Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [adj] [noun] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | The songs of ancient times remind them of what they lost and there is a savage hatred in their hearts towards the Dark Elves of Naggaroth . |
| 2 | Conversely , Orientals and Africans rarely mutilate their pets for cosmetic purposes , but the trimming of puppies ears of certain breeds to make them stand erect or the breaking and subsequent resetting of the tails of American saddle-bred horses is , or was until very recently , a common practice in American dog and horse-show circles . |
| 3 | God 's truth is meant to have a powerful effect in changing even the most deep seated of our attitudes , even attitudes like those of the early Jewish Christians towards the Gentiles which had centuries of cultural back-up to support them . |
| 4 | The losses of many players drove them to suicide , not insolvency . |
| 5 | The eyes of some fish enable them to see not only what is going on in the water around them but in the air above the surface . |
| 6 | Secondly , and more importantly , speakers who are not familiar with the use of weak forms are likely to have difficulty understanding speakers who do use weak forms ; since practically all native speakers of British English use them , learners of the language need to learn about these weak forms to help them to understand what they hear . |
| 7 | Perhaps the closer example is the Dutch case , where both the CD ( Centrumdemocraten and the CP 86 ( Centrum Partij '86 ) suffer from organisational weakness , as is revealed when the vagaries of electoral success oblige them to seek competent individuals to fill council seats that they have won . |
| 8 | The life-cycles of many animals require them to find their way back to a particular place . |
| 9 | Ten minutes of easy walking brought them to Sybil 's house . |
| 10 | A few minutes of silent shuffling brought them to a junction . |
| 11 | The duchy of Lancaster affiliations of such families brought them within Gloucester 's orbit and gave him a point of contact with other duchy of York families , such as the Savilles and Wentworths . |
| 12 | The duchy of Lancaster affiliations of such families brought them within Gloucester 's orbit and gave him a point of contact with other duchy of York families , such as the Savilles and Wentworths . |
| 13 | ANCIENT festival rituals , such as Shrove Tuesday football , horn dancing , bull-running , pace-egging and pancake racing , have persisted in England despite attempts by Puritans of all periods to suppress them . |
| 14 | Rather more than 20 years ago , over a lunch in Staff House , I was persuaded by three eminent lecturers of this University to allow them to nominate me for the Council of Consumers ' Association . |
| 15 | The increased ionisation along the earth 's lines of magnetic force make them more conductive and leads to an increased current flow with consequent rise in magnetic flux levels . |
| 16 | When the recipients of these cheques pay them into their banks , the banks will present the cheques to the Bank of England , and their own balances at the Bank of England will rise by £1 billion . |
| 17 | To stop splatter from spilling into the conversations of people using analogue phones , the digital frequencies require buffer zones of precious spectrum to separate them from analogue channels . |
| 18 | That they were also all subject to periods of psychotic breakdown makes them of additional interest and in the next chapter we shall examine precisely what that means and how it might help us to understand their particular form of creativity . |
| 19 | When Ultimate Concern expresses itself in particular religions , and adherents of those religions regard them as embodiments of the Ultimate then , in Tillich 's view , the particular has been elevated to the status of ultimacy . |
| 20 | This is a code of conduct for directors of listed companies requiring them not to deal in their own company 's shares on short-term considerations or at a time when they are in possession of unpublished price-sensitive information . |
| 21 | It may be that learners have internalized aspects of the system which for one reason or another they can not access on particular occasions , that circumstances of different kinds prevent them from acting on this knowledge . |
| 22 | Moreover , the considerable incomes of many temples make them major employers , and important elements in the urban economy . |
| 23 | This is an understandable reaction to some of the less interesting programmes of what turns out in practice to be a kind of " library drill " : aimless trots through catalogues and reference books by pupils carrying work-cards or slips of typed paper setting them questions to answer which nobody apart from a desperate teacher-librarian would ever think to ask . |
| 24 | A comment was made that the idiosyncrasies of each library made them difficult to use . |
| 25 | For example , the nationalization of an industry signals its public importance , and such industries are often subsidized with public money ; on the other hand , there are good economic arguments for leaving the managers of such industries to run them as they would if the industry was privately owned . |
| 26 | ‘ The wonders of modern technology allow them to tell when that 's been done . ’ |
| 27 | NEXT month 's Budget should provide tax concessions for owners of historic houses to help them meet crippling maintenance costs , according to Earl Haig . |
| 28 | At opposite extremes are the ‘ seamless web of learning ’ party who would appear to argue that integration is so noble in itself that it should be undertaken whether teachers can handle it or not , and the committed and dogmatic subject specialist with a bookful of behavioural objectives and forty pages of sequenced syllabus to back them up . |
| 29 | Only a few yards of moonlit turf separated them . |
| 30 | It 's funny how er th trends change , but that was a was quite a common occurrence was that , men feeling ashamed of what they 'd got but trying er er in terms of these magazines giving them as if they were doing you a favour . |