Example sentences of "[prep] their [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patients were not included if they had required corticosteroid treatment for active disease after their most recent resection . |
| 2 | He kept hands in work after their most productive years and was reluctant to dismiss them when trade was slack . |
| 3 | How dear Maisie , or Natalia , and certainly Emma , would laugh to see him enslaved by an ankle after their more generous gifts of person yet enslaved he was . |
| 4 | After their terribly exciting bridge crossing , they hopped back over the shallows and headed back to their mini-van . |
| 5 | The remaining three terms ' grant can be reinstated at whichever point the student reaches the target resulting , again , in some students graduating at Christmas or Easter after their originally expected date of completion . |
| 6 | CASE STUDY 5.2 — MRS R. An 83 year-old woman insisted that her 59 year-old daughter and son-in-law aged 60 , continue to live with her in her council flat after their relatively recent marriage . |
| 7 | Three mothers talk about their amazingly rapid deliveries ; what happened , and how they felt before , during and after their successful births . |
| 8 | When 60 random advice workers from the West Midlands were polled about their most recent training experiences and their personal training needs , the conflict was apparent . |
| 9 | People concerned about their recently deceased relative or friend are rather like me in my garden . |
| 10 | It is not just that there survive undeconstructed residues of , say , Romanticism and modernism , or that the constructed forms echo still within the deconstructed ( although they clearly do survive in these ways ) ; it is also that they exert an influence in and as their newly deconstructed state . |
| 11 | Many young girls lost what was then termed as their most prized possession … their virginity . |
| 12 | 1 Friction Consonant There are nine consonant phonemes whose main sounds all have friction as their most important feature . |
| 13 | A striking feature of the Abel material — and more than half of the sample came from members who had joined the Party before its ‘ take-off ’ in 1930 — is indeed that even among ‘ Old Fighters ’ of the Movement — according to Merkl 's ranking of ‘ main ideological theme ’ — only about one-eighth saw anti-Semitism as their most salient concern , while what he calls ‘ strong ideological antisemites ’ comprised only 8.5 per cent of the total sample . |
| 14 | New Zealanders hijacked the Chinese gooseberry as their very own Kiwi fruit . |
| 15 | Moreover , Celtic have only conceded two goals during their most consistent spell of the season . |
| 16 | During their most productive period , both mills were controlled by the Marling family , who had a total of 182 looms and over 4,000 spindles . |
| 17 | No other observer was so close to Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ q.v. ] during their most productive years together at Alfoxden and Grasmere ; and no one else had such an eye for the landscapes which inspired them , or could provide them with living materials for poetry out of her own observations . |
| 18 | In fact , most damage to breast shape happens during their often rapid growth during pregnancy , then when filling with milk a few days after birth . |
| 19 | He had been stripped naked in the oil store , where the incident had occurred during their very first month as apprentices , and his clothes triumphantly borne aloft to the plating shop to be washed in one of the hot water tanks . |
| 20 | They could learn by sight , and also through their remarkably sensitive tentacles , to distinguish rough from smooth , heavy from light cylindrical shapes . |
| 21 | Through their wholly unacceptable behaviour , keoi mark themselves apart from humans , while reminding them of the possibility of such behaviour . |
| 22 | New varieties of cotton grow more rapidly and quickly pass through their most vulnerable phase ( when the carpal surrounding the cotton is thin ) . |
| 23 | Above the ground the vine looks dormant , but below the roots are going through their most active period of the year . |
| 24 | The monastery church is one of the treasures of north Switzerland , and its eleven colourful fourteenth-century choir windows , with their deep reds and blues catching the morning light , have few equals for their richly contrasted beauty . |
| 25 | Mr. Raffan : Will my right Hon. Friend join me in congratulating the miners at Point of Air in my constituency for their dramatically increased productivity since the miners ' strike ? |
| 26 | Old ladies mugged and beaten for their pitifully small savings ? |
| 27 | His salesmen in the front showroom were sleek as well-fed cats , immaculately dressed in dark suits and ties , while the ones on the back car lot were chosen deliberately for their comfortably seedy looks ; they leaned more towards coloured shirts and zippered jackets , and their haircuts were longer . |
| 28 | Neither found the BF a suitable vehicle for their increasingly anti-semitic views as the organization did not become hostile to Jews before 1932 . |
| 29 | I wonder whether our data archivists might be encouraged to lend support as well by providing basic instructional materials for their most frequently-requested datasets . |
| 30 | MIDDLESBROUGH will today seek FA Cup revenge at Portsmouth for their most humiliating defeat of the season . |