Example sentences of "for [art] [noun pl] [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | All was silent in the rehearsal room , except for the actors speaking their lines . |
| 2 | So for five years , for that is the gestation period recommended for the proposals to prove their effectiveness , tour-day cricket is ordained for the promotion of spin and a wicket-taking approach to bowling , and the enhancement of batsmen 's application and technique . |
| 3 | There was also a conference room for the governors to have their meetings . |
| 4 | If children were not helpful ( when their mothers thought helpfulness was appropriate ) it was rare for the mothers to overlook their negligence . |
| 5 | Noting that the amateur code is still alive and well in Canada , Hadley nevertheless feels the time has come , as he says , for the powers-that-be to open their eyes to reality . |
| 6 | It was , however , often necessary for the owners to cut their carriage rates to remain in competition with the railways . |
| 7 | The tournament gets the club 's 40th anniversary celebrations off to a flying start and , with the season just a week away , represents the last chance for the clubs to test their form . |
| 8 | ‘ It is most important for book trade organisations to lobby MPs and appropriate ministers , and for the associations to get their members to act similarly , ’ says Mr Bradley . |
| 9 | The Court of Session heard that the original plan had been for the Deanses to use their 57 per cent shareholding to remove four directors — Wilson Young , James Johnston , Alastair McKenzie and Clive Scott . |
| 10 | The plaintiffs supplied photographic transparencies to the defendants for the defendants to consider their suitability for use in an advertising campaign . |
| 11 | He admitted last night : ‘ I ca n't wait for the players to find their feet in the Premier League . ’ |
| 12 | And if these plagues are carefully timed to occur a prime number of years apart , it makes it that much more difficult for the enemies to synchronize their own life cycles . |
| 13 | It was also the first opportunity for the Sandinistas to assess their opposition role after losing elections in February 1990 to the right-wing National Opposition Union ( UNO ) coalition of President Violeta Chamorro de Barrios [ see p. 37236 ] . |
| 14 | It was now of the utmost importance for the Unionists to clarify their own position ; Balfour 's pledge had been a conditional one and was not in any case binding on his successor , but the unpopularity of food taxes remained . |
| 15 | When the time came for the women to take their seats in the coach , Silas , Lucy and Jean stood to wave farewell . |
| 16 | It would have been difficult for the women to explain their cases to DHSS officials and lawyers , with screaming children in tow . |
| 17 | Energetic international regulation of banking and tax laws , making it impossible for the mafiosi to launder their ill-gotten gains , would quickly destroy the Mafia and with it the myth of an irrepressible global conspiracy . |
| 18 | And only then , at long last , when almost everything was gone , did the terrible rain relent just enough for the ramparts to stop their melting . |
| 19 | There seemed only one way for the Druids to prevent their imminent destruction , and that was to ensure that the army never came within reach of them ; this could only be achieved either by strong enough resistance in the mountains of north-west Wales or by a serious insurrection deep within the Province . |
| 20 | But in the fraction of time it took for the dogs to renew their attack , Angel One 's combat-trained eye registered something vital . |
| 21 | Both the introduction of new rules on how societies could raise funds for mortgage loans and the 1987 stock market crash — which prompted small investors to get out of equities and put their money into building society saving accounts — made it possible for the societies to get their act together and fight back . |
| 22 | So it 's an opportunity for the factories to promote their own activities within whatever they regard as the school catchment area . |
| 23 | This offered another opportunity for the craftsmen to demonstrate their art , and they certainly were n't about to advocate restraint . |
| 24 | A temperature in the eighties and the Army Commander looking on added to the stress : testing circumstances for the Guardsmen to earn their places on the promotion course . |
| 25 | Small wonder that lawyers acting for the depositors describe their prospects as ‘ fair ’ . |
| 26 | Young stallions who have never served a mare may settle down after castration , but a good six months may be needed to allow for the hormones to leave their system . |
| 27 | As mayors , local authorities , government agencies , and social workers made their moves , so there was every incentive for the showmen to put their own house in order . |
| 28 | I was up afford dawn getting all ready , setting the china , both ours and what we 'd borrowed on the trestles in the orchard , helping Gideon to put the casks of beer in the yard , ready for the men to fill their harvest bottles , and fetching water from the well for the tea . |
| 29 | So it was developed by the ladies of the day for the men to do their work and they developed their special patterns like Arran stitches , which I 'm going to show you now , like Fair Isle stitches . |
| 30 | The author suggest that for the courses sampled their existed a ‘ virtual parity ’ between the performance of NSEs and SEs . |