Example sentences of "[adj] are [vb pp] [prep] their " in BNC.

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1 The review argues that Restart courses , under which the long-term unemployed are interviewed about their efforts to find a job , should be subject to benefit sanctions to widen take-up , ‘ especially among those too demotivated to volunteer ’ .
2 Tourists who are injured or fall sick are repatriated to their various countries .
3 The health problems of the elderly are compounded by their declining income .
4 Students who are not able to be present are admitted to their degrees in absentia .
5 If people 's payments for the good are related to their individual demand curves everyone has an incentive to lie because of the free-rider problem .
6 Dictionary entries more than three letters long are divided into their 3-gram components .
7 It is he who draws the moral , declaring that the low-life characters are no worse than the corrupt ruling class , the only difference being that the poor are punished for their vices .
8 Parents who make demands which are regarded as excessive are resented by their children ( even if they actually meet some of those demands ) , as are those who engage in emotional manipulation or divide the sibling group against each other ( Firth , Hubert and Forge , 1970 , ch. 12 ) .
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