Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] and [vb -s] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gradually he builds up a collection of all sorts of different books and reads them secretly at night while his wife sleeps . |
| 2 | It collects these flakes with the brush near the end of its hind legs and passes them forward to its mouth where it kneads them with saliva . |
| 3 | Perhaps the real star of the show is Annette Markert who , as the heroine Elmira , as some of the opera 's most interesting arias and advocates them with a sublime realism . |
| 4 | Older people , on the basis of chronological age , are progressively removed from economic life , which provides them not only with income , but structures their daily routines and integrates them into regular social relationships . |
| 5 | London-based Information Dimensions ( UK ) Ltd has announced DocXform , which takes either scanned or word-processed documents and converts them to the Standard Generalised Mark-up Language standard , ready for loading into Information Dimensions ' BasisPlus database . |
| 6 | And so every year between Christmas Day and New Year 's Day , he takes over the kitchens at Hampton Court with his forty assistants and runs them . |
| 7 | The almost wordless scene in which Ma Joad , packing her belongings for the last time , comes across a pair of old earrings and tries them on , recalling some long forgotten happiness , is as touching as anything he ever directed . |
| 8 | The American Constitution provides a federal system : it recognizes states as distinct political communities and assigns them sovereignty over many issues of principle . |
| 9 | The encyclopaedic compendium written by K. C. Huang focuses on 428 individual herbs and classifies them according to their therapeutic value in different body systems and then in terms of their chemical composition , pharmacological action , toxicity , and therapeutic use . |
| 10 | To write a computer program , the student selects appropriate labels and puts them in a tray . |
| 11 | Some observers also calculate that , if one takes account of the profits forgone from these enterprises in future years and sets them against the revenues raised now , the government may have sold the assets at too low a price . |
| 12 | Ryes and rye-wheat hybrids are sometimes prone to ergot — a fungus disease that destroys the individual grains and replaces them with black spores which look like mouse droppings . |
| 13 | No official of the Government or Party can go to an ujamaa village and tell the members what they must grow … for if these things happen — that is , if an outsider gives such instructions and enforces them — then it will no longer be an ujamaa village ! |
| 14 | This mud transforms the reflections of the dark cliffs and lightens them ; it even tints the shining area where the light sky is reflected . |
| 15 | This simple and inexpensive technique allows us to take the pressure off enlarged extended families with limited fields and enables them to grow more without fertilizers or more land . |
| 16 | Finally , Bell draws specific attention to the growth of professional and technical workers and identifies them as the key occupations around which the structure of post-industrial society is organized . |
| 17 | Clare takes conventional subjects and gives them a twist , physically and artistically . |
| 18 | The computer accepts wrongly-spelled words , nonsense words and rude words and displays them on screen in the story to the amusement of the class . |
| 19 | This section looks briefly at some of the basic ideas and illustrates them with the results of some laboratory experiments . |
| 20 | It was the first of a series of compounds which are known as the ‘ tricyclic antidepressants ’ , because their chemical structure contains three rings and distinguishes them from the monoamine oxidase inhibitors . |
| 21 | The microphone picks up the surrounding sounds and feeds them to the amplifier . |
| 22 | So that second verse is one which takes up the traditional Jewish prejudices and turns them upside down , one by one . |
| 23 | Sylvester 's text considers these factors and balances them against the feebleness with which Magritte might execute dull repetitions of his more popular compositions . |
| 24 | Dostoevsky 's notebook word ‘ tone ’ amounts to more than dust and mortar and summer smells ; it catches up human beings and entangles them with the city . |
| 25 | Mira takes these facts and re-inserts them in narrative — not the original narrative representations from which they were drawn , for these are inaccessible to her , — but playful conjectures as to what might have been . |
| 26 | The argument could far more plausibly be turned on its head : the ‘ latent function ’ of the operation of unofficial suspect categories may be to make the administration of ( in ) justice more efficient and ‘ rational ’ , which in turn institutionalizes these practices and gives them the status of ‘ due legal process ’ . |
| 27 | It is the increase in oxygen and the increased BMR that burns off excess calories and keeps them off forever . |
| 28 | Psychological and psychometric testing has clearly demonstrated that centrophenoxine stimulates tired elderly brains and makes them more alert , and the compound can prolong the lifespan of normal mice in laboratory tests . |
| 29 | A CHARITY that helps blind babies and teaches them how to smile is running out of money . |
| 30 | In fact Major Wiseman 's letter preserves an inaccurate memory — not surprising after so long — of the actual circumstances , for it conflates the events of twelve days and relates them as if they had happened on the same night . |