Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suffice to say , whether Boogie , Bop or simply Blues , this set of Brothers , whatever they once were before they fell out and dispatched solicitors to sue their siblings , will be wearing dark glasses , pork pie hats , black side-burns and will be playing Stax/Atlantic type material . |
| 2 | Dahl argued that power is fragmented between the different groups involved in the decision-making process since different groups got their way on different issues . |
| 3 | This led the Germans to emphasise their strengths in things other than politics , especially culture ( during the first half of the 19th century ) and industry ( during the second half ) , using these to build the German nation . |
| 4 | Supporters of a no-confidence referendum had gathered 440,000 signatures to support their demand . |
| 5 | The French fabliau in England may take one of two basic forms : fabliaux composed in Old French in France of which copies made their way to England , and fabliaux composed ( in most cases re-composed ) in the Anglo-Norman dialect , presumably in England . |
| 6 | Wildlife is abundant in fish , ducks and water hens , and it is a great joy in springtime to see mother ducks bring their families down the steep church embankment , across the road and onto the pond . |
| 7 | Some writers feel that there is much more scope for local authorities using their wide powers to charge to enhance their revenue ( Blair , 1991 ) . |
| 8 | John Saville , chairman of the J Saville Gordon parent group , said there was nothing to prevent the local authorities using their compulsory purchase powers to acquire the site if they so wished . |
| 9 | Our view is that we should let local authorities make their own decisions about their priorities . |
| 10 | Prague , Budapest and Berlin Various combinations by air or coach with special arrangements in all the countries concerned for student or older groups to plan their own programmes ( min 10 ) . |
| 11 | Because of its importance , most of the great houses launch their latest creations at the Biennale . |
| 12 | By understanding how various properties of objects influence their identification , we gain the background knowledge necessary for building more efficient artificial recognition systems , for understanding the development of recognition in children , and its impairment after brain damage . |
| 13 | Some birds laid their eggs on the floor and others showed signs of frustration . |
| 14 | The experts got their calculations wrong and the daily influx into London is vastly greater at the end than the start of the eighties , or any prediction forecast . |
| 15 | Even before the securities houses announced their decision , the advantages of issuing new equity had slumped along with the Nikkei . |
| 16 | This will take time to catch soaring turnover — up from £72million to £142million — as the group pays fees to BT and other international carriers for calls using their lines . |
| 17 | Darlington and South West Durham health authorities made their pledge while unveiling plans for the new Patient 's Charter at a press conference in Darlington . |
| 18 | It was an age in which all classes of society were expanding , in which men from every walk of life who enjoyed adventure and travel could find new opportunities as merchants to invest their talents at a large rate of interest . |
| 19 | Even now his contemporaries raise their eyes and murmur ‘ Ssshh ’ because there are still alive those whose feelings might be hurt and the extent of it all is better buried under the marriages and the more undeniable liaisons . |
| 20 | Last week , the Liberal Democrats published proposals for breaking up British Telecom into a number of components to provide effective and proper competition , and create regional corporate headquarters of benefit to our regions , which find that massive monopolies concentrate their headquarters elsewhere in the country — by definition , in one place . |
| 21 | Lecturers voiced their overwhelming support for Mrs Falconer and her sister at a meeting at RGU yesterday . |
| 22 | Maybe if more people built high bird-tables instead of just throwing breadcrumbs out on to the lawn and tempting the birds to risk their necks , fewer birds would die from cat attacks . |
| 23 | and rules touching their hair and flesh . |
| 24 | Here , Chris Bonington looks at the way climbers develop their skills in order to test the above criteria , and sketches in the larger-than-life personalities and rivalries within the sport . |
| 25 | The details are still missing , but the main outlines are becoming clear as United States and European statesmen make their pronouncements and tour the capitals of their Middle Eastern allies in an atmosphere of ever greater confidence . |
| 26 | In this last period of devastation even the gorse bruiser and the rest of the Collector 's inventions met their doom . |
| 27 | They eat almost continuously for a month , pausing only to shed their skins several times to accommodate their ever-increasing bodies . |
| 28 | Individual authorities overspending their allocations are likely to suffer consequent reductions in subsequent years ; indeed , those deliberately overspending supplemented allocations can be prevented from letting new contracts by ministerial order . |
| 29 | As they watched in horror , they saw flames eating their way up one of the heavy curtains . |
| 30 | In the 1890s purists began to make headway at a local level by persuading the police and the courts to support their programme . |