Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] on their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they wear little except shorts and light rubber-soled pumps and hold on to vertical cliff walls like flies with a combination of sticky powder on their fingers , the faith of an Indian fakir , and tons of hardware in the shape of bolts , runners and slings hammered into the rocks . |
| 2 | The men had not a dry thread on their bodies ; there was not a dugout that could provide dry accommodation . |
| 3 | Such clients usually had a multiple debt problem , owing money on their mortgage , personal loans and their car . |
| 4 | The net result is to deter part-time employment among unemployed people and to increase women 's economic reliance on their partners . |
| 5 | Welsh Water has dragged many old-age pensioners and under-privileged people through the courts of Wales because they have fallen down on the odd instalment on their water charges . |
| 6 | There is indeed very extensive literature on their use as feed additives , and it is matched by that on the use of clays and cyanoferrates . |
| 7 | Presently Dada would go to the yard for his evening duties : a light inspection of the yearlings and a long and absorbing confabulation on their prospects with Fagan . |
| 8 | investigate how teachers feel about possible action on their part aimed at redressing the ‘ gender balance ’ of fictional texts used as class readers . |
| 9 | Just when it seemed Roma would inflict a humiliating defeat on their despised city neighbours in ‘ Il Derby ’ , Gascoigne saved the game , honour of Lazio , and head of coach Dino Zoff . |
| 10 | The Belfast Committee of Action Research would like to thank the people of Belfast for their generous support on their Annual Flag Day in Belfast on Tuesday 2 October 1991 . |
| 11 | By their fruits we shall know the peacemakers , not by the seraphic look on their faces . |
| 12 | The male 's usual pattern is to position himself on higher ground , above the females , keeping careful watch on their every move . |
| 13 | Officers hope the leaflet will encourage other firms in the town to slap a no smoking ban on their premises . |
| 14 | ‘ One year , ’ he said , when he was sure of my attention , ‘ the shepherds found a tār when they were crossing the high ridge on their way back from Aula in the spring . |
| 15 | The single unemployed living on their own are the only group who have lost significantly from the changes — by an average of £2.16 a week . |
| 16 | GUMBALL , the new band formed by ex-Dinosaur Jr and BALL man Don Fleming and who support Teenage Fanclub on their UK tour , release their debut EP on Paperhouse records this week . |
| 17 | GUMBALL , the new band formed by ex-Dinosaur Jr and BALL man Don Fleming and who support Teenage Fanclub on their UK tour , release their debut EP on Paperhouse records this week . |
| 18 | Subordinates also need adequate feedback on their performance . |
| 19 | Men who write about miners lavish poetic pleasure on their bodies , they seek to explain miners in the language of their statuesque and satanic physique . |
| 20 | A farmer and his family who live in a wooden shack on their organic farm say they will lose their home and their livelihood if they are n't allowed to build a proper house . |
| 21 | For example I can remember erm hearing that erm Spanish some Spanish oran orange growers who grow their oranges under tunnels , er were getting very depressed because of the erm chemicals they were spraying on them had a harmful effect on their nervous systems . |
| 22 | One intellectual reason why Western Marxist writers accepted ‘ party discipline ’ and a rigid orthodoxy on their work was the conviction that the Bolshevik revolution ( and the spread of Marxist regimes to Eastern Europe , China , and Cuba ) had ‘ validated ’ the ‘ scientific ’ character of Marx and Engels ' work — credit which Communist thinkers also extended to Lenin 's reworking and extension of classical |
| 23 | A number of deaf people , including children , lost their lives during air raids by German warplanes on the British mainland , including a family of eight when a bomb scored a direct hit on their dug-out . |
| 24 | Ruby , who had said that she was safe , that lightning never struck twice , had been killed with her daughter and two of her grandsons by a direct hit on their shelter . |
| 25 | It was a foolish tactic on their part , especially since federalist thinking is so prominent in the European Parliament , Commission and a number of member states . |
| 26 | Police arrested 11 men with sound equipment on their way to a Saturday night acid house party in the New Forest . |
| 27 | Plans for the extensive use of privatization coupons , reserving 40 per cent of nationalized property for sale to citizens at special low prices , encountered problems when it was revealed on Jan. 20 that up to 6,000,000 of the 8,000,000 books printed ( each worth Kcs1,035 or about US$35 — and exchangeable for shares in state companies — see also pp. 38584-85 ) had disappeared , allegedly bought up by private investment funds promising individuals a tenfold return on their investment after a year . |
| 28 | Feminists ' commitment to moral improvement and environmental reform had a direct influence on their image of the prostitute . |
| 29 | Jayne 's even got her husband Phil with her as sound engineer on their latest nationwide tour , billed as The Best Of Torvill and Dean . |
| 30 | This has a direct bearing on their exports such as lamb . |