Example sentences of "of [verb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also sort of encourages them to farm as much land as they can to presumably rent more out . |
| 2 | of handling them through the , through the assessment and statementing process and it has implications in terms of finding the resources to support those children once the statements of provision are , are drawn up . |
| 3 | The bodies given the task of recovering some of the lost money , most notably the Resolution Trust Corporation and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation , made it clear more than a year ago that the thrifts ' auditors and advisers would be first in the firing line leading many accountants to accuse the government of targeting them as ‘ deep pockets ’ . |
| 4 | 1982:Ch. 3 ) , but there was no possibility of using them as the basis for a reorganised local government structure . |
| 5 | Romero had in mind a much more ambitious script in which the zombies have more or less taken over , except in an island enclave where soldiers have trained them into an army and scientists are devising ways of using them as slaves . |
| 6 | You know I 'll watch them and think maybe I 'd like to do that but not , not , you know , judging , not sort of using them as a kind of measure stick you know to judge everybody by . |
| 7 | Once the laws are introduced , the coaches and the players will try to devise means of using them to their own advantage . |
| 8 | The Greeks were fond of using them for mounting on earrings , but it was the Romans who developed a passionate interest in pearls . |
| 9 | The advantage of using them in this situation is their low cost and the speed with which the wall can be built up . |
| 10 | The basic guidelines is erm if somebody is a danger to themselves or other people then perhaps there is some way of helping them with an enforced medication or hospital treatment . |
| 11 | There are possibilities for encouraging pupils to listen to their own reading on tape , and to discuss what is going on , with the aims of helping them toward cognitive clarity and the expression of their feelings about the text . |
| 12 | The Museum also has two General Electric 1–16 engines ( one reportedly restored to operational status ) and , at one time , was exploring the possibility of remounting them in the aircraft in order to make some taxi runs . |
| 13 | But even in Britain and France new ways of mobilising these savings , of channelling them into the required enterprises , of organising joint-stock rather than privately financed activities , had to be devised . |
| 14 | you 'd think he would of listed 'em in a list would n't ya ? |
| 15 | We need therefore to consider policies which integrate older workers into society , either in terms of maintaining them in the workplace or facilitating options which develop new social roles which may or may not have a work element . |
| 16 | She had a way of shaping them into round balls , raising her arms in a wide , swinging movement and hurling them straight at Elizabeth . |
| 17 | Yet in some areas still , their skills are not appreciated ; they can be seen as trouble-makers who regard doctor as fellow colleagues instead of seeing them as bosses who are there to give orders . |
| 18 | Their manager , standing in the wings , wondered what Arthur was yakking about , and at the same time had a moment of seeing them as Gandhi carrying a buffalo . |
| 19 | This , presumably , is because they make the journey at very great depths , far below the reach of drift nets or trawls and since they are no longer feeding there is little chance of catching them on baited hooks or in traps . |
| 20 | It is ironic that the present undiscriminating reverence for exotic mysticism risks misunderstanding such beliefs for the opposite reason ; that of accepting them at face value uncritically and out of context . |
| 21 | The older tendency to classify muscles according to their probable functions is giving way to a system of naming them from their positions , origins and insertions . |
| 22 | Well that 's the object of cooking them in herbs |
| 23 | Mr Mayhew 's costs , well into seven figures , were funded by Cazenove , which now stands a good chance of recouping them from tax-payers . |
| 24 | The Padre , consulted as to the propriety of firing them at the enemy , had given his opinion that they could perfectly well be fired and that they , or any other such popish or Tractarian objects , would very likely wreak terrible havoc . |
| 25 | Have you ever thought of knitting them on a larger scale ? |
| 26 | She enjoyed the discipline of eating them without butter — the idea of keeping pats of butter overnight in a bedroom was abhorrent to her , incompatible with her picture of herself , swansdown on her bedjacket , broderie anglaise at her wrists , nibbling away in a leisured manner , her widow 's weeds for the moment forgotten . |
| 27 | She wondered if there was the faintest chance of impressing them with the significance of her position . |
| 28 | But here they are , at the start of chapter 16 , wishing aloud that God had not passed them by on that dreadful night in Egypt , accusing Moses , accusing Moses , of bringing them into the desert to die ! |
| 29 | ‘ It 's not a question of bringing them to more people — Emporio has never been for the poor — but of morals ; with the Nineties there comes a new thinking about how much it 's right to spend on clothes and I certainly go along with that . ’ |
| 30 | After 1870 education for the Poles was seen as a way of bringing them within the German order , of lightening their Slav darkness by opening up to them the world of ‘ civilisation ’ . |