Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | The women also called on church leaders to stand by the tenets of truth and justice , and be willing to accept criticism of their own policies . |
| 2 | Many health workers have not been well prepared to use information during their basic training , and others have lost those skills through lack of practice . |
| 3 | He wanted to tell the Blands that there were people willing to take care of their son for the rest of his life , if they would allow it . |
| 4 | There are numerous examples in English wills throughout the centuries of men who were careful to make provision for their widows by insisting that children who inherited some property would allow their mother to stay somewhere comfortable for the rest of her life . |
| 5 | A big THANK YOU to those teachers who have worked so very hard in so many various ways to encourage this scheme and above all a big THANK YOU to our class members who after all are the backbone of our Society ; it would be impossible to raise money without their help . |
| 6 | Overall , readers of highbrow papers were less likely to allege bias in their own paper than readers of middlebrow or lowbrow papers but the differences were surprisingly small . |
| 7 | It is this University 's view that selective payments to a minority are more likely to do damage by their divisiveness than to benefit the University by encouraging those who receive them . |
| 8 | We are aware , however , that both of these options are likely to give rise to their own set of environmental problems . |
| 9 | We are aware , however , that both of these options are likely to give rise to their own set of environmental problems . |
| 10 | They moved to cheaper hotels where they were not supposed to have food in their rooms but took it in turns to get breakfast and hide tiny stoves in the wardrobes while waving the cooking fumes out of the window . |
| 11 | From the start however , pupils are likely to spend part of their working day as members of a multi-ethnic , multi-lingual class . |
| 12 | Dorning Town were quick to gain revenge for their defeat here a few weeks ago , by overcoming us 4-O . |
| 13 | Paula Gilfoyle was found dead at the couple 's home in Grafton Drive on June 4 last year two weeks before she was due to give birth to their first child . |
| 14 | Paula , who had worked as an assembler at Champion Spark Plugs , Upton , was due to give birth to their first child two weeks after she died . |
| 15 | Two weeks later she was due to give birth to their first child . |
| 16 | A system that had been designed to exclude the poor 's income from the payment of tax , was reshaped in such a way that , although the poor continued to enjoy exemption on their low income , the same privilege was extended to similar bands of income for all other taxpayers . |
| 17 | Many patients with Alzheimer 's disease are too apraxic to guide liquid to their mouths or too apathetic to make the effort . |
| 18 | It has been estimated that in the years 1877–1904 70 per cent of Pomeranian farmland was held in large estates and only 30 per cent in peasant smallholdings of various kinds : about two-thirds of Pomeranian farmers were smallholders living in the most appalling poverty ; their assets were non-existent or too small for them to think of trekking westwards to look for factory work ; they were too poor to pay cash for their land , and too impoverished for any bank to risk giving them a loan . |
| 19 | So far , there is no evidence whatever that the ITT proposals were adopted by the CIA , the Pentagon or any other body in the U S. On the second point , the US military continued to maintain contact with their Chilean opposite numbers and to continue supplying arms ( imagine the outcry if they had stopped ) but again there is no evidence whatever of any US military involvement in the 1973 coup . |
| 20 | It is important for the elderly to have heating in their bedroom because of the risk of hypothermia , and it is also essential to make sure that they are living in a home that is well ventilated as well as warm . |
| 21 | From studies of these countries , there appears to be an unwillingness of the elderly to seek assistance from their younger kin , although paradoxically the young report that they are more willing to give help than the elderly are willing to seek it . |
| 22 | Firmly distanced from the levers of power , the liberal parties were unable to carry conviction among their potential constituents . |
| 23 | They would be able to claim benefit in their own right and for their husbands as their dependants . |
| 24 | The eggs become loosely attached to the wall of the female 's uterus and blood vessels develop on either side of the contact so that the young are able to absorb sustenance from their mother 's blood . |
| 25 | Age Concern also believes that general practitioners should be able to provide information about their services , and that there should be increased health promotion and preventive screening provided by general practices . |
| 26 | And fifteen minutes later , with all the completed questionnaires returned , there was good reason to suppose that Morse could be right , since three of those concerned , Eddie Stratton , Howard Brown , and John Ashenden , appeared temporarily unable to provide corroboration of their individual whereabouts and activities during the key period of the previous afternoon — the afternoon when the original groups , three of them , had been re-formed slightly ( following Kemp 's telephone call ) , and when anyone wishing to absent himself for some purpose would have been presented with a wonderful opportunity so to do . |
| 27 | It is suggested that pay would in some way ‘ institutionalise ’ the oppression of the housewife , yet many people who point out this danger are happy to accept pay for their work , even though this also presumably ‘ institutional-ises ’ whatever forms of oppression they suffer in their jobs . |
| 28 | Either through this , or through their exercise of coercive powers , the great landed nobility were able to minimize damage to their incomes in the first twenty years or so after the first onset of the plague . |
| 29 | The DHA ( or other purchasing agent ) will then , it is argued , be able to obtain care for their residents which provides greater value for money . |
| 30 | It seems unlikely , however , that older people are reluctant to accept care from their spouse . |