Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | PLAN will be supporting the government 's policy to integrate these children into existing family units rather than absorb them into separate institutions . ’ |
| 2 | Superpower involvement has raised the stakes rather than lowered them . |
| 3 | An officer on foot will often spend a whole shift without doing any police work , and without talking to anyone except to greet them and provide simple information … |
| 4 | 1984 ) often speak of allowing children to ‘ predict their way through the text ’ with their minds focused on meaning , rather than encouraging them to attend to features of print . |
| 5 | The disorder that had seemed to him for decades to determine the course of events regrouped itself like a pile of iron filings suddenly organized by a magnet , and he had a flash of optimism when it appeared quite possible that men in the days to come might wish to find out more than concerned them at the moment . |
| 6 | Rather than helping them " get away from it all " , for many young people the misuse of drugs can add to their problems . |
| 7 | Costs And Prices : Unit costs growth is the lowest since the survey began in June 1958. 23pc more firms continue to reduce home market prices than raise them . |
| 8 | Similarly , structural analysis is replaced by deconstruction which also questions its objects rather than reflecting them . |
| 9 | ‘ But why should he keep the scissors rather than throw them away ? ’ |
| 10 | But Ceauşescu preferred to terrify his opponents into silence and conformity rather than to kill them . |
| 11 | After planting they quickly build up into permanent perennial clumps and nothing looks finer in summer than to see them planted in association with a garden pool or other water garden feature . |
| 12 | I have 200m shares , nothing would please me more than to see them at £1 each . ’ |
| 13 | These measures would re-connect the living standards of older people with those of society as a whole , rather than allowing them to become more and more detached . |
| 14 | This involves a willingness to acknowledge that co-operation can be difficult and that mistakes will occur , and a commitment to making the solving of problems a priority , rather than allowing them to fester . |
| 15 | Although controversial , and greatly disliked by the judiciary , this is clearly intended to divert petty persistent offenders away from custody by ruling out custodial penalties for such offenders altogether rather than allowing them to ‘ progress up the tariff ’ . |
| 16 | Darlington Labour candidate Alan Milburn ‘ Labour will bring lasting prosperity to Darlington and put people 's talents to use rather than allowing them to go to waste . ’ |
| 17 | The trend has been to increase differences between institutions rather than to treat them equally . |
| 18 | What better way to taunt the auld enemy than to treat them with such reckless contempt ? |
| 19 | Furthermore , it is more advantageous for management to subscribe shares than to acquire them by transfer , because they may then be entitled to income tax relief pursuant to s574 Taxes Act 1988 if the venture fails . |
| 20 | The result of seeing the difference in women 's experiences in positive rather than negative terms — seeing women as having something to offer philosophy rather than seeing them as inferior or aberrant versions of a male norm — is that the contours of familiar conceptual landscapes begin to change . |
| 21 | But the men reacted to the women " on the basis of sex solidarity rather than seeing them as part of the working class ' . |
| 22 | Jonathan Burnham describes Power Feminism as ‘ a manifesto for a new generation of women , offering a feminism based on powerful roles for women rather than seeing them as victims ’ . |
| 23 | In Botswana , government has consistently decided to live with the mining companies , rather than nationalize them or even seek to control them . |
| 24 | I 'm sure she 'd rather share the spoils than lose them altogether . ’ |
| 25 | In the case of South Africa , this kind of self-esteem has to be sought in deliberately resisting the implications of what is taught rather than accepting them . |
| 26 | In this connection it is better to ask the person to collect the goods , rather than deliver them . |
| 27 | ‘ Factoring chemicals is obviously a more gentlemanly activity than manufacturing them ! ’ |
| 28 | Some manufacturers ( particularly of mass-produced goods ) do not take this point , and are happy to replace goods ( it is cheaper than repairing them ) until the buyer is satisfied . |
| 29 | The advance word on Communion was that it wanted to deal in the uncanny again , to unsettle its audiences rather than make them laugh knowingly , yet here it was with something that belonged in a Joe Dante movie . |
| 30 | In practice , as we have seen , it is British policy to subsidise the polluting farmers rather than make them pay to clean up the pollution . ) |