Example sentences of "[pron] be [art] [noun] [prep] their " in BNC.

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1 It makes me feel I have been prying into it all , I am a voyeur of their joint life .
2 There are no perimeters in that world that I can feel ; I am a trick of their fate , peripheral , unclassy , bored .
3 I was the centre of their universe and my first seven years sped by in a whirl of buckskin shoes , party frocks , pet rabbits and circus trips .
4 I still have some letters which Mother and Father wrote to each other — beautiful letters , which are a revelation of their lives , both when they were courting and after they were married .
5 The power relationship underlies such an instruction because if an employee does not carry out the instruction then managers are entitled to exercise sanctions which are the manifestation of their power — the ultimate sanction being the sacking of an employee .
6 The spirits which are the focus of their religious concern are not regarded as being directly moralistic in such an explicit fashion as their counterparts among the Nuer .
7 individuals/groups are given opportunities to experience the full range of standards and conditions which are the focus of their learning .
8 Given Berkeley 's immaterialism , however , the idea that things have real essences ( be they scholastic forms or corpuscular constitutions ) , which are the cause of their properties , simply has no place .
9 Some of them carried the guns which were the tools of their trade .
10 Other additions to make the supplement obsolete come mainly from the deep south , where Geoff Hornby and Suzi Sammut have been cruising around on their Luxury Liner ( E3 5c ) , which is a variant on their own Crinoid Cruise .
11 There is no doubt that some dogs are naturally more aggressive than others , which is a reflection of their breeding .
12 If we are looking for advice on a particular situation which affects us then impartiality of the second type is particularly important ; for instance , the judge who assesses the relevant facts and selects the relevant moral or legal rules must not be someone who has something to gain or lose by the outcome , although this presupposes the correctness of the rules to be applied and so takes us back to the impartiality normally associated with legislators , which is a matter of their involvement in determining rules which are not only universalisable but are actually to be universalised , at least within a given community , and to their impartiality in the third sense namely the adequacy of the consideration given to the various relevant considerations .
13 Richard Harris and Gene Hackman have been in Westerns before but never one as good as this ( indeed , Harris ' character 's inflation of his own pompous myth relates to the sham of his A Man Called Horse ) , which is a key to their characterisations and the way they are constantly stacked up against Eastwood .
14 And we know what the Iraqi government would like , which is the release of their money frozen here since the Gulf war .
15 But , if Aquinas is right , they do not act intentionally , intending a goal which is the reason for their actions .
16 Yet they fought on , trying to defend the long line which was the border of their dominion in northern France , much as their predecessors had done in Aquitaine in the 1370s .
17 Veblen portrays this class as determined to create a distance between themselves and that world of necessity which was the foundation of their fortune .
18 They thus created a class of semi-employed pensioners , which was the foundation of their social strength in the larger towns .
19 Edward I , as duke of Aquitaine , was particularly sought after by Gascon nobles as a patron of knighthood , prepared to gird them and their sons with the sword which was the symbol of their order .
20 Which was then highlighted in the c in the structural report which went before the council which was the basis of their decision to rehouse all the tenants .
21 Many are the cases of dogs , horses , bullocks , elephants and other creatures protecting the humans who are a part of their social group .
22 Who are the UN in their light blue berets and pretty blue and white flag ?
23 And when we say , or the A N C and democratic organizations say , that you need a five percent vote to cross the hurdle to get in to the assembly and then you , you , you 're a member of their parliament so to say and then what do we hear ?
24 The cast of Her Benny , the dancers in their beautiful costumes , the steel band , the police and dogs , the schoolboys who were a credit to their schools showing how football used to be played just for the game .
25 The most important element was the difficulty that reformers had in distinguishing between their desire to protect the young girls who were the objects of their concern and their desire to control them .
26 Presumably you were the cause of their separation .
27 He must know how much she hated being told this , reminded about how she was the apple of their eye , and the centre of simple boastful conversation .
28 If the approved accounts do not comply with the Act , every director who was a party to their approval and who knows that they do not comply or is reckless as to whether or not they comply is guilty of an offence and every director at the time the accounts were approved is taken to be a party to their approval unless he shows that he took all reasonable steps to prevent their approval .
29 If — hairbrush microphones in hand — they were not pretending to be Abba , it was Welsh star Bonnie Tyler who was the inspiration for their unenthusiastic warblings .
30 As soon as he confessed what he knew , fumbling the hideous admission as they came out of a rather good film about love that he had hardly been able to stand , she managed to make it seem that it was he , not she , who was the disturber of their lives .
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