Example sentences of "their [noun sg] [adv] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after they had lost their first five wickets with only 134 on the board , Rutherford and Blain swung the balance back in their favour in the last 45 minutes , adding 34 runs to take their side agonisingly close to squaring the series after a humiliating innings and 60-run defeat in Christchurch . |
| 2 | In recent years , however , for financial reasons social work departments have restricted their work almost exclusively to statutory tasks , people with mental health problems having a very low priority . |
| 3 | Florence publishers have turned their attention almost exclusively to their home territory . |
| 4 | This restrictive conception of democracy as a technique for the selection of political leaders was one important influence leading political sociologists to devote their attention too exclusively to elections and voting behaviour . |
| 5 | Ever since his election as ARFU president in 1988 , French has been involved in many discussions with South African rugby officials assisting and advising them in their aim once again to be welcomed back into the international playing fraternity . |
| 6 | To that extent there was greater cohesion in Cabinet , because there were a lot of new faces who owed their promotion much more to her than to their record in the party . |
| 7 | Some schools had not related their spending sufficiently closely to the needs of the curriculum or to the reading levels of their pupils . |
| 8 | Whilst other sections of the population are clearly severely affected by these government policies , disabled people experience these particular ‘ reforms ’ as an attack on their human right not to be incarcerated without trial and conviction , in so far as it renders it in some cases impossible to live outside institutions . |
| 9 | ‘ Pregnancy suits you , ’ she added as they made their way slowly back to the house . |
| 10 | Clinging to Mayne 's jeep the men made their way safely back to camp . |
| 11 | Sons of the Roman aristocracy , eager to pursue careers in the curia found their way early on to the Paris schools . |
| 12 | Slowly they worked their way deeper in to the forest . |
| 13 | And she 'd wheel him from from their house right up to the station . |
| 14 | On beaches , vulnerable plover chicks , not yet able to fly , crouch low and motionless , the colour of their down so close to that of the pebbles around them that their major hazard comes , not from being seen and eaten , but from not being seen and trodden on . |
| 15 | For at least some people of the first generation , Creole has symbolic value as a language of black identity , and those individuals may try to maintain their " Caribbeanness " by keeping their speech as close to Creole as possible . |