Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NLD and the UNLD held talks during July aimed at achieving a measure of unity in their opposition to military rule . |
| 2 | To help them think in advance about the issues , members undertook pre-work relating to the quality Improvement Process and its state of progress in their domain . |
| 3 | Teachers have two main forms of differentiation at their disposal — differentiation by outcome and differentiation by task . |
| 4 | Throughout the 1950s the birchers and floggers had been ably represented by a coterie of MPs — Wing Commander Bullus , Brigadier Clarke , Brigadier Medlicott , Captain Waterhouse and the irrepressible Sir Thomas Moore — who had tormented a succession of Home Office spokesmen with their ghoulish enthusiasms , with a substantial measure of support for their aims . |
| 5 | The evidence on child care reviewed above suggests that mothers continue to be an important source of support for their daughters , both in practical ways and by giving advice and moral support . |
| 6 | Nonetheless , a high proportion of those who live beyond 75 will suffer a degree of frailty , ill-health or disability which makes them dependent on external sources of support for their comfort and well-being . |
| 7 | RITUALISTIC as it was , the Tory grass-roots ' orgiastic display of support for their leader came from the heart yesterday . |
| 8 | A few opposed the proposals on the ground that they gave international sanction to an undemocratic regime , but it was the more nationalist elements which were particularly vocal , and there was a broad measure of support for their sentiments . |
| 9 | Studies conducted in the early and mid-1980s described how mothers weave informal and formal sources of support into their budgeting strategies in ways which , at least in part , served to protect the living standards of their families ( Graham , 1986 ; Bradshaw and Holmes , 1989 ) . |
| 10 | They are a close-knit family and they are getting a lot of support from their relatives . |
| 11 | Of the teachers we spoke to , two-fifths reported that they had rearranged their furniture , and well over nine-tenths of them had made some kind of change to their classrooms as a direct consequence of suggestions or recommendations made to them as part of the Primary Needs Programme . |
| 12 | Secondly , regional and local populations do not by any means constitute faithful microcosms of the national population , either in terms of the rates of change in their size or in terms of their composition by age , sex , household type and socio-economic characteristics ( Lawton , 1982 ) . |
| 13 | Through a doorway to the right I saw two more soldiers opening a crate of champagne with their bayonets . |
| 14 | Mr White , meanwhile , is chronicling the doctor 's undergraduate days at Oxford and , in tabloid-Press prose , writes of college balls where ‘ the female companion of an Old Harrovian or Etonian would in all probability be the daughter of a baron or duke , wrapped in the best silk ’ , while on the river ‘ the navigators of punts … and those on the grassy banks lifting a glass of champagne to their lips ’ strike Mr White as ‘ an earthly paradise in freeze-frame ’ . |
| 15 | But the psychologists compensate for this by claiming other kinds of reliability for their analyses . |
| 16 | time and time again they sit on the sidelines saying this is what we think do n't talk to us about it do n't debate it , do n't ask us to think about it , take it or leave it , if you do n't give us what we want we 'll sit back and moan and sulk and they 've played , I think that 's a very irresponsible line they 've played in the five years I 've been on this council and I hope that er again the issue on the next item on the agenda represents a change of heart on their behalf . |
| 17 | In the deDombal study , all strictures were benign , but in 92% of patients ( 48 of 52 ) they had occurred within the first 20 years of disease ; the lack of malignancy among their strictures was therefore attributable to the fact that most of their patients had disease of short duration . |
| 18 | From this viewpoint , the civil war is entirely concerned with the eradication of Communism from their country and the defence of " liberty " . |
| 19 | There were also accusations of cultural and other forms of discrimination at their expense . |
| 20 | As the entourage stalked the streets of Scandinavia , they left a toll of chaos in their wake . |
| 21 | Although journalists are ‘ the people who operate much of the power of the press as usually understood ’ and they can exercise a measure of freedom in their choice of stories , anecdotal evidence supports the view that the real power within the press is rarely ‘ shared between its owners and the journalists ’ . |
| 22 | Some , who have learned the language of freedom from their oppressors , even have views on the meaning of ‘ self-advocacy ’ . |
| 23 | It was the discovery by Dr Alice Stewart , for example , that the radiation from hospital X-rays given to pregnant women could increase the risk of leukaemia in their babies which contributed to severe limits being placed on their usage . |
| 24 | Pupils using early photographs as one of their sources for instance , may want to put the invention of photography onto their time-line , and this could be linked with experiments and science work on the behaviour of light . |
| 25 | Or it might suggest that , despite a total lack of plausibility in their claims for knowledge , religious movements have survived either through institutional inertia , or insofar as they assist in conferring a sense of identity on national or local communities . |
| 26 | Female squid do not extend any parental care of protection to their eggs and may become so exhausted by the act of reproduction that they die shortly after . |
| 27 | which you do , and then you 're er you know in their eyes you 're , you 're sort of trained to some sort of level for their sort of work . |
| 28 | With a bit of luck on their side these young fellers could make Leeds once again the finest side in Britain , as under the Don . |
| 29 | With a little bit of luck in their penalty area we could have won the game . |
| 30 | In England , the guidelines issued by the Lord Chief Justice for sentencing in rape cases set out a starting point of eight years ’ imprisonment for two or more rapists acting together , for men who rape victims in the victim 's own home , for those who abuse positions of responsibility over their victims and for rape involving abduction . |