Example sentences of "of their [noun] or [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employers in this period were either providing from the resources of their businesses or demanding from the state such measures as pensions ( which it was hoped would remove from workers worry about their future in old-age , and would enable employers to dismiss less efficient older workers with clear consciences ) , sickness benefit and medical care ( which would enable them to recover more quickly and fully from sickness ) and , more occasionally , unemployment benefit , which it was also hoped would increase the workers ' sense of security . |
| 2 | But what really counts is this indirect usefulness to her , it released her from the patterns of the novel of society and therefore , permitted the flowering of her real talent , a talent for finding and giving dramatic form to impulses and feelings which because of their depth , or mysteriousness , or intensity , or ambiguity , or of their ignoring or transcending every day norms of propriety or reason , increase wonderfully the sense of reality in a novel . |
| 3 | ( c ) Partnerships premises and property The arguments in favour of partnerships holding the freehold of their premises or seeking leasehold offices are finely balanced . |
| 4 | Persian and Russian items are normally referred to as Bokharas , but may equally be marketed under the name of their gul or weaving tribe . |
| 5 | Although the Old Testament disapprobation of usury continued within the church ( above all when people of slender means took out loans on the security of their house or smallholding and ended by being evicted — a situation liable to cause urban riots ) , even the clergy were willing to make loans for Christian merchants . |