Example sentences of "[conj] in their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Age , education , ideology , even strength of partisanship , had little influence over whether or not people perceived bias on television or in their papers . |
| 2 | We might have expected that those who alleged bias on television or in their paper would be reluctant to describe that source as useful but there was little evidence of any such reaction . |
| 3 | They were all teenagers or in their early twenties . |
| 4 | They sat at their windows or in their small front gardens , making and mending nets and dyeing saffron the cloth for the coloured sails that were traditional on Elling craft . |
| 5 | It is this same group who most often remember grandparents as providing significant direct financial aid either in their lifetimes or in their wills . |
| 6 | Results almost identical to those shown in Fig. 5.8 have been produced by experiments in which the two reinforcers differ in their nature ( Trapold ( 1970 ) used sucrose pellets and standard food pellets ) , in their timing ( Carlson and Wielkiewicz. ( 1972 ) used immediate versus delayed reinforcement ) , or in their magnitude ( one food pellet versus five , Carlson and Wielkiewicz ( 1976 ) ) . |
| 7 | Some portraits of young children copy imperial features in , for example , the shape of the ears or in their hairstyles . |
| 8 | Look out for changes in their behaviour at home or in their performance at school . |
| 9 | The expressed intention of the proposed changes is to give priority to those disabled from birth or in their early years . |
| 10 | HMI lost no opportunity in ramming the message home , whether in individual school reports , in the ‘ Education Observed ’ and in the ‘ Curriculum Matters ’ series , or in their annual reports on the ‘ effects of public expenditure policies on educational provision ’ . |
| 11 | Why do not schools or colleges display at their gate or on their notepaper or in their prospectus ‘ Twinned with Philips ’ or ‘ Partnered with Boots ’ ? |
| 12 | Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould , two invertebrate palaeontologists , suggested in 1972 that the abrupt transitions in the fossil record reflect the way evolution actually works , by fits and starts , or in their latinate phrase , ‘ punctuated equilibria ’ . |
| 13 | It has indicated that children in experimental Yoruba medium classes do not appear to suffer either in their knowledge of English or in their performance in a final state examination in English . |
| 14 | Such people may be keen to work , but unable to find jobs because none are available in their occupation or in their geographical area , so that re-training or re-housing would be necessary to increase the chances of employment . |
| 15 | Of course the people who hear the singing do n't climb the Minster tower , but congregate outside their houses , in the streets or in their gardens . |
| 16 | They could only be killed with a spear through one small spot on their back , or in their mouth , that was not protected by scales . |
| 17 | Coopers & Lybrand does not believe that the ED 's proposals ‘ should be issued either in the short term or in their present form ’ . |
| 18 | The paper ( published in volume 261 , page 301 of the journal ) contained a table of numbers for excess heat from the few cells that had measured ‘ positive ’ but gave no details of how many cells had balanced , or in their definition were deemed to be ‘ dead ’ . |
| 19 | When discussing unexpected failures for this to occur , academic psychologists have generally concentrated on the case where , despite high intelligence ( and therefore presumably superior ability to think convergently ) individuals are nevertheless relatively uncreative , either in real-life or in their performance on divergent thinking tests . |
| 20 | The parents can join in the play and reduce the level of attention given to not eating , but look at and smile when their children are putting food near or in their mouth . |
| 21 | There is a theoretical risk of transmission of HIV or other blood-borne infections if the casualty is bleeding and the first aider gets blood on a graze , in an eye or in their mouth . |
| 22 | Most children with severe visual handicaps will have been discovered within a few days of their birth or in their early infancy in hospital . |
| 23 | I introduced this historical discussion by posing three questions about whether there has been a reduction in people 's actual support for their kin , or in their sense of obligation to kin , or simply change in both . |
| 24 | At the next level of organization , the action of InsP 3 has been studied on populations of receptors prepared either in membrane vesicles or in their normal location within permeabilized cells . |
| 25 | Some clients will identify obvious external factors , such as changes at work , home , or in their personal life . |
| 26 | Under the Act the Poor Law acquired the responsibility of visiting and supervising , in institutions or in their own homes , children who had been the subject of cruelty proceedings . |
| 27 | Yet at the same time , governments may threaten to take away or violate the security of firms or individuals , in their person or in their property . |
| 28 | Many of the team 's functions are carried out through its individual members ' work , either in the performance of their county roles ( for example as Inspector or PAL:YPE ) or in their roles as link persons . |
| 29 | When they were not in chapel , at the dinner table or in their beds , there was nothing at all to do in the house except join the endless gossiping sessions with which João 's sisters and cousins filled their idle hours . |
| 30 | This religious dimension is conserved as a sub text in many political ideologies , where it furnishes particular articles of faith in the self-emancipation of ethnic minorities , or in their special role as makers of their own history . |