Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [vb base] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Football thrives on scandal , it is a highly competitive game that offers untold wealth to the most talented players , sudden and often tragic decline in the lives of those whose youth or skills desert them , and the extremes of pain and passion to those who follow the game . |
| 2 | Many such policies have to be enshrined in a legal framework to ensure that employers implement them . |
| 3 | An audience listens to music , not to words ( in fact , especially in choral music , the words are frequently indistinguishable , or so difficult to grasp that listeners ignore them ) . |
| 4 | But you know how children accept almost anything that grownups tell them . |
| 5 | A total of 37 in every 100 women believe that bankers treat them differently just because of their sex . |
| 6 | It is furthermore of great importance that the devices interfere less with working procedures than traditional shielding equipment does , and it is experienced that investigators use them more frequently than the traditional large shields . |
| 7 | ‘ I know that PCs call them spooks , niggers and sooties , but deep down the majority of PCs are n't really against them , although there are some who really hate them and will go out of their way to get them . |
| 8 | Pilots have complained that airlines force them to work long hours , new jets are being grounded or sent back to the manufacturers for modification , and the government has been attacked for a series of embarrassing lapses at major airports . |
| 9 | The number of retailers collapsing during the recession bears witness to the fact that they need customers more than customers need them . |
| 10 | Humans should demand that businesses guarantee them accurate information about green products . |
| 11 | Other studies have found that while managers and staff prize highly the ‘ therapeutic ’ discussion groups which flourish in many day care units , there is less evidence that users rate them as valuable and no evidence that people with long-term mental disorder gain benefit . |
| 12 | To achieve their objective , they have to rely on the efficient working of the price mechanism such that prices give them the appropriate ‘ signals ’ . |
| 13 | Yes , although children pick them up much more often than adults do . |
| 14 | The Julenisse have very bad tempers , so children leave them bowls of porridge at Christmas time . |
| 15 | Is it any wonder that men regard them as half-wits ? ’ |
| 16 | All were happy in their work and , once in it , seem to find that men accept them quite well . |
| 17 | I do this in the belief that by admitting them publicly we will discover that others share them . |
| 18 | They may find it hard to adapt or compromise , so that others find them too rigid . |
| 19 | They are … the people whose position and activities enable them to fuse and mediate both neighbourhood involvement and social services care … |
| 20 | If superiors involve them in decision-making , they are more likely to be management-minded . |
| 21 | But too often the system 's outdated working methods and attitudes prevent them from giving their best . |
| 22 | Service managers are waking up to the value of experienced nurses whose understandable reservations about being out of date with current ideas and technologies prevent them from taking up their careers again . |
| 23 | Transformations that leave shape and size unaltered are obviously the most basic , and geometers call them isometries . |
| 24 | Well they 're a lot of fun and kids love them . |
| 25 | Well they 're a lot of fun and kids love them , and as I commented a little earlier to somebody I still have n't quite forgiven my mother-in-law for the chemistry set she bought my seven year old . |
| 26 | Well they 're a lot of fun and kids love them . |
| 27 | How often have we plodding climbers and walkers set them off and thought to ourselves : ‘ I wish I could travel as fast and effortlessly as that . ’ |
| 28 | socket joint have grown , because they will grow , they both get bigger and the muscles and ligaments hold them firmly together , right , so that the hip no longer slides out of its joint . |
| 29 | Erm well we had a a big raffle erm we wrote away to all the local shops and restaurants ask them to donate prizes and we raised a lot of money through that and also my mum erm cooked Indian snacks which we sold during the interval erm which everyone loved and so it worked quite well . |
| 30 | They are helpless , drifting wherever the currents and tides take them . |