Example sentences of "[that] [pron] be [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard , looking round his solid , brassbound table , got the impression that everyone was on their best behaviour . |
| 2 | It must be one of the major frustrations of being a veterinary surgeon that you can never convince your patients that you are on their side and are working tirelessly to save them and help them back to full health . |
| 3 | And I , I suspect that they 're on their way out because the way they leap and scream and bang and thump I should think that they , most of them have been on drugs . |
| 4 | An official survey of Gloucestershire 's roads shows that they 're in their worst state for fifteen years . |
| 5 | After adjustment for inflation , it means that they are at their lowest since the war . |
| 6 | These receive tax concessions for operating in Mexico but their location is so close to North America that they are near their distribution networks and markets , and other North American facilities . |
| 7 | We learned that they were on their summer holidays , taking their kayak round the outer reaches of the Arctic . |
| 8 | Dan had suggested a drink , and she 'd agreed , happier now that they were on their way back . |
| 9 | I honestly believe that the rail workers would n't have accepted the one and a half per cent , other workers would n't have accepted the one and a half per cent if they believed that they were on their own that they were gon na fight in isolation . |
| 10 | Q.T 's are also reminded that it is through their efforts that class members see the range of goods we now sell ( a price list is attached . |
| 11 | The Evangelical Alliance is canny in hoping it.can win similar victories by persuading publishers that it is in their commercial interest to avoid offending decent consumers . |
| 12 | On the other hand , rather than move away from an area where similar firms operate , some firms may consider that it is in their own particular interest to move into such a location . |
| 13 | It is less likely that any significant number of such staff will be persuaded that it is in their own interests to initiate sweeping reforms . |
| 14 | Western governments , and the populations that vote for them , have to be persuaded that it is in their own interests , quite apart from any considerations of common humanity , to start the reconstruction of the developing world . |
| 15 | The sensible ones know that it is in their interests to do so . |
| 16 | We must ensure that farmers realise that it is in their interests to restore the habitat and hedges . |
| 17 | By and large they bore out what the girl 's uncle claimed — that it was with their consent , or even connivance , that the girl had gone to live with her uncle in the first place . |
| 18 | Tacit collusion , on the other hand , would involve no explicit agreement but simply the unspoken acceptance by the two firms that it was in their best interests each to produce half the monopoly output on the understanding that failure to do so would provoke a price war . |
| 19 | Lutyens 's family were brought up to believe that it was their father who invented Nanna , and that it was from their own night nursery window in Bloomsbury Square that Wendy and the boys flew with Peter Pan to the Neverland . |
| 20 | ‘ Only that the British will keep quiet about the fact that he 's in their hands . ’ |
| 21 | During the Second World War the King of Saudi Arabia , Abdul Aziz , managed to convince both the British and the Germans that he was on their side . |
| 22 | Dundee were furious when Palace publicly stated that he was on their shopping list . |