Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alresford 's recently formed rugby club , who have successfully completed their inaugural season using facilities at Perin 's School , have asked the parish council to consider creating a rugby pitch at Arlebury Park . |
| 2 | Apple Computer Inc and Novell Inc have successfully completed their project to bring the Macintosh system to mainstream computing , but no decision has yet been made on a commercial follow-up : Novell chief financial officer James Tolonen says the companies wanted to see whether Macintosh System could run atop a different operating system and on a different chip , yet still maintain the user-friendly features of the Apple system . |
| 3 | Apple Computer Inc and Novell Inc have successfully completed their project to bring the Macintosh system to mainstream computing , but no decision has yet been made on a commercial follow-up , Novell chief financial officer James Tolonen told the Hambrecht & Quist conference . |
| 4 | Entry qualifications are generally the same , that is five O level GCE passes or their equivalent , as those required to continue on to degree and other higher level courses , which is indeed what the great majority of students do when they have successfully completed their foundation courses . |
| 5 | Katz and Kahn have since developed their ideas and have suggested that the reason why the most effective managers show consideration and understanding towards their subordinates is because they supple formal position in the organisation and appreciate that their employees : |
| 6 | They only feed the cuckoo because it has successfully manipulated their behaviour . |
| 7 | One or two of the bystanders , filled with dread , knowing already that the catastrophe had occurred but unable to prevent themselves verifying the fact , discreetly consulted their time-pieces . |
| 8 | The Battersea group have just successfully organised their fourth ‘ Embassy crawl ’ or sponsored walk on Saturday 19 October . |
| 9 | Those who had long since forgotten their prayers , mouthed pieces of play , pieces of the Mysteries that had been recited like prayers for two hundred years . |
| 10 | The sun has obviously boiled their brains dry — ‘ Elemental Forces ’ is a work of warped hippy ideals and punky ferocity that occasionally slips into a groove of plotted madness . |
| 11 | The small nucleus of ex-service officers naturally guarded their job closely . |
| 12 | Ellis , all placed their central emphasis on the quality of staff , and the higher the grade , the more the quality counted . |
| 13 | Indeed the Professor 's raps frequently fail to rise above their musical platforms , which is by no means necessarily a bad thing ( especially given their content ) , since said platforms score highly on the think-I'm-gonna-dance register . |
| 14 | In South America the same thing had happened ; even the continuing presence of a large native population and wars of liberation had not much differentiated their institutions from European models . |
| 15 | Michael Heseltine , Peter Walker and Jim Prior have all pressed their reservations much more explicitly in the Cabinet Room than any minister did in the Heath years . |
| 16 | The Picts are said to have fiercely resented their subjection to the Saxons and attacked Ecgfrith who defeated them with the help of his sub-king ( subregulus ) , Beornhaeth ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 19 ) , probably between the Avon and the Carron ( in Manau of the Gododdin ) . |
| 17 | The eminent female psychologists in O'Connell and Russo 's ( 1983 ) study who had married , had all delayed their career development in favour of that of their husbands . |
| 18 | XI ) between those countries that developed formally rational judicial systems under the influence of Roman and ecclesiastical law , in which the demand for predictability encouraged measures to control judicial discretion ; and countries such as England , in which a historically powerful cadre of lawyers successfully resisted such demands and jealously guarded their traditional independence . |
| 19 | The Soviet , Italian and German governments naturally justified their own infringement of non-intervention , to which they officially subscribed , by reference to the conduct of the other side . |
| 20 | The many islands off British shores , by the fact of being islands , naturally developed their own isolated types but very few survive today . |
| 21 | By that time they had all discarded their clothing . |
| 22 | There are also complaints in Japan , where foreign suppliers have long blamed their difficulty in penetrating the Japanese market on the closed ranks of the keiretsu . |
| 23 | And the Postman 's spectacle was covered in greenflies from the vigorous activity up the tree : " No , but I says to him " — " Really , all right " — " Well " — " and " — " Oh , you 've done it " — " Must go down to the " — " Taps , got to get some " went the song to the rhythm of empty beer bottles dropping into the side pocket receptacles of tree-holder number 29 on the dustmen 's route — and the tip-holding pockets for the dustmen were not full or anything cos the ladies had all forgotten their purses , and the paper , folding , crumpled , torn money had long since fluttered down from their knicker-elastic banks . |
| 24 | German agents were allowed to act freely in what the British had hitherto considered their own area of influence . |
| 25 | Suddenly the senior courtiers who had sniffily averted their eyes when the Princess approached were forced to treat her with more respect . |
| 26 | Nor , for the same reason , can he succeed upon his broader submission that the publicity now given to these documents has so eroded their privacy that the public interest in their future non-disclosure should be found to have evaporated . |
| 27 | Attempts to intimidate the Baltic republics have only stiffened their resolve . |
| 28 | Although the Communists had greatly modified their policy they failed to persuade the leadership of the Labour Party to make any concessions on the United Front or affiliation proposals . |
| 29 | ‘ Throughout , they have not only protested their innocence , but have co-operated with the investigating authority , confident that their names would be cleared . |
| 30 | Hitherto we 'd only seen their faces and spoken with our hands . |