Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer has been approached by industrialists to give them something to look forward to in his budget . |
| 2 | People who superficially are in the same position in a family — brothers and sisters , mother and fathers — are likely to define their responsibilities very differently and , perhaps more importantly , to be expected by others to define them differently . |
| 3 | The key to FABMS is the technique whereby atoms , having first been stripped of electrons to allow them to accelerate in a magnetic field , subsequently have their electrons replaced by passing through inert gases . |
| 4 | Ever since the twelfth century a particular form of didactic literature , an instruction manual written for princes giving them both moral and practical advice on how best to rule those under their care , had been developing . |
| 5 | An injunction was granted against USI prohibiting them from publishing the phone numbers of British abortion clinics in student union handbooks . |
| 6 | Many armies still relied on civilians to drive their artillery train and baggage-wagons , and on draught animals commandeered from civilians to pull them . |
| 7 | SCOTVEC has written to colleges reminding them of the availability of a devolved system of assessment for awards for which only one college provides the course . |
| 8 | ICI Pharmaceuticals had also written to doctors telling them about the serious reactions and deaths . |
| 9 | It can be suggested that the fiduciary duties imposed on directors subject them to similar standards of review by the courts . |
| 10 | Coding can be done by interviewers to give them a break and to sustain their interest , but is more usually done by special staff . |
| 11 | Police have appealed for witnesses to contact them . |
| 12 | In fact this criticism , which was very powerful in undermining the claims of Realism , was open to a retort that it missed the point , since Morgenthau claimed only that rationality assumptions were being used as economists use them , to establish a limiting case or ideal type by which actual behaviour could be evaluated . |
| 13 | This was not the first time that water had been collected in bulk , but hitherto those who indulged in the practice had generally been powerful bodies , like water or railway companies , who had acted under powers given them by legislation which at the same time made them liable for harm done by its escape . |
| 14 | Dr Heather Henderson , 29 , a polymer technologist with BICC Cables ' Wrexham Technology Centre , and colleague Mrs Barbara Groombridge , talked to girls to encourage them to think more positively about a career in science and engineering . |
| 15 | Four southern African states have agreed on measures to enable them to resume trading in ivory . |
| 16 | Yesterday a court agreed to police holding them a further 36 hours . |
| 17 | A COUPLE have appealed to Merseysiders to help them raise £15,000 in three months to send their son to a pioneering medical clinic in the United States . |
| 18 | By Philippa Bellis , health reporter A COUPLE have appealed to Merseysiders to help them raise £15,000 in three months to send their son to a pioneering medical clinic in America . |
| 19 | This report examined the particular needs and problems of one-parent families ( one in ten of families with children by 1971 ) , and many of its recommendations had educational implications : expansion of day care and nursery provision , encouragement of pregnant schoolgirls to continue their education , radical changes in the secondary school curriculum and in the careers guidance offered to girls to enable them to compete equally for better paid , traditionally male jobs , greater home-school contacts with more support from guidance staff for children known to be in one-parent families . |
| 20 | What support might be offered to schools to help them analyse the needs of pupils and develop programmes to meet those needs ? |
| 21 | A giant film set has been opened to children to teach them how to stay alive . |
| 22 | Now the emphasis has shifted to efforts to help them spend more . |
| 23 | The study seeks to establish a clearer concept and fuller details of the knowledge needed by teachers to enable them to teach effectively two mathematical topics : elementary trigonometry , and areas and volumes . |
| 24 | Such messages could ( at a push ) be used by players to help them promote the value of the shares in that company in the interminable rounds of wheeling and dealing . |
| 25 | Rather , it was an integral part of curriculum delivery , actively used by teachers to help them through their work programmes . |
| 26 | For centuries , bars of magnetite were used by sailors to guide them across the unvarying expanse of the oceans , and it is only fairly recently that manufactured substances have replaced this naturally occurring ore in compasses . |
| 27 | Furthermore , if some Branches struck and called on others to back them , that support could be ensured by picketing the workplaces of those who were to be persuaded : Scargill was strong in his insistence that miners do not cross picket lines formed by other miners , but he was eventually defeated by both the unwillingness of an increasingly large body of miners ( especially those working in Nottinghamshire , see below ) to disregard this advice in the absence of a national ballot on strike action , and the government 's preparedness to counter the pickets by mass policing and other tactics which limited the freedom of movement of perceived would-be pickets ( Fine and Millar , 1985 ) . |
| 28 | They have now called on councillors to meet them to discuss the future of the maisonettes and will present a petition to them today . |
| 29 | While conceding that ‘ thirty years of study and the writing of one million words must have left their mark on Newton 's mind ’ , Hall is inclined , on the whole , to reaffirm his verdict , published in a joint paper in 1958 , that Newton attempted to retrieve useful chemical facts from the enigmatic and mysterious terms employed by alchemists to conceal them . |
| 30 | Here , here , I second that on H on page thirty one very important one , the county council welcomes the recognition by the joint working party of the importance of meaningful support services to the elected members and the recomme recommendation that the Secretary of State should review and clarify the powers of local authorities to meet costs of services provided to members to enable them to carry out their duties as councillors Now the erm members appointments , appointments of member services sub have been discussing this issue and I would like to point out to members that we are not claiming the amount allowable for the paying members allowances we erm we 're way below the limit that 's allowable by the government Now before anyone say well what have you done about it ? |