Example sentences of "their [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The original suspended wooden ground floor was entirely removed after penetration of this structure for the installation of the new cross-walls and their foundations showed that some residual sections were badly affected by woodworm . |
| 2 | Buildings may remain structurally intact but tilt like rows of old tombstones as their foundations lose their grip . |
| 3 | And their preservation was not due to any touristic interest ; for in a real as well as a metaphorical sense , colonial Cuzco was built on their foundations as well as on the backs of the native population . |
| 4 | He was born into cricket ; his grandfather started manufacturing bats and cricket equipment in the 1890s , his father carried on , and Stuart and his brother Percy eventually took over and built on their foundations to make it internationally successful . |
| 5 | Theories about perception and knowledge which it has seemed possible to prove or disprove a priori turn out to depend on concealed analogies ; with the exposure of the analogy their foundations collapse . |
| 6 | And they will adjust their foundations or powders until they match your skin exactly . |
| 7 | competition from the new commodity , the new technology , the new source of supply , the new type of organization … competition which commands a decisive cost or quality advantage and which strikes not at the margins of the profits and the outputs of the existing firms ( and possibly even entire national economies ) but it their foundations and their very lives . |
| 8 | I knew that shrinks were meant to respect the inability of their patients to express certain fundamental anxieties , that the whole thrust of their endeavour was to move around the edifice of such neuroses , gradually excavating their foundations in memory with a sort of verbal teaspoon . |
| 9 | Cosmetic companies are building on their foundations for black skin this spring : |
| 10 | If institutions are out of phase with social formation , the most powerful institution will be that which is most useful in regulating the conflict between interests which have their foundations in different modes of production — the bureaucracy . |
| 11 | Swivelling , almost blinded by the plunging edifice of her emotions as he struck at their foundations , she groped towards the door . |
| 12 | More than 600 people were evacuated from their homes in Norfolk and eight bungalows collapsed after the sea washed away their foundations . |
| 13 | I want to dwell on this subject a little while , to look at a few areas which are important and necessary and have their foundations in team spirit . |
| 14 | It was consumers in the UK who forced manufacturers to stop using CFCs as propellants in their aerosols . |
| 15 | As the King s head was struck from his body there was a great groan from the crowd , who were dispersed by the cavalry ; some came back to dip their handkerchiefs in the King 's blood . |
| 16 | ‘ City Slickers ’ is certainly slick , a superbly-paced slice of Hollywood entertainment that will leave the cynical reaching for their sick-bags while the sentimental go for their handkerchiefs . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought at first , what was the mother like since there 's so little of the Flowers in any of them , since they are so good and clean and wipe their noses always on their handkerchiefs and never on their sleeves7 But the veneer is rubbing off already . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Take our love to Father ! ’ they cried , as they waved their handkerchiefs . |
| 19 | As the train drew out our dear friends on the platform blew kisses , shed tears and waved their handkerchiefs . |
| 20 | The Communists , their fellow-travellers and their dupes did that . ’ |
| 21 | He said : ‘ As usual , the Government and their fellow-travellers are trying hard to slither out of their own responsibility for it . |
| 22 | Not only are these introns inserted at identical positions of the coxI gene , but in addition their ORFs are quite similar ( Fig. 7b ) . |
| 23 | The enthusiasm has , of course , been exploited , in the opportunistic launching of courses in women 's studies , and by the publishing industry which has filled the shelves of bookshops — general as well as academic — with books with ‘ women ’ in their titles . |
| 24 | Yet almost 30 years after Indira Gandhi stripped the princes of their titles , the ex-Maharajah of Bharatpur continues to exert a regal influence over the affairs of his former state . |
| 25 | History text-books invariably included in their titles such key-words as ‘ Decline ’ , ‘ Downfall ’ , and ‘ Eclipse ’ . |
| 26 | Their titles invoke the Situationists ' rhetorical use of long and rhapsodic titles . |
| 27 | Miss Jekyll 's books are pleasantly readable and as uncluttered as their titles — Home and Garden ; Wood and Garden ; Children and Gardens ; Old West Surrey … this last with 300 photographs to record early Victorian life in those parts . |
| 28 | Despite the aggrandizements to Biddick , the house was seldom used by subsequent Lambtons , who were forever increasing their fortunes , their titles and their castle . |
| 29 | Paintings which he in spected personally have their titles printed in bold capitals , distinguishing them from those known primarily through books and hearsay , whose titles ap pear in lower-case . |
| 30 | Most of them have been accidentally obtained from seeds so they must not be esteemed as different species , therefore I shall only insert their common names by which they are known in gardens , that those who are inclined to collect all the varieties may be at no loss for their titles . |