Example sentences of "of their [noun] [prep] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is above all in the general success of their rulers in improving the position of the monarchy that the history of Spain and the Habsburg lands differs , at least until the 1780s , from that of France . |
| 2 | Those who cynically exploit the current problems of the NHS and yet who purport to support its purpose ought to pause and reflect upon the effect of some of their activities in creating a mood of pessimism about its future . |
| 3 | While FLOWERED UP were in the process of getting kicked out of their hotel for spraying the porters with fire extinguishers , Bez was safe in his room making a four-hour phone call to his missus and the very adorable new addition to his family , baby son ARLO . |
| 4 | The fact that those practices which became fundholders had a history of referring patients across district boundaries to a greater extent than the controls in our study may provide an indication of their motivation for joining the scheme . |
| 5 | Although visual system physiologists treat the monkey as the model system of their choice for studying the visual cortex , a surprising amount of useful data has been gathered using cats as subjects , despite the known anatomical differences between cats and monkeys . |
| 6 | It was written to help students interpret the results of their fieldwork by providing the essential background information . |
| 7 | Expert woodworkers , like Luke Hughes , Ian Norbury and Lucinda Leech provide samples of their experience of organising a workshop , and the magazine includes a pictorial view of some of these idyllic work areas . |
| 8 | There have been instances recently where vast commercial organisations and even governments have been compelled to rethink their policies and their methods because a sufficient number of individual supermarket shoppers have decided to demonstrate the strength of their feelings by boycotting a particular item . |
| 9 | However a special resolution required under the section may not be proposed unless it has been recommended by the directors , and there is circulated to members entitled to notice of the meeting a written statement by the directors of their reasons for making the recommendation , the amount to be paid to the company in respect of the proposed issue , and the directors ' justification of that amount . |
| 10 | Yet the Commonwealth was after all invented at a time when the British were more than ever enamoured of their capacity for effecting the bloodless obedience of subject peoples . |
| 11 | They can be bare records of numbers and events or they can be windows on a living school and most heads will be able to think of ways in which reports can be used to enrich governor perceptions , prompt good questions and solicit positive advice and support as soon as they have made a breakthrough into a sense of their responsibility for creating a favourable climate . |
| 12 | Campaigners boosted the impact of their warnings by drawing a close connection between the fly and the home . |
| 13 | The assumption was that , with sufficient care , pupils could be selected at the age of eleven on the basis of a prediction of their success in pursuing an academic education . |
| 14 | Both Ellis and Beto were as proud of their success in raising the salary and status of guards as they were of any other achievement . |
| 15 | For many months opinion polls had showed high popular support for Markovic and his government , overwhelmingly a reflection of their success in rescuing the economy by wiping out Yugoslavia 's hyper-inflation and bringing in a convertible dinar [ see p. 37194 ; p. 37541 ] . |
| 16 | As black communities became aware of the effect that society was having on their children , they forged a conscious approach to provide a buffer between racism and the self-esteem and self-worth of their children by raising the level of consciousness of the strengths of black traditions and family life . |
| 17 | When the Greeks begin to use it , it is also part of their interest in mastering the appearance of nature , and leads on to perspective and chiaroscuro , to European painting . |
| 18 | Unlike the UK , where the Court on declaring an agreement " contrary to the public interest " then has little power to impose effective penalties against offending firms , the Commission has considerable powers of enforcement and can fine firms up to 10 per cent of their turnover for operating an anti- competitive practice . |
| 19 | THE LEADER of the eight miners trapped for 15 hours half a mile underground told yesterday of their joy at seeing the first rescuer . |
| 20 | Mr Spring said people would support the ‘ strong reaffirmation ’ of their aim of resuming the political dialogue . |
| 21 | At first they devoted much of their energy to bringing the fruits of ‘ scientific socialism ’ to a limited number of hand-picked workers . |
| 22 | They believe that , while a person may actually have performed one action , they could nevertheless have chosen to perform another , and devote part of their energy to specifying the sorts of conditions in which such choices are made . |
| 23 | By this time the aircraft was at a height of approximately 300 feet with the landing gear still down , the crew not having had time to select it up because of their preoccupation with avoiding the bird flocks . |
| 24 | The primitive insects must have found some of their food by climbing the trunks of the early tree ferns and horsetails . |
| 25 | If , as will be considered next , companies serve the public interest by seeking to maximise their profits , then the shareholders ' rights may be justifiable on functional grounds , that is , by virtue of their role in securing the efficient operation of the business . |
| 26 | On the other hand , public authorities do not usually commit illegal acts deliberately , and if an atmosphere of opinion were created in which compensation for illegality were seen as being simply compensation for loss and not as carrying any stigma of fault or as being designed to perform the function of deterring illegal conduct , public authorities might be able to put the chance of an award out of their mind in deciding the applicant 's case the second time round . |
| 27 | The Pharos single market adviser is a computer programme allowing companies with IBM compatible machines to build up a profile of their business by asking a series of questions . |
| 28 | Both images ultimately deny the humanity of their subjects by maintaining the deterministic role of these predispositions , thereby reducing human beings to mechanically reactive automata . |
| 29 | Boswell concludes the account of their visit by satisfying a little further his search for concord between Johnson and Monboddo — each had a black servant . |
| 30 | were wise to expand the scope of their experiment before knowing the results of previous ones . |