Example sentences of "their [noun pl] to [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even now the many and various suppliers of loam-based composts have still to discover how to get their products to customers in a state that is fit to use . |
| 2 | The Stock Exchange and others hope that sharp-eyed analysts and journalists will spot companies that admit in their accounts to non-compliance with the code , and trust that the resulting bad publicity will force them to comply in future . |
| 3 | Individual colleges then presented their proposals to SCOTVEC at the end of February for as well as for courses devised by individual colleges and consortia . |
| 4 | Before the 1965 Immigration Act , Mirpuri and Bengali families would send their sons to England for a few months or a few years at a time . |
| 5 | Usually insects smell by tuning their antennae to scents in the air . |
| 6 | At times when the winds obliged , Torbay smacks sailed their catches to Portsmouth for a shorter van-haul to the capital . |
| 7 | The men sport black coats and long beards and dedicate their lives to prayer in a way that has changed little in 250 years . |
| 8 | Besides , hearing of cases brought by the state against thieves who passed their finds to dealers on the black market and failed to report to the Commission on Antiquities ended his youthful enthusiasm for archaeology : Davide was law-abiding by temperament . |
| 9 | A total of 1,681 left-wing guerrillas , representing about 20 per cent of the forces of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) , reportedly handed over their weapons to members of the UN Observer Mission in El Salvador ( ONUSAL ) on June 30 in return for certificates identifying them as ex-combatants eligible for bank loans and training programmes . |
| 10 | Overseas candidates who are applying from the following countries are advised to submit their applications to UCCA through the appropriate overseas students ' office in London as listed in an appendix to the UCCA handbook : Cyprus , Ghana ( private candidates only ) , Guyana , India , Luxembourg , Mauritius , Tanzania and Thailand . |
| 11 | Great Britain 's wheelchair basketball teams will be seeking to book their passages to Barcelona at the three-day World Pre-Paralympic Qualification Tournament which starts in Stoke Mandeville today . |
| 12 | On the contrary , Chinese horological techniques did not advance , and when the Jesuits brought their clocks to China in the sixteenth century the inventions of Su Sung and others had long been forgotten . |
| 13 | The object of these exercises was sometimes to try and get a change of policy , sometimes to indicate alarm should certain lines of policy be carried further and sometimes so that the critics can signal their feelings to sections of the party outside Parliament ( Left-wing MPs , for instance , use this method to get support in the annual elections to the National Executive Committee of the party from activists in the constituencies ) . |
| 14 | Conductors could make some money for themselves by selling lists of well-known passengers on their trains to representatives of the Associated Press . |
| 15 | And I am not talking about the drunken louts who beat their wives to death in a cellar . |
| 16 | The INPFL 's withdrawal followed severe criticisms by interim government officials of Johnson 's action in ordering the execution of a senior commander whose offence appeared to be that he unilaterally complied with provisions of the peace agreement , arranging for his men to hand over their arms to troops of the 7,000-strong Ecowas Monitoring Group ( ECOMOG ) . |
| 17 | Young men in middle adolescence describe their friends to researchers in the YPLL team in terms similar to those used by pre-adolescent girls — failing to see emotional support , closeness or security as important qualities of a friendship . |
| 18 | While London-based IBCA has held firm to an average AA for the three , S&P and Moody 's have cut their grades to A. At the end of 1992 all three agencies rated them similarly . |
| 19 | In those constituencies where two Whig and two Tory candidates stood , the vast majority gave both their votes to men from the same party . |
| 20 | Two stylish Waterfront restaurants have opened their doors to diners in The Calls area : |