Example sentences of "their [noun] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most politicians , in any case , are not interested in the machinery of government ; their absorption is with the end product , the pensions , houses , levels of income and foreign policies that come out of the machine . |
| 2 | their enthusiasm is still that of a child who asks all kinds of fascinating questions about the new world in which he finds himself . |
| 3 | Whether their talent was as great as their enthusiasm is unlikely . |
| 4 | We are told that their slogan is the power to choose and the right to own ; however , it has become the power to take and the right to steal . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the range of environmental heterogeneity in the tropics from the foot of the Andes to their peaks is greater spatially than in temperate regions , even if the environment in temperate regions varies greatly temporally . |
| 6 | Their advantage is the presence of a wire wrap area found on some for user modifications . |
| 7 | Belief in its importance is in fact a consequence of the recognition that people , including priests , are fallible , so that the right to challenge their views is a necessary condition of arriving at valid opinions . |
| 8 | In other words their comprehension is at fault , or put another way the text they are using is too difficult for them . |
| 9 | The principal constraint on the number of their disagreements is , indeed , the comparative rarity of their encounters , Raymond invariably being asleep when Vic leaves for work and out when he returns home . |
| 10 | St Paul and the writer of the Letter to the Hebrews are primarily responsible for that , but their judgement is derived not so much from Genesis as from Jewish writings of the period between the Old and New Testaments which turned Abraham into a plaster saint . |
| 11 | Their judgement is of necessity based not upon hypothetical conditions , but upon the evidence of incontrovertible facts . |
| 12 | And they 've come to a judgement on those issues and their judgement is that erm they s should support the principle of a western route . |
| 13 | This works even when recipients are away from their desks providing their PC is left on — ‘ far more efficient than sticking a Post-It note on their screen , ’ Richard smiled . |
| 14 | This survey shows that , when available , their support is usually welcomed by both clients and carers and unmet needs are less . |
| 15 | Supervision is undertaken mainly by bank staff , and their support is crucial for the smooth and efficient running of the examinations — as is the help of the local centres . |
| 16 | While siding with the poor is more rewarding because the poor represent less attractive pickings than the rich , they may be able to ‘ bargain' on the terms on which their support is obtained . |
| 17 | The infinitives of such verbs are found only where the person of their support is specified ( We want it to snow ) , but not when the support is left undefined , as in certain exclamations , and not in the function of subject ( * To snow is pleasant ) . |
| 18 | Their support is then usually too late to avert psychiatric disorder as research is clear in showing that most disorder associated with life events develops quite rapidly after the event . |
| 19 | For example , intensive care beds and their support is very important . |
| 20 | The satisfaction of knowing that their support is helping to sustain and develop Medau work . |
| 21 | Their fleece is renowned by experts to be the springiest and softest in the world . |
| 22 | Western scholars may never discover how many Soviet citizens perished at the hands of Beria 's NKVD troops ( or Abakhumov 's SMERSH , operating in the enemy rear ) , but the scale and significance of their operations is well understood by those who command today 's KGB Border Guards and MVD Internal Troops , along with the ‘ special detachments ’ of the KGB and Armed Forces . |
| 23 | The defendant contract for their negligence is omitting to register this option before the and just before that submission I wish to make . |
| 24 | Perhaps their part is best summarised by remarking that if the brain is damaged at this region not only sexual capacity may be reduced but libido ( sexual urge ) may be reduced or may even be completely lost ; in the opposite direction , artificial stimulation by means of electrodes implanted in these parts of the brain can reproduce the sensations of orgasm and its phenomena — ejaculation etc . |
| 25 | Their part is marked staccato to ensure the clear articulation of every note . |
| 26 | Their course is so far short : the first national Green Party founded in New Zealand as the Value Party in 1972 , the next in the United Kingdom in the following year and then a long gap until Ecolo in Belgium in 1980 heralded a rush either to set up or amalgamate existing groups into parties in the early and mid-1980s . |
| 27 | Prenatal diagnosis in the first trimester provides early reassurance to most mothers that their fetus is not affected by the genetic disorder under investigation . |
| 28 | Their story is one of the saddest , as two species , the Indus River dolphin and the Yangtze River dolphin ( baiji ) , are on the edge of extinction , and their continued survival seems unlikely . |
| 29 | The fifth strand in their story is seen in the clear conversions to Christ that result . |
| 30 | But the narrow out-crops on either side of Scotland have been honoured by comparatively few publications , though their story is much more exciting . |