Example sentences of "them for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And both have been designed to enable you to hold them for long periods of time . |
| 2 | But who can tell the damage we do to our writing voices when we roughly silence them for long stretches ? |
| 3 | In the afternoons , my servant , Tabby , took them for long walks on the moors behind the house . |
| 4 | ( That is to say , even if it were the case that e.g. broad-class syllables were easy to find , it would be pointless to use them for lexical access if the number of words described by a string of such units was huge . ) |
| 5 | And with divers on long bottom times , the supervisor needs them to return quickly to the basket , so that he can recover them for in-water decompression . |
| 6 | ‘ They are so well rewarded it 's hard to motivate them for international football . |
| 7 | Though infrequent , there are certainly enough of them for geological purposes . |
| 8 | Operational planners viewed L Detachment as a parachute force pure and simple , which should be available to them for short-term aims . |
| 9 | ‘ I joined them for selfish reasons , ’ he admits . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For instance in general , it is not possible for most goods to trade present amounts of them for future amounts nor is it possible to make such contracts conditional on some outside events like the weather . |
| 12 | In addition , we must try to augment our oil revenues so as to enable the government to invest them for future development in industry and for processes and inventions at present unknown to us . |
| 13 | The interpretative work of field staff , particularly the procedures by which they graft meaning onto the behaviour of polluters for the purpose of categorizing them for future decisions about enforcement , is , then , a central theme . |
| 14 | However , parameters for them for individual writers could be extracted from an initial training phase for a script recognition system . |
| 15 | I could n't even manage the children — friends took them for odd days . |
| 16 | ‘ They grudgingly agreed , but they are not producing them for general sale . |
| 17 | But Mum knew them for crafty rogues and she had n't forgotten the coal . |
| 18 | The President had also apparently abandoned his aim of holding the first round of legislative elections on Oct. 25 [ see p. 39086 ] , and agreed to reschedule them for late November ( with a number of opposition parties still calling for a further postponement ) . |
| 19 | The Dependency Ratio , refers to the ratio between those in employment and those dependent on them for financial support , — directly or indirectly eg children , the elderly and the unemployed . |
| 20 | A decade ago , Kung Fu martial arts films were banned by Zambian cinemas after Kaunda attacked them for encouraging violence amongst youths . |
| 21 | Rather than modify anything to do with the external events that trigger your guilt you might decide to go for option 2 and identify the thoughts or beliefs that herald your guilt feelings and examine them for possible replacements . |
| 22 | Rather than modify anything to do with the external events that trigger your inadequacy , you might decide to go for option 2 and identify the thoughts or beliefs that herald your feelings of inadequacy and examine them for possible replacements . |
| 23 | Rather than modify anything to do with the external events that trigger your inhibition you might decide to go for option 2 and identify the thoughts or beliefs that herald your inhibition and examine them for possible replacements . |
| 24 | Rather than modify anything to do with the external events that trigger your jealousy you might decide to go for option 2 and identify the thoughts or beliefs that herald your jealousy and examine them for possible replacements . |
| 25 | Rather than modify anything to do with the external events that trigger your worry you might decide to go for option 2 and identify the thoughts or beliefs that herald your worry and examine them for possible replacements . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The curriculum for most young people who have left school involves academic or vocational courses which prepare them for specific adult roles . |
| 28 | Inmos is expected to sell about 280,000 Transputers this year , most of them for embedded applications . |
| 29 | Aquatic birds that spend much of their time in water , well insulated by fat and waterproof plumage ( Figure 6.1 ) , are pre-adapted for life in cold lands ; the insulation of marine mammals in temperate seas pre-adapts them for polar seas . |
| 30 | The borough council blames them for serious defects found in the building . |