Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another result is that firms make ‘ supernormal ’ profits ( profits in excess of those necessary to induce them to remain in the industry ) at consumers ' expense . |
| 2 | The landlords were given a bonus of twelve per cent to induce them to sell . |
| 3 | In other words , the payment of high dividends depresses the security 's price which means that investors require a higher income rate of return to induce them to hold those securities paying high dividends . |
| 4 | Vuk , however , was less enthusiastic , and wrote of his own people , ‘ It is hard to induce them to acknowledge that they are Serbs , and we would be crazy if we agreed to abandon our famous name and to adopt another one [ Illyrian ] , which is dead and today has no meaning in itself . ‘ |
| 5 | Their mastery of their art was too great to induce them to resort to trick to tell their story . |
| 6 | He believed that the Great Powers would be ‘ in a position to exert the pressure on their clients necessary to induce them to accept such arrangements ’ . |
| 7 | It was threatening to resume bombing on the mainland and it is suspected that the closures were linked with indirect negotiations to induce them to change their intention . |
| 8 | Preference in employment was shown towards fathers of large families and a bachelor tax was imposed on single men to induce them to marry . |
| 9 | Heads came bursting from every doorway to see them pass , and the warm hum of excitement and eagerness span after them in a golden thread , the voice of the brightness that flashed like sparks from face to face . |
| 10 | Of course , the fossil hunters will lose all the bones that will erode from the hillsides with no one to see them re-emerge into daylight . |
| 11 | Of course , the fossil hunters will lose all the bones that will erode from the hillsides with no one to see them re-emerge into daylight . |
| 12 | Since then I have always followed the fortunes of Preston and am saddened to see them languishing in the lower divisions . |
| 13 | The changes were contreversial then , and many many people would still like to see them reversed now . |
| 14 | In the morning the visitors would be on the quay to see them return , slip neatly into a mooring and begin the unloading and selling of the night 's catch . |
| 15 | After young bands have had a couple of hit singles , with their album selling well , everybody wants to see them perform live . |
| 16 | With this in mind , she had taken Charles with her when she went to see them perform for the first time . |
| 17 | When they worked in their home town , the audience would queue round the block to see them perform twice nightly . |
| 18 | It 's great to see them perform in those kinds of circumstances . |
| 19 | He had thought that living in Normandy would make him ambivalent towards his old enemy , but he had spent too many years fighting the Crapauds suddenly to relinquish the need to see them beaten . |
| 20 | I 'd love to see them manage on it for a year |
| 21 | The only reason why I go to see a Nirvana show is just to see them wreck the gear ! |
| 22 | T was nice to see them draw against Portsmouth last night — strangely enough todays Scun fails to cover the game at all , I wonder why ? ? ? |
| 23 | The I O D also believe that there must be tax incentives to invest in Britain 's small businesses , but they 'd like to see them extended to include the general public . |
| 24 | Here , in China , people talk with horror of children playing games we happily permit in the West : teasing and even hitting an older relative , for example , to see them pretend pain and fear . |
| 25 | ‘ I love animals and hate to see them killed , ’ said Clara McKay , 81 . |
| 26 | I want to see them move . |
| 27 | Also , I love animals and hate to see them suffer . |
| 28 | I do n't like to see them suffer . ’ |
| 29 | I like to see them bloom . ’ |
| 30 | It does n't take much of an imagination to see them supplying Windows NT instead of , or as well as , DOS when the time comes . |