Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] that [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the place of the correlation of knowledge with vision and light , the visual metaphor by which the adequation of the idea with the thing has been thought from Plato to Heidegger , Levinas proposes language , which in the form of speech enables a kind of invisible contact between subjects that leaves them both intact . |
| 2 | Electric cars are now on the government 's list of 400 environmentally friendly products , meaning tax breaks for companies that use them . |
| 3 | to maximize commitment to the objectives of the enterprise employees must be told rapidly about all matters that affect them directly , and as soon as possible about matters that affect them less directly . |
| 4 | Although Father and Helmut did business with one another , it was their work for refugees that brought them close and endeared Helmut to Mother and Father . |
| 5 | They became great friends and when they did that film in Africa they had a 15-hundredweight truck behind them absolutely full of whisky that followed them everywhere they went . |
| 6 | For it is the importance that the Formalists give to language in their theory of literature that enables them to avoid the difficulties and the fuzziness that they had so disliked in their critical and scholarly predecessors . |
| 7 | And she was on his knee , and their arms were round each other , and though the sun had gone down the garden at that moment was glorious , full of a blaze of splendour that surrounded them like a halo . |
| 8 | It is only the natural caution of paleontologists that prevents them from jumping to startling conclusions . |
| 9 | And it was lack of money that stopped them going away . |
| 10 | At least in the post-Gazza era in which we now find ourselves , several soldiers have admitted to a level of fear that makes them cry their eyes out . |
| 11 | It is their good fortune to have the luxury of comment without the responsibility of action that enables them to appear more in tune with public feeling than the ideologists of either side of the political spectrum . |
| 12 | Thirdly , as for members of the public suing in respect of unlawful action in the public sector , will the Secretary of State confirm that unions have no immunity now for unlawful action in respect of public services and , that , although there may be some doubt about it , the only decided case in law held that the public already have the right to sue in respect of action that affects them ? |
| 13 | And yet how could the non-Russians indefinitely accept a division of labour that left them , in some cases , as ‘ raw material ’ republics , exporting their primary produce and importing more expensive manufactured goods ? |
| 14 | The function of fiduciary duties is to provide the courts with standards of review that enable them to guarantee that corporate managers do not act outside the limits of their special competence . |
| 15 | In the end , it was geography ( in the form of the river Loire ) and Joan of Arc that saved them . |
| 16 | Rebel Males by Graham McCann ( Hamish Hamilton , £10.99 ) — Montgomery Clift , Marlon Brando and James Dean , the subjects of this literate and readable study , pioneered a new kind of rebel as screen hero : they exuded primeval , ambiguous sexuality , and were not afraid of roles that made them look vulnerable , foolish or insecure . |
| 17 | Little Gabriels , out of control most of the time and impossible to educate , but with a fund of kindness that led them to rescue and foster wounded animals and plague her with them in the home . |
| 18 | In short Moses Moses revealed to that like the Egyptians each generation of Jews that gave them their character in general which is that today |
| 19 | Throughout the training programme we discussed the ways in which people are disabled — not by limited ability but by a number of barriers that keep them apart from the activities that the rest of their communities are involved in . |
| 20 | It was furnished with a certain meanness of equipment that made them feel like poor relations . |
| 21 | Valdo and Romario soon defied the squelching conditions with a double exchange of passes that took them through the middle of the Dutch defence before the ball rolled across a gaping goalmouth with no one to apply a finishing touch . |
| 22 | Would we wish a return to be days when children were deported for stealing the loaf of bread that kept them alive ? |
| 23 | Dreaming of moths that drink them under the moon ; |
| 24 | The report , prepared by the consulting group Segal Quince Wicksteed of Cambridge , says that international facilities can boost the long-term economic fortunes of companies that supply them with equipment and services , act as a magnet for other high-technology companies and generally raise the public profile of science . |
| 25 | They came up with a vision of work that offered them a challenge , was interesting and in which they were in charge . |
| 26 | She gave a loud , bitter shout of laughter that made them all stare . |
| 27 | This feeling is only likely to be reinforced by the realisation that the underlying technology used by most players — the set of chips that makes them tick — comes from a very limited number of sources . |
| 28 | Ospreys do not nest in the Galloway lochs , although they do ‘ prospect ’ the area regularly : it seems likely that it is the lack of fish that keeps them away . |
| 29 | It 's the promise of guns that makes them co-operate with Midwinter . |
| 30 | In common with any other community , the Deaf Community has had its share of people who have performed deeds of bravery that earned them recognition from the appropriate authorities . |