Example sentences of "an [noun] on their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think they thought they had an alcoholic on their hands . ’ |
| 2 | The British Horse Society , too , are bringing out an update on their Bed and Breakfast for Horses booklet . |
| 3 | He says they 've been hoodwinked and the noise is an intrusion on their lives . |
| 4 | Whereas in America the unions have seen it as an intrusion on their rights to collectively bargain , even though they have n't been very active in trying to organise them themselves . |
| 5 | They have an effect on their departments and their university as a whole , because comparisons which affect funding levels are now drawn with other institutions . |
| 6 | The same macho attitudes have an effect on their family life . |
| 7 | Where drug actions are known , they have been found to exert an effect on the body 's metabolic processes — that is , our inner chemical workings — inhibiting or stimulating enzyme function or having an effect on their control mechanisms . |
| 8 | The people explained their action as an attempt on their part to adhere to the principle of non-violence , but , as Gandhi pointed out , such action could more easily be interpreted as cowardice than non-violence . |
| 9 | ‘ As a result , we 've had an awful lot of letters from people saying there 'd been an oversight on their part , ’ says an outwardly cheerful Simpson . |
| 10 | In the meantime , I became friendly with a neighbour , Derek Mills , and his wife Val , who said I could build an aviary on their land . |
| 11 | In the past , presidential wives have made an impression but usually in a way that has drawn fierce criticism , mainly because they pretended they were n't an influence on their husbands . |
| 12 | Ninety percent of the drivers reported that passengers had an influence on their driving . |
| 13 | Someone rang The Beatles Story exhibition to point out there was an error on their brochure : ‘ It says you 're open eight days a week , ’ said the uninitiated person obviously missing the joke . |
| 14 | So I do things for chaps from the U.K. Keep an eye on their properties . |
| 15 | He told us unsettling stories of Chinese merchants who had insisted on travelling aboard the prahus to keep an eye on their cargo , and had somehow been lost overboard while their merchandise appeared for sale in harbours far from their intended destination . |
| 16 | Only if their teacher were with them were they allowed to cross the dusty lane to play on the greater green , for Miss Watson was a woman who had no doubt at all that each and every pupil would be run over and either maimed or killed outright if she were not there to keep an eye on their movements . |
| 17 | For example , they can help handicapped youngsters in the difficult school-leaving period , encourage them to find work , keep an eye on their activities if they are trying to take on too much or are getting into bad company , help them to cope with family relationships and to become as independent and content as possible . |
| 18 | Fournier , who was keeping an eye on their end of the table , called , ‘ Look after young Flavia 's glass — she likes her tipple . ’ |
| 19 | MURDER victim Johanna Young 's mother wept yesterday as she begged parents to always keep an eye on their children . |
| 20 | But it is important for parents to be aware and keep an eye on their children . ’ |
| 21 | The farmer and his neighbours were all friends so it was just a case of asking them to keep an eye on their moggies , and spying on a few of the plumper-looking ones — successful hunters , we assumed . |
| 22 | The Mescalero Apaches in New Mexico , the Skull Valley Gosute tribe in Utah , and the Fort McDermitt Paiute Shoshones in Nevada have already received $200,000 each to fund investigations into the acceptability to their people of siting an MRS on their land . |
| 23 | Similar work is in hand for digital geophysical data , with an emphasis on their integration with other geoscience information . |
| 24 | Except of course from the landowners , many of whom find having an SSSI on their land not a privilege but a curse . |
| 25 | Against these features it is to their credit that even the gifted individuals we discussed were able to have such an impact on their organizations and on history . |
| 26 | The relative isolation of women from the public world of their husbands does not just have an impact on their access to relatives and friends but also , not surprisingly , on their use of leisure facilities outside the home ( see also chapter 10 , section 10.3 ) . |
| 27 | The philosophers may have been generally unsympathetic to what they saw as an encroachment on their territory , while the sociologists have done their best to incorporate or adapt Mannheim 's project to fit with a paradigm in which they were already working . |
| 28 | While representatives of the leading clubs would prefer to move immediately to a Premier Division of ten , there is also an acknowledgement on their part of the need for compromise . |
| 29 | Builder Anthony Lawrence had put an extension on their home , but denied having an affair . |
| 30 | He said that a man who 's gon na build a , build something , let's put it in a modern setting , the man who 's gon na , a man and woman , a couple are gon na put an extension on their house , they do n't just go down and buy a few dozen bricks , er , and a bag cement and start , they work out how much it 's gon na cost them first of all . |