Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [coord] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | These techniques often have rather arcane titles but in their simple forms , they boil down to physical restraint . |
| 2 | Otters are very shy animals and for their peace of mind require an undisturbed stretch of riverbank , preferably several miles in length . |
| 3 | In too many instances a player 's schedule is determined just as much by the need to honour commercial contracts or by their agents , as by what is best for him or her . |
| 4 | Such thoughts do not immediately exercise the minds of farmers , but they are becoming concerned by the rises in the price of fertilizer and other oil-based inputs and by their own powerlessness in the face of ‘ agribusiness ’ corporations , which was referred to in Chapter 3 . |
| 5 | Their skin was as wrinkled and brown as an old football and on their heads were perched steel air-raid helmets . |
| 6 | The Indian painters lost contact with European developments and , according to Teresa Gisbert , ‘ sought inspiration both in the old styles and in their own tastes and traditions ’ , a mixture of ornamental stylisation with observation of the reality around them . |
| 7 | The short answer to this submission is that at the outset the Board of Review , in stating the issue for their decision , addressed themselves to the wrong question and in their consideration of the facts failed to apply the principles of law stated by Atkin L.J . |
| 8 | Although there will be plenty of examples of his deep love of women , not merely for their sexual attraction but for their companionship , conversation and intelligence , he can be struck by an infatuation for women he has never met . |
| 9 | A seven-member commission had the job of ranking the candidates on the basis of their scientific qualifications and on their performance at an oral examination consisting of a discussion of their scientific work and an academic lesson . |
| 10 | The Trade Finance Division of the banks in Belfast not only have their own specialised staff but through their networks of foreign bank relationships have access to the major banks throughout the world and the local knowledge , expertise and specialist skills available therein . |
| 11 | Those national structures can not be enforced , because to do so would be self-defeating to the idea of a free Europe and to their struggles to break away from the Moscow-dominated communist monolith . |
| 12 | The new seeds were a scientific success but in their introduction to the LDCs , too little attention was paid to the social and political context . |
| 13 | Other leaders might emerge by popular choice and through their personal drive and qualities . |
| 14 | This is that when we look at the evolution of cultural traits and at their survival value , we must be clear whose survival we are talking about . |
| 15 | Robin SeQueira , Dorset director and ADSS junior vice-president , says cash constraints may force some local authorities to cap the cost of caring for people , either in residential care or in their own homes . |
| 16 | They have , no doubt , been adapting themselves to their new home , to a different country and to their new school . |
| 17 | In particular , there will be a warm welcome for the Government 's commitment to our great public services and for their determination to improve standards by implementing the citizens charter . |
| 18 | This leads to a final consideration , namely whether politicians behave in the way Niskanen and others assume they do , either in their sensitivity to the costs and benefits of public expenditure or in their inability to obtain adequate information for the monitoring job they are required to do . |
| 19 | Arguing against the project , the independent scholar Cesare d'Onofrio has pointed out that ‘ the proposed creation of an archaeological park would involve excavating down five to six metres below the present level and the creation of an immense basin stretching from the edge of Piazza Venezia and engulfing whole areas of the city up to the Porta Appia and beyond , embracing in its metal fences and walls not only the Forums , the Colosseum , the Domus Aurea , the Oppian and Coelian hills , the Circus Maximus etc. but , of necessity , a whole series of churches and medieval , Renaissance and baroque basilicas which would stand wrenched both from their historical context and from their place in the daily life of modern Rome ’ . |
| 20 | Any issues affecting the relations of the Serbs with the imperial authorities or with their Muslim landlords and neighbours had to be dealt with by the Muslim authorities , most of whom operated from the cosmopolitan cities . |
| 21 | Er he gives them a lot of moral support and in their blast off parties when they 're ready to go out and conduct the missile competition , er he really stirs the pot and gets the guys moving . |
| 22 | Their perceptual distinguishability , alone , is no proof either of their actual existence or of their distinguishability per se . |
| 23 | It is apparent that the influence of the trades unions was highly significant , both at the level of negotiations with individual employers and through their influence on government policy . |
| 24 | Two other Group divisions also embarked on the RoSPA trail this year — Engineering Contracting and Oilfield Logistics and Supplies — both of which won a merit award for their individual performances and for their individual performances and for their substantial contribution to the overall Group performance . |
| 25 | Two other Group divisions also embarked on the RoSPA trail this year — Engineering Contracting and Oilfield Logistics and Supplies — both of which won a merit award for their individual performances and for their individual performances and for their substantial contribution to the overall Group performance . |
| 26 | Young women were not only constrained by their class position and by unemployment , but also by their male peers and by their position within the family . |
| 27 | As was the custom , such applicants were expected to do some work in exchange for shelter in the sleeping cell and for their food , and such work was at the discretion of the labour master . |
| 28 | It was having the same sorts of mainly damaging effects on people 's personal lives and on their family lives and so on , and in research that I carried out in Brighton erm over the past three or four years we were looking at these effects — how they were affecting unemployed people in Brighton — and trying to explain them . |
| 29 | Student exchange schemes have been established with several prestigious Japanese universities and during their year in Japan students will have the chance to experience many aspects of Japanese life and culture in different regions of the country . |
| 30 | Steen outlines a theoretical model for approaching empirically the problem of understanding metaphors , i.e. of how their identification , appreciation and evaluation is determined by the reader 's cognitive process and by their linguistic structures . |