Example sentences of "to [pron] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the police insist that Mr Thomas has said nothing to them since about being victimised . |
| 2 | If the trade unions want to exercise that right , they will have to get the legal title to them whether by purchase or by what has been called euphemistically , and in criticism of Robert Owen 's failure to see the significance of ownership , ‘ revolutionising practice ’ . |
| 3 | It had occurred neither to them nor to the British that a diplomat was involved . ’ |
| 4 | Because they appear reasonably proficient , the instructors tend to give less practice to them than to the other students . |
| 5 | The giant predators that walked on their hind legs ( Tyrannosaurus , Allosaurus and other theropods ) share structures of the hip bones with the sauropods that show they are more closely related to them than to the rest of the dinosaurs . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Action Committee office bearers were confident that the characters of those adults accused , and those of their children , as well as the sort of events that could and did occur in their community , were better known to them than to Orkney 's Social Work Department . |
| 8 | He had uttered more words of advice to them than to the girl he was meant to be treating . |
| 9 | If women are refused credit because of some credit-worthiness factor ( say , not having a full-time job ) which applies more often to them than to men , that is lawful only if that credit-worthiness factor can be shown to be a justifiable reason for withholding credit regardless of the sex of the applicant . |
| 10 | Authority were more likely to listen to them than to the DoH . ’ |
| 11 | there was something about these middle class daughter 's relationships with their ( rather less ) disabled mothers which made sharing a household less tolerable to them than for working class daughters . |
| 12 | My own opinion — for what it is worth in view of the two cases above referred to — is that trustees are the proper persons to be assessed in all cases in which the income of the trust estate received by them , or to which they are entitled , is not tax-deducted at source ; and that — in the case of income of the trust estate which is tax deducted at source — they could not be heard to ask repayment of the tax on the plea that the income did not arise or accrue to them but to others , whether such others were income-beneficiaries or capital-beneficiaries . |
| 13 | get the figures , do I mean , we 're talking generalities , if you 're saying from what you know already the , the remote control gear is going to be sixteen double O four six eight O seven , and that is the best bearing arrangement that anybody could , anybody could produce , then , if that 's the answer , then for goodness sake get the figures , stick 'em in a memo so we can go and hit Peter , and make it quite clear to them that over the next year they 're going to lose half a million six double O ones , or whatever it is |
| 14 | Pain and suffering — what did suffering mean to them except as a path to purity ? ’ |
| 15 | Because he or she appears to manage , the owners might not realise that old age is taking its toll and that the dog has become much more attached to them because of its sudden psychological inability to cope with the environment . |
| 16 | Women do not have equal access to them because of their location in the labour market and consequently are more dependent than men on the less generous statutory minimum payments . |
| 17 | The Machine Gunners , for example , was cited by sixteen of the twenty-seven teachers to whom I spoke as being both consistently popular with pupils and also as being readily accessible to them because of the recent television serialization which caused heightened interest . |
| 18 | The underlying attitude is perhaps that most people accept mentally handicapped people and are sympathetic towards them , but remain inwardly glad that it has not happened to them or to their children — ‘ there but for the grace of God , go I. ’ They also continue to believe the many myths surrounding the handicapped which have been passed on for decades . |
| 19 | Others refuse to accept risks from activities which , they believe , bring no benefit to them or to society at large . |
| 20 | In 1987 only half of the Progressive Democrats ' 14 TDs were elected on quotas made up of first-preference votes given to them or to party running-mates from whom they were transferred . |
| 21 | Co-existence and co-operation between the two organisations were apparently accepted by members , but these were not easy matters to explain to them or to the hearing world , and met with at least some opposition . |
| 22 | For deep in the vaults of Protestant Kirks there are no altars to the dead and no prayers to them or for them . |
| 23 | So it 's never too early to read to them or with them . |
| 24 | The course of the split varies from one Species to another ; in some its lateral arms run dorsal to the antennal insertions , in others it runs to them or below them . |
| 25 | More powerful were his enemies at Court , who had been offended by his attempts to prevent chantry lands being sold to them or by his refusal to grant easy divorces . |
| 26 | One could not doze easily as one had done in Matt Stukely 's day for there was something too insistently personal in this new parson 's efforts to reach them ; yet they had remained stolidly unreached till now when the fervour of his exhortation spoke to them as with an angel 's tongue . |
| 27 | In other words , they attached about as much value to them as to the drinks . |
| 28 | Opportunities for problem-solving and self-expression become as open and readily accessible to them as to any other pupils . |
| 29 | They were being taxed to abet the king and to nullify his concessions which were as valuable to them as to the laity . |
| 30 | It was as natural to them as to the birds . |