Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] them [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , existing paper documents could be scanned into the computer enabling them to be further processed without the necessity of reproducing the original . |
| 2 | Most had to be ploughed flat every spring to enable them to be used at all . |
| 3 | These are usually imitation lead or stone ornaments depicting the faces of gnomes , cherubs or sometimes the head of a lion , and are flat on one side to enable them to be fixed to a wall . |
| 4 | The only other black person in the car accused them of being racist , which made one of the other men indignant and started an argument . |
| 5 | It was the custom for various floats with tableaux to be wheeled in at midnight , and on this occasion , in an attempt to prevent them from being broken up , the organisers employed large numbers of rugger blues , dressed in white flannels and T-shirts , to act as stewards . |
| 6 | After designs had been agreed , the work of fitting out the brake vans was undertaken at Wolverton and the vans returned to traffic , pending requirements , the stretcher brackets stored on the vehicle to enable them to be fitted at short notice . |
| 7 | Well er I mean well things like communal ownership advocate them to be reforms |
| 8 | Although tattered and torn , their clothing revealed them to be citizens of late twentieth century Earth . |
| 9 | The two-seater training planes — to go into service from 1994 — have night vision equipment allowing them to be used on a battle frontline . |
| 10 | Tests on the items at the Oxford research laboratory for art and archaeology revealed them to be modern . |
| 11 | It is the intention and the spirit of the Act to encourage them to be more accountable to their Boards of Governors , and , to a large extent , to become self-sufficient within the limits of their given finance and income generated by legitimate business activities . |
| 12 | The judge found them to be in contempt and committed each to prison for a term of four months . |
| 13 | Generally , though , the heirs are not identified ; in any case such entries are sporadic except in Cornwall , where the Celtic custom of partible inheritance caused them to be widespread , and incidentally obliterates the trail of the persons concerned in a great many cases . |
| 14 | When it is thought vital that members or creditors should receive notice , the Act requires them to be given notice by the company ; in relation to the general public the best that can be done is to require publication in newspapers . |
| 15 | Subjects affected by such apprehension will tend to modify their responses in a way they think the experimenter considers them to be healthy . |
| 16 | At that age the law considers them to be dead , so their children inherit their houses and money . |
| 17 | Legal issues are ‘ given ’ Gould argues because Parliament intends them to be decided by the ordinary courts . |
| 18 | If experience shows them to be wrong , as proved by hard evidence of a growing mountain of unmet need , their only honest course will be to fight for more resources and resign if unsuccessful . |
| 19 | The satellite intersections with these three events would have been termed ‘ mantle ’ , ‘ cusp ’ and ‘ cleft ’ in a spatial interpretation , but the radar shows them to be similar events seen at different phases of their evolution . |
| 20 | Trade unions are only as strong as their membership allows them to be and their leadership can not be expected to perform miracles . |
| 21 | Business people can argue that the ‘ realities ’ of the new competitive marketplace prevent them from being burdened again with expensive labour contracts , health and safety regulations and pollution controls . |
| 22 | This requires that the accounts sent to members under section 238 shall be sent not less than 28 days before the end of the period allowed for laying and delivery of them and shall be accompanied by notice of their right to require them to be laid before a general meeting . |
| 23 | And I see it as part of my job to help them to be able to judge their own work … |
| 24 | Several of the nearer birds got up and flew along the shore , revealing another feature which pin-pointed their origins : the lack of a white rump showed them to be of the race hudsonicus which breeds in northern Canada . |
| 25 | They created machinery to avoid extending them to those whose ascertainable record showed them to be untrustworthy and likely to default . |
| 26 | Although the countries of the European Free Trade Association had worked out trade arrangements with the Community , recent decisions of the European Court ruled them to be incompatible with the treaty of Rome . |
| 27 | A number of detailed technical changes are also proposed , including those necessary to adapt the 1989/1992 reforms of life assurance taxation to enable them to be applied more easily to the UK branches of foreign life offices . |
| 28 | Ismail Ayob , Mr Mandela 's lawyer , had phoned Mrs Sisulu , Cyril Ramaphosa , Murphy Morobe and Cassim Salojee — all MDM leaders — on Monday night to instruct them to be at Mr Mandela 's prison house , also in the Cape Town area , at five on Tuesday afternoon . |
| 29 | They say that parents who pay for their children 's education expect them to be given homework . |
| 30 | A macro facility allows them to be stored and issued automatically by a single keystroke . |