Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [subord] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1982 a Toronto Board of Education survey found 37 per cent of first-year high-school students were born outside Canada and that nearly half of them spoke a language other than English or French as their first language . |
| 2 | Many men are as tall as or taller than their fathers and Stephen was six feet , but Dadda still towered above him . |
| 3 | While nowhere near as impressive or effective as their earlier work , this is certainly nothing to be ashamed of . |
| 4 | Evidence for 1989 found that just 7% of married women earned the same as or more than their husbands ( Women and Employment : a lifetime perspective OPCS/HMSO 1984 ) . |
| 5 | Already , for example , birds of prey which are saved from accidental poisoning by pesticides are being deliberately shot , trapped or poisoned as their numbers increase once more . |
| 6 | It could well be argued that both " Balak " and " Aram " in line A are more specific or precise than their counterparts in line B , " the king of Moab " and " the Eastern Hills " , because they use proper names for identification . |
| 7 | In class warfare , for instance , oppressed people easily find themselves claiming to be just as noble or gentlemanly as their supposed betters , without properly criticising existing ideas of nobility or gentility . |
| 8 | The Argyle fans chose the Newport Road pub after enjoying a pint or two before their team played Middlesbrough last January . |
| 9 | ‘ Most of them ca n't do any more than that because their eyesight is bad . ’ |
| 10 | For here was an ordinary average crowd of Air Force youngsters , neither better nor worse than their compatriots in squadrons all over the world . |
| 11 | It 's , you know , it 's like what 's his Captain Oates was it , going out into the tent in the Antarctic or something , you know it 's sort of I may be gone for a while , you know , in the in the , into the wilderness and never to return so that in , in the British structure er politicians are , their loyalty is central rather than local because their political futures are determined centrally rather than locally . |
| 12 | And for the thousands of chatline users who will be left high and dry when their service shuts down in April , Dr Derek Milne predicts a further search for support . |
| 13 | His kiss was whole and complete and her world was whole and complete as their passion erupted and they clung together as the liquid fire inside them flowed furiously in its blazing release . |
| 14 | Some words , indeed , have stories attached to them , like psych- ; others , hard to spell , like sword , gnat , knight or parliament , the days of the week and the months of the year , become accessible and memorable when their stories are known . |
| 15 | The scattered efforts made during the eighteenth century to develop some form of systematic training continued ; but they were almost as desultory and short-lived as their predecessors , and little more effective . |
| 16 | Neither Orcs nor Goblins are particularly technically minded , but they build fast and strong so their devices usually work even though they may appear crude in comparison to human constructions . |
| 17 | The observation statements that form the basis of science are secure and reliable because their truth can be ascertained by direct use of the senses . |
| 18 | SDP left-wingers were more neutralist and anti-American than their leaders , and anxious to see more radical domestic reforms but Brandt feared that greater radicalism would alienate the FDP , on whom the SDP still depended in the Bundestag . |
| 19 | Recognised for their excellence of design , British stamps are now more varied and colourful than their tiny black predecessor . |
| 20 | There was the public humiliation of being dropped from the side ; the autocratic style of managers , who were themselves as afraid and insecure as their players ; the refusal to let good players use their natural talent to play , forcing them through repetitive training ‘ systems ’ and naïve ‘ game plans ’ ; the petty jealousies of the players , their hierarchies , and childish pranks ; the fear of the new signing , who has to be included at the expense of an old friend ; the view of a match from ‘ the inside ’ when you know a team-mate does not want the ball but wants it to look as if you will not give it to him . |
| 21 | Peter Fane has noticed that his customers ' demands are becoming more adventurous as they try to appear lusher and leafier than their rivals . |
| 22 | It should be made clear to English-speaking pupils that classmates whose first language is Bengali or Cantonese , or any other of the scores of languages spoken by the school population … have languages quite as systematic and rule-governed as their own . |
| 23 | When Peter Townsend and his army of researchers monitored low incomes in the sixties and seventies for their massive study , Poverty in the United Kingdom ( Penguin , 1982 ) , they found that about a quarter of the unemployed were drawing supplementary benefit . |
| 24 | At first they were as organised and disciplined as their enemies were confused . |
| 25 | Two brothers , as friendly and informative as their Christian counterparts , showed me around the palace . |
| 26 | If local scepticism tends to collapse into global scepticism , this may be an advantage , since global sceptical arguments are generally more convincing and effective than their local counterparts . |
| 27 | Some of them were younger and jollier than their predecessors , and enjoyed a little dancing to the music of a gramophone . |
| 28 | Continental working classes are more violently atheistic and anticlerical than their British counterparts . |
| 29 | At first she used a more rigid approach , along the lines of her training in Coburg , then gradually adapted and developed this to suit the English students who were not quite so young and athletic as their German counterparts ! |
| 30 | The BBC 's own survey of public opinion also indicated that such listeners proved to be more broad-minded and imaginative than their masters thought likely . |