Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] [adv] [verb] their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are other conceptions of consciousness which also owe their existence to the pursuit of certain virtues . |
| 2 | One of the benefits of being a progressive organisation is that Abbey National is able to recruit senior financial sector professionals to roles which truly reflect their status . |
| 3 | These were the copper sheathing which greatly reduced the fouling of their bottoms by weeds and the loss of speed this entailed ; and the carronade which greatly increased their fighting power . |
| 4 | Troyna and Carrington 's dissatisfaction with simplistic assumptions about the antiracist effects of ‘ culture contact ’ and white students ' ‘ direct experience ’ of black realities , as well as their growing awareness of the limits of rationalist pedagogies , points to a need on their part to break with realist assumptions about the curriculum which still underpin their antiracist projects ( Troyna and Carrington , 1990 ) . |
| 5 | Some dockers have even used their redundancy pay to set up their own stevedoring companies which invariably contract their labour to larger companies or the relevant port authorities on a short-term , but ongoing , basis . |
| 6 | Christians seem to believe themselves to be under a pressure to find texts in the bible which directly support their case . |
| 7 | For those who have impaired auditory structure and function , it is possible now to have quite sophisticated , unobtrusive hearing aids which dramatically improve their quality of living and there are also amplifiers available for telephone conversations and public meetings . |
| 8 | Thus in his embodiment of the Kingdom Jesus confronts demonic powers which openly manifest their opposition . |
| 9 | Most were casual or self-employed workers who could not be made to retire , and many were also small property-holders — an important factor which also made their position stronger for continuing at work . |
| 10 | Habitual dieters are on a downward spiral which remorselessly reduces their vitality … |
| 11 | According to Gennady Shatalov , chief geophysician of the Tyumen geological centre , at present no one has full information on the quantity and quality of regional resources which substantially hinders their control , processing and export . |
| 12 | Leaders noted that islanders in the region had made little contribution to the problems which now threaten their way of life . |
| 13 | Hence we do not need to argue that the judiciary are in any sense part of a gigantic conspiracy ; they merely act according to their beliefs which inevitably reflect their class interests . |
| 14 | Mystics often have different beliefs which inevitably affect their experience . |
| 15 | This is hardly surprising when it is remembered how far the world has changed in living memory , and in ways which inevitably made their mark on theology itself . |
| 16 | They were produced at a time when lay people were being targeted for instruction in ways which further fostered their consciousness as individuals with self-defining choices to be made by the programme for revitalising the mission of the Church instituted by the fourth Lateran Council in 1215 . |
| 17 | Whether these bourgeois tried to ape the life style of the aristocracy or , like class-conscious Krupp and his fellow-magnates of the Ruhr , built themselves castles and industrial-feudal empires parallel to and more impressive than those of the Junkers whose titles they refused , they had to spend , and in a manner which inevitably brought their life style closer to that of the unpuritan aristocracy , and that of their womenfolk even more so . |
| 18 | The user is then free to choose the environment which best matches their use characteristics or which improves their aggregate efficiency measured in time , error or quality terms . |
| 19 | Taking pride in the military feats which raised Russia 's prestige , they aspired to erase the features which most disfigured their homeland : autocracy and serfdom . |
| 20 | Kitty Butterwick clears away all the crumbs to find loaves which truly earn their crust . |
| 21 | Some of them , such as Mulvey 's films , and Tyndall , McCall , Pajaczkowska and Weinstock 's Sigmund Freud 's Dora ( 1979 ) , presupposed a knowledge of psychoanalytical theory which necessarily limited their appeal . |
| 22 | These were pets bought as hatchlings which quickly outgrew their owner 's facilities , and have been donated to the park . |
| 23 | It can be seen , therefore , that there were a number of small towns and settlements in Britain which clearly owed their origin and continued prosperity to certain specialized functions , while others acquired these functions with time , often as a result of direct imposition in accordance with central government policy . |
| 24 | They claimed that the two laboratory investigations performed on the painting since it was slashed with a Stanley knife in 1986 showed discrepancies which seriously undermined their validity . |
| 25 | The " fixed-alternative " question provides respondents with a selection of answers , " yes " or " no " or " do n't know " being the simplest , from which they have to make the choice which best reflects their answer to the question . |
| 26 | The plaintiff was seriously and her husband fatally injured by an explosion of gas which also destroyed their home . |
| 27 | The energy paths of every being which literally made their way along here before me have permeated the very fabric of the earth and my footsteps are well guided indeed . |
| 28 | Women get together and discuss the lack of hot water and other domestic issues which also signals their awareness of sexism . |
| 29 | Time and again the IBA proved itself a sucker to serious-sounding prospectuses , awarding franchise to London Weekend Television and the new breakfast television service , TVAM , only for them to turn out complete flops which later recouped their investment by lowering standards . |
| 30 | Zinkernagel showed that natural quartz grains have a luminescence which apparently reflects their source ( or , more correctly , their thermal history ) . |