Example sentences of "and are [vb pp] [prep] their [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Overall , women 's claims to maintenance from the state both determine and are determined by their relationship to their families and the formal labour market .
2 However , the degree also has a taught component , as students must attend at least one postgraduate seminar every term over the two-year period of the degree , and are examined on their work in these courses .
3 ‘ There seems to be a small minority in Cleveland who want to stick by the rule and are blinkered in their view .
4 Class 1 contributions are paid by workers in employment and are deducted from their pay at the statutory rates .
5 At a time when Affirmative Action is under fire and the Bush administration conveniently looks the other way while the ultra-conservative Supreme Court dismantles school desegregation to ensure that minorities stay and are educated in their place , the nineties look increasingly like being the decade of the black woman .
6 Similarly , behind the surface variations in constitutions , personnel and character of different political regimes , they detected a universal cyclical struggle in which elites rise , degenerate and are displaced in their turn .
7 Typically , these are unworked and are chosen for their distinctiveness .
8 In that sense , criminal law against murder , rape , arson , robbery , theft , and assault are in all our interests , since in principle we all benefit equally from and are protected by their existence .
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