Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The resulting ‘ subgovernments ’ ( Cater , 1964 , pp. 17–22 ) or ‘ iron triangles ’ have been seen as critical to an understanding of what governments actually do or do not do because of their permanence , the secrecy of their operations and the weak party system in the United States . |
| 2 | Dust spurted and drifted from their hooves and the bright sun flashed cruel and beautiful from their drawn sabres . |
| 3 | The divergencies are a consequence of voters ' use of their preferences and the geographical distribution of party support . |
| 4 | At that precise moment both dogs jumped against their chains and the fearsome Rosie began to bark . |
| 5 | Two fur traders from the French settlement of New France on the banks of the St. Lawrence had been trying to convince their employers that the best way to develop the trade was to set up bases on Hudson Bay to which the Indians could come in their canoes down all the rivers that flowed into the Bay . |
| 6 | Many members enjoy the advantage of having their subscriptions paid by their employers and the new rates mean that these members ' employers will be penalised by the direct debit fee . |
| 7 | Farmworkers are in danger of being milked by their employers if the Agricultural Wages Board is scrapped . |
| 8 | All the parts of such an ecosystem — organic and inorganic , biome and habitat — may be regarded as interacting factors which , in a mature ecosystem , are in approximate equilibrium : it is through their interactions that the whole system is maintained . |
| 9 | Given that private conversations between journalists and politicians take place all the time as the former seek their exclusives and the latter seek to further their policies or careers ( or to wreck other people 's ) , it is strangely perverse to ignore perhaps the most authoritative off-the-record source of all , Mr Bernard Ingham . |
| 10 | Despite the vast size of their houses and the numerous servants surrounding each aristocratic family , on the death of a Victorian head of household ‘ his or her resident family was expected to leave to make way for the incoming heir and his or her family . |
| 11 | The instrument used was derived from discussion with four groups of members of the general public ( with and without incontinence ) who explained their attitudes and the perceived effect on lifestyle . |
| 12 | They parked near Camp Hill and walked out aimlessly across the heath amidst the estranged fathers flying kites with their sons and the headscarfed ladies exercising their labradors . |
| 13 | Prisoners are often transferred so far away from their homes that the social problems become immense and the difficulties are exacerbated rather than diminished . |
| 14 | Because wives are looked on a surrogates for their husbands while the latter are at Westminster , their attitudes to constituency work and their appearance are considered important . |
| 15 | From there they were accustomed to having something like a bird's-eye view , seeing their husbands and the other male members of their families not as the tall figures they were familiar with and on whom they relied but as the busy little children they often privately felt them to be . |
| 16 | Evidence suggests that working class wives were prepared to put up with occasional drinking bouts by their husbands and the physical abuse that sometimes accompanied them rather than lose the economic support normally provided . |
| 17 | They walk on their knees and the front legs like this , so they stand on a knee and then those two legs , and then that knee and these two legs , so they |
| 18 | Third , community care plans are rather idiosyncratic documents and the investment of resources in the actual plans appears to vary greatly ( a cursory glance at their covers and the corporate style projected by each confirms this ) . |
| 19 | all I want out of this life is to meet a few men with something more between their ears than the latest Donna Summer hit . |
| 20 | More than 2100 people — some 53 per cent of the 4000 samples — returned their questionnaires and the widespread view of the AEA Constabulary was a positive one of smartly turned out , helpful and honest officers . |
| 21 | The Unionists in general decreased the number of their candidates though the precise locations of these decreases are not easy to unravel owing to personal realignments in various parts of the different Unionist parties . |
| 22 | Underpinning both the interpretation of their designs and the economic evidence they can provide is the datability of coins . |
| 23 | Meanwhile German ministers say the waste has not crossed their borders and the French environment minister , Huguene Bouchardeau has retracted an earlier claim that the waste had left France . |
| 24 | Would the circle mind if I embroidered some rosebuds on their bodices after the other ladies had made them up ? |
| 25 | They are secure in their roles and the young are generally simply marking time until they step into the marriage shoes waiting for them . |
| 26 | When it was heard that he had been shot in the legs at the time of his arrest , the reporters assured their readers that the general view of the British people was , ‘ A pity they did n't aim a bit higher . ’ |
| 27 | Surfers are said to be as exclusive in their manners as the upper classes they have replaced , talking only among themselves and inevitably spending a good deal of their time incommunicado offshore . |
| 28 | The Royal Navy have intensified their patrols and the Special Boat Squadron has been put on alert . |
| 29 | They fled for their lives as the great Hell-hounds caught their scent and bayed in savage glee . |
| 30 | ‘ And unfortunately others like Mr Hughes will lose their lives because the legal system is beating us . |