Example sentences of "them [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The idea is for them eventually to be restored completely and turned into a working museum , ’ said Mr Rawlinson . |
| 2 | For whatever reason , the French failed either to withdraw their forces from what were intended as border strongholds or to reinforce them sufficiently to be able to withstand attacks from Vietminh forces which could now be launched at divisional strength trained and commensurately equipped by the Chinese communist armies which had reached the frontier the year before . |
| 3 | In general , if you ca n't restate someone else 's ideas in your own words , it is likely that you do not yet understand them sufficiently to be able to make appropriate use of them . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm talking about liking people , liking them enough to be friends . |
| 5 | The author did not understand these and thought them perhaps to be due to changes in reflectance . |
| 6 | That there is a certain amount of confusion and inconsistency in the arguments does not make them less to be feared . |
| 7 | Their greatest fear is that as they become weaker , ‘ caring authorities ’ will take them over and whisk them away to be ‘ looked after properly ’ . |
| 8 | The three of them soon to be part of one fusion , still at this time isolated from each other : three figures representing and summarising between them so much that was central to the complex notion of the Romantic Age . |
| 9 | You ca n't but peek at them just to be titillated , not really believing what they are saying , since they are concocted by charlatans . |
| 10 | I am a little unhappy about this , because there seem to be such close resemblances between the two plates , that I would not wish them ever to be far apart . |
| 11 | DoubleClickSpeed=452 : Longest time allowed between two mouse clicks for them still to be counted as a double click . |
| 12 | Isaiah declares that God 's servant , whom Christians recognise as Jesus Christ , will be ‘ a light for the Gentiles ’ and that God himself ‘ will ‘ beckon ’ them , calling them forth to be part of his purposes of salvation to the ends of the earth' ( Isa. 42.6 ; 49:6 , 22 ) . |
| 13 | Originally we were planning to reward the first ten correct answers drawn out of the bag with a wonderful Sigma-Ray joystick , but unfortunately Markie ( feeble minded fool that he is ) mistook them for his laundry and took them home to be washed by his Mum . |
| 14 | Yes , yeah when we used to bring them home to be slaughtered on the Monday , you see . |
| 15 | For these to be effective the patient would need to practise them repeatedly to be able to bring about fairly rapid relaxation when tense feelings were beginning to occur . |
| 16 | The Railway Children , after completing their educations and entering the professions , took early retirement to Glastonbury , where they ran a museum devoted to railway memorabilia , This enables them also to be active in the campaign for penal reform . |
| 17 | After the discovery of consignments of hospital waste , including syringes and blood bags , in a quarry rubbish tip in eastern France , French customs officers intercepted at least 20 German trucks , and found them also to be carrying hospital waste , sometimes mixed with ordinary domestic rubbish . |
| 18 | But I think good parents need the perspective which allows them sometimes to be selfish . |
| 19 | The main purpose of the conference was to provide a forum for social , community and health workers to explore social , ethical and legal issues emerging from the practice of genital mutilation , which although prohibited in Britain , affects girls resident here whose families take them abroad to be circumcised . |
| 20 | Leave them there to be culled ? |
| 21 | Cohesive markers are not always necessary , but where you find sentences without evident markers , it may be useful to inspect them closely to be certain that the relationship with the preceding sentence is sufficiently clear . |
| 22 | It is perhaps not surprising that when a Christian mob destroyed the synagogue in Clermont , in the aftermath of an outrage committed on a Jewish convert to Christianity , Avitus did nothing to protect the Jews , but used the incident to force them either to be baptized or to leave the city . |