Example sentences of "[verb] in their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all our participants , and undoubtedly for many of this age-group , a central issue that is constantly recurring in their interpretation of the day-to-day practices they encounter in their social lives is the extent to which they are recognized as persons of independent dignity and standing . |
| 2 | Noreen felt much the same so it was with great relief that for the New York engagement they could at least travel in from Queen 's each day and sleep in their own beds at night . |
| 3 | The delegates do not act in their personal capacity but carry out the policies and instructions of their government , as shown by the provision that an alternate delegate can be empowered to act and vote on behalf of a delegate who is absent . |
| 4 | But while delegation is a prerequisite of corporate efficiency , it also carries with it the risk , common to all agency relationships , that the managers will act in their own interests at the expense of the shareholders , thereby reducing the expected gains , not only for the shareholders , but also for society as a whole . |
| 5 | He is more likely to enjoy going to a restaurant that has good traditional furnishings that are well designed in their own terms . |
| 6 | The corporation has developed , at its Martlesham research laboratory , communications hardware that it hopes companies will install in their own offices for such conferences . |
| 7 | To-day we can see Pakistani or Bengali women , walking in their traditional clothes , barely able to understand the language of the country in which they are living , acting as the repository for the pain and grief of the whole family . |
| 8 | These two novels suggest in their different ways that the relation between province and metropolis , countryside and city , periphery and centre , ever potent themes in modern Italian writing , is open to reinterpretation and reorganization into new narrative and symbolic combinations . |
| 9 | Of course , it was useful to both Romania and China to let Moscow know how deeply involved they were with the Americans , because such knowledge could deter Moscow from interfering in their internal affairs . |
| 10 | Then they wo n't be cross with us for interfering in their primitive rituals . ’ |
| 11 | Statistically the chances of elderly people being attacked in their own homes are very low . |
| 12 | Statistically , Oxted Green ‘ B ’ can be denied promotion from division three but it is highly unlikely that they will fall in their last match . |
| 13 | Partly , of course , butterflies ' appeal lies in their perfect beauty . |
| 14 | Their profound significance lies in their restricted permissivity , meaning that an SH domain within a single enzyme can be ‘ plugged in ’ to a number of different upstream activators . |
| 15 | Their impact lies in their sheer number : preserving just a few would mean accepting the loss in character of a remarkable and memorable landscape . |
| 16 | Indeed , it has been said by some professionals in the field that we are doing the students a disservice by attempting to break through their apathy since their main chance of happiness lies in their passive acceptance of traditional ‘ care ’ facilities . |
| 17 | At the present time the strength of the Catholic and nationalist forces in the North lies in their political discipline and restraint . |
| 18 | Pakistan 's strength lies in their superb and well co-ordinated pace attack . |
| 19 | A large reason for their success lies in their 28-year-old running-back Christian Okoye , the surprise rusher of the season . |
| 20 | The folly of Moscow and Pretoria , both would have agreed , lies in their common determination to institutionalise differences where nature itself offers only subtleties and complexities . |
| 21 | The Black Report , for example , showed that the main explanation for the higher accident rate among children of manual families lies in their residential environment : overcrowding in the house , lack of safe playing facilities in the vicinity of the house and a consequent tendency to play in the streets . |
| 22 | But such rules and practices are merely ‘ the prudential disposition of the available resources , instrumental to the pursuit of the common purpose and desirable in terms of their utility , which in itself lies in their uninterrupted functionality ’ . |
| 23 | Perhaps the reason lies in their keep-fit routine . |
| 24 | Like the other members of the Lanistes-dwelling ( that is what ‘ lanisticola ’ means ) group they are never going to win a beauty contest if their rock-dwelling cousins have entered , but their charm lies in their interesting divergence from the Mbuna norm , and in their much-less boisterous nature . |
| 25 | Human physiology and biochemistry are no less appropriate subjects for understanding in their own right and for university study and research because they have become the tools of the lucrative and utilitarian profession of medicine . |
| 26 | It provides students with the language and communicative skills they will need in their professional lives . |
| 27 | Ministers were to work out what the plan would need in their respective areas of responsibility and the Ministry of Industry would subsequently devise the necessary " practical solutions " . |
| 28 | The construction of that generality does not pretend to be the only possible one — the same event could operate in all sorts of different ways in different series , temporalities , which would mean that , strictly speaking , it was no longer the same event , for it would have been dispersed in their different rarefactions . |
| 29 | ( In contrast most European authorities — including the UK — insist on lead management occurring in their own market . ) |
| 30 | This ensures that issue numbers appear in their correct order when listed numerically . |