Example sentences of "[vb -s] they [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many are unfamiliar with , and suspicious of , statutory bodies , and limited command of English discourages them from using social service . |
| 2 | They should help small farmers , but not in a way that discourages them from getting larger or farming better : there must be no farming poverty trap . |
| 3 | The Payment of Wages Act allows employers to make it a condition of employment that new employees should be paid through a bank , but prohibits them from doing this with existing employees ( though of course individual existing employees can agree voluntarily to accept bank-account payment ) . |
| 4 | They remain hidden until it is threatened , when it displays them by turning itself upside-down . |
| 5 | It induces parties to submit their disputes voluntarily to conciliation or administrative decision and , in some areas such as divorce and custody , it involves them in working out a private solution , thus enhancing their acceptance of the outcome . |
| 6 | At other times it involves them in working with familiar phenomena . |
| 7 | Very few studies have sought to position shoplifting within a broader social and political sphere , where women in particular are vulnerable to a consumer fetishism that drives them to lawbreaking … |
| 8 | Women bear children in rapid succession when young and when they can no longer face the prospect of another child , they choose sterilization because it exempts them from having to take conscious and continuing responsibility for their own fertility in a culture which constantly denies women this right . |
| 9 | I can not describe anything , any more than you can ever describe or wish to describe a loved person , because that love strips them of possessing characteristics . |
| 10 | What is communicated can easily be a view that ignores other religions , or that interprets them inadequately within terms of a comparison with one 's own , or that accepts them without trying to relate to them so that they exist in a kind of schizophrenic soup in the mind and emotions . |
| 11 | The guidance , while encouraging social workers to share information with clients about their needs , warns them against recording this on the assessment form because clients could go to court over any assessed needs which are not being met with services . |
| 12 | In essence their class position often forces them into using the environment destructively and inhibits any adaptive response to its inevitable deterioration . |
| 13 | The Germans are a peaceful people , but they have a right to live , and to live as Germans , and they are convinced of the fact that they have a mission for all the nations of the earth ; if one hinders them from fulfilling their mission then they have the right to use force . |
| 14 | He sacrifices four lambs at the base of the li ga , then takes two inside and kills them by slitting open the throat and the chest and cutting off one of the forelegs at the shoulder , so the heart can be taken out , still pumping , and offered to the god on a plate on the dhāmi 's raised seat . |
| 15 | If a supplier decides to increase his market share by attracting higher usage by occasional users , he must first attempt to find out whether they buy competitors ' goods or not , or where there is something about the present marketing mix which dissuades them from buying more frequently . |
| 16 | Many teachers feel that their training inadequately prepares them for dealing with behaviour problems in schools ( Mongon 1984 ) . |
| 17 | I point to her buttons , she closes them with shaking hands . |
| 18 | Mr Menem woos them by saying that both money wages and public-sector employment should rise . |
| 19 | Mira 's only possible recourse is to a parodic ventriloquy of male modes of communication which subtly undermines them by using word play to expose the ‘ fictions ’ that underpin supposedly objective information and ‘ expert ’ analyses from Herodotus 's time to the present . |
| 20 | They have not right to take and fund matters to the Higher Courts to review the decisions of the Government , the executive in other words , and they themselves have no idea how they 're meant to fulfil this role that the Government sees them as having . |
| 21 | Many plants native to natural mixed woodland flower and produce their leaves early in the year , before deciduous trees have developed a full canopy , and welcome the shade in summer that protects them from scorching in full sun . |
| 22 | How do social workers go about investigating these complaints , and what leads them towards deciding that a child has been abused ? |
| 23 | The Maastricht treaty commits them to holding a big treaty-revising conference in 1996 . |
| 24 | A lot of Americans are meanwhile disenchanted with an alliance that commits them to defending a Europe that could do more for itself — especially a Europe that offers America so little , so ungraciously , in return . |
| 25 | He accuses them of running up a hundred million pound debt during their years in control , and says the Tories are wrong to go along with them . |
| 26 | Our consumer society demands these , yet takes them for granted . |
| 27 | He does not chase the monkeys , but only keeps them from settling . |
| 28 | ‘ He keeps them from seeing the light shining on them , the light that comes from the Good News about the glory of Christ ’ ( 2 Cor. |
| 29 | ‘ Then what keeps them from clumping together in the middle of the Universe ? ’ |
| 30 | Britain recaptures them by sending a large naval task force . |