Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] them " in BNC.

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1 Various items get gulped up into my mouth , and after skilful massage with tongue and teeth I transfer them to the plate for additional sculpture with knife and fork and spoon .
2 He 's talking about the time I approached them at Leeds Poly and asked them why their logo featured women 's breasts rather than the species-ist cow 's udders I made them change it to .
3 But because these interests in land were protected by personal and not by the real actions , they developed a set of legal characteristics which caused them to differ from the interests classed as real property .
4 The Thatcher group had several characteristics which made them differ from their predecessors .
5 When national characteristics were talked about a hundred years ago , in the great days of Darwinism and eugenics and so on , it was a pseudo-scientific talk erm implying that there was some blood or racial characteristics which marked one people off from another , and this lay at the bottom of all that talk about Anglo-Saxon racial superiority , which erm led plenty of people in this country to suppose that erm the white peoples of Northern Europe and North America had some characteristics which made them superior to coloured people , and all kind of bogus scientific arguments followed from that .
6 Most crucially it means identifying the population which is at ‘ risk ’ of being exposed to the noxious or infectious agent via proximity or because of certain characteristics which make them more vulnerable .
7 Verdi is never mistaken for Wagner , nor Puccini for Tchaikovsky , because their melodies have personal distinguishing characteristics which make them instantly identifiable .
8 a considerable collection of under-utilised data , possibly with some characteristics which differentiate them from the main archive collections ; and ,
9 Autistic children are difficult to understand due to their complete individuality ; unlike Down 's people , they do not have any common physical characteristics which place them apart from other people ; they are often very attractive looking children .
10 These three groups share common characteristics which mark them out from the rest of the population , even from many of those who are on low income .
11 Milk and food can also be contaminated by infection in the animals which provide them and preventing the transmission of such disease ( e.g. brucellosis ) involves strict control over the source and supply of animal food products for human consumption .
12 None of this is a matter of syntax ; the intensional relations and the syntactic constructions which realize them are just the ones we have discussed in previous chapters .
13 Duosome Cream is a beauty product whose active ingredients include Elastin , Collagen , Vitamins E and F , together with liposomes which carry them beneath the skin to the cells below .
14 Spiders have eight hairy legs which enable them to move easily over obstacles and rough territory .
15 She connects psychological variables like parental contact and control , extended family and peer care and contact , the girls ' autonomy and responsibility , their hostility and suspicion towards the world , and their early sense of themselves as adult women rather than children , to specific social , political and economic oppressions which affect them .
16 Intermediate Technology enables poor people in the Third World to develop and use technologies and methods which give them more control over their lives and which contribute to the long-term development of their communities .
17 Intermediate Technology enables poor people in the Third World to develop and use technologies and methods which give them more control over their lives and which contribute to the long-term development of their communities .
18 To provide training in research methods which makes them capable subsequently of assuming the role of independent scholars and research workers at the highest level . ’
19 If it is binding on individuals it has to be justified by considerations which bind them .
20 For the traditional élites , it was not charisma but pragmatic power considerations which aligned them with Hitler .
21 Ultimately , however , directives and rules derive their force from the considerations which justify them .
22 Unfortunately the major forage grass species have complex life-cycles which make them unsuitable for some experiments .
23 The grievances which prompted them tended not to be social , but political , fiscal , or even religious .
24 The Fascist youth organizations which replaced them never went camping , or learned how to cook , or developed any other outdoor skills .
25 Following this they release blood into their eyes which turns them a dull red colour .
26 To test whether recognising the land beneath is essential to them in finding the way , opaque contact lenses were fitted to their eyes which prevented them from seeing more than a few yards ahead .
27 It is the result of a six-year trek around the world by the Kienholzes which took them from an Indian reservation in South Dakota to China and got them thinking about how the chance of one 's birth is all important in one 's life .
28 In addition they choose from units which permit them to study those national and regional histories of which they have some prior knowledge , as well as less familiar societies and cultures , and from units in which the emphasis is on a particular aspect of or approach to history , for example , the history of the Origins of Modern Science , of Modern Political Thought or of Mass Communication and Society .
29 In the second year , students choose from units which permit them to study national and regional histories of which they probably have some prior knowledge , as well as less familiar societies and cultures .
30 He spent several weeks calling on the homes around his church to discover the needs of the community and the inhibitions which kept them from church attendance ( Schuller 1974:81 ) .
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