Example sentences of "they [prep] [verb] their " in BNC.

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31 But it is still a passive role and , while many major figures in sport express a sense of responsibility for black youth , none actively encourage or discourage them from following their examples .
32 The ERM prevents them from letting their currencies float downwards to adjust .
33 The approaches to the education of children with special needs , culminating in the 1981 Education Act , are equally applicable to pupils with defective vision , some of whom will be included among those pupils who are defined as having learning disabilities significantly greater than the majority of their peers , or as having some disability which would prevent them from having their needs fully met without special educational adaptations or modification to their curriculum .
34 Disability insurance is usually sold by the lender at the time a mortgage is taken out and provides cover in the event of the borrower being involved in an accident or developing a sickness which prevents them from continuing their mortgage payments .
35 And Salford , Wigan 's opponents at the Willows tomorrow , will be hard pushed to stop them from continuing their 12-month unbeaten away league record .
36 For example , in one case the government sought an interim injunction to restrain a drug company from disobeying a statutory order regulating the price it could charge the NHS for its drugs ; and in a recent series of cases local authorities have sought interim injunctions against traders to restrain them from opening their businesses on Sunday in breach of Sunday trading laws .
37 Dorothy alone remained a still centre , and when in January 1795 Wordsworth was left £900 in the will of Raisley Calvert , a young friend and admirer who had died of tuberculosis , there seemed nothing further to prevent them from realizing their hopes of a life together .
38 Whenever she appeared on stage or at TV stations she insisted cameramen signed forms preventing them from selling their pictures to these ‘ pirate ’ merchandisers .
39 Six weeks later a great demonstration in the Royal Albert Hall demanded the establishment of a Merchant Seamen 's League to put the boycott into effect and " to assist them in maintaining their benevolent institutions for the aged and infirm " A short time ago , he declared in 1918 , he had received a document from four leading German trade unionists attempting to justify the U-boat campaign by arguing that " only a campaign of frightfulness against the British and neutral vessels trading to ports in the United Kingdom and the starving of the people of the British Isles would bring the war to a speedy close " .
40 Free copies of the book are to be issued to parish priests throughout the region and it includes an appendix with details of the relevant articles of Italian law which will assist them in recovering their lost items .
41 Students are also given a substantial introduction to a range of practical skills which assist them in applying their academic understanding of the problems of peace and conflict more effectively in their future careers .
42 Henry continued , ‘ The riots here followed those in neighbouring counties , of which our people had heard rumours , as if those rioters had been able to overpower the gentry and as if large masses of men were moving on from London , to aid them in forcing their masters to give higher wages .
43 In both countries , undoubtedly one of the goals of what the United States euphemistically called ‘ low-intensity conflict ’ was to hamper and discredit the revolutionary movements ' ability to deliver services to their peoples , and to involve them in changing their lives .
44 The number of a male 's females is limited and males do assist them in rearing their broods .
45 Education has expanded very significantly , thus giving a much greater number of people information and skills to assist them in improving their living standards .
46 They know that the recruitment specialist will look after their interests , advise them if they are flying too high , encourage them if they are ready for advancement and indeed assist them in planning their careers over a period of time .
47 A sample of the agency 's clients will be asked how the advice given by the agency has helped them in running their small business .
48 ‘ Many of the world 's leading industrial companies have already recognised the potential for AEA 's Computational Fluid Dynamics Services to help them in lowering their process costs , improving product quality and meeting regulatory , safety and environmental standards , ’ says Steve Curl , General Manager of CFDS .
49 It is BP 's policy to employ suitably qualified disabled people and to help them in overcoming their handicaps at work .
50 Most of them on finding their symptoms gone see little point in either remembering their daily dose or for that matter paying out money for more medicine when they feel well .
51 Osbern returned to Canterbury , not to make peace by abandoning his efforts to get recognition for the despised saints , but to gain recognition for them by writing their biographies .
52 In practice , almost any useful algorithm incorporates aspects of both approaches , but for the moment , we shall explain them by emphasising their differences .
53 The other is the note in Appendix F , which says that some hobbit-names have been retained by Tolkien without translation , ‘ though I have usually anglicized them by altering their endings , since in Hobbit-names a was a masculine ending , and o and e were feminine . ’
54 Foucault specifies the difference between them by contrasting their relation to the document : the historians of total history have been engaged above all in the interpretation of documents , attempting to reconstitute the past , to give it an inner meaning ( always available only to the historian ) , to recover a voice and allow it to speak .
55 But we hope that these impressions will at least bring some encouragement to the many friends we made who are working there , and that they may perhaps even help them by opening their eyes to some new possibilities based on experience elsewhere .
56 The House had passed legislation in 1989 ( effective from January 1991 ) to prohibit the receipt of honoraria by its members , but compensating them by raising their salaries .
57 I respectively , to the anions and cations of solids and free them by neutralizing their charge ; water is thus a highly effective solvent .
58 Another shows the converse , a humanoid god standing between two daemons : he is mastering them by grasping their tongues .
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