Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McConnell claimed that the cannibal worms behaved as if they remembered the conditioned response their food had learned , whereas worms allowed to cannibalize other , untrained worms showed no such change in behaviour . |
| 2 | In due course their work will help us to move further forward . |
| 3 | There would be further set-backs as one lean spell caused the factions to surface again , but now they were truly under way and in due course their supremacy would become complete . |
| 4 | There were insufficient vehicles in the first delivery to work the whole service between Sutton and Croydon and several of the earlier 1–60 batch ex-L.U.T. trolleybuses , known as ‘ Diddlers ’ because of the clicking noise their contactors made , had to be used during the first few weeks . |
| 5 | In economic terminology their demand for a nest is ‘ inelastic ’ : however much the ‘ price ’ goes up , the birds seem willing to pay it . |
| 6 | A hawthorn hedge divided them on the left from the field belonging to Upmeadow Farm , while on the right-hand side their territory was bounded by a swift little stream . |
| 7 | Such ancient and well-tried difficulties with the concept of the divine haunt their fictions , which remain essentially this-worldly , however , in their moral concerns , and never theological . |
| 8 | Although in a world under divine guidance their actions can be said to actualize the Lord 's will , these actions can also be seen as the expression of women 's resentment and rebellion . |
| 9 | They allow their secretaries to hoard three years supply of sticky tape their personnel people to stock six years ' supply of appraisal forms ( when most managers would do better with blank sheets ) and their engineers to " buffer out " with an indefinite supply of obsolete parts . |
| 10 | Some people ( who usually turn out to do well in phonetic training ) find that in speaking to someone with a different accent their pronunciation gets progressively more like that of the person they are speaking to , like a chameleon adapting its colour to its environment . |
| 11 | Under Dutch and early British rule their fortunes had varied according to colonial policy towards the cinnamon industry , which at that time provided most of the country 's export earnings . |
| 12 | What makes Britain together with Israel and New Zealand , constitutional democracies , despite the absence of codified constitutions , is this very fact that their governments in general feel under pressure to conform to such norms ; when accused of unconstitutional action their defence is not that the term ‘ unconstitutional ’ is without meaning , but that their actions can , despite appearances , be defended in constitutional terms . |
| 13 | Trees 160 feet high thrust their crowns above the canopy , their trunks buttressed by strange outgrowths , and clothed in exotic plants . |
| 14 | As an outside observer I was startled by the response — a roar that would have drowned even the Parkhead faithful saluting their team captain clutching the Scottish Cup . |
| 15 | On August 12 a clear sky gave the French duo their chance , and by the following evening they were at 6900 metres , having climbed 1200 metres of mixed ground reminiscent of the north face of Les Courtes in the Chamonix Alps . |
| 16 | When would-be television stars realised that just to get through the first round involved completing a detailed questionnaire their enthusiasm waned somewhat . |
| 17 | There 's no specific area that I can lay my finger on to explain why West Indian kids underachieve … what is inevitable is that a lot of West Indian children particularly the bright ones will do fairly well up to either the beginning or the middle of the fourth year , and for some peculiar reason their progress will fall off towards the end of the fifth year . |
| 18 | The glass cone at Lemington , although incomplete , is one of few such survivals in Britain , and particularly in the region where the Venerable Bede tells us that French glassmakers were brought over to teach the ‘ English nation their handicraft ’ , which had been lost here after the departure of the Romans . |
| 19 | So the first defendant was entitled to ‘ all costs charges and expenses … on a full indemnity basis ’ and the receivers were entitled to retain out of the mortgaged property their remuneration as fixed by the first defendant . |
| 20 | Why do the British treat their property so badly ? |
| 21 | In the dim lamplight their faces looked pale and ghostly . |
| 22 | The significance of this opposition will be enhanced , I think , if the socialist movements of the future are able to express in a more precise , convincing and spirited way their conceptions of an alternative , viable economy and a new social order on a world scale , as a realistic ideal which can be gradually approached in ever-changing circumstances . |
| 23 | Certainly , and not surprisingly , the higher stratum of more secure workers and to a lesser extent their families had access to better health and also housing provision in this period before the state played a significant role in either area — at least for as long as they remained in fairly regular work . |
| 24 | I am not the only person who has had a tumultuous year , and I am immensley proud of the way the British face their problems and so often succeed despite them . |
| 25 | After wet weather their thunder can be heard from across the dale and once , and only once , in winter when many of the trees had lost their leaves , I caught a glimpse of them from Frostrow : shimmering skeins of white foam through the wooded gill . |
| 26 | Those now providing voluntary humanitarian relief are merely doing of their own free will and on a small scale what we hope citizens of the rich nations will as soon as possible compel their states to do on a massive scale . ’ |
| 27 | Thus , in the actual case their Lordships held that although the Minister had to adduce evidence that the decision to ban national unions at G.C.H.Q. was based on considerations of national security , the question of whether such considerations outweighed the prima facie duty of fairness was for the Minister himself to decide . |
| 28 | They are extremely special , are produced at great cost , and it is doubtful that the mere pleasure their harmony gives to a selected happy few is worth such large public expenditure . |
| 29 | This legislation forces members to authorize on an annual basis their employer to deduct subs from their pay . |
| 30 | His soldiers , he said , would prolong by an extra day their ultimatum to the Palestinians to leave the mountain ridges between here and Beirut . |