Example sentences of "their [noun] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhat in the same boat may be groups of younger teachers who see education in personal/emotional , or in political terms , and who are feeling their values particularly heavily trodden on by the current educational reforms . |
| 2 | Apart from the possibility of injuring their teeth quite badly by trying to gnaw them , there is also the distinct likelihood that some will be swallowed , causing an intestinal blockage . |
| 3 | They moved towards the left-hand urn , sliding through the crowd of their superiors as smoothly as serpents in the garden . |
| 4 | She tells their story well enough ; she does n't seem shaky at all . |
| 5 | ‘ Women wore their hair very long in Victorian days , ’ |
| 6 | Whether these bourgeois tried to ape the life style of the aristocracy or , like class-conscious Krupp and his fellow-magnates of the Ruhr , built themselves castles and industrial-feudal empires parallel to and more impressive than those of the Junkers whose titles they refused , they had to spend , and in a manner which inevitably brought their life style closer to that of the unpuritan aristocracy , and that of their womenfolk even more so . |
| 7 | If anybody is successful in bringing in new work into the office , clearly that reflects in their achievements and their objectives , merely that reflects in their assessment so far as er their managers and are concerned and clearly that will will be reflected in their pay , so that will be the way that er we would normally tackle and that would be the way I I was prepared to tackle it . |
| 8 | The initial allocations of Partnership spending in the late 1970s were often the result of the large , better-prepared and more politically-aware departments putting forward their cases more persuasively than the others . |
| 9 | About half of the people detained under Immigration Act powers in general do not wish to challenge the decision that they should leave but they need help winding up their affairs here , contacting their friends and families and pressing the Home Office to process their cases quickly so that they do not have to spend unnecessarily long periods in prison . |
| 10 | He told a news conference : ‘ I am very happy with their progress so far and I think they will continue to do well over the next few days . |
| 11 | British and Empire troops dug in and organized their defences so rapidly that all German counter-attacks the following day were thrown back and even more ground gained . |
| 12 | Eventually , you should have collected the opinion of everyone on your ‘ hit list ’ and , if no one has shown any interest in your music , you need to consider their reactions very carefully . |
| 13 | But in the state they were in at present , both physically aroused , she trusted neither Luke nor herself should she prolong their presence here alone together in the tempting privacy of this suite . |
| 14 | In public he was urbane , and no one could have guessed that their presence here together was dictated by anything other than professional considerations . |
| 15 | They then said to their Dad that although they missed their Mum very much indeed , they were beginning to see that their Dad needed them around to have people to talk to about their Mum , and so now they were asking Jesus to make sure nothing else awful happened . |
| 16 | The purpose was to prevent crowding of BES issues at the end of the tax year , but the ceiling limit meant that investors putting up the full 140,000 still made most of their investments as near as they could to 5th April . |
| 17 | In that year the Cohen Committee succinctly explained how this state of affairs had come about : ‘ [ t ] he illusory nature of the control theoretically exercised by the shareholders over directors has been accentuated by the dispersion of capital among an increasing number of small shareholders who pay little attention to their investments so long as satisfactory dividends are forthcoming , who lack sufficient time , money and experience to make full use of their rights as occasion arises and who are , in many cases , too numerous and too widely dispersed to be able to organise themselves ’ . |
| 18 | Some dealers find it hilarious when clients take their investments so seriously that they investigate the OTC companies personally . |
| 19 | True the banks made hundreds of imprudent loans in the 1970s and early 1980s ; they could hardly get rid of their money fast enough and virtually begged Third World governments to take it off their hands . |
| 20 | Today people spend their money more evenly and the standard of hospitality has improved This unit has been here for ten years and can take 350 people , it 's well established . |
| 21 | The classic response to this situation is to take from the rich and to give to the poor on the grounds that the poor spend their money much faster than the rich . |
| 22 | Worst of all , would their money once more drive them into a tolerant and easy separation ? |
| 23 | It struck her that they made their money very easily . |
| 24 | brought the downfall of the Asante nation and for this reason they had to bury their money underground so that more money was hidden underground than on the earth . |
| 25 | Of course , for family companies , such tax planning may have to be balanced against the shareholders ' natural desire to have their money as soon as possible ! |
| 26 | This form of destabilizing speculation took place in the hyper-inflation of Germany in the 1920s , as people spent their money as quickly as possible . ) |
| 27 | Parents who succeed in adopting a child are likely to take the whole matter of their upbringing even more seriously and conscientiously than many who have given birth to their children . |
| 28 | For many programmers , this is their first taste of trying to sell houses in a buyers ' market , of static wages and of finding that demand for their skills no longer outstrips supply . |
| 29 | The chairman of the Guardian and Manchester Evening News announced in his 1986 annual report that ‘ The Times now has a cost structure much lower than our own … we must get our own costs down to their level as soon as possible ’ . |
| 30 | Perhaps that increase reflects a decline in profits , the recession and the drive by tobacco companies to advertise their products even more fiercely . |