Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many otaku make their living in technology-related fields , as software designers , computer engineers , computer graphic artists or computer magazine editors . |
| 2 | This gives us the opportunity to compare their results with MLC targets and actual results from recorded farms , before suggesting general advice on the options available for improvement . ’ |
| 3 | His younger brother Philip was tied up and locked in the boot of a car for three hours while the gang made their getaway . |
| 4 | It 's possible the gang made their getaway along the nearby M4 . |
| 5 | Our academic staff will have to compete very hard for the research money to continue their activities , while at the same time maintaining the quality of the teaching they offer students . |
| 6 | Social status would be achieved on the basis of merit in a society where all members have an equal opportunity to realize their talents . |
| 7 | Teachers looking for funding to support their research can apply to the Scottish Office Education Department for a grant under its sponsored research programme . |
| 8 | With the abolition of US capital controls in 1974 all US residents and corporations have had total freedom to invest their funds inside or outside the USA . |
| 9 | When the group comes together to discuss what might happen in the ensuing chapter , they return to the words of the text to support their evidence . |
| 10 | 16.42 ( i ) Pupils working towards level 8 should be taught how to scrutinise a text for details of characterisation , settings and attitudes , and how to quote appropriately from a text to support their opinions . |
| 11 | As many as 40% of all European farmers have such second jobs , the majority maintaining their farms as sources of supplementary income . |
| 12 | The Supergrid gave them more freedom to optimise their siting by these criteria . |
| 13 | What is achieved because three men going about their job earning money to support their families are dead , simply because they are Roman Catholics , and for no other known reason ? |
| 14 | Inflation creates strife , as different groups in society struggle to restore their living standards . |
| 15 | A bark alerts their owner to a likely disturbance , enabling them to take effective action . |
| 16 | The study also shows that grasslands with a high above-ground biomass lose their standing crop more rapidly than those with a lower biomass . |
| 17 | The bank-controlled Visa and MasterCard networks , with more than 75% of the general-purpose cards market between them , are fighting a discount war with American Express to keep shops and restaurants loyal as recession slows their billings , while fending off powerful non-bank competitors , led by AT&T and Sears Roebuck , who want to join their networks . |
| 18 | A new station called Birkbeck , was built where it crossed Elmers End Road , but was not sufficiently near the tram route to affect their traffic . |
| 19 | The National Governing Bodies whose sports can be accommodated in the facilities have taken the opportunity to promote their sport to a potential audience of four million people and are organising displays , coaching clinics , tournaments and so on . |
| 20 | But when the gas board make their inspection , they check for the leak with a candle . |
| 21 | Yet if they are to fulfil their responsibility to monitor their population 's access to health care the authorities must have all of this information . |
| 22 | That failure owed as much to English inability to sustain their efforts for long enough as to successful Scottish resistance . |
| 23 | For some chairmen , moreover , the prospect of playing Father Christmas ( which their rural electrification largesse offered them ) provided a not entirely unwelcome opportunity to affirm their commitment to the local community , and the voices of discontent raised against the policy were few . |
| 24 | This was actually recognized in the poor Law which limited women 's liability to support their parents to unmarried women , thus reinforcing the idea that a married women 's economic position is complete dependence upon her husband . |
| 25 | Also on Wednesday , Jamaican women 's theatre group Sistren bring their show , Buss Out , to Warwick Arts Centre in Coventry to round off the Midlands-based Kajoyo festival of black theatre before touring to Nottingham , Brixton and Cardiff . |
| 26 | Would n't American distributors welcome the opportunity to diversify their product range with some little English films ? |
| 27 | Another group of conscripts had on May 14 occupied the national radio station but failed to persuade staff to broadcast their demands , and on May 16 they rampaged through the streets of Abidjan firing their weapons . |
| 28 | Pedestrians also have a responsibility to signal their intentions — Do NOT walk off the pavement onto the road — PRACTISE the Green Cross Code and teach it to children — Rule 7 . |
| 29 | The papillae are broad and glassy with rugose tips ; webs of skin connect their bases . |
| 30 | Of course , we can not draw conclusions about the calibre of a person simply from his or her occupation or education , but these figures do not support the view that councillors lack either the education or administrative experience to perform their duties . |