Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] their [noun pl] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only potential problem with friends being eager to let you pick bits and pieces from their gardens is that often they may not grow anything that is suitable for pressing . |
| 2 | Table 4.4 clearly shows that in spite of all the additional resources of PNP , and in spite of the fact that , on average , their teachers were involved in more than three teacher-pupil interactions every minute , individual children took part in only eleven teacher-pupil interactions per hour , of which fewer than half were task-related : indeed in some classes the mean hourly rate of individual pupils ' task-related interactions with their teachers was as tow as two , and in no class was it higher than eleven . |
| 3 | Over at Ibrox , the news for their fans is that the long injury list is continuing to shorten . |
| 4 | The implication of their arguments was that a major restructuring was taking place . |
| 5 | The main substance to their complaints was that at £26 a ticket they were not receiving value for money . |
| 6 | The agreed version of their origins is that they were lepers or the descendants of lepers , whom no local community would accept as neighbours . |
| 7 | Well , i i if I , the , on one of the comments I 'd make is that it 's the only time I 've ever known the accounting profession to do businessmen a favour by forcing them to face up to what the costs of the consequences of their actions are and this has as James said led to looking quite carefully and I think it 's difficult to quantify the cost at the moment for a variety of reasons . |
| 8 | Perhaps the furthest idea from their hearts was that they were going to be attacked . ’ |