute to them superhuman powers . |
5 | If the public is to get the message , it must be presented to them many times . |
6 | The first of these three problems , which is the most important in numerical terms — accounting for just under 10% of all unsatisfied requests — is also the most easily solved , and could very largely be eliminated simply by encouraging readers to consult the Library 's catalogues before submitting a call-slip , and by making available to them printed instructions on the location and interpretation of catalogue entries for serial publications . |
7 | The attraction of shells has often been enhanced by attributing to them symbolic meanings suggested by more or less fanciful resemblances . |
8 | The greetings — ‘ with love , Father ’ and ‘ to a dear Daddy ’ — had an empty , hollow ring to them five Christmases later . |
9 | The chairmen were , of course , willing to make some cuts where the national interest required it , but Gaitskell pushed them too far , making what seemed to them impossible demands . |
10 | He was diligent in visiting the sick and distressed , supposing this to be ‘ the fittest time to discover to them those errors to which health and prosperity had blinded them ’ . |
11 | He 's written to them numerous times and they say what money . |
12 | Such processed foods therefore have added to them artificial colours , flavours , flavour enhancers ( usually monosodium glutamate , MSG ) , texturizers , emulsifiers and preservatives — most of which are chemicals of no particular use to the body and many of which may actually be harmful . |
13 | ‘ The aim is that the foundation will go and talk with the people of this region who have big farms , or business people and explain to them special projects and ask for funds . ’ |
14 | Bereavement and the sorrow it brings is the price most of us have to pay sooner or later for the joy of loving , and it is a bill that the elderly have usually had presented to them several times in their lives in one form or another . |
15 | In the UK alone , over £40 million per year is spent on tranquillizers , and it is estimated that at least 3 million people are addicted to them Some drugs affect appetite and also increase the need for vitamins and minerals . |
16 | Did you know one of my very oldest friends ( family knew mine before I was born ) is a W cousin but he was said to get no reply when he wrote to them some years ago . |
17 | erm So that there are a large number of tropical foresters now who 've been here and gone back to their own country , and one of the things which I point out to them these days is the need for public relations in their own countries , and getting information across to governments and being able to talk to economists and finance people in their own countries . |
18 | Henry VII extended the Crown estates ; Henry VIII added to them monastic lands and developed the subsidy ; Mary restored the value of the customs duties . |
19 | The route the Phillips had been asked to consider had already been put to them three times and was the same as the existing one , he said . |
20 | In particular it is Paul 's prayer that the Spirit would reveal to them three things . |
21 | Glenn Hoddle says they they do n't do things easily … they were the best footballing side on the day and its justice for what happened to them three years ago |
22 | The defendants at the time of the victims ' deaths were presumably unconscious and it is accordingly difficult to attribute to them any mens rea . |
23 | Listen to them old-fashioned Syndrums ! |