Example sentences of "of their [noun] for [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In consequence , the burgeoning nineteenth-century penal and criminal justice system was aimed at these socially ‘ dangerous classes ’ simply because of their potential for contesting the power of the state and those in control . |
| 7 | THE LABOUR leadership suffered an embarrassing rebuff when lesbian and gay rights activists won a conference endorsement of their demand for cutting the age of homosexual consent from 21 to 16 . |
| 8 | The Communist Party certainly thought , I mean the reason wh one of their justifications for preserving the rich peasant economy was that how that it 's thought the middle peasants would want to try to rise up to br |