Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adj] [noun] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No dinner parties or near neighbours to keep them going , ’ smiled Jane . |
| 2 | This awareness of risks and subsequent action to lessen them has been labelled risk compensation ( e.g. O'Neill , 1977 ) . |
| 3 | Riding the ‘ Double Ferris Wheel ’ awards its own bonus or a quick score and , as with most pinball tables around at the moment , there 's a multiball feature that sends a multitude of steel balls singing around ( you 'll need three eyes and four arms to keep them all in play for any decent amount of time ! ) . |
| 4 | He argued that the money spent on the national curriculum would have been far better spent on circulating information about books and encouraging teachers to use them . |
| 5 | Local health and social services , for example , are unlikely to develop better care for mentally disordered offenders within their own home districts unless financial incentives encourage them to do so . |
| 6 | Unexpected successes and failures are such productive sources of innovation opportunities because most businesses dismiss them , disregard them , and even resent them . |
| 7 | Long clones such as yeast artificial chromosomes — YACs ( 6 ) and P1s ( 7 ) will require fewer hybridisations than cosmid clones to link them , but the resulting map will be coarser than a cosmid map would be . |
| 8 | Whether they do , will depend upon the construction of the memorandum , articles or other instrument creating them . |
| 9 | Personal rivalries and conflicting ambitions drove them apart . |
| 10 | The fact is that men and women of that day inhabited separate worlds ; their social rounds and domestic activities kept them in the society of their own sex much of the time . |
| 11 | Putting them up in the wires and other men putting them on the hot plates to fire . |
| 12 | But 78 players were unable to finish their rounds as torrential rain drove them off the course . |
| 13 | All of which prompted the following official question from Liberal Democrat housing spokesman Frank Doran : ‘ That in view of the danger which faces council members from drowning and/or mugging , arrangements be made to provide members with wet suits and powerful torches to enable them to visit the amphibious staff on that floor of the building . ’ |
| 14 | Now he has written to builders , architects , surveyors and other organisations asking them to look into the problem . |
| 15 | The children in particular had a great time with computer games , entertainers and bouncy castles to keep them occupied . |
| 16 | They 're frightened of women at the best of times and strong women scare them even more . |
| 17 | In short , the inertial properties of ideologies and institutional arrangements allow them to colour industrial relations long after the constellation of political forces has changed . |
| 18 | The women 's hats and bright make-up made them look like exotic birds . |
| 19 | Nemesis comes through the Schlegel sisters , Margaret ( Emma Thompson ) and Helena ( Helena Bonham Carter ) , a forthright pair whose European perspectives and social enlightenment set them apart from their peers . |
| 20 | Their diet of fruit , insects and small mammals make them unsuitable for release elsewhere , says a spokesman for the Rio primate centre : " You could save one species but wipe out 40 others . " |
| 21 | Water voles have fairly specialized habitat needs : rivers or streams with steep banks and thick vegetation to protect them from birds of prey . |
| 22 | AD 50–130 ) , informs us that in his day wealthy members of the upper class had private water-clocks and special slaves to read them and announce the hours to their masters . |
| 23 | We set targets and trained staff to meet them |
| 24 | Initially most systems concentrated on reviewing administrative activities and costs but subsequent refinements enabled them also to review programmes ( that is , activities and costs covering a policy objective or a group of related policy objectives ) . |
| 25 | In that too , they were alike : both of them had thoughts and feelings that few people gave them credit for or even suspected . |
| 26 | The other motivation for European Union came from the newly-freed countries of Central Europe themselves , who favoured it in the knowledge that only a strong Community , closely knit in a European Union , would have the resources and united will to assist them towards eventual EC membership . |
| 27 | The management would put up a screen in front of them and provide the audience with bad eggs and moldy tomatoes to pelt them with . ’ |
| 28 | Perhaps they could be down doing up somebody 's laces and that person whacks them across the top of their head . |
| 29 | Discrimination against people on the grounds of ‘ non-normal ’ bodies or intellectual capacity places them outside the mainstream of social life . |
| 30 | Their grandfather Traveller Ward ( David Kelly ) delights in telling the wide-eyed duo gypsy tales and one day presents them with an untamed white horse , which captures their imagination . |