Example sentences of "their [adj] [noun] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there 's been quite a bit of success in in that area both of the newspaper companies er , are doing better than last year and er Longmans for instance expect er expect their operating cash flow erm their working capital rather to be lower this year than last year by by year end . |
| 2 | Indeed so high was their reputation for self-denial in this respect that in the first years of the twentieth century the brothers Paul and Jules Cambon , French ambassadors in London and Berlin respectively , entrusted their private correspondence regularly to the British diplomatic bag rather than sending it through the French ministry of foreign affairs or the French post office : if either of these channels had been used it would almost certainly have been opened and read . |
| 3 | Leeds kick off their European campaign away to German champions Stuttgart . |
| 4 | That the wall over this altar is no longer bare demonstrates the new , forward-looking nature of the hitherto so tragic , so complicated relations between the Germans and Czechs , and of their reciprocal readiness now to be reconciled ‘ . |
| 5 | Many are well above sea level and appear to owe their high salinity entirely to long-term accumulation and evaporation ( for a discussion of this point see Heywood , 1984 ) . |
| 6 | Once the Cabinet purges of 1980 and 1981 had been completed , a large proportion of the Cabinet were what Nye Bevan would have called ‘ staircase ’ men , who owed their high office entirely to her patronage rather than any independent standing in the Conservative Party . |
| 7 | Glass-fibre remains an inexpensive and effective reinforcement material , but in recent years it has been upstaged by Kevlar and carbon fibre , two stronger but more costly materials that owe their high profile largely to their use in formula racing cars . |
| 8 | In yet others , the females build their individual nests close to one another but , after a few weeks , some abandon their own constructions and join others in building theirs . |
| 9 | Almost immediately referee , Paul Taylor blew his whistle , the poor Portsmouth fans made their sad way home to the south coast , the players with heads drooped , left the field and many of the United fans were already leaving the ground in the crowd of five hundred five thousand , two hundred and twenty six when Andy Melville scored that vital goal which gave United three very important League points . |
| 10 | Not that Crispin was a weak man , but he was a very busy one , and had to be content to leave the management of their joint lives largely to his highly capable wife . |
| 11 | For a special advance taster for the show , four top chefs — Michel Roux , Shaun Hill , Gary Rhodes and Roselyne Masselin — have revealed some of their mouthwatering recipes exclusively to TODAY . |
| 12 | The Conservative government 's principal objective is to allow market forces to operate and enable popular schools to expand to their full capacity i.e. to the numbers they were built to accommodate before falling rolls . |
| 13 | Earlier we talked about antimatter — particles which have all their physical characteristics opposite to those displayed by particles of matter . |
| 14 | Ask Computer Systems Inc has expanded its Manman/X business information system to include support for the Oracle database and says it has signed a worldwide pact with Oracle Systems Corp to become an Oracle Business Alliance Partner : the two will continue to offer their respective products directly to mutual customers , and maintain separate but co-ordinated support staffs . |
| 15 | Silently , ranks of police edged their steaming mounts closer to the crowds , hemming them in . |
| 16 | found shirtsleeve order the most comfortable dress for tropical campaigning ; and this was recognized before the end of 1898 by a concession allowing officers to attach the transverse shoulder straps from their blue coats directly to the blue shirt . |