Example sentences of "their [noun] [prep] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since there was a belief among many black schoolchildren that the " fastest in the Borough " would always be a black child , some made their assessment of ethnicity on this basis rather than a linguistic one . |
| 2 | I step over tiny children drawing with their fingers in spit on the rusty floor outside our cabin . |
| 3 | Kant and Rousseau based their conceptions of freedom on this ideal of self-legislation . |
| 4 | To describe the experiences of 10 fundholding practices in the Northern region during 1991–2 and to elicit subjective assessments of the impact of their change in status on practice management and patient care . |
| 5 | ‘ Who 's no problem ? ’ roars Pierre Coetzer as he starts training in Johannesburg for their fight at Wembley on October 17 . |
| 6 | No 71 MU , the RAF 's prime repair and recovery organisation , dismantled Queenie and left with the Lancaster for their base at Bicester on August 24 , 1970 . |
| 7 | When they took their stand against gambling on the football pools by refusing to release the fixture-lists in advance , they incurred the wrath of the press as well as the pools promoters . |
| 8 | Working partnerships are symbolised through the culture of their practitioners and their patterns of interaction on a daily basis : teams working within teams focused through national regional , down to local level . |
| 9 | It was here they learnt to trade rides on their ponies for rides on other children 's bikes . |
| 10 | Advancing on a narrow front , the bristling schiltrons threw their opponents into confusion on such unfamiliar , unstable ground . |
| 11 | This included the case of the nine South Ronaldsay children who had been taken from their homes at dawn on 27 February . |
| 12 | Up to 41 people , including a number of tradesman , will build their homes from scratch on a site at Coulby Newham . |
| 13 | Mom says it thickens their blood like gravy on the heat . ’ |
| 14 | Hay & Maddock 93 , in their study of theses on human geography , found that the modal value was 0 , i.e. the largest number of thesis-derived papers were published in the actual year of thesis deposit . |
| 15 | Hay & Maddock , in their study of theses on human geography , found that the modal value was 0 , i.e. the largest number of thesis-derived papers were published in the actual year of thesis deposit . |
| 16 | As Her Majesty 's Government have based their aid to Kenya on progress being made on the political front , presumably there is now scope for increasing that aid to a country which is an island of stability in a troubled area . |
| 17 | Silver and Wortman ( 1980 ) , in their review of research on how people cope with a range of such major losses , conclude that two resources in particular seem to have some generalisable benefit . |
| 18 | Well , people who stake their opposition to factory-farming on this kind of consideration should be prepared for a long , heated debate , with one set of ‘ experts ’ declaring that thus-and-so is true , while another declares that it is not . |
| 19 | She grumbled to me that if she left the tap-handles in situ , people would take advantage and lie in their baths for hours on end , using a lot more hot water than their franc entitled them to . |
| 20 | Children aged 3 to 9 will take part in a series of games ; their responses to questions on these games will be analyzed to ascertain whether comparisons were made and affected their self-evaluations . |
| 21 | The pair will spend about a month at the Thames Coastguard station and take a further training course at Highcliffe , in Dorset , before taking up their duties at Walton on the Naze . |
| 22 | There followed severe repression with the aim of terrifying the recalcitrant , and mutinous princelings usually paid for their revolt by death on a gibbet … |
| 23 | Besides , hearing of cases brought by the state against thieves who passed their finds to dealers on the black market and failed to report to the Commission on Antiquities ended his youthful enthusiasm for archaeology : Davide was law-abiding by temperament . |
| 24 | The children , via the network , are able to learn about one another and develop their understanding of global issues through their exchange of messages on the system . |
| 25 | The European Commission yesterday duly called for total deregulation of telephone service in the European Community by 1998 and asked telecommunications ministers to endorse that goal at their Council of Ministers on May 10 : the UK is the only European Community country where the body responsible for installing phones and running the service has been forced to make room for a competitor , but national territorial monopolies were not suited to the needs of a single Community market and technological advances meant they were no longer justified in any case , the Commission said ; Industry Commissioner Martin Bangemann said the Commission would soon produce another paper on whether development of telephone networks should also be dealt with under a free market system , adding that the Commission believed companies from outside the Community should be free to reap the benefits of deregulation as long as EC firms were able to do likewise on those firms ' home territory ; but the Commission pulled back from recommending that large companies be free to lease spare capacity on the networks of utilities such as gas from the start of next year . |
| 26 | singer Blackie Lawless has blasted America 's moral pressure group Washington Wives for their campaign to clampdown on heavy metal music . |
| 27 | The Company 's barges were a much-loved feature on the Liffey as they plied the river with their cargo of goodness on the short run between Brewery and Port . |
| 28 | Their return to Leith on the ‘ Saint Andrew ’ was just as uncomfortable as the journey out and Corbett was only too pleased to feel the firm ground of the quayside beneath him . |
| 29 | He finally told them when they stopped at a restaurant on their return from London on Sunday afternoon . |
| 30 | Peter Harris , who has cancer , and his family were due to be evicted from their home in Sandford on Thames unless they could pay eight thousand pounds in arrears . |