Example sentences of "them [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They first recorded the vervets ' call and then played them through loud-speakers to free-living monkeys moving about on the ground . |
| 2 | The 106 entrants in the gruelling marathon set off from London on a route which took them through Europe to Turkey in classic cars ranging from a Ford Cortina to a Russian Moskvitch , all at least 25 years old . |
| 3 | And so long as they pass them through Rannoch to the west if need be . |
| 4 | Why , I mean it might not be worth anything , I mean , you know , it 's a value , you ca n't , you ca n't start influencing them about money to early , because it 's the value benefit of that that they 're really looking at . |
| 5 | But , bold as they are , giant colour prints of segmented bodies , rough skins and the centrepiece of a kiss in rich colour close-up , it is difficult to see them as challenges to a visual or a political status quo . |
| 6 | Though these men were perfectly acceptable to Theodore , Wilfrid is said to have declared himself unable to serve God in unity with them because he regarded them as strangers to the Catholic Church ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 30 ) . |
| 7 | We 're going to look at how we can talk about them as benefits to the client . |
| 8 | It is possible for a man to assemble a large number of these mystical phrases that move the mind and to use them as passports to the transcendent world . |
| 9 | The other part handles the manufacture and marketing of a very large range of ‘ effect chemicals ’ whose uses are legion : there is scarcely an industry that does not need them as intermediates to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 10 | They treat such dissertations in an entirely different way from Ph D theses , generally appearing to put a lower value on them as contributions to the science . |
| 11 | US investors , on the other hand , simply treat them as alternatives to conventional bonds . |
| 12 | In short , restoring ordinary people as part of the we who run things , rather than the them for obstacles to be regulated , managed , I fear even duped and certainly simply left out , and the chief place to focus our search for pragmatic coalitions and cooperative democracy must be in our local communities . |
| 13 | Indeed , 12 promising assistant managers are being selected annually for a development programme designed to prepare them for promotion to general managers . |
| 14 | Therefore , it 's rather ironic that one of the clubs who pipped them for promotion to Division I , West of Scotland , reckon the very reason they are going up is down to their New Zealand lock , Gordon McPherson . |
| 15 | The most serious offences are ‘ triable on indictment only ’ , which means that the magistrates ' courts must commit them for trial to the Crown Court . |
| 16 | The sellers of the securities will deposit these cheques with the commercial banks , which will present them for payment to the Bank . |
| 17 | The Imperium had assigned them for life to Quintus , to assist in its uplift . |
| 18 | W. C. T. had been busy in other ways too , fathering a series of children ; three at least were to die young , and he took them for burial to his cousins , Baptist Chapel at Worship Street , Shoreditch . |
| 19 | In the circumstance of their redundance , the usual prescription has been the demolition of the buildings and sale of their sites , but it is likely that where redundancy affects noteworthy buildings — and an increasing number of Roman Catholic churches , lacking the exemption from ‘ listing ’ currently enjoyed by the Anglican churches , are being listed as buildings of architectural or historic interest — the church hierarchy may have to consider offering them for conversion to alternative uses . |
| 20 | The bureaucrats ' control of appointments in all walks of life increases the dependence of their clients and followers on them for access to social wealth , thereby reinforcing their power base . |
| 21 | The meeting will decide the commission 's recommendations on which parts of Europe should have Objective 1 status , which will qualify them for access to the largest EC aid fund . |
| 22 | Well , the national secretary 's national officers are of course accountable to the C E C , they are accountable to congress , the introduction of section conferences means that they have another , an additional level of accountability , which does n't replace the accountability to the C E C or to Congress , but supplements it and subjects them of course to a closer scrutiny and a closer contact with the major activists in a whole sector of employment . |
| 23 | A win by Richmond , relegated last April , at Roundhay will assure them of promotion to League Two . |
| 24 | One of the most curious of these was the knighting of ambassadors at the end of their mission by the monarch to whom they had been accredited and the grant to them of augmentations to their coats of arms . |
| 25 | Councillors had an understandable reluctance to commit themselves to a political course which would deprive them of access to patronage , and it was for this reason that it was necessary for politicians to provide demonstrations of power . |
| 26 | Coal in India , copper in Central Africa , tin in Malaysia , silver in Mexico , and nitrates and copper in the Andes all drew railways to them like lightning to its earth . |
| 27 | Then for hours we gutted the living , flapping fish and threw them into baskets to be carried below and put on ice . |
| 28 | However , while the advisory team 's views had the undoubted consequence of making many Leeds primary classrooms seem busier and more attractive , the beneficial consequences for children 's learning were less clear ; and for some teachers , the claim of ‘ flexibility ’ had exactly the opposite effect , strait-jacketing them into practices to which they had no real commitment and which they had difficulty in managing . |
| 29 | It was only the office holding of the Stanleys which was threatened , but even that may have been enough to drive them into opposition to Edward by 1470 . |
| 30 | It was only the office holding of the Stanleys which was threatened , but even that may have been enough to drive them into opposition to Edward by 1470 . |