Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [noun] [conj] [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Industry-level bargaining would seem to have corresponded most closely to the preferences of employers and their capacity to organise themselves with a view to protecting market shares and strengthening their own bargaining power . |
| 2 | Since the joys of Sky TV brought us Botham and Lamb in sunglasses , deep midwickets all over Kent have donned Ray Bans and proclaimed their allegiance to the New York Yankees . |
| 3 | As well as enabling students to learn something about production , marketing , and book-keeping , Mini-Enterprise is invaluable in helping students learn to work together collaboratively , to explore leadership roles and to find their own solutions . |
| 4 | Press agencies and wire services : There are a number of press agencies based in London and in the provinces who cover news events and feed their material to the national and other papers . |
| 5 | Not all shipowners found it equally easy to collect non-union crews , while the requirements of the merchant service and differences between the trade undertaken by various shipowners led to variations in willingness or pressing need to resist union demands and to sink their differences against what they regarded as unwarranted union attacks upon their commercial interests . |
| 6 | The Office of Fair Trading is investigating claims that the big tour-operators and their chain of travel agents are using their muscle to restrict customer choice and tighten their grip on the market . |
| 7 | The Office of Fair Trading is investigating claims that the big tour-operators and their chain of travel agents are using their muscle to restrict customer choice and tighten their grip on the market . |
| 8 | The Chartered Surveyor is specially trained to identify building defects and to evaluate their significance and how therefore the property 's value is affected . |
| 9 | A couple of wretches on the run , skulking in the bushes on the lookout for prey , would never have dared break cover and try their luck with us . |
| 10 | On Saturday they meet Cork Harlequins and play their last group match against SPV Illescas from Madrid . |
| 11 | Local authority social service departments were to be responsible , in collaboration with medical , nursing and other interests for assessing individual need , designing care arrangements and securing their delivery within available resources . |
| 12 | They 've found that training with the Open Business School offers managers courses that fit their needs and their work experience . |
| 13 | But the enthusiasm of the 10,000 East Germans who cheered Dr Kohl and pinned their hopes on him to bring the two Germanys together was in stark contrast to official statements on the future from East Germany 's reform-minded leaders . |
| 14 | After a tortuous argument , the standard-setters agreed to let banks value and disclose their intangible assets in their balance sheets as well . |
| 15 | Organisations that have agreed in principle to let Phonelink hold and use their databases are Infocheck for company profiling ; the Automobile Association for identification of appropriate hotel accommodation , restaurants and guest houses ; Thomson Directories for finding business leads ; the Press Association for news ; Ordnance Survey for destination mapping ; British Rail for railway timetables ; British Weather Services ; and GB Mailing Systems for postcode information . |
| 16 | ‘ The Caradon management team is joining MB Group and bringing their company with them . ’ |
| 17 | In some cases companies introduced job classification and revised their wage structures based on job evaluations … |
| 18 | The research investigates the reasons why companies have introduced Quality Circles and evaluates their benefits and shortcomings . |
| 19 | The precise criteria and procedures whereby schools were included in the project are discussed at length elsewhere in this report , but we may note that a set of guidelines for school participation was drawn up and developed by the Project Coordinating Team ( see Appendix 3 ) and that these gave direction to schools as they established library committees and developed their plans . |
| 20 | Once drafted , it will be put forward by the department to the Cabinet which , nowadays , usually has a Legislation Committee to consider draft bills and settle their priority in the programme . |
| 21 | Relations were not disturbed even when the Khomeini government arrested Tudeh leaders and dissolved their movement in 1983 . |
| 22 | Broadly speaking , the support of Parliament for any government with more than a nominal majority can be taken for granted and ministers come to the House to explain their policies , put through their bills , counter opposition propaganda and keep their supporters happy . |
| 23 | In an undisturbed home , all domestic cats see themselves as subordinates of their human owners , so under normal circumstances all domestic cats use litter trays or bury their faeces in the garden . |
| 24 | His method was to patronize the so-called ‘ Nonpossessor ’ reformist current within the Church , which urged the clergy to shed material wealth and pursue their spiritual mission unencumbered . |
| 25 | Growing exports would give them foreign currency — the means to raise living standards and modernise their factories . |
| 26 | In this context , the low-budget production area , by providing continuous employment , usefully offered directors and technicians opportunities to develop craft skills and promote their potential . |
| 27 | After a while they make adobe bricks and build their houses by stages , one room followed by another . |
| 28 | To establish genuine intimacy , it is crucial that a couple learn to communicate with each other not just gossiping about friends , talking about the children or discussing world events but expressing their feelings , their fears , hopes , secrets , dreams , vulnerabilities , reactions , joys , irritations and depressions . |
| 29 | The isoenzymes , which may be derived from alternative gene sets provided by polyploidy , in effect increase membrane permeability and allow water to pass out of the cells , concentrating cell solutions and lowering their freezing points . |
| 30 | Education and housing departments , water and electricity boards have often failed to follow policy guidelines or to co-ordinate their work . |