Example sentences of "their [adj] [noun sg] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hills were also delighted and sent Royal Scottish a letter congratulating them on their professional handling of the entire process . |
| 2 | Their unparalleled knowledge of the uses and properties of forest plants and wildlife will disappear with the forests . |
| 3 | Mazmanian ( 1976 ) , in his evaluation of projects carried out by the Corps of Engineers , and Gilbert and Specht ( 1977 ) , in their classic evaluation of the Model City programme between the years 1967 — 71 , appear to reach a similar conclusion : participation helps process but not goal attainment . |
| 4 | Carr-Saunders and Wilson in their classic study of the professions endorsed the altruistic model : |
| 5 | Divergent political objectives notwithstanding , the obvious goodwill between Ho and the Americans , the limited but successful training teams that they provided for Vietminh guerrillas , and the obvious sympathy which many Americans — in particular , it seems the OSS — had for the cause of Vietnamese independence , not to mention corresponding doubts of the French title to Vietnam , all of these understandably encouraged the Vietminh in their political objective of the accomplished fact . |
| 6 | While the Psalmi Davidis penitentiales were commissioned by Albrecht V , their textual expressiveness of the kind we have already noticed in Rore ( p. 2– ) is so intense that one is tempted to hear in them a note of personal anguish . |
| 7 | Increased academic interest in monetary economics , and in particular increased evidence , most notably that of Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz in their Monetary History of the United States , that there is a direct causal link between growth in the money supply and inflation . |
| 8 | As Lincoln and McBride ( 1987 : 304 ) suggest on the basis of their extensive survey of the research literature , a ‘ particularly perplexing but strong and consistent finding from numerous work attitude surveys is the low level of job satisfaction reported by the Japanese ’ . |
| 9 | Blackburn and Mann , on the basis of their extensive study of the labour market for semi and unskilled labour in Peterborough , say that : |
| 10 | Striders continued their total domination of the local athletics scene when they won the Panasonic Northern Ireland League for the 18th consecutive time at the weekend . |
| 11 | The governments of Argentina , Chile and Mexico also expressed their strong disapproval of the law . |
| 12 | The Lecture was followed by the Annual Meeting of Court , at which the Chancellor , in a novel ceremony , invited three members of Court to sign the Roll of Benefactors of the University in recognition of their outstanding support of the work of the University . |
| 13 | In the Lugbara case , the ancestors make no bones about their direct administration of the moral code : if you do not toe the line they quickly bring you to your knees with a few sharp , salutary lessons . |
| 14 | Ganymede was beloved by ZEUS , who assumed the guise of an eagle so as to spirit him up to Olympus ; there he was given immortality and became the gods ' cup-bearer , responsible for giving them their daily draught of the Elixir of Life . |
| 15 | The Society are asking people to depict their favourite image of the countryside in a drawing , photograph , painting , cookery recipe or poem . |
| 16 | Yet I was reassured by the very vapidity of these doctors or joggers or bodybuilders , these vigour-experts — something to do with their unsmiling pursuit of the good life . |
| 17 | The staff might have been helped by an outsider who could question those things that teachers generally take for granted ( for instance , by asking what they meant by their habitual use of the term ‘ bright children ’ ) , or who could suggest an appropriate range of evaluative techniques . |
| 18 | Tutors/Students Packs ( Modular System ) By now all tutors should have received their free copy of the above , with a request from National Office to check the text and to advise of any errors or omissions without delay . |
| 19 | Although the Duvalierists were prohibited from participating in the electoral process , their brutal disruption of the 1987 elections together with their current ability to operate outside the law , meant that most observers saw little prospect for the holding of free elections on Nov. 4 , as scheduled . |
| 20 | Stern and Partridge admit that monographs and specialised studies already exist on all these rooms , and make no claim to have discovered new material , but justify their extended reconsideration of the ‘ halls of state ’ on the grounds that they have never been analysed together as monuments of public art . |
| 21 | THE GODFATHERS , fresh from their public mauling of The Rockingbirds at Stansted Airport , play |
| 22 | Sometimes the members of a church planting team have to learn afresh things forgotten because of their wrong understanding of the church-as-a-field . |
| 23 | Bridget thanked the teachers for their generous support of the Raffle which raised a splendid £444 . |
| 24 | Sometimes Suzie and Victoria had added Prince Charles or Prince Richard to their oft-revised list of the men they would most like to marry when grown up , along with Robert Redford , Steve McQueen and Mick Taylor of the Rolling Stones . |
| 25 | In the face of criticism from the other judges of Angell and Pownall for overstepping their instructions , Burn thought that because ‘ of their experience and their minute examination of the plans , which was far more minute than could have been done by the judges ’ , it would be helpful to have their placings . |
| 26 | In their real critique of the old order , they were also , often , both isolated and mocked . |
| 27 | The performance of the Liberal Democrats was similarly affected , although their average share of the vote in seats contested held up very well . |
| 28 | I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge ( Mr. Shersby ) and the police for their warm welcome of the Bill . |
| 29 | The Republicans put up candidates in about half the constituencies and their overall share of the vote stayed low at 2.3 per cent . |
| 30 | Their instinct is to try to hide this for fear of being thought weak or inadequate , and this , in part , contributes to the fact that although their overall experience of the distress of bereavement may be slightly less than that of widows , many men take longer to recover fully . |