Example sentences of "by the [noun pl] [conj] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | The AFC was issued un-named ; however , examples are often found which have been privately engraved by the recipients or their family . |
| 2 | A gradual recognition by the parents that their approach does not appear to work is necessary before they will try another approach . |
| 3 | The outcome of the dispute was hailed by the parents and their supporters as a victory for the rights of parents . |
| 4 | It is dispersals of this People 's University of books bequeathed by the Victorians and their successors up to the postwar years that are the real reason for the library 's losing its soul , as Richard Hoggart so aptly put it . |
| 5 | Or by the women or their kin themselves ? |
| 6 | The actual agenda now established by the Americans and their subsidiaries , does not direct itself to the issues either Enzensberger or Halliday identify . |
| 7 | From their perspective , family problems were often underestimated by the agencies and their sense of parental responsibility , exercised in trying to ‘ get something done ’ , was violated by social workers who misinterpreted it as lack of commitment to their children 's needs ( Fisher et al . , |
| 8 | Those hon. Members who are told by the Whips that their loyalty , obedience and voting record will all be taken into account may rest assured that those things are , indeed , taken into account , but in a totally different way from what one is led to believe if one wants to speak in the House from either Front Bench . |
| 9 | A further parallel with judicial proceedings is that opposition may be dropped and the matter settled on the basis of some concession or undertaking granted by the promoters or their agents . |
| 10 | The most prominent , due west of the village of Lescun as you look up the valley , is the more or less pyramidal Pic d'Anie , of 8,200 feet , the first or most westerly of the major Pyrenean summits ; it is claimed by the Basques as their one high Pyrenee , the home of wild goats and the legendary source of storms . |
| 11 | The remainder was then eaten by the priests , or by the priests and their families , or ( in the case of the peace-offering ) by priests and worshippers together . |
| 12 | It seemed to me that the discovery of Romans , Celts and Jews by the Greeks and their revaluation of Iranian civilization could be isolated as the subject of these Trevelyan lectures . |
| 13 | Using official strike dab from Ontario for the period 1958–1967 , Grant and Wallace ( 1991 ) conclude that strike violence is a function of the following variables : ( i ) the legislative environment , ( ii ) the sociopolitical context , ( iii ) the distribution of skills among the workforce ( and its corresponding degree of participation in the strike ) , and ( iv ) the strategies employed by the strikers and their employers . |
| 14 | This having been accomplished , the assembled populace could ‘ enjoy ’ the hunt , staged by the venatores and their assistants , the bestiarii . |
| 15 | A great monastery might thus in the same year be an importer of quality wine ( for consumption by the monks and their noble guests ) and an exporter of poor wine ( for the other end of the market ) . |
| 16 | Any waiver will be invalidated if any purchases are made by the directors and their concert parties between the posting of the circular and the shareholders ' meeting . |
| 17 | Most villages have some form of street lighting and the lights of major towns are reflected by the clouds and their effect is extended by many miles . |
| 18 | Major visitations were conscientiously carried out by the heralds or their deputes — assisted.by the sheriffs and their officers — for more than a hundred and forty years . |
| 19 | Here is kept the " Good Shepherd " , a small MFV run by the islanders as their only sea link with the outside world , it carries most of the stores , mail and passengers . |
| 20 | They were not instructed to do so by the apostles and their doing it was not a condition of membership of the church community . |
| 21 | After considerable discussion , sale controls are now being enforced by the police and their efforts during the past six months are already beginning to be reflected by increasing compliance with the regulations . |
| 22 | And , is will be suggested in the next chapter , most Conservative politicians were quite happy to see communist and anarchist groups within the Spanish Republican groups beaten by the fascists and their own internal squabbles . |
| 23 | That plea was echoed by the men and their families . |
| 24 | A letter of Wealdhere , bishop of London , to Archbishop Beorhtwald in 704–5 reveals a state of estrangement between Ine and the eastern Saxon rulers , Sigeheard and Swaefred ; in return for the expulsion of the exiles , Ine undertook not to inflict vengeance on the eastern Saxons and a forthcoming council at Brentford , to be attended by the kings and their leading men both ecclesiastical and lay , was expected to resolve the crisis . |
| 25 | Compulsory primary education had not yet been introduced by the state , and the educational system , from church school to university , was still dominated by the clergy and their middle-class values . |
| 26 | To carry these out well entails a great deal of labour by the clergy and their devoted lay helpers . |
| 27 | Social injustice is brought on by an economic policy perpetuated by the Tories and their . |
| 28 | G. caputmedusae can be distinguished from the other Atlantic species of Gorgonocephalus by the spinelets and their arrangement . |
| 29 | The generation before the Revolution saw not only the opposition to royal power offered by the parlements and their allies but a growth in criticism of the monarchical regime of a more fundamental and ultimately more dangerous kind . |
| 30 | In portraiture he obtained at the same time a good likeness , much appreciated by the sitters and their families , and , in these works and in his more fanciful subjects , he engendered feelings of respect and admiration . |