Example sentences of "with their [noun] [conj] [be] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It 's the desire of little girls everywhere to have pictures with their stories that 's inspired a ’ Wonderland ’ of images at the Museum of Oxford .
2 Three percent are classed as ineducable and either stay at home with their families or are placed in welfare institutions — parents wishing to have teaching for these children have to pay privately .
3 In ‘ the old days ’ field officers ( at least in the southern authority ) enjoyed a high degree of personal contact with their superiors and were subjected to few demands from headquarters :
4 Later , under the 1907 provisions for the medical inspection of children , parents ( and again the responsibility usually fell on the mother ) were told what was wrong with their children but were left with the task of seeking and paying for treatment , dependants being excluded from the provisions of the 1911 National Health Insurance Act .
5 Now if parents , through playing games with their children that are based on words , could alert the child to the fact that print is a convention and that we can translate print into reality , obviously not as abstract as that , but just get the child used to knowing what print is , knowing what reading is , so that perhaps when they go to school they may well know this is a skill that they do n't have , like they do n't know , perhaps , how to ride a bike , they may not know how to swim , they certainly do n't know how to drive a car , but they do know what sort of a thing driving a car is .
6 Now if parents , through playing games with their children that are based on words , could alert the child to the fact that print is a convention and that we can translate print into reality , obviously not as abstract as that , but just get the child used to knowing what print is , knowing what reading is , so that perhaps when they go to school they may well know this is a skill that they do n't have , like they do n't know , perhaps , how to ride a bike , they may not know how to swim , they certainly do n't know how to drive a car , but they do know what sort of a thing driving a car is .
7 Nor , indeed am I claiming that all black sportsmen , at some stage in their development , come face to face with their blackness and are made to reflect on the probable disadvantages it carries with it .
8 The questions , which Mr Prescott also raised with Cecil Parkinson , the Secretary of State for Transport , and the Health and Safety Executive , centre on the £600m order for rolling stock made earlier this year , although the issue of whether passengers should stay with their cars or be segregated had not been resolved .
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