Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | These section 52 agreements became the object of increasing contention in the 1970s , with local authorities seeing them as a means of bargaining for planning gain , while developers , at the extreme , regarded them as blackmail . |
| 2 | A team led by Basil Rose used a cloud chamber to measure the momentum of the neutrons coming from Zeta 's plasma , the measurements which they made in the spring of 1958 , showed that the fusion reactions producing them were between nuclei with on average a net directed momentum . |
| 3 | On the other hand , two other cases involving individuals seeking asylum in foreign embassies were resolved by the authorities allowing them to leave the country . |
| 4 | Often , apprentice footballers refuse to sign professional forms seeing them , as one Midland youth put it , as ‘ bad risks ’ ; and young boxers would , in the pugilistic vernacular , ‘ swallow ’ before they had given their careers time to bloom — usually on the say-so of parents . |
| 5 | In Europe , trams were seen as ‘ completely classless ’ , with everyone from bank managers and labourers using them . |
| 6 | The vertical columns of Table 10.2 represent the department providing the resources and the horizontal rows the projects and activities using them . |
| 7 | So when the station came clean , they had to field several angry calls accusing them of pro-Nottingham Forest bias . |
| 8 | It was found that there were problems which were common to both the payroll and the interface projects enabling them to be solved by the same remedy . |
| 9 | As time passes , conditions in parts of its range alter and some of its descendants evolve into slightly different forms enabling them to survive more efficiently in their new circumstances . |
| 10 | Secondaries can usually be identified because they cluster around the larger primary , often forming chains and other small groups , and because the impacts producing them are at low angles and low speeds and so the craters are usually elongated . |
| 11 | Candidates using them for project or course work may have an advantage if spelling is one of the skills being tested . |
| 12 | But Mr Garrett said others who have taken only the three-hour assessment are responding to pursuits despite force guidelines prohibiting them . |
| 13 | With a spreadsheet you can alter values , constants or the formulae relating them at will and the entire sheet will reflect these changes , instantly . |
| 14 | The people of Wales have had the misfortune of having a concentration of poll tax fanatics representing them in Whitehall . |
| 15 | Enthusiasm for such ideas has even now not completely evaporated ; voices advocating them can be found through the 1970s and 1980s and , in only marginally more sophisticated forms , at the present time : |
| 16 | SUBTERFUGE Newspapers and journalists serving them should use straightforward means to obtain information or pictures . |
| 17 | INTRUSION INTO GRIEF Newspapers and journalists serving them should avoid intruding into personal grief except where this is justified in the public interest . |
| 18 | Here it was while the first presentation of the news about Jesus is being given that the Holy Spirit was poured out on the Gentile listeners causing them to speak in tongues and praise God ( v 47 ) . |
| 19 | The aircraft was hijacked by 15 convicts who overpowered guards escorting them on a flight from Neryungri to Yakutsk ( East Siberia ) . |
| 20 | THE parents of zany comedian Vic Reeves yesterday denied they had put their house on the market to stop fans hounding them . |
| 21 | VIC Reeves ' parents have put their Darlington house on the market to stop the comedian 's fans hounding them . |
| 22 | They have evolved separately and thus we discover that monkeys with prehensile tails serving them as an extra hand only come from the New World . |
| 23 | Today the majority of Tanzania 's current total debt of $5 billion consists of obligations contracted in many similar projects financed by a wide variety of donors , many of which have similar ambiguities surrounding them . |
| 24 | The laws , regulations , and guidelines governing them |
| 25 | At corner Inn the ostlers were the only visible representatives , and the doors were still closed ; but at the village a number of the natives were astir , and came to a little stone pier where a boat 's crew were exchanging for the coin of the realm the sparkling treasure netted in the night season , and many of the lodgers would have the freshest of fresh herrings waiting them for breakfast . |
| 26 | He sat silent for a moment , glancing with a look of displeasure at the cars jamming them in on either side . |
| 27 | Estate agents will now have to give consumers more information , with specific requirements to write to clients informing them of services they intend to offer to prospective purchasers , and to explain in writing terms such as ‘ sole agency ’ , ‘ ready , willing and able ’ , and ‘ sole selling rights ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ I love them , and I 'd love to own shops selling them . ’ |
| 29 | By the 1770s umbrellas were quite accepted in Britain and many shops selling them appeared . |
| 30 | No-one can escape the influences surrounding them . |