Example sentences of "them [prep] be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Telling their own story from childhood to an interviewer is for most people an intimate experience which encourages them to be remarkably open about themselves . |
| 2 | The US citizen 's historic right to bear arms , for example , is thought by most of them to be both outdated and counter-productive , yet it was taken by the founding fathers to be ‘ self-evident ’ , inherently the due of human beings . |
| 3 | A lecturer at a police training college published essays written by officers in training which showed them to be openly racist . |
| 4 | However , the responsibility and wish of most managers , whether in Departments or executive agencies , is simply to want those who work for them to be reasonably presentable . |
| 5 | He said the words and knew them to be mostly true but could n't believe them . |
| 6 | In many cases , the common law will control Acts of Parliament , and sometimes adjudge them to be utterly void : for when an Act of Parliament is against common right and reason , or repugnant , or impossible to be performed , the common law will control it , and adjudge such an Act to be void . |
| 7 | Although magistrates are no longer predominantly male , successive studies ( notably Baldwin , 1976 ; but see also Hood , 1972 , and Burney , 1979 ) have shown them to be overwhelmingly middle-aged and middle-class . |
| 8 | If a resident is mentally alert but weak physically , a shower or a bed bath may allow them to be completely private . |
| 9 | Anagnostopoulos announced on July 1 that a speedy investigation into the allegations had been completed and had found most of them to be completely unfounded . |
| 10 | The forces of bourgeois society were opposed to slavery and serfdom not simply because they believed them to be economically undesirable , nor for moral reasons , but because they seemed incompatible with a market society based on the free pursuit of individual interest . |
| 11 | Mexico is a country where the church does not have a strong grip on the population because of the force with which the revolutionaries opposed the clergy , believing them to be partly responsible for the backwardness of rural areas . |
| 12 | " Thus in the case of two drops of water " he says — " we can abstract altogether from all internal difference ( of quality and quantity ) , and the mere fact that they have been intuited simultaneously in different spatial positions is sufficient justification for holding them to be numerically different . |
| 13 | English now offers material appropriate to their knowledge and experience , and provides the opportunity for them to be equally articulate in the new language . |
| 14 | He also advocated the appointment of prison inspectors and made it clear that he expected them to be as thorough as he himself had been , probing every corner and speaking with every prisoner . |
| 15 | Ask them to be as specific as possible , — and not hold back on any areas , even if they seem embarrassing . |
| 16 | He had a desire for strong and lasting friendship , but he judged his friends severely , expecting them to be as eager as he was to know , see and feel everything . |
| 17 | The first few months of life in the community were dominated by support workers ' sense of heavy responsibility about the twin tasks of meeting the women 's physical and medical needs and , at the same time , enabling them to be as independent as possible . |
| 18 | The weakness of glass fibres brings us to the question of Griffith cracks and it also brings us back to Professor Inglis , whom we left in Chapter 2 worrying about why ships broke in two at sea when simple calculation showed them to be amply strong enough . |
| 19 | This approach takes into consideration the person 's past history and current circumstances which may cause them to be especially susceptible to respond adversely to particular types of event . |
| 20 | Cornelius rummaged through the contents of the boot and found them to be very oily indeed . |
| 21 | The French students commented on the relaxed and friendly atmosphere in the college and were envious of what seemed to them to be very small classes . |
| 22 | The numbers of teeth involved are often quite small , and where there is a major discrepancy between the digestion of the upper and lower teeth in columns 9 and 10 of Table 3.13 , reference to the actual numbers involved show them to be very small indeed , sometimes no more than one ( columns 7 and 8 ) . |
| 23 | But beware , this tameness leads them to be very bold in defence of their nest , and they will laugh a strident ‘ heh , heh , heh ’ as they clip you across the ear with a stiffly held wing-tip ! |
| 24 | Wise parents give their children increasing freedom to do so , in order that they may gain experience before the time comes for them to be fully responsible for the choices they make . |
| 25 | If there were any subsequent ones , she had clearly felt them to be too revealing , too pathetic , or conceivably too shrill in tone to be shared even with Mr Kronweiser . |
| 26 | All are important elements of life in old age , and in maintaining both independence and freedom from ill-health , yet older people often avoid taking exercise because of the widespread ageist assumption that it is dangerous for them to be too active . |
| 27 | If Picasso was dissatisfied with the Cadaquès paintings , this was probably because he felt them to be too hermetic and abstract . |
| 28 | A glance at the Chelsea Gardener 's relevant entries shows them to be concisely informative . |
| 29 | Most of us have seen formal syntax diagrams and Backus-Naur Form ( BNF ) definitions for languages , and many of us have been found them to be somewhat confusing . |
| 30 | But they want them to be more explicit , a survey by Channel 4 's Check Out show reveals today . |