Example sentences of "they to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spectrum denies the EGM was illegal and says existing shareholders can not sell shares to outsiders without first offering them to inside investors . |
| 2 | Because of the doubt attached to their estimates , they want all governments to publish their inventories and submit them to international supervision . |
| 3 | A The ordination of women as priests is specifically excluded from its provisions , as is giving women permission to minister as priests and appointing them to certain offices that only priests may hold . |
| 4 | Take them to Boots and Help the Aged will distribute them to needy people around the world . |
| 5 | The local police had had a busy evening with an exceptional number of hoax calls that led them to non-existent road accidents drunken brawls and even — a touch that showed a nice appreciation of British susceptibilities — a rabid dog on the loose . |
| 6 | The purpose of this chapter is to outline the elements involved in resource management in schools and to apply them to current practice . |
| 7 | The fact that investment trusts do not continually take in new funds and channel them to ultimate borrowers obviously raises the question of whether they should be considered as financial intermediaries at all . |
| 8 | But if a landowner deliberately collects rabbits or game on his land for any purpose , he is liable for damage by them to neighbouring owners if it is caused by his ‘ extraordinary , non-natural or unreasonable action . ’ |
| 9 | Obliquely flattering his readers by introducing them to boys near their own age involved in surprising and exciting events , he also invited them to wishful thinking , if not to identification , by emphasising the youth of his heroes and underplaying the responsibility and enforced maturity belonging to midshipmen in the early and mid-teens in reality . |
| 10 | A United States State Department travel advisory warning to US citizens on April 21 , alerting them to alleged security risks in Kenya , drew an angry response from local media and from an official of the ruling Kenya African National Union ( KANU ) the following day . |
| 11 | According to the theory of social representation , anchoring is a mechanism which ‘ strives to anchor strange ideas , to reduce them to ordinary categories and images , to set them in a familiar context ’ ( Moscovici , ‘ 1983 : 29 , emphasis in original ) . |
| 12 | Stewart , who managed England 's Test side for six years and steered them to successive World Cup finals , said : ‘ When I was brought up during the war , serving Queen and country meant a lot to my generation . |
| 13 | With the lines stretched out , have a friend apply tension on the ends to be prepared and scissor them to equal length . |
| 14 | By adopting such beliefs and applying them to contemporary society both found sustenance in elitist moral and ethical beliefs which were far removed from contemporary reality . |
| 15 | They have to compete for telescope time , to make sure that no one beats them to crucial measurements . |
| 16 | At first they were quite crude and it took little skill and expertise to forge the signature , and then fraudulently put them to financial advantage . |
| 17 | The decision arose from a claim lodged with the ECJ by a group of mainly Spanish-owned fishing companies , employing vessels registered as British , that amendments to the UK 1988 Merchant Shipping Act which excluded 95 of their vessels from British waters were illegal under EC law and had exposed them to financial ruin . |
| 18 | By precisely how much we shall see when we come to look at the attempts to sell them to private investors . |
| 19 | In America small town-dumps have been closed , or sold by the cities that owned them to private operators . |
| 20 | SFA 's rules relating to futures follow this tenet by application of the relevant rules only to circumstances where they are required , for example by limiting them to private investors , to contingent liability transactions or to margined transactions . |
| 21 | People would play the tapes back afterwards and would sometimes send them to distant relatives . |
| 22 | He trained them to regular confession , and whenever any one of them was dying would prepare them for death , and be thankful when they died in penitence , peace and hope . |
| 23 | Even in this case , some work needs doing to the back of the bevel to bring them to optimum usefulness . |
| 24 | If you put them to shallow they come up |
| 25 | His first plan of revenge fails but he follows them to ancient Egypt , where they are joined by the Daleks and Mavic Chen , who know their Core was a fake . |
| 26 | Then we received information , black powder and and er other er types of er conversion kits for semi automatic rifles to convert them to automatic rifles , and that kind of thing . |
| 27 | When I follow , the sack weighs me down and the small holds force the blood from my fingers , numbing them to hot pains . |
| 28 | The DTI sets out two options : abolition without replacement , and replacement by a ‘ compilation report ’ by an independent and suitably qualified accountant ( stating compliance with legislation and that the company is eligible for exemption ) with a directors ' declaration which , under two options , could simply state their obligations or also attest they have kept proper records and prepared accounts to give a true and fair view — and so , as the DTI warns , expose them to civil liability and weaken their statutory defences . |
| 29 | In Kuwait , the resistance , we are not trying to kill them , we are trying to destroy their tanks , to destroy their erm bases , to take their weapons , and to bring them to our sides for to send them to Saudi . |
| 30 | Their hatred of exploitation and their knowledge of western capitalism and the socialist movement it had brought into being led them to utopian socialist illusions . |