Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] in their " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is widely believed that as Down 's Syndrome is a specifically identifiable handicap with which babies are born , the possible change in their intellectual abilities will be either small or non-existent . |
| 2 | The fleeces from the fell sheep in their natural state produced the hodden cloth , which later became familiar to all in the song about John Peel : ‘ D'ye ken John Peel with his cote swae grey ’ ( Woodcock Graves ) . |
| 3 | Then , as time went on and hypnosis gained credibility and was thought of as more than just a form of stage entertainment , more and more hypnotherapists began to use present-life regression in their work . |
| 4 | And it was not until several years later , after Picasso and Braque evolved new methods of dealing with solid forms in their paintings , through their papier colles and constructions , that there emerged with the work of men like Laurens and Lipchitz a real school of Cubist sculpture . |
| 5 | As well as their skills in construction , birds demonstrate considerable technical ingenuity in their efforts to get food . |
| 6 | Two men with stable lanterns in their hands waited on the grand sweep , vast as a sea shore , before the house . |
| 7 | They had ‘ as much in common with members of their own class in other European states in their interests and assumptions as they did with their feudal inferiors ’ . |
| 8 | After the Cemetery , there are a large number of extensive private houses in their own grounds , and this suggests an city boundary with the expensive houses closer to the countryside . |
| 9 | During the early period when most fish had heavy bone-based scales in their skins , several families spread from the open seas into coastal waters and eventually into shallow lagoons and swamps . |
| 10 | It will also challenge clubs like Nottingham — and perhaps even Cardiff — to become as effective as Saracens have been , not only in finding and developing new young talent , but in building such good relations with the junior clubs in their area as to make this process acceptable to both sides . |
| 11 | Dementia sufferers therefore need people to help them with personal and house care ; to safeguard them ( and others who may be affected ) from risks such as gas or road traffic , from harming themselves or others , or from being harmed by others ( for they may become vulnerable to attack , theft , etc ) , and to provide them with companionship and emotional support in their frequent loneliness and depression ( see Norman , 1982 ) . |
| 12 | As a result of demand , the variety of door styles has been expanded greatly to include a wide range of wood effect panels , some very beautiful wood veneers , wallpapered panels and for those who wish to achieve total co-ordination in their chosen decor — the fabric covered panel . |
| 13 | Pulses quicken at the mere mention of the name ; grown men develop a glazed look in their eyes . |
| 14 | Early in 1972 Izvestiya described the position of the ASEAN states in their declaration of the previous April as lacking in ‘ consequences ’ and observed that neutralisation was particularly difficult to equate with the Philippine and Thai adherence to Western military blocs . |
| 15 | Her eyes met his , saw the lazy mockery in their depths , and she felt her heart racing faster , realising anew how very dangerous he was to her family . |
| 16 | For Lingen , state medics represented a clear political force in their right , rather than the steady , methodical cadre of intellectuals envisaged by the Northcote-Trevelyan reforms of the 1850s . |
| 17 | There is evidence of a religious enthusiasm more acceptable to the establishment among the nobility , some of whom appear to have either anticipated or eagerly embraced the official establishment of new liturgical feasts in devotional offices in their private chapels . |
| 18 | Her pale sea green eyes were now dull and sunken deep in their sockets . |
| 19 | Health managers from two other regional health authorities in the North East are currently looking at the home as a model for private homes in their area . |
| 20 | The townsfolk glide around on recently mopped floors with a strange light in their eyes . |
| 21 | As the 1984 survey made clear , there are important differences between the public and private sectors in their use of temporary workers . |
| 22 | Composition means arrangements , and English composition is the arrangement , in speaking or writing English , of right words in their right order , so as to convey clearly a consecutive meaning . |
| 23 | We are Christ 's wounds , ’ he continued , ‘ the poor and the dispossessed , while the rich luxuriate in their comfortable sties . ’ |
| 24 | There is an unwritten rule in their crowd . |
| 25 | Then he bundled them into a stolen car in their nightclothes . |
| 26 | Once more her eyes flew to meet his , but this time there was a shy pleasure in their brown depths until again a shadow darkened them . |
| 27 | Seeing them like that , and the strange fear in their faces , stirred Harry in a way he could not quite understand , and for a moment he almost felt sorry for them . |
| 28 | Many doctors are also involved in small-scale research in their own practice . |
| 29 | This partnership — a trade unionist , a civil servant , and an engineer — now had a large slice of Britain 's economic future in their hands . |
| 30 | I tried to keep my eyes off his muscular thighs in their tight blue jeans , but as we bent over the café table it was easy to cast occasional surreptitious glances at his powerfully outlined sexual equipment under the much-rubbed fly , which seemed to be almost bursting at the seams . |