Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Small spaces help residents to communicate with each other — and also give them somewhere to escape to . |
| 2 | The view is widespread among the senior officers we talked to , and among ordinary policemen , that policewomen , as women , have instincts and capabilities which make them better suited to specific types of police work . |
| 3 | And this makes them better suited to the longer distances . ’ |
| 4 | When tenants take on a lease they may make extensive alterations to the premises in order to make them better suited to the type of catering enterprise they intend to undertake . |
| 5 | What began as an exotic flirtation with the Other , a pop foray into a perceived Heart of Darkness , soon turned into a full-blown dance initiative in those irony-clad years of 1980–81 , with everyone from Japan to ABC to Cabaret Voltaire to Spandau Ballet to Heaven 17 conspiring to venture a white funk whose snappiness was a jeer at the indies , a white funk that would saunter easily into the charts and every other public place and , with their manifestos , make them better places to be . |
| 6 | As though their own countryside let them down compared to that of Italy , the wealthy English had with them when travelling a Claude Glass through which they viewed the passing landscape from their carriages . |
| 7 | The Gnostic teacher , Cerinthus , was active in Asia Minor at the time when John wrote , and he taught that the heavenly Christ came upon the human Jesus only at his baptism , and left him before his passion : the union between them only seemed to be real -actually it was merely temporary . |
| 8 | The actual process of putting them together proved to be an awful lot more difficult than we first thought . |
| 9 | I feel that there should be four or five other tournaments around the country to play in order for them just to get to the national championships . |
| 10 | You are to instruct them not to respond to Moslem provocation . |
| 11 | She advises them not to stick to scientism , but to draw on dreams , fantasies , and utopian wonderlands as well . |
| 12 | By studying the gospel references to the apocalyptic Jewish figure of the ‘ Son of Man ’ — whom Jesus sometimes appears to identify with himself , but sometimes not — Wrede had come to the conclusions that Jesus had not in fact applied the title to himself ; that after his resurrection the church had come to anticipate his return ; that it had then identified Jesus himself as the coming Son of Man ; and that the impression given in the gospels of a ‘ messianic secret ’ that Jesus in his lifetime conveyed only to his closest disciples , and charged them not to reveal to others until the proper time came , was a mere literary device to support that identification . |
| 13 | I think that you would find them excellently suited to your purpose , but of course it is not my business to force your decision . |
| 14 | There 's millions of junkies and not one of them ever wanted to be a junkie . ’ |
| 15 | At no time did I ever have one of them ever say to me that they were erm against foxes , but all of a sudden we find ourselves being issued with a er petition from tenant farmers which says that they are against er people like me that er er pro banning , it 's very like er Mr , we ca n't attack Mr cos he 's no longer here but on the , on the issue of er , I C I brought ou . |
| 16 | Most of them still seem to be more or less all right , but Fiver and Pipkin will have had as much as they can stand before long . " |
| 17 | Them yesterday goed to home . |
| 18 | The Act of Settlement of 1701 , which determined the succession to the throne , affirmed that the laws of England " are the Birthright of the People thereof and all the Kings and Queens who shall ascend the Throne of this Realm ought to administer the Government of the same according to the said Laws and all their Officers and Ministers ought to serve them respectively according to the same . " |
| 19 | More of them probably remain to be identified , particularly where there were important royal centres in Saxon times . |
| 20 | He found them enormously relaxing to be with . |
| 21 | Eventually , one of them tactfully suggested to Philip V that the perpetual alliance should simply be sworn , and also a mutual oath not to harbour enemies or those banished from either kingdom . |
| 22 | Each girl was them carefully suited to the target , tailored to his likes and dislikes . |
| 23 | The green light surrounding them now seemed to be imparting a sick lifeless pallor . |
| 24 | The bodies all appeared to be at slightly different stages of decomposition ; the one before them now looked to be the most recent of them all . |
| 25 | They have learned to play their part in the hierarchy , to receive instructions and carry them out according to strict rules and regulations . |
| 26 | Just hold onto the idea that certain operators will possess mathematical properties which make them perfectly suited to the role of representing physical observables . |
| 27 | He has called them here to listen to his news . |
| 28 | He left them around to prove to himself that he really did n't smoke . |
| 29 | The result represented a victory for the " moderate " current associated with President Hashemi Ali Akbar Rafsanjani , already apparently favoured by the pre-election screening which eliminated about a third of the prospective candidates — most of them reportedly belonging to the more radical faction . |
| 30 | In her interesting and vivid description of the first wave Marjorie Cosens quoted numerous testimonies by teachers to this effect , and some of them even wrote to the Board of Education . |