Example sentences of "their [adj] [noun] ' [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Domestic saturation : At certain times economic stagnation and competition have put pressure on individual banks ' profit margins , thus encouraging them to service effectively their domestic customers ' international needs and seek out foreign markets for profit growth . |
| 2 | Quite predictably , the revolutionary government refused to pay any outstanding bills for their former masters ' frivolous luxuries , a state of affairs which had disastrous consequences for champagne houses , like Roederer , whose main market was Russian . |
| 3 | Billy Bingham , whose make-do-and-mend team were no match for their southern neighbours ' withering power game , added his good wishes . |
| 4 | The view that states imperil their own legitimacy when they offend their own subjects ' conservative conceptions of constitutionality is found more amongst other academic students of politics than amongst political scientists themselves . |
| 5 | European and Asian countries , where companies have few scruples about exploiting their American rivals ' legal handicap , could pass anti-bribery laws of their own and TI says that it will lobby for such legislation . |
| 6 | His release is a victory for those elements in the armed forces who reject even their fellow officers ' professional criticism of the Falklands campaign and argue that General Galtieri deserved a statue , not a prison sentence , for his actions . |
| 7 | When someone first joins an organisation , it 's much easier for them to ascertain their new colleagues ' overt status than it is to understand their active status . |