Example sentences of "and their [noun pl] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The collectors of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries evidently had few qualms about braving remote and inhospitable peoples and places , and their donations to the Museum collections occasionally reflect the intimidations and perils they faced in acquiring them — precisely what Museum staff experience when confronted with some of these legacies .
2 And kids mean money — not money like throw-it-away 1986 money , but chronic money : money which goes slice by slice into the mortgage , the pension plan , the life insurance , the repairs to the house ( yes , it 's goodbye rank , noisy little flat and hallo four bedrooms somewhere quieter now that the family 's started ) , school fee plans , nappies , baby clothes , holidays in DIY villas in southern France , and the bigger car to get you , the kids , and their impedimenta to the DIY villa .
3 He was Oliver Moreton , the PGA tournament director , and he motioned Jack , Brian Harley and Jose Miguel and their caddies to the centre of the practice green and out of hearing of the cluster of Press men .
4 Swedish scientists subsequently traced the decline in their country 's population of seed-eating birds and their predators to the use of alkyl mercury seed dressings .
5 Rex and Tomlinson 's ( 1979 ) study of Handsworth in Birmingham was undertaken with the intention of discovering something of the relationship of Asian and West Indian immigrants and their children to the class structure of contemporary British society .
6 It depends upon their conceptions of how they ought , or would be best advised in their own interests , to behave with respect to these top-management definitions of their duties end obligations , their rights and privileges , and their relationships to the material technology , to higher authority , and to each other ’
7 The radioactive components in the pottery and the soil are uranium , thorium and potassium , which can be readily detected by analytical techniques such as neutron activation analysis ( see glossary ) , and their contributions to the dose rate then calculated from knowledge of how they decay radioactively .
8 Brown himself was expelled from the Obstetrical Society in 1867 for failing to obtain the consent of his patients and their husbands to the operation , rather than for his methods per se .
9 Their path into fundamental opposition was , partly for this reason , a hesitant one , and their objections to the regime for long less than fundamental .
10 Thus , the Trinovantes , with their tribal centre at Camulodunon and their neighbours to the west nucleated at Verulamion and Braughing , appear to be recent arrivals to Britain , and more or less contemporary movements had brought others into north and eastern Kent from the Seine Valley .
11 They include : domiciliary support and mundane practical help ensuring contact between individuals and services ensuring contact between the range of staff contributing to care a structured " care process " the active coordination of case management the development of service schemes the mobilisation of informal and voluntary care resources One might add , as well , that the contribution of service users and their carers to the provision of care is to be acknowledged and their participation ensured .
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