Example sentences of "with their [noun] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a stance , it has also to be said , was sharply at odds with the educational aims to which their schools were purportedly committed , with their emphasis on engendering open , questioning minds , a love of reading and so on , a contradiction of which such heads seemed unaware . |
| 2 | THRIFTY women are giving a whole new meaning to being tight with their money by recycling their old leggings . |
| 3 | I wanted to be accepted by those around me , and so joined in with their stories of soldiering , sex and drinking prowess . |
| 4 | We see this in the increasing influence of the new Ecology Movement , in the power of the Gaia theory , in the efforts of established religions to come to terms with their part in dealing with these issues ; and much more humbly , but much more universally , we see it in the increased attention that so many of us are now paying to the ways we celebrate the beauty and diversity of life on Earth . |
| 5 | Mark , Babur and Claire are sitting by the motel pool with their shades on drinking Cokes . |
| 6 | Its status is such that those who work within this dominant tradition have generally felt able to get on with their work without having to reflect on its theoretical foundations . |
| 7 | The ability of firms to compete will lie very largely with their success in managing their business ambitions and their financial capabilities in harmony . |
| 8 | How does she manage to go out on a training run the same day as she has run a major marathon when most other competitors are sitting with their feet up savouring the rest ? |
| 9 | I do n't know how many vote with their feet in going elsewhere , but few of them challenge us at home . |
| 10 | We asked Barbara to write about her favourite and most useful London shops , and readers voted with their feet by flocking to the shops she featured . |
| 11 | The Derbyshire Times noted that defiant parents were voting with their feet by keeping children away from school . |
| 12 | Others , however — like me — cope with their disloyalty by accepting the odd fag . |
| 13 | With earlier periods evidence will inevitably become more scanty and more difficult in nature , but pupils will be better equipped to handle it with their experience of using evidence . |
| 14 | This equivalence is emphasized further by the women 's own tendency to compare their reactions to housework with their experience of working outside the home . |
| 15 | For some reason , however , the pachyderms do not fit this picture — both elephants and rhinos exhibit far more complex personalities with much higher intelligence than might be expected for animals with their style of feeding . |
| 16 | The salesmen were willing to follow the same line as it entailed no extra effort on their part and was not likely to interfere with their way of doing things . |
| 17 | In some prisons , inmates have shown solidarity with their jailers by refusing to return to their cells after exercise . |
| 18 | These pupils were not necessarily involving their parents in a conspiracy to allow them to avoid school for its own sake ; they were more likely to agree with their parents in putting home values before school values as the following quotations from two headteachers illustrate : |
| 19 | Holidaymakers have been advised to check with their hotels before travelling to Llandudno . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ They have wasted their time coming to Northern Ireland with their agenda of trying to bring peace . |
| 21 | They are equipped with high resolution visual display screens and , as well as keyboards , graphic input devices to allow users to communicate with their machines by pointing to information on the screens . |
| 22 | I 've seen thirty men with their coats off fighting — getting on the trams and dragged off . |
| 23 | This is an exercise teaching parents how to build up a more positive relationship with their child by attending to good behaviour . |
| 24 | But this was not accompanied by deradicalization , and by contrast with many western societies , did not conflict with their sense of belonging to a wider working class . |
| 25 | In most areas of local government activity , the main concern of business organizations was that councils should operate as cheaply as possible and interfere as little as possible with their operations through planning controls . |
| 26 | They con people with their music by getting across a romantic side of themselves when really there 's none there . |
| 27 | As the Government , with their policies of dividing society , have been responsible for the breakdown in law and order , can not we at least expect bobbies back on the beat to protect us ? |
| 28 | How does my hon. Friend think that they square that with their policies of imposing a payroll tax on small businesses and of gaoling small business men who fail to pay a socialist minimum wage ? |
| 29 | I suspect that for many young Germans it might be pretty meaningless , as it would be for their British or French contemporaries , who simply want to get on with their lives without having to attend to the doings of another generation . |
| 30 | They are short enough to be accessible to the pre-intermediate learner , and students will be pleased with their progress in understanding spoken English . |