Example sentences of "their [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rumour that it was radioactive arose after the Soviet authorities requested some civilian aircraft not to fly their usual routes from Japan to Europe for 48 hours for ‘ technical reasons ’ . |
| 2 | The partners in the relationship may not always confront each other as adversaries but occasionally their different responsibilities in relation to the public may push them in opposite directions . |
| 3 | They delivered their derogatory cards in turn to NatWest , Midlands , Lloyds and Barclays , and then let their feelings known with specially adapted carols such as : ‘ Jingle tills , jingle tills , jingle all the way/Oh what fun it is to be a High Street bank these days , /Pulling money out , putting receivers in/ Winding business up , with an evil grin . ’ |
| 4 | When we mix up strange horses in this way , it is not surprising that some should display aggression , as the horses have not had the opportunity to work out their social positions in relation to each other . |
| 5 | Multi-national companies are viewed as beyond the control of any single government , intent on maximising their global profits without regard to the needs and interests of individual countries . |
| 6 | TASK 7 demanded that they express their personal feelings in relation to the experience of being ignored or bored . |
| 7 | It is noteworthy that Martin is described in the inventory as a ‘ Mâitre facteur d'instruments ’ , a designation rarely found for the Hotteterres ; normally they are named in documents according to their official titles as musicians to the court . |
| 8 | This will make it possible to assess whether there are systematic differences in their cognitive skills in comparison to reading age and chronological age controls or whether they show a similar pattern to poor readers found in the normal school population . |
| 9 | A statement which takes a list of numeric arguments and sends their least-significant bytes as characters to the display . |
| 10 | There is a wide variety of possible schemes , ordered below by their varying degrees of generosity to the less well off . |
| 11 | It is similar to other schemes in allowing customers to reduce their monthly repayments in comparison to outright purchase or choosing a higher specification car than they could normally afford . |
| 12 | the foundation of ‘ a small multi-disciplinary central policy review staff in the Cabinet Office ’ to help formulate and sustain a clearer overall strategy for the administration as a whole , for ‘ governments are always at the same risk of losing sight of the need to consider the totality of their current policies in relation to their longer-term objectives ’ . |
| 13 | These parties are urged to review their current practices in relation to the guidance promoted in the Code and Guidelines and take action accordingly . |
| 14 | Taylor 's use of scientific observation and experiment to rationalize work processes , reduce costs and increase productivity was based on certain specific assumptions about the motivation of workers as well as their physical attributes in relation to industrial processes . |
| 15 | Owen and Roger , the two heads of centre , have developed their respective strategies in response to the broadly similar sets of expectations and demands that confront them . |
| 16 | claiming for damages for breach of contract and your negligence against their former solicitors in relation to their handling of the purchase of a business by the plaintiff in late nineteen eighty five but all the say is on the nineteenth of October of nineteen eighty nine er my Lord the matter is complex . |
| 17 | Reflecting these last results is the finding that fixed-contract workers tended to have taken their temporary jobs in response to a lack of permanent work , whilst seasonal , temporary or casual workers had done so because they did not want permanent work . |
| 18 | Spies feed their small pieces of information to the centre where the whole picture is gradually built up . |
| 19 | Finally , practitioners identified the need for management practices in their own agencies in relation to the development of assessment and care management systems , to be based on three key principles which are essential to the development of better practice . |
| 20 | When they are satisfied with the image they have created they take up their own positions in relation to the image , positions which indicate their role and attitude . |
| 21 | And again one of the great concerns that we have with the development of N H S Trusts , is those Trust Boards are able to determine their own policies in respect to staffing , to set their own pay scales for staff , also they are able to do their business to a large extent behind closed doors . |
| 22 | But this is sometimes taken to mean the formation of groups of teachers to generate their own ideas without reference to theory and research of a more rigorous and academic character . |
| 23 | Vocalist Bliss Blood mixes dominatrix chic with rock'n'roll bawdiness , a powerful performance that , although not fully formed , allows the audience to whip up their own fantasies in time to Pain Teens ' alternative progressive/oppressive sonic attack . |
| 24 | Robin Child 's influence has gone far beyond the limits of the classroom and his Marlborough pupils : he has lectured widely , here and abroad , to teachers , art societies , art colleges , educationists , church audiences and schools ( some subsequently sending their own heads of department to Marlborough to see how it 's done ) on many aspects of art and art history , the philosophy of teaching and his own approach to it . |
| 25 | After the Second World War there was a strong export trade of beef cattle to Argentina and the Argentinian cattlemen showed a marked preference for smaller , blockier British beef bulls at the annual sales in Britain in order to meet their own requirements for exports to Europe . |
| 26 | But I would n't wish anybody er to get the idea that we as a union wish to take away what really is the parliamentary privilege that members of parliament have got to have to look after their own constituencies in addition to being sponsored members of parliament . |
| 27 | The shortage of Pentiums is so bad that those that have them are said to be ‘ tea-bagging ’ them — moving their precious chips from system to system to prove to customers that their box works , then quickly back into the safe . |
| 28 | Renner ( 1949 ) argued with some plausible empirical evidence that legal norms which appear to persist for lengthy historical periods , spanning different modes of production , in fact change their substantive functions in response to developments in economic structures . |
| 29 | The Anglican clergy campaigned actively on behalf of Tory candidates , denouncing their Whig rivals as enemies to the Church and State . |
| 30 | Some of the new realists began their literary lives in homage to Eliot , Joyce or Samuel Beckett . |