Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | It was generally accepted that this was best achieved by attacking enemy tactical aircraft on their airfields . |
| 3 | In Committee there were substantial debates about how far the effectiveness of schools could fairly be judged simply by the publication of crude raw data on their results . |
| 4 | They 'll be looking for old folk on their own . ’ |
| 5 | Oswald and his wife Jenny have been selling wet fish from their stall for 45 years . |
| 6 | His all-embracing marine articles have played a major part in instructing newcomers to the hobby , while many of his photographs show marine fish in their natural settings . |
| 7 | ‘ Our plan is that our IT systems will enable users to order direct from the supplier by electronic means from their terminals . |
| 8 | A Message from the free People to their Comrades Still in Prison |
| 9 | Until recently it was reckoned that men and women on average had sex with 6 different people in their lifetime . |
| 10 | Thanks for this go to many generous people for their time and expertise and a specific mention must go to HM Army personnel at Catterick Base for the donation of carpets , chairs and cutlery . |
| 11 | Some have adopted a system of routine visiting of all the old people on their lists in order to check that health is maintained and to ensure that diseases and disabilities are tackled at the onset . |
| 12 | In particular , if a historical perspective enters into the survey it may well be quite invaluable to interview old people for their memories of the community as it was so many years ago . |
| 13 | She said : ‘ It encourages the children to go and talk to their grandparents and great-grandparents and other old people about their days at school . |
| 14 | Yet they have only touched the tip of the iceberg , especially with respect to old people in their own homes or private care . |
| 15 | The role of formal carers is a challenging one , full of difficulties but also of opportunities to build services , systems and structures which support very old people in their own homes . |
| 16 | the dyad , a system of two interrelated people with their interpersonal system ; |
| 17 | She was living then , according to the observant father , in a ramshackle but tidy palm-leaf cabin by the saman tree ‘ which these primitive people in their ignorance still worship , studding its gnarled trunk with nails of tin or brass to register their desires . |
| 18 | His willingness to talk to the French people on their level was received as a touching gesture rather than a condescending one . |
| 19 | What is more , current social work and health policy seeks to move away from institutionalized forms of care provided by elderly persons ' homes and hospitals , concentrating instead on maintaining ageing people within their own homes . |
| 20 | And when your children fail to live up to the hopes you have for them , you imply they are not acceptable people in their own right . |
| 21 | The two notes referring to James Island suggest that he has just started to identify different species by their specific island localities . |
| 22 | He 's had to memorise the layout of his nursery and identifies different species by their touch , smell and taste . |
| 23 | The resemblance here is to the great nineteenth century Reviews , the Edinburgh , the Quarterly , the Westminster , and others , which did include some scientific works among their criticism but were chiefly concerned with literature , history and politics . |
| 24 | Open at random : a cluster of brilliant green social wasps hang like a lobed fruit on their nest ; a Madagascar tree-boa flicks out its cobalt tongue ; a black and white ruffed lemur gobbles orange figs ; and white sifaka dance over golden sand . |
| 25 | For instance , the $150m that Citicorp raised from selling property-related assets in the past five quarters fetched an average 63% of their nominal value . |
| 26 | In addition , these authorities license airports to ensure that they comply with their national interpretation of ICAO standards , and they also issue certificates of airworthiness for types of aircraft and in respect of each individual aircraft on their register , besides monitoring aircraft design and manufacturing standards . |
| 27 | Some have taken the official statistics at their face value and suggested that such violence is the infrequent action of a few psychologically disturbed men . |
| 28 | Around two-thirds of consumers polled had shopped on a Sunday in the preceding month , doing on average 5% of their weekly shopping on the sabbath . |
| 29 | Of the ‘ scholar patriots ’ perhaps one can say that , instead , they helped to awaken the national consciousness ; and in the evening of his life Phan Boi Chau , in a moving analogy in which Vietnam was likened to an orphan child which by this time should have learned to walk and France to a tutor who felt that the child was easier to control when he was unable to run , talked of a people whose traditional values had been destroyed and who were thus a generation of uprooted people on their own soil . |
| 30 | It has three main aims : the first is the democratic process of involving people in thinking , dealing , planning and playing an active part in the development and operation of services that affect their daily lives : the second relates to the value for personal fulfilment of belonging to a community : the third is concerned with the need in community planning to think of actual people in their relation to other people and the satisfaction of their needs as persons rather than to focus attention upon a series of separate needs and problems . |