Example sentences of "their [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of these future buy-in managers are currently in their forties , although 23 percent are in their thirties and a fifth are over 50 . |
| 2 | " The Moslem Brothers , who are more anxious than anyone for the stability of Egypt and the welfare of its citizens adhere to legal means in their preaching and the defence of their right to undertake activities to realise their goals , " he said . |
| 3 | The stress had already afected their health and they would be in their 70s before the project was completed . |
| 4 | GROWTH WITH A DIFFERENCE Farmers ' incomes are at their lowest since the war , and many have decided they must diversify to survive |
| 5 | Commodity prices — at their lowest since the Great Depression of the 1930s — show no signs of looking up because countries must export more every year just to keep their revenues stable . |
| 6 | Fred — as the skeleton was later named — was found in May , with the willows by the bank at their greenest and the wild fowl at their most excited . |
| 7 | The second from that point on until the parents were in their seventies and the third after the death of the parents . |
| 8 | In answer there was a splashing to their left and a second whoop of laughter . |
| 9 | This section of the towpath was about six feet wide , with the riverside cottages to their left and an iron railing to the right . |
| 10 | To the south there are the Dorset Heights looking over Hamdon Hill and the Windwhistle Ridge ; to the west stands the Wellington Monument , almost on the Devon border ; northwards there is a fine view of the Quantock Hills with the Brendons to their left and the Mendips to their right ; eastwards lie the Wiltshire Downs and a view of King Alfred 's Tower at Stourton . |
| 11 | Piloted by BC 's own GEC Stephenson diesel shunter , the 1950's built tank heaved 16 wagon-long loaded trains down their three and a half mile long mineral line under the M6 Motorway to exchange sidings with British Rail . |
| 12 | Because teeth are at their sharpest when the horse is four , five and six years old , the mouth is more prone to ulcers . |
| 13 | They know they must fill the empty space with movement , whether there is scenery in the background or where the costumes are at their simplest and the background merely a hint of some venue as , for example , in Symphonic Variations or Requiem , or even just shafts of light as in Monotones . |
| 14 | One day when the sticky buds on the trees were at their plumpest and the sun gleamed a promise of summer , Sylvie took her sketch pad down to the little lake in the clinic grounds . |
| 15 | Because children now arrive later in marriage , parents may be in their fifties before the last child leaves home . |
| 16 | In America , those guru-led hippie students are now in their fifties and the New Age is part of the shopfloor and even in the curriculum in university and school . |
| 17 | They must have been in their twenties when the family moved from Trebyan . ’ |
| 18 | Soviet and Vietnamese officials could not , however , simply replace the ZOPFAN proposal with one of their own since the Third World confirmed its support for a zone of peace , freedom and neutrality at the Delhi and Harare Non-Aligned Summits in 1983 and 1986 . |
| 19 | However , in 1982 only 40 per cent of lone ( i.e. non-married ) women aged 60–4 had their own and/or a widow 's occupational pension and 25 per cent of that age group were drawing a supplementary ( means-tested ) state pension . |
| 20 | Parents , however , should remember that if they give their child an investment that produces over £5 annual income , it will usually be taxed as their own unless the child is over 18 or married . |
| 21 | Parents , however , should remember that if they give their child an investment that produces over £5 annual income , it will usually be taxed as their own unless the child is over 18 or married . |
| 22 | Parents , however , should remember that if they give their child an investment that produces over £5 annual income , it will usually be taxed as their own unless the child is over 18 or married . |
| 23 | They knew that the voice that spoke to them with their own voice was not their own but the voice of a being that had its abode in a world of light . |
| 24 | Even more documentation arrives with SuperCalc 5.5 , mainly because the data manipulation features are given a book of their own and a name — Silverado . |
| 25 | Parents are not concerned about other children but their own and the photo may well stir up some resentment which can best be countered by inviting the press in on a regular basis and ensuring that as many children as possible get their picture in the paper . |
| 26 | We now know that two protons will not directly make helium ; two protons can not survive the electrical disruption on their own and the stable helium nucleus contains neutrons as well . |
| 27 | However , events take a path of their own and the picture finally brings him the happiness it seemed to promise all along . |
| 28 | More careful and critical studies reveal the all too well-known pattern of the failure of British workers to employ new techniques as effectively as their foreign counterparts , to both their own and the general loss [ Dore , 1973 ; Pratten , 1976b ] . |
| 29 | It was considered quite an innovation when , after the First World War , the " progressive officials " of R. & R. Clark decided on " a combined " Annual " " in 1921 , " instead of one section having a smoker all on their own and the other a high tea and gossip " , as the ST[ put it . |
| 30 | It was at this stage , too , that the fields were granted an independence of their own and the aether , which had been considered necessary for providing a mechanical basis for the fields , was dispensed with . |