Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the Act the Poor Law acquired the responsibility of visiting and supervising , in institutions or in their own homes , children who had been the subject of cruelty proceedings . |
| 2 | Any issues affecting the relations of the Serbs with the imperial authorities or with their Muslim landlords and neighbours had to be dealt with by the Muslim authorities , most of whom operated from the cosmopolitan cities . |
| 3 | Nuclear weapons were so destructive that those states which possessed them had to be very careful about getting involved in any conflicts , whether with other nuclear states or with their allies . |
| 4 | The service pipe from the Gas Board mains to the property must be laid by the Gas Board or by their nominee . |
| 5 | Their perceptual distinguishability , alone , is no proof either of their actual existence or of their distinguishability per se . |
| 6 | Ever since , numerous writers have paraphrased these sentiments , either in their fiction or through their own self-scrutiny . |
| 7 | Apart from their very high technical quality , as in the enamels by Le Sueur on the 1760 Prémin box , nearly all boxes are distinguished either by artists ' signatures or by their provenance . |
| 8 | By the mid-1730s the Upholders Company saw fit to make available to their members blank funeral invitation tickets for overprinting , affiliation to the company being shown by an inscription on the plate-mark beneath the illustration , reading ‘ Perform 'd by the Company of Upholders at Exeter Change & at their Hall in Leaden Hall Street . ’ |
| 9 | Hard-worked planning officers may need encouragement to pursue the matter and find letters from concerned members of the public about neglected buildings a useful prompt to take the matter to their superiors or to their committee . |
| 10 | Talk about examples ( from their own experience or from their reading ) of changes in word use and meaning over time , and about some of the reasons for these changes , eg technological developments , euphemism , contact with other languages , fashion . |
| 11 | In too many instances a player 's schedule is determined just as much by the need to honour commercial contracts or by their agents , as by what is best for him or her . |
| 12 | all learners wishing to revise their elementary English in small groups or on their own at home . |
| 13 | Finch , in a study of preschool playgroups , found that for working class women self help was illusory , because taking turns in looking after other people 's children did not fit in with their life styles or with their aspirations . |
| 14 | ‘ The first job , of course , was to try to find any traces of nitroglycerine on anybody in the club or in their rooms . |
| 15 | Some portraits of young children copy imperial features in , for example , the shape of the ears or in their hairstyles . |
| 16 | A number of British studies provide some evidence about such relationships or about their contribution to care , but this material remains unco-ordinated . |
| 17 | Coopers & Lybrand does not believe that the ED 's proposals ‘ should be issued either in the short term or in their present form ’ . |
| 18 | legal expenses incurred either prior to the granting of support by the insurers or without their written consent , and |
| 19 | They were all teenagers or in their early twenties . |
| 20 | ( ii ) In redrafting their work they should be encouraged to think of the first draft as tentative so that they are prepared to rethink their whole approach in the light of their own critical appraisal or of their discussions with their peers or teacher . |
| 21 | Poorer regions of the community are specifically addressed in the Treaty to the establishment of a new fund which will help kick-start industry in those areas which are disadvantaged , due either to failing industry or to their position on the of Europe . |
| 22 | The square is full of islanders , the men in trilbies or baseball caps , the women with embroidered black shawls round their shoulders or over their heads . |
| 23 | At the next level of organization , the action of InsP 3 has been studied on populations of receptors prepared either in membrane vesicles or in their normal location within permeabilized cells . |
| 24 | Academic staff may use appropriate systems for the development of their computing expertise ; for research projects ; for the support of teaching ; for the exchange of academic information with their peers or with their students throughout the Janet linked institutions in the UK or elsewhere ; and for related access to public domain facilities . |
| 25 | However if as a consequence , of a panel recommendation or of their decision on a panel recommendation , the County Council decide to modify the deposited structure plan , there would of course at that stage have to be a public planning enquiry . |
| 26 | Ditched in the Vertigo dumper are the pop songs and in their place comes track upon track of similar-sounding , decidedly gloomy psychedelic romps which they do , on occasion , pull off by the skin of their mushrooms . |
| 27 | His memory of her , which for years , a traitor to grief and to their love , he had resolutely tried to suppress because the pain had seemed unbearable , had gradually been replaced by a boyish , romantic dream of gentleness and beauty now fixed for ever beyond the depredation of time . |
| 28 | Terminally ill people are not only identifiable , but their closest relatives are also easily located in hospital and hospice settings and from their contacts with clergymen and general practitioners . |
| 29 | The Collector and Hookum Singh had their backs to this wall of flesh , with bayonets sprouting from between their legs and under their armpits ; they were shoving and shoving , and they in turn were being shoved by the other Sikhs , who were struggling to keep them in place . |
| 30 | There are other signs that might lead you to believe that there 's things not as they might be , the legs may not be equal length particularly if only one is dislocated and that 's fairly obvious is n't it because the , the , the ball joint 's not in the socket and there 's a bigger gap so the leg hangs down longer and you 've all changed a baby have n't you and you see that they 've got little creases in the insides of their legs and across their buttocks , and those creases may not be a mirror matching they are normally , so those are clues . |