Example sentences of "[adj] and [adj] [noun pl] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , despite this , social and economic pressures lead them to marry , they may find a partner who also needs to avoid close involvement , emotional or physical . |
| 2 | He was said to have been ‘ less than firm in his dealings with Baghdad ’ and to have generally failed to provide the leadership the Kurds ' plight required , prompting the decision to send US , British and French troops to protect them instead , despite concern , particularly in the US , not to keep troops in the region longer than necessary . |
| 3 | If the congregation accepts them as they are , and if lively and attractive leaders give them time and energy , young people are likely to stay in the Church . |
| 4 | The comments on the quality of the nationally-developed Higher National Unit specifications were generally neutral , with 57% rating them as acceptable and even numbers rating them as better and worse than acceptable . |
| 5 | any new constitutional arrangement must provide what the 1920 Government of Ireland Act tragically failed to achieve : tough guarantees of basic rights for the minority as well as for the majority community , together with accessible and representative institutions to enforce them . |
| 6 | The failure of any of the interviewers to ask the politicians about these dangerous and difficult matters made them all seem like collaborators in the politicians ' games . |
| 7 | The Stanleys were careful to place themselves at the head of local opinion rather than ride the county roughshod and their identity of opinion with local Unionists on political and religious matters made them even more powerful . |
| 8 | ‘ It is difficult for young people who have spent large periods of their lives in an institution , and do not have supportive and stable families to help them , to make the transition to independent living ’ , said Shelter ( Scotland ) director Amy Isaac . |
| 9 | ( 135 ) … raising the temperature of some solid and liquid compounds causes them to decompose into their elements ( or oxidize if they are heated in air ) … |
| 10 | In contemporary English neither *Most enzymes can not make a reaction to occur nor * Raising the temperature of some solid and liquid compounds causes them decompose into their elements are possible . |
| 11 | Carrot oil , a rich , orange liquid made from the dried root of the plant , is used on dry and scaly skins to make them more supple . |
| 12 | The elaborate construction of some of the trackways , the careful management of the landscape and organisation of both human and natural resources to produce them , certainly implies well-organised communities . |
| 13 | They found little difficulty in agreeing with one another on the current dangers but an insuperable difficulty in communicating enough anxiety to Eastern and Western governments to make them seriously disarm . |
| 14 | It is the document which can be viewed by our existing and prospective clients to enable them to gain an insight into our quality system . |
| 15 | In return , the ABT runs courses for full- and part-time teachers to keep them up to date with developments in banking education . |
| 16 | And I mean the kids the kids that we yo yo some kids er , I mean they were just beautiful and other kids lost them within a couple of days ! |
| 17 | The grey and stormy skies made them if anything greener . |
| 18 | A panel of medical and scientific experts based them on how likely it was that cancer had been caused by the victim 's working conditions . |
| 19 | We must now consider the role of the ‘ demagogues ’ , and the way their rhetorical and other skills enabled them to manipulate the Assembly and so detract from its sovereignty . |
| 20 | Mediaeval explorers from the south made little impact on their society , but incursions of southern whalers , sealers , missionaries , fur traders and administrators on an unprecedented scale during the 18th and 19th centuries exposed them more fully to southern civilization , often with devastating results ( Hall , 1987 ) . |
| 21 | The enterprise of science consists in the proposal of highly falsifiable hypotheses , followed by deliberate and tenacious attempts to falsify them . |