Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Venice and Ancona , Naples and Sicily , Florence and Bruges would watch and listen and notify him in due course of their passage , as well as of other things . |
| 2 | From a socio-cultural point of view , the crucial issue is not what our remote ancestors looked like , or the hypothetical level of their IQ , but when or where or why or how they first learned to talk . |
| 3 | However , speculative pressure , stimulated by the increasing size and mobility of capital flows , eventually brought about the suspension of official dollar convertibility into gold and the subsequent abandonment by individual monetary authorities of their obligation to maintain fixed exchange rates . |
| 4 | It seemed as if these mute faces were crying something terrible , the unbelievable horror of their martyrdom . |
| 5 | Dronfield responded with an open public meeting , where the residents mounted a strong defence of their parental rights systematically vilifying Outram into the bargain . |
| 6 | Finally , while Eisenhower indicated that he would be more co-operative with a new prime minister , many Conservatives had ample reasons of their own to try to make a fresh start . |
| 7 | One is a lump sum to be given to the Sports Centre to be used to offset junior activities of their choice . |
| 8 | To offset junior activities of their choice , |
| 9 | And nobody knows what may happen to Soviet players , torn between their new work opportunities abroad and the emotional pull of their increasingly independent-minded republics . |
| 10 | Normally I 'd be reaching for ‘ annihilate ’ button when faced with such an ‘ aware ’ and ‘ right-on ’ selection of topics but Leatherface succeed where so many others have failed by virtue of the tuneful tempestuousness of their music , an assault with melody , muscle and sheer conviction which is irresistible , and the fact that Frankie Stubbs never sounds like a po-faced preacher — unlike a certain other native of the North-East whose name I can hardly type without sending my blood-pressure into the red . |
| 11 | The killing can then be a long and slow process , and the animals often have to endure hours trapped in the midst of the bloody massacre of their family , awaiting their own agonising mutilation . |
| 12 | The London Board , which inherited a particularly efficient contracting subsidiary from a company undertaking , expanded it further ( even being allowed for special contracts to compete in the area of other Boards ) and it became the most profitable part of their operation . |
| 13 | Although there is almost complete freedom of trade , many traders choose not to do so in response to the prevailing wishes of their local communities . |
| 14 | The rhythmic , monotonous noise of their chewing was soothing to Nails . |
| 15 | In the relatively prosperous years of the late nineteenth century Latin American intellectuals were primarily concerned not with the economic progress of their nations , but with their development away from a state of ‘ barbarism ’ to one of ’ civilisation' along European lines . |
| 16 | By the Edwardian period it had become inescapably clear that middle-class evangelism had failed to create a working class in its own image ; the great majority of London workers , particularly , were not Christian , provident , chaste or temperate by middle-class standards , while the artisan and skilled worker had developed social and political patterns of their own . |
| 17 | But the colonial Greeks of the west , like colonials in all periods , inherited and exaggerated the classic attitudes of their race ; in particular , the governing feeling that as Pindar put it ‘ it is better to be envied than pitied ’ ( Pyth. i.85 ) . |
| 18 | An editorial in the Catholic Herald and Standard on 25 May — it is distributed in Ireland as The Standard — criticized the Irish bishops ' apparently low esteem of their laity 's ability to remain constant in their marriages . |
| 19 | It seems impossible that they could not have known where they were ; they can only have ignored it deliberately , and therefore perhaps for political reasons of their own . |
| 20 | Indeed , many of the distinctive characteristics of the ‘ peasant-proletarian ’ — the relatively low level of their skill , wages and education , and even their marked tendency to marry earlier than their more urbanized counterpart — appear to have weakened their commitment to sustained protest . |
| 21 | It is the Alpine 's bizarre , clap-hands windscreen wipers which would do Heath Robinson proud with the unnecessary complexity of their design and engineering and , in the matter of clearing rain , are about as effective as a Government promise to bring more civil service jobs to Scotland . |
| 22 | Europeans , almost as much as in preceding generations , took war for granted as a normal part of their lives . |
| 23 | For school librarians , providing information on microcomputer software is now a normal part of their current awareness selective dissemination of information service in schools . |
| 24 | They could not assume , as most grammar schools and some secondary modern schools complacently had , that the problems of pupils and the needs of counselling would be met by teachers in the normal course of their teaching responsibilities . |
| 25 | However the IPG did succeed in developing the information system along problem-based lines in the normal course of their development work . |
| 26 | On the other hand , the nature of the ‘ common bond ’ on which they are based is such that members and potential members of a credit union can become aware of the cost advantages in the normal course of their day-to-day contact with friends , neighbours or workmates . |
| 27 | In the ever shrinking , fast-moving world of today , boats , trains , aeroplanes and cars carry travellers all over the globe , either as tourists or in the normal course of their business . |
| 28 | Many animals need to make long journeys over unfamiliar country during the normal course of their lives . |
| 29 | It is widely believed , for example , that farmers contaminate watercourses every day in the normal course of their jobs ; but , as an officer from a rural district put it , ‘ I would n't take action if he could n't do anything about it . ’ |
| 30 | 7.7.4 not to store or bring onto the Premises any article substance or liquid of a specifically combustible inflammable or explosive nature and to comply with the requirements and recommendations of the fire authority [ and the [ reasonable ] requirements of the Landlord ] as to fire precautions relating to the Premises Some tenants sell inflammable or what may be considered to be otherwise dangerous substances in the normal course of their business . |