Example sentences of "them [verb] [adj -er] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet there is striking evidence that carts and wagons had been much improved , and that bridges were being built in many parts to make it possible for them to go longer distances . |
| 2 | Top management is clearly very important to the organisation , and managers are realising that management information systems can help them make better decisions . |
| 3 | The success of their handhelds has not yet encouraged them to plan further developments . |
| 4 | We must also consider the opportunity that some occupations have for deliberately restricting access to the acquisition of the skills needed to do the job , thereby keeping down their distribution amongst the population , and enabling them to claim higher rewards in the market place . |
| 5 | You 'll find that many of your creditors , such as a building society , credit companies and so on , will be as helpful as they can if you ask them to accept smaller payments for a while . |
| 6 | And we will allow them to attract older students as well . |
| 7 | COLLEGE lecturers at Colchester Institute are to strike in protest over new contracts forcing them to work longer hours including weekends and bank holidays . |
| 8 | As we understand it , the Chancellor does not tax spirits more heavily because of their intrinsic properties nor because of the categories of persons who consume spirits , but because he considers that spirits face market circumstances which allow them to bear heavier taxes . |
| 9 | Children were given care and attention 24-hours a day in an environment which would encourage them to lead better lives , he said . |
| 10 | It does seem a pity that no one has bothered to look at the actual behaviour of the children in question in relation to such practices as might lead them to encounter greater dangers of lead pollution ; the almost entire absence of psychologists among the medical and other experts engaged in this research may account for their overlooking a very obvious alternative hypothesis . |
| 11 | Do they issue them , part of the reason that of them having higher wages is that part industrials are bias that they , they have a higher wages and they think they will have a stronger growth in the industrial sector |
| 12 | We need to remember that it is no more natural for women to live longer than men than it is for them to have lower incomes , to expect to give up work if their men wish it at marriage or in later life , to be the keepers of family memory , the main carers of those in need , the main sufferers from the empty nest as children leave home . |
| 13 | Both of the general SVQs in science are designed to provide students and trainees with a broad grounding in science , while allowing them to develop higher levels of competence in their chosen areas . |
| 14 | I have to say though , that when we the Council advise other charities on the investment powers that they should take when they 're established and when they draft their Memorandum of Association , erm , we advise them to take wider powers er , than these , and we advise them that they should not seek to constrain themselves by the Trustee Investment Act nineteen sixty-one , as our own flexibility is constrained . |
| 15 | FORMER transport minister Peter Bottomley today described as ‘ potentially murderous ’ a claim that wearing helmets gave cyclists a false sense of security and could encourage them to take greater risks . |
| 16 | The more able pupils often produce stereotypical work which may generate the ‘ right ’ answer but may not stimulate them to ask further questions . |
| 17 | These are indeed vital , but overconcern about them obscures wider issues . |
| 18 | Now all these countries have much cheaper labour force , most of them have warmer climates and with the advantages of low-price labour and also less expensive from the point of view of having to dry out leather and do these various processes that come in the production , the erm the leather tanning trade is being increased in those countries , with the knowledge and indeed the design of the western countries , because tanning is not the most salubrious of , er works . |
| 19 | Alan Eastwood believes the the answer is to lock up young offenders instead of releasing them to commit further crimes . |
| 20 | Because people are now living longer in developing countries — from 23 to 41 for average age expectancy since 1850 in India , and from 32 to 43 in Sri Lanka — it is more worthwhile for them to gain greater skills . |