Example sentences of "they to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We may or may not be able to convert them to electrical use . |
| 32 | The more recent stress has been on identifying values in the curriculum , and not limiting them to religious or moral education classes . |
| 33 | There is a possibility that transient UOS relaxations may be unusually easy to trigger in some subjects and so predispose them to oesophagopharyngeal reflux . |
| 34 | In the aerospace and motor industry contexts , composites use different components but deploy them to similar ends . |
| 35 | It can be suggested that the fiduciary duties imposed on directors subject them to similar standards of review by the courts . |
| 36 | I 've returned all of them to Central Registry . |
| 37 | It attempted to identify these needs , and addressed detailed recommendations for meeting them to central government , LEAs , examination boards , teachers , training institutions and funding bodies for research and curriculum development . |
| 38 | The areas ripe for action are legion : working to reduce the costs of energy to industry 's intensive users by gaining access for them to European supply grids , and by lobbying other European governments to withdraw subsidies from their competitors in other countries ; pressing for the even enforcement of regulations across all European Community countries ; or even in assisting British companies to win major contracts in countries with a less ‘ hands-off ’ approach to industry . |
| 39 | Firstly , a budget should be a planning document in that an organisation should clarify its goals and priorities in a forward looking way and relate them to available resources . |
| 40 | Why not , as Lord Donaldson seems to be suggesting , appoint them to Rural Boundaries Tribunals , a sort of bucolic Acas , with powers to sort out neighbours who have temporarily taken leave of their common sense . |
| 41 | Their working lives ( up to about fifteen hours ) can be maximised if you handle them with care , so avoid subjecting them to mechanical shocks when in use ; switch off and allow them to cool before moving them around on the set . |
| 42 | Government orders forbade anyone to show the natives how to use such weapons , yet inevitably they did on occasion obtain them and use them to deadly effect , though their culture might be basically Stone Age . |
| 43 | ‘ How much is really saved by reducing a species to a handful of survivors and banishing them to glorified captivity ? |
| 44 | Huron is designed as a completely integrated system that enables users to develop applications , run them in production and adapt them to changing business requirements . |
| 45 | Will the Minister tell the House and the people of the Province what measure he intends to take to assist people over 45 whose age condemns them to humiliating interviews and , indeed , rejection ? |
| 46 | Gestures of this kind were part of the vocabulary of politics ; an astute politician like Philip used them to great effect . |
| 47 | We have used them to great effect from boats or for getting baits in under trees or undercut banks where casting has been impossible but the wind has helped to carry the bait into inaccessible areas often inhabited by pike . |
| 48 | Even here , however , the separate heading is worth preserving , since modern style-studies can and do content themselves with the mere description of distinctive linguistic patterns , abstaining not only from relating them to external factors such as authors or literary movements , but also from attributing to them any specific literary function . |
| 49 | Later , she could hardly remember what the issues were that had so roused them to mutual abuse . |
| 50 | Both of these railways have been most co-operative and we are developing a good relationship with them to mutual advantage . |
| 51 | and the doctors was selling them to rich Romanians and things like that so there 's such a lot of corruption in the country . |
| 52 | Asked to predict the most likely site of synaptic plasticity , theoreticians would probably have opted for the interneurons , as these can clearly receive and modulate signals from many different inputs before dispatching them to varied outputs . |
| 53 | Other women writers were read in such a way as to assimilate them to reigning categories . |
| 54 | The emphasis within this degree is on acquiring analytic techniques , and applying them to real-world problems . |
| 55 | The viking army also would not let the giantesses rest , but sailed away with them and set them to grinding salt ; they ground so much that the boat sank and the mill with it , though still ( adds folk-tradition ) in the Maelstrom the giantesses grind their magic quern . |
| 56 | You could make a fortune selling them to stressed businessmen . |
| 57 | The red glow from the furnaces fell across the treadmills , turning the steel mesh to angry crimson , bathing the creatures inside them to eerie , unnatural life , blending and merging them with the machinery , until it was very nearly impossible to tell where the treadmills ended and the human creatures began … |
| 58 | This witticism reduced both of them to helpless laughter . |
| 59 | Firms are assumed to have unbounded capacity for working out strategies and payoffs , and for working through the abstract chains of reasoning which lead them to non-co-operative equilibrium strategies . |
| 60 | We shall consider these changes in more detail in Chapter 6 , and relate them to spatial data by reference principally to female and part-time employees . |