Example sentences of "their [adj] [noun] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their restraint was mainly due to their feeling of strangeness — it was unique for them to be sharing the seats with the men , their usual place being in the high gallery around the side-walls . |
| 2 | This , I felt , was long overdue — there had been a tendency to regard their activity as secondary to that of the operational investigators while their technical contribution was in fact of the highest importance . |
| 3 | Their private museum is in a wing which is under the control of a hostile uncle , but they were still able to show me a wonderful variety of treasures including a pedestal telephone , equipped with a leopard-skin handle , and decorated with an embroidered coat of arms showing the sun , moon , and stars . |
| 4 | Third , certain categories of restrictions on competition may not within their economic context be of such a nature to fall within Article 85 . |
| 5 | Their stooping posture was of a person melting down , slumping into the stance of a vicious carnivore . |
| 6 | The amnesty welcomed students to return to China " no matter what their political attitude was in the past " , and said that there would be no investigation into " wrong things " they had said or committed abroad . |
| 7 | Their political affiliation was by no means uniform . |
| 8 | Their possible purpose is for grooming ( as above ) . |
| 9 | Because their nasal openings were on the top of their heads they could even continue to breathe if it became necessary ( see p. 115 ) to totally submerge . |
| 10 | Beating straps are only occasionally fitted to boards and , as the name suggests , their sole use is for sailing into wind . |
| 11 | Their total estimate is for 220,000 dwellings annually until 1991 ( and rather less in the last decade of the century ) . |
| 12 | 4.9 Employees who collect or carry money as part of their normal work are at risk of violence or assault . |
| 13 | Robert was n't sure that their sexual relations were in line with Islamic thinking — at least as formulated by Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi . |
| 14 | However , many in the Republics including Russian President Boris Yeltsin , will be wary of the powers and fear their burgeoning independence is under a new threat . |
| 15 | include FINGER , for ‘ telephone'-type enquiries , i.e. finding the e-mail address for the person or institution you want ; GOPHER , a system of linked menus to help find resources anywhere in the Internet ; ARCHIE , which allows searching indexes to remote computers to find out which of their searchable files are of interest to you ; WAIS , for searching remote databases ; and WWW ( World-Wide-Web ) , which is similar but which uses an extremely user-friendly full screen with hypertext features . |
| 16 | It also shows in their embarrassed defensiveness when foreigners wonder aloud whether their public life is in need of change . |
| 17 | Before women could form into groups to press for change they too had to challenge ruling ideas — ideas which suggested that their proper place was at home with the family . |
| 18 | Articulate women , anxious to lead purposeful lives , found it impossible to dismiss the idea , supported as it was by scientific theories of sexual difference , that their proper place was in the home . |
| 19 | Their proper care was in her blood . |
| 20 | But , as events were to show , the Liberals were quite unable to take advantage of their pivotal role , and their high hopes were to be rapidly dashed . |
| 21 | Since they could recognize ‘ intelligence , wit and wisdom ’ in members of the lower strata , they appreciated that their social inferiors were at least their equal in certain respects . |
| 22 | Before television and feminine liberation , when the men were out drinking or at football , the women on their off-duty moments were usually to be seen at the window , where their social life was to be found . |
| 23 | For Weber , the sociologist needed to understand ( verstehen ) the subjective experience of ‘ ideal-typical ’ human individuals located within particular societies , classes and cultures — not , of course , denying that social forces shape and influence individuals , but insisting that individual human beings and the meanings they use to interpret their social world are of prime importance in understanding society . |
| 24 | In the aftermath of the accident the bodies of the two children were recovered from the wreckage and laid beside the track with the other bodies of the tragedy , but their charred remains were beyond recognition and were never claimed nor was any connection established between them and the other passengers , and in consequence the two children were never identified . |
| 25 | Most of the materials chiefly esteemed today for their symbolic value are of mineral origin . |
| 26 | Their chief functions were of this world . |
| 27 | They built homes throughout the Dale up to the borders of what is now Drinan , and their chief town was at Dun Merkadal . |
| 28 | Their chief interest was in walking rather than in birds , so we compromised with a day that started near Svartifoss , a waterfall that tumbles between black basalt columns . |
| 29 | Although shareholders in Hilton Mining afterwards contemplated legal action because the prospectus had not revealed that Allan Hilton , the chairman , had been a director of Hilton ( Products ) which went into voluntary liquidation , their real grievance was against Harvard 's selling techniques . |
| 30 | Their real interest is in point-scoring and success in debate , not in the advancement of genuine knowledge . |