Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun sg] for their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Large corporations are accused of exercising both economic and political power for their own rather than the public interest , of exploiting their workers , polluting the environment and stripping the world of its natural resources . |
| 2 | The more direct inspiration for the Situationists was the Dada-Lettrist connection which provided the aesthetic and political basis for their adoption of non-cognitive methods of expression ( such as automatism , chance and other depersonalising techniques of production ) and also led to the definition of some key terms in their vocabulary . |
| 3 | This view accorded with the idealisation of married love in the work of Ruskin , Coventry Patmore and a range of writers on the domestic duties of wives and mothers , who believed that women 's fundamental task was to create a haven of peace , beauty and emotional security for their husbands and children . |
| 4 | It is the poor who fare worst in relation to housing facilities , heating and indoor playspace for their children , and it is often single-parent families that are particularly hard hit in this respect ( Townsend , 1979 , Chapter 13 ) . |
| 5 | Our thanks to all who attended and to the Sports and Social Committee for their hard work to make the night yet another success . |
| 6 | But if in the maintained schools teachers become more like civil servants , this will afford an additional motive for many parents to move into the independent sector , valuing as many do the overall moral and social responsibility for their pupils that such schools assume . |
| 7 | GPs will receive sufficient funds to enable them to provide full and proper treatment for their patients . |
| 8 | We need people who are not only economically literate , but politically and socially literate , well informed about and sensitive to crucial social and moral issues ; we must be developing a society whose members are aware and tolerant of others and manifest concern for their welfare . |
| 9 | THE WAITS were a group of four musicians or minstrels who performed for the local corporation and received a badge and annual payment for their services . |
| 10 | Few people are capable of bearing the full and stark responsibility for their fate . |
| 11 | Except at its surface , the sea is dark and shadowy , and underwater creatures are thought to rely mainly on black and white pigmentation for their vision . |
| 12 | There is an alternative and startling theory for their suppression . |
| 13 | As the US government admits that its trade embargo against Haiti 's military regime has failed to reintroduce democratic reforms , communication groups in the country are gaining both local and international respect for their efforts to support Haiti 's democratic movement by providing up to date information and analysis of events . |
| 14 | On June 6 the region issued warrants for the arrest of the Croatian Defence Minister and Interior Minister for their crimes against Serbs in Croatia . |
| 15 | They regard the products as useful if modest additions to corporate revenues and useful publicity for their print products . |
| 16 | Of the comfortable paternalism of large estates providing long and useful employment for their servants . |
| 17 | There is considerable evidence to suggest that Catholic devotional practices remained extremely popular right up until the time they were banned , and there can be little doubt that , following their suppression , many lay people initially felt an acute sense of loss and found the new Protestant liturgy an uncongenial and inadequate substitute for their traditional customs and beliefs . |
| 18 | Non-fundholding practices must continue to secure equivalent access to funding for staff , premises , and equipment and equitable treatment for their patients . |
| 19 | Women bear children in rapid succession when young and when they can no longer face the prospect of another child , they choose sterilization because it exempts them from having to take conscious and continuing responsibility for their own fertility in a culture which constantly denies women this right . |
| 20 | Similarly , databases offered by the current crop of object firms like Versant , Objectivity and Servio Logic , could easily have their market chewed up by the mainstream relational players like Sybase , Ingres and Oracle , which nearly every day are claiming more and more functionality for their products , like inheritance , C++ and objects . |
| 21 | After she married her husband Ted , she underwent as did he tests and medical treatment for their childless state . |
| 22 | The leaves are used in Middle Eastern and Greek cooking for their slightly spicy flavour and pungent scent . |
| 23 | Aufvald may be Eadbald , King of Kent 616–40 , but whether or not this is the case , the coins point to both a royal and ecclesiastical responsibility for their production . |
| 24 | Sons commonly provide personal care and practical support for their elderly parents through the use of their wives ' labour rather than their own ( Qureshi and Simons , 1987 ) . |
| 25 | The London-based band , booked for a gig in Naples on an Italian tour , found the stage too small and insufficient power for their equipment . |
| 26 | In the former , women who are housewives and mothers often have to struggle with inadequate and unsupervisable playspace for their children , bleak and frequently vandalised communal facilities , and the unlit terrors of urban pathways at night . |
| 27 | From the 1880s many Japanese also saw their strength on the continent as a strategic and military necessity for their defence against other powers . |
| 28 | Given the influences that shaped their work , it is hardly surprising that many painters , sculptors and architects turned to jewellery design as a natural and legitimate outlet for their creativity . |
| 29 | For three days the murder room was the haunt of SOCO and the Detective Chief Inspector as they quartered every inch in search of fingermarks , blood or saliva samples and other prey for their relentless , questioning minds . |
| 30 | For the main aim of the project is to create an interesting and relevant scenario for their National Curriculum studies . |