Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] in their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people use this instinctively in their windsurfing in stronger winds and especially now that seat and waist harnesses are widely used . |
| 2 | The population , it was added , was for the most part interested only in their daily problems of work and getting sufficient provisions , and there was little talk about military events . |
| 3 | Conservative Members are not interested in the poor , but are interested only in their own shares and in the rich . |
| 4 | This conveys ‘ one of the mysterious paradoxes of copulation and procreation … : the overwhelming strength of a moment engenders events whose meaning will become clear only in their result in time ’ . |
| 5 | The specialist field of old master drawings has received extremely detailed study ; the drawings are interesting both in their own right and as a means of knowing more about artists ' practices . |
| 6 | Needless to say , there is no suggestion that the bacteria work all this out in their nasty little heads ! |
| 7 | Rather like the ‘ high politics ’ school of historians , Maxse believed that once inside Westminster politicians tended , with a few exceptions , to ‘ go native ’ and become interested solely in their own advancement inside this exclusive club . |
| 8 | Her pelvis was cracked on her right side and her back broken , though neither she nor Ariel knew this yet in their attention to the burns she had received . |
| 9 | It was early on in their friendship that Joe Orton realized that Ken was ideal for the alleged policeman , Truscott — a man he freely based on Det. |
| 10 | The Singer System 9000 knitting machines are very versatile indeed in their design creation ability . |
| 11 | Only 12,769 watched the game — Liverpool 's second lowest in their 23 seasons of European soccer . |
| 12 | There had been military expeditions to establish English authority in Wales in 1277 and to maintain it there in 1282–3 and again in 1287 , and these were costly enough in their way , but they paled in comparison with the activity and demands of the 1290s . |
| 13 | There are numerous other studies , but the three referred to above are diverse enough in their findings to draw attention to a characteristic problem of user studies : the wide variations in results . |
| 14 | Some of the office rooms were comfortable enough in their way — far more so , indeed , than those in the new building — still , they were most inconveniently arranged , in proof of which it need only be mentioned that the Secretary of State in going from his own room to the Cabinet Room had to pass through two rooms occupied by other persons . |
| 15 | Their cries rose louder and more urgent now in their primitive longing for meat . |
| 16 | Yet throughout these eventful years the tradition of Catholic imitative polyphony flowed on undisturbed , reaching even greater technical equability in the work of Josquin 's presumed pupil Nicolas Gombert ( c. 1500–c. 1556 ) and Jacobus Clemens ‘ non Papa' ( c. 1510–c. 1557 ) , with whom we may associate other natives of French Flanders : Thomas Crecquillon ( d.c. 1557 ) ; Jean Richafort ( c. 1480–c. 1547 ) , an older pupil of Josquin 's ; two composers whose identities were confused even in their lifetime , Lupus Hellinck ( c. 1495–1541 ) and Johannes Lupus or Lupi ( Jean Leleu ) ( c. 1506–1539 ) , the confusion being worse confounded by two less distinguished contemporaries named Johannes Lupus ; Noel Bauldewyn ( d. 1530 ) , who was Richafort 's successor at Malines Cathedral and composer of the Missa Da Pacem long attributed to Josquin ; 3 and Pierre de Manchicourt ( c. 1510–1564 ) who towards the end of his life became master of Philip II 's capilla flamenca , in which both Gombert and Crecquillon had served under Philip 's father , the Emperor Charles V. |
| 17 | Bertha , Ada and Violet took two or three daintily in their claw-like hands . |
| 18 | He would not be fooled like the man in the film who went cheerfully off to work , leaving his brave young wife to die all alone in their pretty country cottage . |
| 19 | So far only Berghaus , Karrimor and Phoenix — though the latter only in their ski-wear for now — are using the lining for a range of jackets and sweaters aimed at both the technical outdoor and leisure markets . |
| 20 | Clara could not count the times she had heard her mother declare that when she died she would be dead , and she would n't care what happened to her body , and for all site cared they could put her out for the dustman to collect sentiments which from the first had filled Clara with a vague alarm and horror , for they were clearly reasonable enough in their own way . |
| 21 | Eva was halfway home in their hearts . |
| 22 | Gloucestershire scored one hundred and seventy five ( 175 ) all out in their first . |
| 23 | PETER SUCH ( Essex ) produced a career-best 7-82 for England A against the Australian Cricket Academy in Melbourne which sent the ACA reeling to 231 all out in their first innings , after they appeared to be heading for a huge lead when they reached 159 for one . |
| 24 | Research Machines is offering advice to help former employees find new employmemt , but the outlook for these former computer workers , many now in their prime , looks uncertain . |
| 25 | And the warning comes from other women — in countries like Sri Lanka and Malaysia — who have seen it all before in their own free-trade zones . |
| 26 | I mean maybe there 's an issue about how to cope with war , but that probably is related to fundamental aspects of what a person 's all about in their psychological make up . |
| 27 | Rows of neatly terraced redbrick cottages , built in 1896 to house the railway men , seem strange now in their rural setting . |
| 28 | A Merseyside Police spokesman said : ‘ People should be careful about leaving their doors open in warm weather while they are busy elsewhere in their homes . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , Carrickfergus , winners of the CIS Irish Senior Cup last weekend against Old Bleach , came unstuck yesterday in their bid to grab the runners-up spot in the senior division , which has already been won by Bangor . |
| 30 | Senior Cup last weekend against Old Bleach , came unstuck yesterday in their bid to grab the runners-up spot in the senior division , which has already been won by Bangor . |