Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] their [noun] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Training in research methods is part of their preparation for their research projects on the basis of which they will write a dissertation . |
| 2 | From November , 1914 , Ruhleben ( racecourse stables outside Berlin ) housed for up to four years about 4000 Britons , who ranged from several honeymoon couples just arrived in Germany for their August holidays to dons and students on walking or reading parties , musicians and sportsmen snatched from festivals , and even a journalist with an ear supposedly close to the ground , Israel Cohen , a German correspondent for the London press who had cheerfully left on July 29 for his vacation near Dresden . |
| 3 | I take your point Anne , but I would prefer to help the MP understand that the nature of the way that this department is run is that officers do take responsibility for their specialist areas of work , the senior management has always supported that , and I do n't feel minded to change it because the MP finds it difficult . |
| 4 | LATE SHOW RANGERS suffered a shock defeat at this venue early last season and a repeat looked on the cards as the Ibrox side struggled to find any rhythm after their extra-time exertions against Aberdeen in midweek . |
| 5 | The biological and physiological complexity required for molecular recognition either ‘ directly ’ through the senses of ‘ smell ’ or ‘ taste ’ , or ‘ indirectly ’ through appreciation of their modulating effects upon electromagnetic energy , is quite amazing . |
| 6 | Millions of employees and pensioners are deeply worried about the future of their pension funds as a result of the MGN revelations , so will you , Mr. Speaker , use your good offices to seek an early statement to the House by the Secretary of State , so that the public 's doubts and apprehensions can be allayed ? |
| 7 | In real life , a degree of flexibility is inevitable for the river managers , despite the essential submission of their work programmes to environmentalists well before the diggers arrive on the river bank . |
| 8 | This inner part does not go below fiddle G , so that the violins could lend the powerful aid of their G strings to it ( coupled with other instruments of course ) were it not for the fact that their presence is urgently required to help out the top line . |
| 9 | An example is the coinage of the Greek colonies in southern Italy , most of which reduced the weight of their silver coins by one-sixth in the early third century BC , thereby aiding in the classification of their coinages . |
| 10 | Its formal approach to the north-west of the church , between wide grass borders with their April drifts of daffodils , is the result of the Thorold family 's ostentatious display of modern taste . |
| 11 | On Dec. 8 , 1989 , the governments of South Korea and the Soviet Union agreed to open consular offices in their trade offices in Moscow and Seoul respectively . |
| 12 | The early charters of the dukes of Gascony dating from the tenth and eleventh centuries make no mention in their dating clauses of the reigning king of France , and the dukes certainly possessed such rights as the striking of coins . |
| 13 | Those that he produced for sale through the Redfern Gallery were usually printed in editions of fifty and include Thames-side , Bull Fight , Spain , Tropical Landscape , Horse Guards in their Dressing Rooms at Whitehall and Working Men 's College , this last relating to his association with the Working Men 's College in Crowndale Road , Mornington Crescent , where he gave a lecture , ‘ The Painter 's Intention ’ , in 1952 , taught lithography and also acted as Art Adviser . |
| 14 | There was , in addition , an important prize at stake , the use of the Castilian galley fleet , perhaps the finest in Europe , with which the French , in particular , could give a much-needed boost to their war efforts at sea . |
| 15 | THE French government yesterday attempted to end months of intermittent industrial action by dockers and a 40-year union stranglehold over their working conditions with new legislation to reform French ports . |
| 16 | AN additional advantage of Scotland 's sevens tour is the opportunity to run the rule over their pool opponents for the World Cup Sevens at Murrayfield next month . |
| 17 | He looked at the woodcuts , which were described on the title page as ‘ Illustrations by B.G. ’ A female figure with a scarfed head , flying apron and great wooden shoes , standing in a clearing surrounded by dark pine trees full of white eyes among their crossing arms of needles . |
| 18 | Chris and Roderick were taking a break while spending a year studying engineering at Lyon as part of their degree courses at British universities . |
| 19 | And the possibility , particularly for husbands , of losing a significant part of their pension rights on divorce will focus their minds on the value of those rights . |
| 20 | The Chancellor also used his statement to close the loophole whereby companies acquired other businesses merely to take advantage of their capital losses for tax purposes . |
| 21 | However , some trade unions now have special women 's committees to assist the representation of the views of their women members in an effort to ameliorate the problem . |
| 22 | Few children live close to these work sites ( and , obviously , none offshore ) , but the regular home visits of these workers might occasion indirect exposure of their home communities to any effects of the mixing in those unusual worksites . |
| 23 | Headquarters staff are dependent upon the energy and diligence of their field officers in controlling and preventing pollution , in supplying adequate data and reports , and in representing the agency to the public . |
| 24 | Did he feel it too , this bathing of their twin souls in their own primeval element ? |
| 25 | ‘ We are committed to the development of rugby league in Wales and will be monitoring their progress on the international scene during their home fixtures with New Zealand and France next season . ’ |
| 26 | It is interesting to note that the Rooks which use elms as a high proportion of their nest sites in this region quickly move to other tree species when elms are removed . |
| 27 | Teachers are unionized and a powerful enough group to prevent the decoupling of their salary levels from those of other public-sector employees , but none the less by 1985 they had seen the real value of their salaries fall to half their value a decade earlier . |
| 28 | Our next two examples are of innovating organizations which drew essential conceptual elements of their change agendas from their organizational links with foreign firms . |
| 29 | And the two of them shuffling in with the hoods of their duffel coats over their heads and their school scarves pulled over noses and mouths like a pair of monks doing the rounds during the Black Death . |
| 30 | Hitler was able to offer them a new mass base for the apparent consolidation of their leadership positions within the framework of an authoritarian system , together with the prospect of Germany attaining a position of hegemony within Europe and even world power status . |