Example sentences of "in their [noun pl] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1 Cook the potatoes in their skins in boiling , salted water until almost tender . |
| 2 | If he signals too much sympathy for the Danes in their problems in ratifying the Maastricht Treaty on European union , he will be under immediate attack from EC partners and pro-Europeans in his party . |
| 3 | The disadvantage of this is that some promoters underadvertise , underpromote , and undermarket the gig to try and put more pounds in their pockets by reducing their expenses . |
| 4 | Homeowners will have less money to spend in their pockets after making higher mortgage repayments and will be even less inclined to borrow at today 's high rates . |
| 5 | The importance that government attach to this link between subject match and teaching quality is further emphasized by their announced intentions to take subject qualifications into account in the selection of student teachers , to consider the relevance of students ' subject qualifications to school subject teaching in their procedures for approving or ‘ accrediting ’ teacher-training courses , and to undertake five-yearly reviews of selected secondary schools to ensure that subject match is being improved within them and being reflected in the pattern of teacher appointments . |
| 6 | This type of definition ( i.e. one that implicitly assumes that there are general positions which average or ordinary people occupy and agree upon ) is similar to that utilised by many moral entrepreneurial groups in their attempts at redefining , for example , obscenity . |
| 7 | They are most definitely not required to know the composition of every household in their areas before billing . |
| 8 | While it contains some sensitive commercial information , and is not suitable for free distribution to everyone , I know they will draw on it further in their discussions about creating the new structure . |
| 9 | ‘ It is also felt that the Hampshire County Council officials concerned have failed in their duties in allowing this to happen and , perhaps more importantly , in taking no action to ensure reinstatement is made . |
| 10 | Only those who were regarded as ‘ fit ’ could be trusted not to trade on the despair of people , at their wits end , reduced for the first time in their lives to seeking a loan . |
| 11 | They may have tried to forget that period in their lives without coming to terms with some of the pain and guilt related to it . |
| 12 | Russians are filling in some of the gaps in their lives by seeking out anything that was forbidden or hard to get in Soviet times . |
| 13 | Traffic planners are liable to forget the needs of disabled people in their proposals for controlling cars . |
| 14 | The fact that his choices have been criticised in their communities for collaborating with apartheid ever since Indians and coloureds — but not blacks — were given their own chambers in 1984 suggests that the president had difficulty finding anyone willing to join a government nearing the end of its life . |
| 15 | SEPA 'S role was originally seen as a clearing house for exchanging ideas and information about science curriculum development and as a means of supporting and strengthening national bodies in member states in their efforts towards improving the learning of science , but under effective direction , it has extended its interest and influence further towards interest in evaluation , child development and the relationship between the materials and approaches developed in science and the evolution of the primary curriculum as a whole . |
| 16 | However , the most direct influence of county councils over housing and the social composition of villages occurs in their policies for restricting the growth of some settlements in favour of ‘ key villages ’ . |
| 17 | A MUSICIAN who wrote a unique series of music books for physically disabled people has found himself in their shoes after suffering a stroke . |
| 18 | Both countries want industry to be more competitive , but differ in their recipes for using science and technology . |
| 19 | They were led to do this after major expressions of concern about the difficulties institutions were facing in their libraries in coping with the massive expansion in student numbers . |
| 20 | Incidentally , both necks can be shifted around in their sockets by applying pressure from the side . |
| 21 | The others in the case became upset and dug in their heels about changing their minds . |
| 22 | Decisions about the design of such machinery were made by the suppliers ; there seemed little variation in the machines on offer in their implications for de-skilling ; and the result was a gradual process of de-skilling of most of the production workers . |
| 23 | If the public decides to hold more cash and smaller bank deposits , the banks will need to replenish the cash in their tills by drawing on their balances at the Bank of England . |
| 24 | THIS is the photofit of a bogus policeman who has attacked two women in their homes after asking to see their husbands . |
| 25 | How often have teachers been frustrated by their inability to introduce and implement change in their schools on returning from a course ? |
| 26 | Many people were said to have had tears in their eyes at hearing the Führer 's voice again . |
| 27 | Another problem facing farmers in the future will be what to do with the stubble left in their fields after harvesting . |
| 28 | All schools identified a change in their methods of identifying needs prior to spending leading to more effective use of available resources . |
| 29 | In doing so , they unwittingly made a popular decision , for in later years the local men were able to feel easier in their minds about telling their womenfolk that they were " going down to the Russell " . |
| 30 | This ability to form a mental map and then formulate behaviour ( perhaps by imagining various alternative scenarios ) seems very like the ability of chimpanzees to imagine the solution to the hanging-banana problem by stacking the boxes in their minds before performing the behaviour for real , and of course the same process goes on in our own minds all the time . |