Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun] to their [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were treated for burns to their hands and arms at Raigmore Hospital , Inverness . |
| 2 | ( b ) Quality words have meanings which may be effectively presented in contrast to their opposites by means of objects which best bring out their opposing qualities . |
| 3 | The liability of each person is assumed to be determined by the independent contribution of a major locus ( g ) ( a locus that causes a displacement of more than one phenotypic standard deviation between normal and abnormal genotypes on the liability scale ) ; a multifactorial component ( c ) , attributable in theory to a large number of genetic or environmental influences , or both , acting additively and transmitted from parents to their children ; and a random , non-transmitted environmental factor ( e ) . |
| 4 | The letters written by bishops to their subordinates in the twelfth century rarely give the impression of personal contact with anyone below an archdeacon or a canon . |
| 5 | For example , the restrictions on loans or credit facilities granted by companies to their directors are much more stringent . |
| 6 | Rebel MPs told of threats to their futures if they did not back the Government . |
| 7 | Officer conspirators were working on their sergeants by offers of land and release from the army — a reduction in service was later to be the standard inducement to mutiny offered by generals to their troops . |
| 8 | In getting the bombs to where they can be used , air crews are helped by extensions to their senses — infra-red vision , light amplification and radar for night flight — all of which rely on electronics . |
| 9 | The latter will be examined with respect to their beliefs about development and emotionality of their children and the social practices they engage in , with a view to examining how such social practices contribute to the acquisition of the emotions in questions . |
| 10 | Where officers of insolvent companies are being prosecuted in relation to their activities , voluntary disclosure of the transcripts of interviews with witnesses in relation to the liquidation can only be ordered by the Crown Court . |
| 11 | More specifically , Palladio 's clients were in search of the same satisfactions as many eighteenth-century aristocrats , who also wished , when called from town to their estates , to combine the life of a gentleman farmer with that of a cultivated humanist . |
| 12 | The Campaign wants a major new right for pub customers : to be consulted over refurbishments to their locals . |
| 13 | Now a man as I used to visit , older than me now , er the blacklegs used to be escorted with police to their homes like from this factory . |
| 14 | The interest rates charged by banks to their customers are determined by applying a set of administrative rules to a base rate of interest . |
| 15 | Instead wrong-doers , or even the mischievous who came under the stern eye of the chief dresser , were sent off home to their parents , and like-as-not , a strapping . |
| 16 | Each of the 500 most frequently appearing words in the 2,000 concordance lines was analysed with respect to their definitions , to produce a profile of the concordances from the point of view of the domain codes in LDOCE . |
| 17 | He also issued a little book called Directions for Prayer in the Diocese of Bath and Wells which contained simple prayers to be taught by parents to their children . |
| 18 | She tells me that when she was a nippy ( of course I say what 's a nippy and she tells me it 's a waitress ) the worst sin the girls could commit , sackable instantly , was to whirl the pencils which were attached by string to their aprons . |