Example sentences of "[noun pl] that their " in BNC.
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| 1 | The creation of a captive insurance company may enable the group to save on premiums and to cover risks that their normal insurers do not ( eg excess claims ) . |
| 2 | Revolutions toppled first the Chinese emperor in 1911 , then the tsar of Russia in 1917 ; the Great War of 1914–1918 also weakened the European powers drastically and at the same time showed the colonized peoples that their seemingly invincible white masters were capable of enormous self-destructive folly . |
| 3 | Apes may well have produced new two-sign combinations that their trainers have been inclined to interpret as appropriately invented for some feature in the context . |
| 4 | Rather , as was pointed out in Makanjuola v. Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis , it is intended to reassure informants that their statements will only be used for the investigation of complaints and for such criminal or disciplinary proceedings as directly follow . |
| 5 | If both deposits and loans are non-indexed , the losses that the banks make on their loans are compensated by the losses that their depositors make on their deposits . |
| 6 | Quitting the ERM permanently will have one important psychological effect : it will remind Britain 's traders that their destiny is to sell where their market is strongest . |
| 7 | Yesterday , it emerged that members of his union and the National Union of Civil and Public Servants who work in the government 's Business Statistics Office in Newport , Gwent , expressed worries that their work could be ‘ prostituted ’ and ‘ manipulated ’ by politicians after the CSO was moved from the control of the Cabinet Office to the Treasury . |
| 8 | The meeting was chaired by Betty Sinclair , who reminded the supporters that their objective was to demonstrate for civil rights , for jobs and for houses : ‘ We are asking you to listen to the speakers , and what we have done today will go down in history and in this way we will be more effective in showing the world that we are a peaceful people asking for our civil rights in an orderly manner . ' |
| 9 | I have to say to the IRA and its supporters that their actions only strengthen the determination of all democrats in Britain and Ireland to reject them . |
| 10 | He was quoted in West Africa on Aug. 16 as warning newly formed political parties that their activities were still illegal . |
| 11 | They get it into their heads that their fund-raising dinner for Hypothermic Pensioners In High Rise Blocks In Portsmouth will fall apart at the seams if Dillie Keane is n't there . |
| 12 | Ultimately , if a journal editor is to be a gatekeeper of scientific knowledge , procedures must be in place to assure both readers and authors that their work is to be taken seriously . |
| 13 | And because all this money was not needed for war , it was available , and extensively used , to show its subjects that their monarchy lived in style and elegance . |
| 14 | This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English , which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses , the baize of gambling-tables , which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness , for the middle class ; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life . |
| 15 | Tonight as the family of Mark Windram come to terms with his death police officers have again warned those who steal cars that their actions all too often end in tragedy . |
| 16 | Already there are suggestions from Australia that the Raiders ' post-Grand Final party lasted all the way to Manchester , in other words that their preparation for the game was not as dedicated as it might have been . |
| 17 | The need for a centralized reference laboratory stemmed from the difficulty in persuading venereal-disease pathologists that their own test methods might need revising . |
| 18 | I want to reassure Esquire readers that their penises are safe . ’ |
| 19 | The elevation of Clark and Mazankowski — both of whom were from Alberta — was seen as an attempt by Mulroney to reassure the country 's western provinces that their interests would not be sacrificed to the demands of Quebec . |
| 20 | Parents ' evenings/interviews have become such a strong tradition in primary schools that their purpose , content and structure are rarely challenged . |
| 21 | Thinking they were doing the right thing , some schools set out to understand and respond to the particular problems faced by children of West Indian origin — only to discover that their parents , dissatisfied with ‘ low expectations ’ and ‘ lack of discipline ’ , were setting up their own alternative , strict , traditional schools that their children were being sent to on Saturdays . |
| 22 | Partly that is because the people in power are primarily interested in the high-quality urban schools that their own children attend — and the best schools in Delhi or Nairobi are now the equal of any in the West . |
| 23 | What Labour Members say makes it sound as though they do not want parents to know what the schools that their children are attending are like . |
| 24 | But whereas suppliers of logic devices under defence contracts , such as Ferranti , are accustomed to meet demands that their equipment withstand paralysing fields of 40 to 100 volts/metre , many makers of standard industrial hardware are ill-equipped to cope with the hazards of far weaker fields . |
| 25 | All of these explanations are predominantly psychologistic in their understandings ( or misunderstandings ) of both teacher thinking and teaching quality ; and they are particular kinds of psychologistic explanation that take very little account of how teachers themselves understand , interpret and deal with the demands that their work situation makes upon them . |
| 26 | In addition , the South had never achieved sufficient standing in these institutions that their numbers or importance deserved . |
| 27 | Inevitably , there is concern among the institutions that their representatives have been excluded from the upper tier and are in a small minority in the lower tier . |
| 28 | Yet such is the burden of bad debts that their final results for the fiscal year to March , which have just been announced , are dismal . |
| 29 | Daedalus reasons that their nerve-endings must contain some heavy metal that absorbs X-rays by this sort of mechanism ; the captured energy then fires the nerve . |
| 30 | We have , of course , stressed to our friends in the Baltic states that their membership of the CSCE — Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe — process and their aspirations to join the Council of Europe will naturally depend to a great extent upon their ability to meet international standards in such matters . |