Example sentences of "them to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the doubt attached to their estimates , they want all governments to publish their inventories and submit them to international supervision . |
| 2 | The local police had had a busy evening with an exceptional number of hoax calls that led them to non-existent road accidents drunken brawls and even — a touch that showed a nice appreciation of British susceptibilities — a rabid dog on the loose . |
| 3 | The purpose of this chapter is to outline the elements involved in resource management in schools and to apply them to current practice . |
| 4 | Obliquely flattering his readers by introducing them to boys near their own age involved in surprising and exciting events , he also invited them to wishful thinking , if not to identification , by emphasising the youth of his heroes and underplaying the responsibility and enforced maturity belonging to midshipmen in the early and mid-teens in reality . |
| 5 | A United States State Department travel advisory warning to US citizens on April 21 , alerting them to alleged security risks in Kenya , drew an angry response from local media and from an official of the ruling Kenya African National Union ( KANU ) the following day . |
| 6 | Stewart , who managed England 's Test side for six years and steered them to successive World Cup finals , said : ‘ When I was brought up during the war , serving Queen and country meant a lot to my generation . |
| 7 | Yet , the appeal by definition , asks them to second guess |
| 8 | But she was also aware that no matter how she felt , her family would never allow her to relegate them to second place . |
| 9 | With the lines stretched out , have a friend apply tension on the ends to be prepared and scissor them to equal length . |
| 10 | By adopting such beliefs and applying them to contemporary society both found sustenance in elitist moral and ethical beliefs which were far removed from contemporary reality . |
| 11 | At first they were quite crude and it took little skill and expertise to forge the signature , and then fraudulently put them to financial advantage . |
| 12 | The decision arose from a claim lodged with the ECJ by a group of mainly Spanish-owned fishing companies , employing vessels registered as British , that amendments to the UK 1988 Merchant Shipping Act which excluded 95 of their vessels from British waters were illegal under EC law and had exposed them to financial ruin . |
| 13 | He trained them to regular confession , and whenever any one of them was dying would prepare them for death , and be thankful when they died in penitence , peace and hope . |
| 14 | Even in this case , some work needs doing to the back of the bevel to bring them to optimum usefulness . |
| 15 | The DTI sets out two options : abolition without replacement , and replacement by a ‘ compilation report ’ by an independent and suitably qualified accountant ( stating compliance with legislation and that the company is eligible for exemption ) with a directors ' declaration which , under two options , could simply state their obligations or also attest they have kept proper records and prepared accounts to give a true and fair view — and so , as the DTI warns , expose them to civil liability and weaken their statutory defences . |
| 16 | We may or may not be able to convert them to electrical use . |
| 17 | There is a possibility that transient UOS relaxations may be unusually easy to trigger in some subjects and so predispose them to oesophagopharyngeal reflux . |
| 18 | It attempted to identify these needs , and addressed detailed recommendations for meeting them to central government , LEAs , examination boards , teachers , training institutions and funding bodies for research and curriculum development . |
| 19 | I 've returned all of them to Central Registry . |
| 20 | The areas ripe for action are legion : working to reduce the costs of energy to industry 's intensive users by gaining access for them to European supply grids , and by lobbying other European governments to withdraw subsidies from their competitors in other countries ; pressing for the even enforcement of regulations across all European Community countries ; or even in assisting British companies to win major contracts in countries with a less ‘ hands-off ’ approach to industry . |
| 21 | Government orders forbade anyone to show the natives how to use such weapons , yet inevitably they did on occasion obtain them and use them to deadly effect , though their culture might be basically Stone Age . |
| 22 | ‘ How much is really saved by reducing a species to a handful of survivors and banishing them to glorified captivity ? |
| 23 | Huron is designed as a completely integrated system that enables users to develop applications , run them in production and adapt them to changing business requirements . |
| 24 | Companies that use computers have been connecting them to each other for a decade , often using AT&T 's telephone lines . |
| 25 | Consider the rule that , when being with one person and meeting another , one should introduce them to each other . |
| 26 | In their defensive exchanges , they ceased to value what had first so attracted them to each other . |
| 27 | To illustrate this point , I have given an example of a pattern for a knitted rectangle here in all three types of pattern notation , so that you will be able to relate them to each other . |
| 28 | In terms of Weber 's call for adequacy both at the level of meaning and at the causal level , there is argument at both levels , which , of course , much complicates questions of how to relate them to each other . |
| 29 | Graham did n't mind Slater knowing about Sara — he had introduced them to each other , after all — but he wanted to keep this day private . |
| 30 | Nowadays you are careful to address Interpreter Ni , Professor Chen and Party Secretary Yang by their handle as well as their name — and can cause serious insult by forgetting to do so or by introducing them to each other in the wrong order . |