Example sentences of "they are [vb pp] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are worn with their roots intact and if the hydrogel is watered , the shamrock will continue growing . |
| 2 | Another group went to talk to the ‘ Educated Youth ’ ( i.e. young people who after leaving school in the city go to work in the commune and learn from the peasants ) — after 2 or more years in the country , a few of them may get the chance for further training or education before they are assigned to their jobs ( there is no such thing as applying for a job here ) . |
| 3 | If they originate from some person of eminence they have , of course , additional prestige ; but they are prized in their own right because many are beautiful in themselves and are representative of their time and place . |
| 4 | And they are abused in their own homes by relatives and carers , and the response of the government , in the shape of Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley , is that this is not ‘ a major problem ’ . |
| 5 | The work may differ , but they are united in their admiration for the skill of the human hand and the imagination which drives them . |
| 6 | Many of those applicants do not understand the system and they are misled about their applications . |
| 7 | They admit they are baffled by their findings because they have been unable to discover a common link to all the tragic cases . |
| 8 | Individuals are regularly asked about their perceptions of the economy as a whole , about inflation and unemployment levels ; then they are asked about their household finances in particular , their expectations of buying consumer durables and their attitudes towards saving . |
| 9 | More importantly , they are locked into their own epistemic community , composed of others who are working in the same subject areas . |
| 10 | Workers have identical skills , which are not lost during spells of unemployment ( but they are differentiated by their level of commitment , discussed in Assumption 5 below ) . |
| 11 | Always there have been unembarrassed silences between us , but this time they are filled with their exhaustion . |
| 12 | They are poised with their edges on a north-south axis , hence its American name , the compass plant . |
| 13 | Apple Computer Inc 's Enterprise Systems Division will be launching its AppleSearch workgroup technology alongside the new servers : it is designed to give Macintosh users personalised , easy access to unstructured text , turning a collection of documents stored on a server into an on-line library — based on the contents of each document — which can be searched to find needed information quickly and easily ; the client-server AppleSearch is designed to deliver ad hoc access to information as well as proactive updates to its users on an immediate , daily or weekly basis ; documents to be searched are not altered by AppleSearch — they are stored in their native format and translated into searchable text by Apple 's XTND file conversion technology , which enables users to view text of documents without having the application that created them . |
| 14 | Thus , although interest groups may look as if they are organized chiefly for public goods , in practice they are sustained by their ability to deliver selective incentives to their members which make joining worthwhile . |
| 15 | They are parted from their parents on hatching and raised without an anemone . |
| 16 | Senior security sources say they are hampered in their investigations because several of those involved are thought to live across the border outside their jurisdiction . |
| 17 | Other top officials remain in place because they are elected in their own right , leaving as attorney-general Jim Evans , the Democrat who brought the case against Mr Hunt , and as state treasurer George Wallace Jnr , scion of his house . |
| 18 | Often they are viewed by their organizations as technology experts and are used by the organization and individuals for ‘ reality checks ’ . |
| 19 | Some people accept what they are taught by their culture , but some reject it . |
| 20 | They will retain this tonic immobility even if they are placed on their backs , giving certain human tricksters the chance to claim that they are capable of ‘ hypnotising frogs ’ . |
| 21 | A less obvious and regrettably a more common example is where students are presented throughout the course with bodies of facts and procedures to be remembered and applied as faithfully as possible ; then in the final testing they are assessed on their ability to apply their knowledge and skills to new situations , or to explain , justify and discuss the reasons behind procedures . |
| 22 | As producers they are separated from their means of production ; the law treats them as possessors of free will and responsibility , and the impression is strengthened by the dominant ideology . |
| 23 | Sometimes , they are abetted in their negligence ; but for the moment , let me abstract from the recollections of Sonia Lannaman , a sprinting prodigy from Aston , Birmingham , whose PE mistress introduced her to Solihull AC ( she transferred to Wolverhampton and Bilston in 1975 to train under Charles Taylor : ‘ I outgrew Solihull ’ ) . |
| 24 | They are revealed in their millions , though , under the microscope . |
| 25 | They are noted for their strength , tenacity , magical powers and skills in metallurgy . |
| 26 | They are listed in their professional register , and while it 's unlikely that anyone will look you up , it 's possible . |
| 27 | If they are realised with their true implications in terms of money , manpower , materials and time , can the realities be faced ? |
| 28 | Griffin gives many further examples : that pets and other tame creatures come when they are called by their names ( this would commend itself to Hearne ) , and that numerous species of birds , mammals , and even some fish and insects , seem to recognise individual members of their own species . |
| 29 | They are painted on their internal circumferences with all the colours of the spectrum , and are arranged like the atoms in a crystal . |
| 30 | Barely able to open their eyes , and months away from holding up their heads , they are burdened with their genetic lot — the physical and psychological make-up of their ancestors . |