Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] their [noun] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There will hardly be need for words once their eyes meet because Wright knows he has a problem and is in the wrong . |
| 2 | Surprisingly this does not conform to Egyptian conventions for depicting Semites or Nubians and their dress suggests that they are the first known representation in Egyptian art of the Mycenaeans , Bronze Age Greeks . |
| 3 | It would be fanciful to suppose that Charles and Diana are enjoying marital bliss just months after their faces confirmed that they were living separate lives . |
| 4 | He thought of those months after their mother died when Yvonne had come to stay . |
| 5 | As a result of these additional responsibilities , an increasing number of companies will wish to have properly drafted contracts and may wish to inspect disposal sites where their waste goes if they want to be perceived as ‘ environmentally friendly ’ and be assured of complying with the duty of care . |
| 6 | Both the phosphorylation of receptors and their absence means that it takes more of the drug to obtain the same effect . |
| 7 | Being a combination of social worker , medical auxiliary , and teacher to these miners and their families meant that he was able to break out of the prison of his hateful loneliness . |
| 8 | For children 's needs to be considered with parents and their wishes acknowledged and recognised . |
| 9 | The original suspended wooden ground floor was entirely removed after penetration of this structure for the installation of the new cross-walls and their foundations showed that some residual sections were badly affected by woodworm . |
| 10 | It appears to me therefore that if a man diligently followed this desire , pursuing the false objects until their falsity appeared and then resolutely abandoning them , he must come out at last into the clear knowledge that the human soul was made to enjoy some object that is never fully given — nay , can not even be imagined as given — in our present mode of subjective and spatio-temporal experience . |
| 11 | HIBS can tuck away their passports until their summer hols if they do n't beat Anderlecht at Easter Road on Tuesday night . |
| 12 | In contrast to other European countries , which generally grant citizenship to those born on their territory , Bonn 's 80-year-old law recognises ethnic Germans abroad as German citizens but all but excludes long-standing immigrant workers and their children born and educated exclusively in Germany . |
| 13 | the social position of the fishermen and their families means that they are scared to speak out , scared to get together with other people to talk about the problems , and they think there is nothing they can do about it . |
| 14 | Decisions about management , life-styles and living arrangements , even about educational capacity have been taken by doctors with a consequent decrease in the power of individuals and their families to plan and control their lives . |
| 15 | Emile Zola declared that ‘ our artists must find the poetry of stations as their fathers found that of forests and rivers ’ and the station has been securely enshrined in every aspect of art and culture . |
| 16 | In relation to the almost antithetical Marxist positions of Sartre and Althusser , Foucault does not , however , simply follow the latter rather than the former : he articulates through a historical perspective the problems that their work encountered and attempts to produce a new method of historical enquiry — though not a general theory of history as such — that is both theoretically coherent and politically effective with respect to the particular problems under examination . |
| 17 | We call them Greek myths and they tell how the gods and their companions ruled and organised the world . |
| 18 | Healthcare consultants and their customers know that fragrances enhance any atmosphere . |
| 19 | Dr Joseph Miller , a clinical ecologist working in Alabama , writes : ‘ These patients are not basically neurotic , but they are less able to cope with daily problems because their symptoms distract and bewilder them . |
| 20 | Children still see their mothers as responsible for domestic chores while their fathers relax and watch television , says a study of eight to 11-year-olds . |
| 21 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health what remedies are available to NHS patients or their families to use if they are dissatisfied with the treatment given in NHS hospitals . |
| 22 | The unseemly haste is dictated not merely by the Government 's electoral timetable , but by the fear that if the measure is given proper time for debate there will also be time for the real , but as yet nascent , concerns of Tory Back Benchers and their constituents to grow and mature . |
| 23 | In North America , where the enslavement of Africans and their descendants continued until the last quarter of the nineteenth century , this exploitation was ‘ justified ’ by beliefs about racial inferiority , and reinforced by a form of Christian preaching which emphasised to slaves the virtues of humility and submission . |
| 24 | She turned her gaze away and stared towards the river , watching the faint sway of the trees as their branches dipped and brushed against the water , but after a few too brief seconds she found her eyes drawn helplessly back to that window , and gasped . |
| 25 | This uneven set of responses reflects the tension between the need for union negotiators to defend their members ' interests against perceived threats and their ability to generate and implement a long term strategy . |
| 26 | Teachers and their employers claim that Britain is 10,000 teachers short . |
| 27 | His Welsh cousins and their friends flattered and cosseted him ; he was treated as a gentleman-scholar , sharing much of the natural respect of late nineteenth-century Wales for the scholar-preacher-bard , of which his new friend , Gwili , the theologian-bard , was an excellent example . |
| 28 | Mrs Kemp 's lawyer , Robert Shaw , believed that , since the law which governs Reporters and their duties provides that a Reporter may nut be removed from office except with the consent of the Secretary of State , this would also prohibit suspension . |
| 29 | Whether or not this assumption is well founded turns on the rationality of stock markets and their ability to absorb and evaluate information about a company 's prospects . |
| 30 | The lords-of the manoirs and their servants converged as they had in medieval times . |