Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such movement was especially great in the 1960s and 1970s because this was a time of rapid change in industrial technology , calling for new investments , and capitalists preferred to make ‘ drastic adjustments , such as massively replacing living labor by machines and/or disciplining their labor forces ’ ( p. 129 ) in areas of low-intensity class struggle . |
| 2 | There is no telling how many borrowers and banks are in the same bind , but it is familiar to householders , who have found that they can neither keep up with their mortgages or sell their houses on terms which would not bankrupt them . |
| 3 | Cumulative selection will see to it that animals are well fitted to outrun their predators or outwit their prey , no less than it sees to it that they are well fitted to the prevailing weather conditions . |
| 4 | An environment must be created in which partners can feel free to raise or lower their involvement as is appropriate . |
| 5 | Comments from several solicitors , from both large and small practice firms , suggest that there remain on the rota solicitors who have over-valued or mis-stated their criminal experience : |
| 6 | Changing Shape It is often the case that many students grow in height or change their shape in some way during lessons , so it is not a good idea to buy shoes or clothes until nearing the end of the course of lessons . |
| 7 | However Hahnemann came increasingly to recognize that there were patients whose diseases continually seemed to relapse , or change their form , and such patients could be extremely difficult to treat . |
| 8 | Failing to pass through it , or change their strategy and invest the compound from another route , over the fence , as he had done , their plan had stalled at the resistance the settlers were able to muster at that very node . |
| 9 | However , it has yet to take concrete steps to stop atrocities , or bring their perpetrators to justice . |
| 10 | Sex discrimination legislation in itself probably does little to alter the balance between boys ' and girls ' achievement , or bring their curricula nearer together . |
| 11 | Does using the pupil 's mother tongue in teaching a second language help or hinder their progress ? |
| 12 | Erm , because I was rather sad , I I tried to instore the Rotary Club in the district in taking part , or or encouraging their |
| 13 | A bad year was a disaster to the small peasant while it might well benefit the large farmers or merchants who could store grain for ten years , ‘ observing this rule so consistently that they would pawn their last jewels or load their lands with mortgages until years of high prices ’ . |
| 14 | And even if no fingerprints could be found on it , even if several of the tourists had already discarded or misplaced their own sheets , there would not be too many Americans , surely , who regularly wrote their sevens with a continental bar across the downstroke . |
| 15 | Yet , despite all this , Baxter wrote , ‘ not one that I hear of are fallen off or forsake their uprightness ’ . |
| 16 | Mrs Prynn left her to get on with her duties without any unusual comments ; Lady Roscarrock appeared to be her normal self , and the aunts and sisters dozed in their chairs or whispered their rosaries in much the normal way . |
| 17 | People desperate to conceive can sometimes enter fertility programmes without enough space to query how far they are prepared to go , to resolve any differences between the partners , or to mourn their personal loss in not being able to produce a child naturally . |
| 18 | Either they must draw back from the spotlight and forfeit their privileges or pick their partners based on purely practical criteria . |
| 19 | The honours system symbolises social superiority while also acting as a social discipline on upper-class members who wish to retain or enhance their standing ( as with public employees seeking lesser honours ) . |
| 20 | Working in a situation which encourages general contact with the public or involves their active participation creates advantages for both the artist and his audience . |
| 21 | Version 4.0 operates as a command language for application developers wishing to integrate or migrate their own sub-routines into the environment , but there is a point and click module available for non-technical users . |
| 22 | But the salination of 100,000 hectares of land has affected the fertility of adjoining holdings which were used for paddy farming , forcing thousands of poor farmers to sell or lease their ancestral land to shrimp industries . |
| 23 | Ian Halcrow 's Macbeth looks great but never draws us close , and he and others swallow or truncate their lines as though they cared very little for them . |
| 24 | The purpose for living could have been revenge , to build a new homeland , or to see their family . |
| 25 | The leaders would now have to resign , to change their policy , or to see their policy rejected by Lancashire Unionists early in the new year . |
| 26 | The plaintiffs sought an injunction against the members of the national executive of the union to restrain them from inducing or procuring their members not to use PA copy . |
| 27 | They do not want the Bill , privatisation or to lose their pension rights . |
| 28 | One of the major criticisms of the battery cage has been that it is so small that the hens have no room to move or to perform their natural behaviour patterns . |
| 29 | You 're trying to focus attention on the presenter , the person giving the speech or answering the questions and it is a dreadful distraction to have beside and behind him or her numbers of men and women who invariably want to whisper , gesticulate , stare in the wrong direction , scratch their heads , pick their noses or make their exits at completely the wrong moment . |
| 30 | Fewer people grow their own vegetables or make their own soup . |