Example sentences of "[noun sg] of their [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Held , allowing the application , that since section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 made provision for persons arrested for breaking bail conditions , or on the likelihood of their so doing , to be brought before a single justice , it was an enactment falling within the exception contemplated by section 121 of the Act of 1980 which , in any event , was limited to summary trials of informations and the hearing of complaints under the civil jurisdiction ; that Parliament had intended by section 7(4) to create a simple and expeditious procedure whereby a justice was required , before forming an opinion under section 7(5) , to conduct no more than an informal inquiry , hearing the arresting officer 's grounds for belief that the person had broken or might break his bail conditions and allowing that person to respond , but without the giving of evidence on oath or cross-examination ; and that , since the provisions of the Act of 1980 relating to the adjournment of proceedings before magistrates ' courts did not apply , there was no power in the justice to adjourn proceedings under section 7(5) ( post , pp. 24A , G — 25B , C–G , 26B , E–F , H — 27A , G–H ) . |
| 2 | Second , differentiation theory as developed here envisages no mechanism for generating acquired equivalence , whereas secondary generalization between two stimuli on the basis of their both having associations with some other , common event is at the heart of the mediation theory . |
| 3 | Elaine and Ethel and Nell and Mary — the Girls , as the two nans called them , fondly sometimes , but more often in despair of their ever growing up . |
| 4 | There is evidence of their closely co-ordinating their activities . |
| 5 | Rivers — to return to that earlier example — appear throughout the new albums , but there is no sense of their actually curving through a realised dramatic landscape . |
| 6 | With children there is a problem of their not appreciating the danger , or not being able to read . |
| 7 | I got the impression that Jean-Claude had been so certain that his relationship with his sister was the most singular she would ever make , that the mere fact of their not living under the same roof would do nothing to erode what they had together . |
| 8 | The Pre-Raphaelites were a specializing formation with ambiguous and eventually alternative relations with a rising commercial bourgeoisie : dissident but at some levels representative of their still forming cultural ( decorative ) intentions . |