Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun pl] [to-vb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joseph Chamberlain as Chairman of the Local Government Board in 1885 was responsible for the Medical Relief ( Disqualifications Removal ) Act which removed the pauper stigma — disfranchisement — from inmates of Poor Law infirmaries who made no other demands on poor relief and increased both use of the infirmaries by respectable working people and their willingness as ratepayers to finance them . |
| 2 | All of them volunteers with nothing but a rudimentary knowledge of psychology and , possibly , their own experience as parents to help them , they grappled with problems that challenged the skills of the best doctors and psychiatrists . |
| 3 | It was further agreed that Joe McGhee be asked to write to the association of Chaplains to invite them to send a representative . |
| 4 | They are doving around Kuwait with a ring of minefields to protect them . |
| 5 | I assumed there that you can say either ‘ The organism works to propagate all its genes ’ or ‘ The genes work to force a succession of organisms to propagate them . ’ |
| 6 | When this is the case , pre-meeting briefing of supporters to get them to ask the right questions ( ones that you can answer well ) and to t ring in relevant information and viewpoints is essential . |
| 7 | We work in partnership with customers to help them exploit innovative technology . |
| 8 | We keep animals in pens to fatten them . |
| 9 | To provide advice and guidance to businesses to enable them to comply with the requirements of the legislation enforced . |
| 10 | Part I gives guidance to managers to enable them to help their organisations to react to the challenge . |
| 11 | When someone who was a protégé of the Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna , a close friend of Nikolai Miliutin , and the tutor to the heir to the throne decided to run the risk of going into print , conservatives realized that they were being subjected to a deliberate attempt on the part of reformers to prevent them from treating serfs harshly . |
| 12 | It was felt by many politicians and officials that local government , in its recent form , was slow and inept so that the departments dealing with local authorities either developed a mass of controls to enable them to watch over local authorities or actually withdrew services from the local authorities . |
| 13 | The meeting was held as advertised and Kinloch addressed it in a wordy speech in which , after pleading with his audience to keep the peace , he criticized the government for excessive taxation , and declaimed : ‘ In short , the whole of our misfortune as a nation , the whole of our misery , the whole of our distress , can be clearly traced to the circumstances of the people being deprived of their share of the British Constitution by not having a voice in the election of persons to represent them in the House of Commons . ’ |
| 14 | Students are often uncertain whether they are taking the right kind of notes to help them survive and succeed at college . |
| 15 | First , he advises the user of accounts to read them backwards . |
| 16 | Again it is important for children to experience these ideas practically in a variety of ways to enable them eventually to achieve full understanding . |
| 17 | Their pilgrimage is a flight from the malignant dwarf , Quilp , and the novel alternates an account of their progress with the attempts of others to trace them , for good reasons ( Kit Nubbles and Nell 's great-uncle ) or bad ( Quilp and his accomplices , the Brasses ) . |
| 18 | During the more prosperous years of World War II , the Board of Trade reported an unsatisfied demand for shoes , which it explained by referring to a backlog of demand created by the inability of families to buy them during the 1930s . |
| 19 | Moves should be made to develop assistance for claimants to enable them to present their claims more effectively . |
| 20 | Later in the month , however , acting Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar and other ministers most closely involved in economic reform policy met about 60 industrialists in Togliatti on Oct. 25 and gained their support in return for undertakings to consult them in policy-making . |
| 21 | The North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) and the Western European Union ( WEU ) agreed on Nov. 20 to support the UN resolution by adopting powers to stop and search any ships entering or leaving Yugoslav waters , with warships being allowed if necessary to fire across the bows of vessels to force them to stop . |
| 22 | Fleet Street journalists require a modest range of incentives to make them feel agreeably disposed towards something , and the maiden flight ( on a plane which had been named the Maiden Voyager ) was warmly and comprehensively reported in almost every national daily and Sunday newspaper . |
| 23 | Young people differ in their interests and aptitudes , and we need a range of schools to offer them the best opportunities . |
| 24 | While emphasizing that commodities will continue to be vital to the overall business and that there will be no diminution in efforts to market them , his aim is to make the split nearer 50.50 . |
| 25 | This is not a criticism of the tribunals themselves , which contain some valuable devices to assist employees , but of the failure to provide the required assistance to employees to enable them to pursue their claims effectively . |
| 26 | By the end of September 1990 , the network of IDS Advisers on Enterprise and Education had undertaken a cumulative total of 5,534 visits to employers to persuade them to offer work experience to school pupils and appropriate short-term placements for teachers . |
| 27 | It has taken subsequent theoretical work by others to relate them to geography . |
| 28 | All these sort of things to make them work , as in you set out a pattern of behaviour . |
| 29 | Here are soldiers and sailors , with troops of acquaintances to see them off . |
| 30 | If they get there the men plot all kinds of strategies to get them out of such posts . |