Example sentences of "[noun pl] in their [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He collaborated closely with the Russian ambassador , Count Ostern , and worked to secure a defensive alliance with Sweden ( 1766 ) , safeguard British trade , and prevent France 's resurgence in the Baltic by supporting the party of the Caps in their resistance to the pro-France Hats . |
| 2 | It is a policy profoundly opposed by the national Football Supporters Association ( FSA ) which recruits its members on a regional rather than a club basis and which aims to unite its fans in their love for the game rather than in their narrower club devotions . |
| 3 | The collectors have now agreed a bequest that leaves the Icklingham bronzes in their will to the British Museum as part of an out-of-court settlement , dependent on their acceptance by the museum 's trustees . |
| 4 | This is speculative but they are on firmer ground when they point out that violent incidents were underreported both by referees in their correspondence with the FA and by the press . |
| 5 | The affair came to a head in a series of by-elections in the early 1930s in which the press barons gave their support to Empire Crusade candidates in their fight against the official Conservative central office candidates . |
| 6 | Remarkably , however , neither internal opinion reports nor the reports of the Sopade mentioned the passage on the Jews in their comments on the impact of Hitler 's speech . |
| 7 | At a press briefing on May 1 a Foreign Ministry spokesman said that while Iran and Turkey shared common goals in their handling of the refugee crisis , Turkey wanted the allied forces to remain longer in border areas , while Iran preferred UN supervision . |
| 8 | In the weeks following the general election the NLD adopted extremely cautious tactics in their dealings with the military . |
| 9 | Since the introduction of A levels , English , Welsh , and Northern Irish schools , unlike schools in Scotland , Europe , or America , have expected pupils to study at most three examinable subjects in their years in the sixth form , these three being generally either all arts or all science subjects , though mathematics has been found commonly on either side of the divide . |
| 10 | Hans Peter Feldmann , Rodney Graham and Allen Ruppersberg have also included words in their works in the past . |
| 11 | Her Majesty 's Inspectors in their report on the teaching of English published in 1987 were particularly concerned by the low standard of teaching for A level English : ‘ Teachers spend too much time scrutinizing past papers and then drilling students in what are taken to be the ‘ correct ’ answers . |
| 12 | The combination of utilitarian function , personal advertisement through statues and inscriptions , and florid architectural ornament is typical of imperial buildings in the Mediterranean provinces in their heyday from the late first century to the early third century AD . |
| 13 | The establishment of relatively uniform statutory procedures is particularly important in view of the wide disparities between individual schools in their policies on the sanction of exclusion . |
| 14 | I fitted the brackets in their pairs to the top rails , grinding away the point on a plate sander . |
| 15 | Down one wall were full-length metal lockers with keys in their locks on the end of long thin chains so they looked like dog-tags . |
| 16 | Foreshadowed in The Bookseller last week , the much touted ‘ unilevel playing field ’ was a preoccupation of the presidents of both trade associations in their addresses at the start of the conference . |
| 17 | February 1989 saw a giant step forward for the Amazonian Indians in their fight against the Brazilian government and the World Bank . |
| 18 | Eagles , with the elements in their favour in the opening half took full advantage , killing the game by building up a 20–0 advantage with the help of two tries from Price and six goals from eight attempts from Aston . |
| 19 | On the second visit , a few days after the first , the Japanese used natives in their ravages of the town , much to the disgust of local tribes . |
| 20 | By identifying gaps in their documentation in the same way as . |
| 21 | In deciding what to work on , a collective review of the main gaps in their understanding of the British labour market has been made by the CLE . |
| 22 | Orcs were forced to fight for the Dark Elves in their wars against the High Elves , although in truth the Orcs took little persuading . |
| 23 | In addition his role as a member of the Commission gave him the personal opportunity to support the chaplains in their Ministry in the University parish . |
| 24 | It is not usually preceded by long and bitter quarrels between parents and need not affect the child 's eye view of dependability and reliability of parents in their relationship with the child . |
| 25 | Judy lives with her twelve-month-old daughter and her parents in their house in the north of England . |
| 26 | LEG spinner Ian Salisbury , left out of the England tour squad for India , sent Lancashire crashing to one of the worst championship defeats in their history in the last Old Trafford match of the season against Sussex . |
| 27 | Our refinement of these theories will reveal , however , certain defects in their interpretations of the liberal ideal of private autonomy . |
| 28 | Thus , a study ( Korpi , 1978 , p. 332 ) of the unions and politics in Sweden concluded that , with the strengthening of their collective power base the levels of aspiration of wage-earners are likely to increase ( in a political sense ) , ‘ extending to issues of control over work and production ’ ; while another study ( Gallie , 1978 , p. 299 ) brought out important differences between British and French workers in their attitudes to the present system of industrial production , with the latter taking a much more political view : |
| 29 | Yet , if Ford and Carter were , to a significant extent , in the age of the ‘ post-imperial ’ presidency victims of circumstances beyond their control , their failures were also due , in part , to inadequacies in their approaches to the problems of presidential leadership . |
| 30 | He thought about the dogs in their holes under the snow , and listened to the wind over the house . |