Example sentences of "they [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Taking the radical students ' ideals at face-value one might have expected them to see this incident as yet another example of oppression by a fascist regime and protest against it — after all , they protested enough when it used such methods against its own people .
2 However , since the database files were in dBASE format , it is possible to interrogated them using this software rather than Doctor Data if you choose .
3 The aim was to ensure that subjects had been fixating correctly by requiring them to report this digit immediately prior to recalling the stimulus .
4 Doctors can ask us all sorts of intimate questions and expect honest answers ; in return , we expect them to treat this knowledge confidentially and not to gossip about the state of our health .
5 Notices attached to them make this plain .
6 On the basis of our stated principles we can therefore say that unc and unc are both real properties of the proton B. However quantum mechanics does not permit them to enjoy this status simultaneously , since they correspond to operators which do not commute with each other ( p. 28 ) .
7 I sat down with LIFE and worked through their philosophy , erm in line with our own as it were , and they agreed , and I would ask them to agree this year that any paperwork or any leaflets they distribute make it very clear that a choice remains for a woman in terms of whether or not she should have an abortion , because LIFE is fairly , yes , Michael ?
8 Economists were being involved in the process of economic decision making in a manner which had been unknown previously , and most of them found this admission to the counsels of the influential and powerful to be very congenial .
9 The West 's manifest unwillingness to use force against the Bosnian Serbs to get them to accept this plan has contributed to the latest rejection that the plan has suffered , the resounding No delivered by more than nine out of ten Bosnian Serb voters in last weekend 's referendum .
10 And er you you you could hear them patting this butter outside a shop you know , it was a lovely sound on marble slabs and they were patting away at this butter .
11 Although the fish are probably using water currents , the sun or a magnetic sense to help them achieve this feat , it has long been suspected that smell is also involved .
12 If one may suspend conscience , and forget the conditions and costs of labour which allowed them to create this wealth , then these streets — as they do in London and Edinburgh , and still to be seen in Dublin — define the comfort of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century middle classes .
13 If the students we teach have access to video , we need to help them use this opportunity to develop their control of the language they are studying .
14 They had formulated some vague ideas which would let them use this effect to shorten the perceived time it took to play the games they had to play , but the castle clocks , or perhaps the castle itself , seemed unwilling to cooperate .
15 Clearly , an LEA has an obligation in the words of a recent Audit Commission report ( Audit Commission 1989a ) to ‘ articulate a vision of what the education service is trying to achieve ’ and to ‘ support schools and help them to fulfil this vision ’ , but it could be argued that the most appropriate focus for such a vision , necessarily generalized because of the range of institutional contexts and pupil needs involved , should be on identifying broad goals and the kinds of learning which schools might seek to promote .
16 In short , if any of them reaches this standard it should be acceptable Community-wide
17 the employer tendency to favour the industry-type of bargaining was reinforced by the broad socialist , class consciousness of major European unions which probably led them to favour this approach , since it would engage ‘ employers through mass class action ’ , and also extend protection to a larger part of the workforce .
18 I says , they have a hotel there , so I brought them up to the hotel and took them , he went in and he made arrangements to stay there and then I took them over and let them see this lake dwell this crannagh as they call it .
19 While our sports leaders recognise the contribution they can make to providing a ‘ healthy outlet ’ , they are concerned that , although government looks to them to play this role , it is often not prepared to assist them .
20 Do encourage them to do this exercise routine too .
21 At five o'clock tea was served to the Empress and about 20 of her guests , the groups being so organized that in the course of a week all of them enjoyed this privilege , thus avoiding any outbursts of jealousy or recrimination .
22 Therefore by encouraging more of them to use this route , you 'll erode your , your planting in the nature reserve .
23 I assure the House that , in all the speeches that I have made at police meetings and conferences this year , I have repeatedly stressed to the police that I want them to give this type of crime high priority .
24 I sent the cheque back , saying that although it had been immensely good of them to bring me up , I must have been a great burden and was now a disappointment , so I would prefer them to keep this money as some repayment for all they had done .
25 But you also use the time you have with your orchestra to help them approach this state , too .
26 But their definition of the female subject as a biological or cultural essence leads them to pursue this ambiguity much less than egalitarian feminists .
27 Everybody had a contract that was made specific to them saying this material , these audio tapes are your property .
28 Get them to read this exercise whilst you try to imagine what they are saying .
29 In a piece of justified self-advertisement , Underdown invites them to read this book .
30 Others , and particularly the teachers , may seem too busy with their classes for the head to ask them to share this part of the school work-load , there is a shortage of clerical support , the heads want to be seen as in charge of everything as far as possible , and so on .
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