Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [verb] to they " in BNC.
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| 1 | What a lot of other societies will today though , will not necessarily want policies assigned to them anyway . |
| 2 | It is these pedagogical concerns that linguists must appeal to if they want teachers to listen to them , by demonstrating how linguistic concepts and knowledge can help to explain or solve them . |
| 3 | We want others to look to them and see their way of survival . |
| 4 | Some churches also long possessed objects given to them by Cnut , which occasionally bore inscriptions to that effect , like the reliquary for the remains of St Vincent which he presented to the monastery of Abingdon . |
| 5 | ( 4 ) A specific immunity , possessed by accused persons undergoing trial , from being compelled to give evidence , and from being compelled to answer questions put to them in the dock . |
| 6 | ( 4 ) A specific immunity , possessed by accused persons undergoing trial , from being compelled to give evidence , and from being compelled to answer questions put to them in the dock . |
| 7 | This provides that if any religious houses alienate tenements given to them by the king or other founders , those tenements shall be recoverable by the donor or his heirs , the buyer losing both the tenement and the purchase price . |
| 8 | ‘ We regret that the Department has encouraged parents to expect schools to report to them using these measurements so prematurely . |
| 9 | Those who have had facts imparted to them effectively will pass the tests and those who have not will fail to pass the tests , and when the lists are read out on Speech Day the incompetence of the bad fact-imparters will be revealed to the world and this will act as a goad and make them impart their facts better in future … . ’ |
| 10 | He spent hours talking to them , especially the master carpenter , Andrew Bulkeley . ’ |
| 11 | I know that a lot of blacks are just expecting things to come to them ; they 're sort of free living , it 's our nature to sit down and enjoy life . |
| 12 | Until the 1930s , for example , it was a routine practice of the London police to record thefts reported to them by the public as ‘ lost property ’ . |
| 13 | The Act takes pains to refer to them as ‘ examinations ’ and they are not mandatory in the way that the certification of the appropriation accounts is . |
| 14 | And many of those things do have dangers attached to them but they also have , potentially , a bit of f er er fun attached |
| 15 | If you are told that someone ‘ had seen what has happened ’ , that person is more likely to be having questions addressed to them than to be posing questions themselves . |
| 16 | Apparently they like having things explained to them without understanding either the explanation or even what an explanation is . |
| 17 | Patients at the many London hospitals appreciated services brought to them by Electrophone . |
| 18 | The ultra vires doctrine was used by the courts to keep corporate bodies within the narrowly defined powers granted to them by the statute or charter of incorporation conferring corporate identity upon them . |
| 19 | Politicians do frequently reject plans presented to them by officers . |
| 20 | The ways in which events and acts come to have meanings attached to them which serve as the bases for action or inaction by regulatory agencies , and the negotiating tactics employed in securing compliance are central topics dealt with in Part III . |
| 21 | They ‘ function not as technical specialists but as polyvalent managers ’ , and expect to have technicians assigned to them to do detailed and routine tasks . |
| 22 | They usually do not let things get to them . ’ |
| 23 | Young children ought merely to have things shown to them as they are , or they get puzzled and ask question after question . |
| 24 | The tax payers were director-shareholders in a close company ; they agreed to sell their shares in consideration for some cash and a novation to the purchaser of their liability to repay loans made to them by the company . |
| 25 | The modern legal aid scheme , which provides financial assistance ( subject to eligibility ) in connection with proceedings in most of our civil courts , has come a long way since 1495 when statute provided for poor people , at the discretion of the Lord Chancellor , to sue without payment to the Crown , and to have lawyers assigned to them without fee . |
| 26 | At a later stage one might , for some reason , want to prevent the other side using reports disclosed to them voluntarily as part of their case , and if they have been put in the wrong part of the list of documents the right to do so will have been lost . |
| 27 | Residents had been warned of an explosion , he claimed , but had " acted like children " and failed to obey instructions given to them . |
| 28 | When the archbishop of Canterbury came before the pope for his pallium , the canons of York entangled the Canterbury monks in questions about the precise state in which they had found the privileges — whether they had seals attached to them , and so on . |
| 29 | There are occasions when teachers would want detailed feedback for diagnostic purposes or to evaluate their teaching , but an assessment scheme which is tightly based on a large number of criteria would compel teachers to work to them even when it might not be appropriate to do so . |
| 30 | Where some women are free to make vows of chastity , we are reminded that all women should be free to refuse men access to them . |