Example sentences of "their [noun] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ralph Waldo Emerson 's remark stands as a typical example : ‘ As men 's prayers are a disease of the will , so are their creeds a disease of the intellect . ’ |
| 2 | It is also true that the growing body of scientific evidence has had one effect in that the agreed levels of exposure to both people who work in the industry or who live in the vicinity of power stations have become steadily more stringent since the early days when it was thought unnecessary to warn military personnel that there was any risk in their presence a matter of miles from an atomic test explosion . |
| 3 | NATIONAL park visitors are being asked to give their cars a rest on Sundays this summer . |
| 4 | But some of my friends would never tell their brothers a thing like that ; their brothers put them down a lot . |
| 5 | After the weekend , the Unionist Whips decided that they had taken things far enough , having wasted an entire week of parliamentary time and given their supporters a sign of the vigour with which the fight was being waged . |
| 6 | Some parents still give their kids a clip round the ear , some of em send the children to their room or whatever , but when the children are in care you ca n't do any of these things because if you lock the child in the room , if the child gets sent to the room , you 're accused of pindown when there 's a report done . |
| 7 | Mhm , do you find that 's a , a common thing that mothers and fathers 'll maybe get their kids a job in where they work ? |
| 8 | Under their aegis a range of economically-oriented projects has been effected , including training schemes , science parks , support for small businesses , industrial-improvement projects , and so on . |
| 9 | The fact that rivers are such a symbol of endurance and of changeless change is what makes their management a touchstone for the whole issue of our relationship with the natural world . |
| 10 | The hardships he accepted with a kind of satisfaction would benefit others and do their work a power of good , he said , and cited as an example a painter friend at The Hague , Theophile de Bock . |
| 11 | By the time of Anselm 's death the question was essentially settled and Anselm 's successor Ralph was fighting in a hopeless cause : by the time of Ralph 's death , the instruments of universal government had become sufficiently highly developed to make all that Lanfranc and Anselm had stood for in this aspect of their work a thing of the past . |
| 12 | If you go to Wembley on Saturday morning you will see women with wide Jari bordered saris with gold embroidery , with necklaces and bangles — all gold — and of course they do n't wear a coat because the full splendour of their clothes must be revealed — on their feet a pair of decorative Chappals — however cold it might be . |
| 13 | They claim PC Bob Packer is making their lives a misery by booking them , even outside their own homes . |
| 14 | They had not taken the step of demanding political change to make the decisions which affected their lives a matter of debate and consent before they were taken . |
| 15 | If parents have managed to instil in their child a sense of his own worth as an individual , then , whatever knocks that child may encounter as an adult , he will have the inner confidence which will enable him to pull through and make a success of his life — success in this context having nothing to do with money but with achieving one 's aims as an individual , whatever they may be . |
| 16 | Barristers may not be sued for negligence if they botch a case in court ; nor as a general rule is their incompetence a ground of appeal against conviction . |
| 17 | This undermines the authority of parents , the ones most responsible for passing on to their offspring a sense of right and wrong . |
| 18 | Charles is touchingly done — a frail unpublished poet kept going by his wife and son ( the wife is called Vivien , presumably by design , though she is no copy of the first Mrs Eliot ) , their household a breath of fresh air in the conniving , phrase-making milieu to which Charles clings . |
| 19 | Apart from the return of Dave McPherson , Rangers have given their youngsters a boost by including Gary McSwegan , Neil Murray and David Hagen in today 's squad . |
| 20 | A newly-mated pair of beavers choose for their home a valley with a small stream running down it . |
| 21 | They breed and multiply at speed and to cope with their ability to sustain their population a number of rabbit-killing methods have evolved by which the stock can be drastically reduced . |
| 22 | 1.13 Our fundamental assumption is that all pupils are entitled to an education that will provide the opportunity for them to develop to the best of their abilities a competence in and appreciation of English . |
| 23 | In their place a gang of county council officials in yellow plastic jackets comes once a year to do God knows what , a little genteel scraping , and disappears off the face of the highway for another twelvemonth at least . |
| 24 | American desserts must be among the most sinful in the world , their development a reaction against that pilgrim puritan ethic . |
| 25 | Although the eventual Report addressed general principles rather than specific disciplinary practices , it did reiterate Reid 's point that the " financial dependence " of the universities made the direction of their development a matter of public interest . |
| 26 | Do prisoners have a right to complain about bad conditions or is their predicament a symptom of a wider social problem ? |
| 27 | Nuclear Electric paid their staff a bonus of £1600 when they declared their annual results . |
| 28 | Nuclear Electric have what they call ‘ gain-sharing schemes ’ at each of their power stations , and those stations which achieved specific targets were able to pay their staff a bonus of up to £1600 . |
| 29 | The authorities have at their disposal a range of criminal , civil , and disciplinary deterrents . |
| 30 | But revenge is not to be allowed us , for when we turn up at their concert a phalanx of adults is there to make sure the audience behaves . |