Example sentences of "and [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not just that there survive undeconstructed residues of , say , Romanticism and modernism , or that the constructed forms echo still within the deconstructed ( although they clearly do survive in these ways ) ; it is also that they exert an influence in and as their newly deconstructed state . |
| 2 | The facilitator functions as an advocate of the originator , their guide through the corporate labyrinth , and as their bridge to management . |
| 3 | Getting to know the other , who 's supposed to be wicked because he 's the enemy , makes possible not only battle itself but also close bodily contact between the combatants and between their beliefs . |
| 4 | A fascinating warren of steep narrow alleyways , of Hat-roofed tenement housing , it was visible from the French quarter , visible almost throughout the city : that teeming place , filled with barefoot children , with women shrouded from head to foot in black , who clasped their head-dresses across their faces and between their teeth , and never raised their eyes . |
| 5 | The joint communiqué with which the visit concluded welcomed the normalisation of relations between the two countries , and between their two ruling parties . |
| 6 | This is hardly surprising , because the chemical non-inertness of the dominant volatiles and the considerable differences in volatility between one volatile and another and between their compounds lead to numerous possible ways in which differences could arise . |
| 7 | The style of the product is usually argumentative in any or all of three modes : about the truth of assertions about the past ; about the typicality of the events and actions described ; and about their meaning , the interpretation which historians put on them . |
| 8 | Traditionally parents have tried to keep a lot of information about life and about their own affairs from their children . |
| 9 | People were asked what crimes they had been victims of ( victim study ) and about their own law-breaking ( self-report study ) , and they were also asked about their attitudes towards the police and policing . |
| 10 | Again , Kathleen talked to the visitors about our penguins , how they were hatched and hand-reared here and about their award-winning enclosure . |
| 11 | Gathering basic information about the context in which the changes are to take place and about their feasibility . |
| 12 | The great beeches towered up towards the sky , their grey smooth trunks like the columns of an abbey church , and about their roots short grasses grew , gay with harebells and scentless violets among which indolently flitted small butterflies more blue than the flowers . |
| 13 | They were asked to talk to them and find out for themselves about the families who had been thrown into such torment ; they were asked to talk about the children and about their lives at home . |
| 14 | Elderly people 's ‘ need ’ for support is difficult to measure directly , but a reasonable indicator can be obtained by asking them about their capacity to perform a range of daily living activities and self-care tasks , and about their mobility . |
| 15 | Resentment was always present when parents felt either that there was a lack of openness or frankness on the part of the professionals or administrators , or that they were being coerced , or that their concern for and about their child was being called into question . |
| 16 | For many , including myself , this meant looking at children 's early attempts at reading in the context of what was known about the strength of their urge to find meaning , about their acquisition of grammar and syntax , and about their language awareness . |
| 17 | This usually involves , for a start , a very extensive survey which asks several thousand people about their attitudes to a variety of aspects of how they run their lives and about their purchasing habits . |
| 18 | Poetry can help children to learn about themselves , about the world around them and about their relationship to the world . |
| 19 | During the interview , mothers and fathers were also asked to confirm their own names and dates of birth and about their own health and habits . |
| 20 | Mrs. Mounce kicked off her beaded moccasins , curled up in the armchair with her cup of tea , and began to tell Tessa about her hubby and his job , about Dotty and the work they were having done in the house , and about their friends . |
| 21 | However , by asking members of the elite group questions such as ‘ How many members of the group have you worked with on committees ? ’ , and ‘ How well do you know each member of the group ? ’ and ‘ Whose support would be necessary for a major project to get substantial community backing ? ’ , some elite studies of community power have revealed remarkable consensuses about the existence of elite groups , and about their power , and have supported such findings with demonstrations of the interaction of members of the supposed elite groups . |
| 22 | Instead we made them talk about where they lived and about their families . |
| 23 | However , as the Minister said , the Bill raises important questions about the structure and accountability of the four galleries concerned , about their finances and obligations , about their ability to trade and to acquire and dispose of works of art , and about their liabilities and indemnities in the event of any damage . |
| 24 | It should agree with the management team what information about the company they may disclose to potential backers ; and about their future conduct and voting at board meetings . |
| 25 | Some 47% were in the category of Mystified Manunsure about their role in feeding and about their role as a father . |
| 26 | In 1981 , at the request of the Department of Administration , the Readers ' Services Division of the National Library of Scotland conducted a Survey , the object of which was to obtain information about visitors to the Library 's Exhibition Room , and about their response to the exhibitions which they saw . |
| 27 | But if it sometimes seems to be saying , on Salim 's behalf , that race or kinship wins , it is also the case that it is full of losers , that it has a lively feeling for the Africans of market and bush , and for their African troubles , and for the situation of Salim as someone evolved or emerged from a tribal narrowness to an experience of sexual love which is liberating and dramatic , and that it does justice to Metty 's last state , left behind in the dangerous town at the bend in the river . |
| 28 | Tracts were to be chosen solely for their propaganda value and for their capacity to instil a Communist ‘ world ’ view . |
| 29 | Their main pleasure seemed to be in the beautiful garments they made for each other and for their children . |
| 30 | The people are taught the implications of the relationship for their worship and their cult , for the ordering of their society , its internal politics and economics and its foreign policy , for their personal relationships with one another , and for their attitudes and inner dispositions . |