Example sentences of "[vb base] them [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you present someone with a set of stripes on a TV screen and make them move at right angles to their long axis , that is the direction in which the person will see them move . |
| 2 | And if you think a pike has teeth , well these fish make them look like toothless gummies ! |
| 3 | More recently , industrial contaminants such as polychlorinated biphenyls ( PCBs ) have accumulated in the liver and kidneys of pilot whales in quantities which make them unfit for human consumption . |
| 4 | Well no when we started when the strike started in the mill , I told then , you know y I do n't know what you are going to do with us , I said , but the way you are carrying on now you are going to bring trouble into this quarry , cos these lads are n't going to give in to you at all that quick , what you 're trying to do , make them work for thirty pound a week less , so you better think it over now , I said , before it gets any worse . |
| 5 | Although their names make them sound like large predators , they are actually tiny insect larvae . |
| 6 | I want them split down that road |
| 7 | To reduce this ambiguity , it is necessary to eliminate the incorrect letter candidates in each position , or at least rank them according to some measure of their plausibility . |
| 8 | Let the children in the classes do the talking , let them tell about those aspects of the school that they like best . |
| 9 | Let them flow in ceaseless praise . |
| 10 | They review this possibility annually and he explained that when they have identified children who will go back they let them go into mainstream school for at first a morning and then one day a week . |
| 11 | Let them heat for five minutes . |
| 12 | Put in the monkfish slices and let them poach for 3–4 minutes , until cooked through . |
| 13 | Our results confirm those of Wu and Wilcox ( 27 ) and extend them to identify in more detail the sites that are bound by the VZV 140k DNA binding domain . |
| 14 | them on the floor and watch them shatter into natural pieces , di dum di dum di dum , in the absence of such a direct technique , more indirecti more indirect alternatives must b must suffice . |
| 15 | Attractive posters have been supplied by the organisers — please get them displayed in public areas with a request to sponsor yourself or a Medau member ( other classes in an Institute/Hall/Club could be very fruitful ) . |
| 16 | We try and get them to look after each other . |
| 17 | as if he could arrest their development at that stage , and set them working like articulated models in a shop window , mechanically repeating the same gestures — Mrs Mallory always pouring out a cup of tea with a warm , motherly smile ; Mr Mallory always easing himself blissfully into his chair ; Patricia always reaching for the aspirins with womanly resignation , Clare always shyly yielding to the one good-night embrace … |
| 18 | Closely akin to leaseholds , and like them classed as personal interests in land , are tenancies at will and at sufferance . |
| 19 | When we go into schools where computers are actually in use , we find them serving as expensive page turners , mimicking programmed instruction texts . |
| 20 | Their long legs allow them to stride through tall vegetation and shallow water to forage for a variety of animal and plant items . |
| 21 | These will allow Chinese enterprises independent decision-making powers for the first time and allow them to compete with each other in the marketplace . |
| 22 | These provide firms with product and service differentiation that allow them to compete on other bases than merely those of costs and prices . |
| 23 | HP will take-up OSF 's other technologies — like the Distributed Computing and Management Environments — the problem though , ‘ a hairy one , ’ according to Owen , is how to fit them together , or how to develop the interfaces that allow them to interoperate with each other . |
| 24 | If you do have cuts or wounds on your body , keep them covered with sticking plaster or bandage , as you would normally . |
| 25 | Natural selection will therefore favour adaptations in males that enable them to mate with more females ; but it will favour discrimination in females , if males vary in their quality as mates . |
| 26 | We have a responsibility not only to provide businesses with access to information , but also with structures that enable them to talk to each other and to trade with the residential community ; and , |
| 27 | Rather than grasp the potential of combining the two , CMEA governments acted on the assumption that the simple purchase of advanced technologies would in itself enable them to compete with advanced economies . |
| 28 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what steps he intends to take to ensure that British firms are able to obtain political risk insurance with speed and on terms that enable them to compete on equal terms with their international competitors . |
| 29 | It is the responsibility of the leadership and the management to give opportunities and put demands on people which enable them to grow as human beings in their work environment . |
| 30 | Some proteins , like collagen in tendons , are long and thin and have rope-like properties ; others which act as enzymes fold into complex shapes which enable them to bind to other molecules . |