Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] in their " in BNC.
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| 1 | That looks incompatible with gaucherie , and perhaps is , but it represents no more than the incompatibilities that individuals daily enact in their own lives . |
| 2 | Apparently secure in their influence over the king , the ambition and greed of the Despensers reached new heights . |
| 3 | At times he is chiefly concerned with democracy as a form of government , when he describes it as a regime in which ‘ the people more or less participate in their government ’ , and says that ‘ its meaning is intimately connected with the idea of political liberty ’ ; while on other occasions he uses the term ‘ democracy ’ to describe a type of society , and refers more broadly to ‘ democratic institutions ’ and by implication to what would later be called a ‘ democratic way of life ’ . |
| 4 | What , so they obviously believe in their horoscopes ? |
| 5 | There wo n't be much doubt in their determined little minds . |
| 6 | The activities of moth larvae feeding on the fur or feathers binding the pellets together result in their breakdown even in dry conditions , although it may take several years for pellets to completely disintegrate . |
| 7 | Wood-boring ambrosia beetles ( of the species Xyleborus ferrugineus ) are parasitized by bacteria that not only live in their host 's body but also use the host 's eggs as their transport into a new host . |
| 8 | Expatriates may not adapt to the culture and so live in their own world entirely separate from that of the local inhabitants . |
| 9 | This included legislation and other measures allowing young men to evade conscription or ordering that they only serve in their home republic , and moves by individual republics to set up their own military detachments . |
| 10 | Now this means that erm putting it in its simplest way that for any of the districts in North Yorkshire and for Harrogate and if I may presume to say so in Selby in particular where the need is greatest , the local authorities must have the ability to designate what is provocatively called green field land , if they so wish in their local plan , proper consultations and strategic policies , they must have that freedom to do that if they are to be able to offer in their district land which will prove attractive to erm employment generating uses . |
| 11 | When Baby had been here , Dot remembered how she had yearned to be with him , amongst those quiet children so calm in their tidy beds . |
| 12 | Chairmen of Select Committees of the House of Commons normally remain in their places when Permanent Secretaries or other distinguished witnesses are brought before their committees . |
| 13 | They rarely smile and there is a far away look in their eyes . |
| 14 | As criminals tend to specialize in certain crimes , so corrupt politicians normally specialize in their corruption : the sexual blackguards stick to fucking , the bribe-takers to graft . |
| 15 | As pointed out above , firstly , their budgets only cover a limited range of services and , secondly , unlike DHAs , GPs can select which patients to take on and thus include in their budget . |
| 16 | As a result , an increasing proportion of the rural population no longer work in their home parish or village but instead commute for their living . |
| 17 | In October the girl won a temporary order under the 1989 Children 's Act , which gives youngsters more say in their future , barring her parents from forcing her to return . |
| 18 | ‘ Yet , at that age they are still nursed , still sleep in their mother 's arms , are still three years away from puberty , and about four years from when they will conceive their first offspring . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ In civilised countries , ’ said Ludens , ‘ dogs usually die in their baskets . ’ |
| 20 | The people up there speak a Tibetan dialect , and in the high pastures along the border the nomads still live in their black tents with their yaks . |
| 21 | This is , of course , what efficient readers always do in their reading . |
| 22 | Cetaceans today still carry in their bodies some of the physical traits of their land-dwelling ancestors . |
| 23 | ‘ They still come in their thousands every year to see the village and the famous telephone box . |
| 24 | If they still persist in their foolish attempts at destruction , set a Bloodthirster ( ROC-SD , or use the Greater Daemon profile from the WFRP rulebook ) arrive and attack . |
| 25 | Some still persist in their view that Morris burnt his boat when he chose previously to hand over the captaincy , saying in effect that he thought his cricket was suffering because of it . |
| 26 | This depends very much on the age of the victim though , for accidents involving small children usually occur in their own residential street , whilst older children are more often involved at junctions and along busier streets . |
| 27 | BUXTON 4th International Kite Fly For Peace Up , up and away as kite flyers world wide unite in their quest for peace . |
| 28 | Older children also sleep in their parents ' room , a pattern which continued in the middle class Bangladeshi families in this sample and those in which the parents had grown up in Britain . |
| 29 | Health workers also participate in their community or peasant organization or trade union . |
| 30 | The Authorities are maintaining their softly-softly approach in their bid to bring a peaceful end to the siege . |