Example sentences of "[prep] their [noun] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The need for accountability — no matter how much discretion those working in the public sector exercise they will ultimately be accountable for their decisions either to superior officers or to the public through the tribunal systems . |
| 2 | However , the couple found help for their son closer to home at the Brain Injury Rehabilitation and Development Centre , near BAe 's Broughton plant . |
| 3 | There 's different stories about I know that long ago about men being put out of their putting out of their houses just to and they just er demolished the house you ken and |
| 4 | As their mother seemed already to have been in hospital for most of their lives , Alexander and Victoria saw no change and since the family followed the form of their class and delegated the day-to-day care of their children entirely to the nanny , the absence of their mother hardly affected their lives . |
| 5 | Seals take much of their food close to the surface , plankton and pelagic fish forming their main prey . |
| 6 | If , on the other hand , the teacher has it in the back of their mind always to be aware of the possibility of bringing into the work that 's going on in the classroom and bringing all they 're usually very excellent pedagogic skills to bear on it , aspects of the physical sciences , so that the children can get an early and meaningful introduction to it , then it will happen . |
| 7 | If , on the other hand , the teacher has it in the back of their mind always to be aware of the possibility of bringing into the work that 's going on in the classroom and bringing all they 're usually very excellent pedagogic skills to bear on it , aspects of the physical sciences , so that the children can get an early and meaningful introduction to it , then it will happen . |
| 8 | Political sociologists , in so far as they are not engaged in mainly descriptive and historical studies , now devote much of their effort either to analysing methodological problems of the kind which I outlined in the Introduction , or to reappraising and reinterpreting those nineteenth-century theories in which the ideas with which I have been concerned throughout this book — democracy , class , capitalism , socialism , the nation — were originally formulated and diffused . |
| 9 | However , from the issue of the 1783 Quaker protest onwards abolitionists sent some of their material directly to persons of influence ; in the Quaker case members of the royal family , the principal officers of state and members of both Houses of Parliament . |
| 10 | ‘ I offer these with their privileges freely to the diocese of Durham . |
| 11 | Scotland rested in Sydney yesterday before their flight today to Hong Kong , where they are in the same pool this weekend as Tonga and Romania . |
| 12 | Manchester City 's Quinn netted in the eleventh minute in their match away to Port Vale , but the home side drew level with ace marksman Beckford after thirty six minutes . |
| 13 | Visiting researchers will be given the opportunity of submitting papers arising from their work here to this journal , or to other journals , with the advice and assistance of supervising scientists , and with in-house editorial assistance from trained and experienced staff . |
| 14 | They came with a good suit on and they would go to work with a suit double breasted and then and they would work there and make a lot of money and when the next thing they would do they would hit into town and get all rigged out and then that was them from top to bottom from their hat right to their feet and then they were hitting the road then . |
| 15 | How could the best interests of the children be served by tearing them from their beds and flying them away from their island home to be completely separated from everything dear and familiar . |
| 16 | RSSPCC social workers were involved in the dawn raids on 27 February ; it was mainly to suit their convenience that the children were flown away from their island home to an unfamiliar environment . |
| 17 | Following Winship , she relates women 's feelings of powerlessness not to unconscious conflicts , but to their ability actively to subordinate themselves . |
| 18 | ‘ Problem pages ’ in the women 's and youth magazines carried letters from unhappy girls who had ‘ given themselves ’ to their boyfriends subsequently to be abandoned and labelled as a ‘ package of dirty linen ’ . |
| 19 | Once inside , we joined the crowd on their way upstairs to the gallery . |
| 20 | Relatives of those aboard the ferry were on their way yesterday to the site of the disaster to wait for news . |
| 21 | Many of the passengers were on their way home to Dublin or off on holiday in Amsterdam , Paris or Jersey . |
| 22 | The visit to the power station is very important to them , as they can gain college credits , which count towards degrees and awards , for reports they make on their return home to America . |