Example sentences of "of their [noun] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't need whining leftie bands like The Farm droning on about justice and equality now that Britain is such a wonderful place , where nobody sleeps in a cardboard box or goes hungry or gets busted for the colour of their skin or dies of hypothermia , where pigs fly and the sun always shines and where kids from council estates have just as much chance of becoming millionaires as — say — kids who inherit a million pounds from mummy and daddy . |
| 2 | The politicians and officials who expressed public criticism of their work or brought pressure to bear , for whatever reason , did so mostly from an urban standpoint . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ( c ) Partnerships premises and property The arguments in favour of partnerships holding the freehold of their premises or seeking leasehold offices are finely balanced . |
| 6 | If you would like to contact the Canine Crisis Council to give your opinion of their policies or find out more write to : PO Box 76 , Leicester or fax : 0533 743141 |
| 7 | We concluded that women who are successful in political careers tend to come from middle- and upper-class backgrounds and from professional occupations ; they have either been able to rely on the resources and support of their families or to have minimised the handicaps deriving from women 's status within the family by remaining unmarried or childless or by entering public life later on when their familial obligations have , to a larger degree , been completed . |
| 8 | People who had lived in old people 's homes were less likely than others who died to have gone into a hospital or hospice during the last year of their lives or to die in one . |
| 9 | Persian and Russian items are normally referred to as Bokharas , but may equally be marketed under the name of their gul or weaving tribe . |
| 10 | The agreement included a feature whereby all French banks agreed among themselves to bill their French trader customers affiliated to the payment system of Eurocheque a commission equivalent to that which they charged them on payment effected by holders of their credit or debit cards . |
| 11 | The brewers are moving over to leases not to improve the running of their pubs or to offer better service to customers but simply to avoid new government legislation aimed at giving tenants greater protection . |
| 12 | Yet we have seen that due to the dispersion of shareholding in the large public company they have no incentive to inform themselves of the actions of their managers or to seek a remedy against them . |
| 13 | A solution of Jeyes fluid diluted to the manufacturers ' instructions can be sprinkled on the floor when needed , or you could try Stable Boy — crystals from a volcanic rock called zeolite that are said to absorb damp and help horses who normally cough when they come out of their boxes or start work . |
| 14 | No matter who else gets out of their depth or loses track of what is being attempted , you at least must retain a clear view of the task . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Casual Work Many women found it necessary either to supplement the wages of their husbands or to become breadwinners themselves . |
| 17 | ‘ Twelve women were driven to injure themselves out of fear for the lives of their husbands or loved ones . |