Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [noun] [conj] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | These particles may be atoms , molecules or ions and their diameters are generally less than 5 nm ( that is , ) . |
| 2 | I 've known ghosts who went back to their houses or caravans or their stately homes and there was n't a trace of them left , it was all tower blocks or allotments or -one lady ghost told me — a supermarket . |
| 3 | Ultimately , if a journal editor is to be a gatekeeper of scientific knowledge , procedures must be in place to assure both readers and authors that their work is to be taken seriously . |
| 4 | We planned a party for our children , their spouses and our grandchildren ; our brothers and sisters and their children and grandchildren . |
| 5 | But they demonstrate a fairly clear hierarchy of claims to receive financial benefit from a relative which runs : spouse and/or children ; parents ; brothers and sisters and their children ; grandparents ; uncles and aunts . |
| 6 | brothers and sisters or their children ; if none |
| 7 | It is perhaps tempting to assume , after the Government 's recent ban on ivory imports , that the UK can claim to be a shining example of those striving to control the trade in wild animals and plants and their products . |
| 8 | The administration has long known that it faces a bloody fight with conservative insurers and physicians and their hangers-on . |
| 9 | Suppleness is concerned with the muscles , ligaments and tendons and their capacity to allow freedom of movement . |
| 10 | The two principal families are the plovers ( pp. 121–5 ) and the sandpipers and snipes and their allies ( pp. 127 41 ) . |
| 11 | Receivers however always want to sell without giving any warranties and indemnities because their own knowledge of the business is limited and they do not want any continuing involvement with the buyer . |
| 12 | Trees grow in all shapes and sizes and their timbers look very different . |
| 13 | individual , family and social ( including gender ) roles and contexts and their influence on individual choices , availability and patterns of leisure and leisure decision-making in the household . |
| 14 | The money will also be used to determine the rate and extent of recovery of lakes and rivers and their associated fauna from acid rain damage , and its role in causing forest decline . |
| 15 | A previous ESRC project on Diagnostic Teaching showed striking superiority , for retention , of a teaching method based on exposure of errors and misconceptions and their resolution through intensive conflict discussions . |
| 16 | Short squat whelks are also the ones most at risk from predators ( see p. 302 ) , their small size and rounded shape making them easily swallowed by gulls and eiders whilst their wide mouth renders them vulnerable to oystercatchers and crabs . |
| 17 | The extended family was an accepted way of life in the dales and she had shared a home with her husband 's parents and brother until their deaths . |
| 18 | In this environment , students will be given opportunities to realise the need for new skills and abilities and their development will be supported in , what may be at times , personally challenging situations . |
| 19 | It is not a history of diagnosis or treatment but of policies and institutions and their relationship to theories of the child mind . |
| 20 | These talks , boycotted or disrupted by the employers and unions since their initiation , had been set up by the government on Sept. 20 following widespread unrest in May and July [ see pp. 37450 ; 37607 ] . |
| 21 | So terrified of doing the wrong thing that they do nothing at all — except bleat like sheep about their petty rules and regulations and their morality . |
| 22 | They have clients who wish to sell certain products and services and their task is to enable their clients to reach as many potential customers as possible and at the lowest possible cost . |
| 23 | 4 Realistic target dates for repeat assessments of the person and regular evaluation of care plans and programmes and their effectiveness . |
| 24 | Such groups tend to wield greater power in conflict situations than their members , and indeed the very existence of the groups may be seen to anticipate and perpetuate conflict , to harden and formalise a set of attitudes and values that their individual members may not themselves have recognised or expressed . |
| 25 | The assumption is that children from ‘ deprived backgrounds ’ are more likely to adopt racist attitudes and arguments because their cultural milieu is unable to equip them with a more enlightened understanding of the causes of their problems . |
| 26 | The groups also discussed personal values and relations and their wider political implications . |
| 27 | The timing and content of political strategies for confronting the economic crisis within individual countries will depend on the kinds of interrelated factors that have been examined : the balance of social forces , class strategies and alliances and their expression within the state through the medium of political parties and their ideologies . |
| 28 | The micro-political dimension of budgeting is based on the view that budgetary decisions are not necessarily made on rational — economic grounds but that the deciding factors may be other influences such as the power base of individuals or groups and their value systems . |
| 29 | The executive council also expressed concern at the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait , and asked the Director-General to send a mission of inquiry and to report on the conditions of workers and employers and their associations in that country . |
| 30 | Such men are invisible to social workers and statisticians and their numbers can not be estimated . |