Example sentences of "[subord] their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Playfair football and cricket titles sell a lot of copies through general wholesalers and cash'n'carry , where their customers will buy a counterpack . |
| 2 | ‘ Beating the bounds will remind local people just where their commons and greens are and discourage encroachments and other unlawful works , thus contributing to the safeguarding of these ancient pieces of land . ’ |
| 3 | Zen obediently rose and followed , wondering as a dog perhaps does at his stupidity in not understanding why they were going that way , where their enemies lay in wait . |
| 4 | In other words , why do some groups advancing certain interests enjoy access to centres of government policy where their case may be made peacefully and with apparently good chance of acceptance , while others advancing different interests find access to these forums extremely difficult , if not impossible ? |
| 5 | To suggest continuity between himself and the triumphant generals of the later Republic , Octavian reconstructed all the buildings in the area of the Porticus Metelli , where their booty had been displayed . |
| 6 | It is the aim of this study , in order to maximize this advantage , to focus on one area of financial regulation — the Chinese Wall — where law and economics do interface and where their intersection is one of clear economic dimensions . |
| 7 | Long ago the Vikings had a village where their ships ' crews rested and sheltered in the inlet of the River Hull . |
| 8 | The Nightriders choir , including Santa , helped 1,000 passengers pass the time at Stansted , Essex , as they waited to be taken by bus to Luton or Gatwick where their flights had been diverted . |
| 9 | The NI Tories are standing in several constituencies apart from North Down where their candidate is Dr Laurence Kennedy , the animating spirit of the party . |
| 10 | At about the same time an advance party from the RMP detachment of ten volunteer ‘ redcaps ’ leave for a short journey to Thorey Island , where their company has planned a military skills training weekend . |
| 11 | If MacCabe 's views on the value of a good row are right , then 1992 may offer some stranger cultural exchanges than expected : we may end up putting our mouths where their money is . |
| 12 | While Whitman established his mission among the Cayuse , the Spaldings ventured 120 miles east to Lapwai , ‘ Place of Butterflies ’ , on the Clearwater , where their mission grew slowly . |
| 13 | The Somerset commoners succeeded in fighting off most attempts at drainage where their contemporaries in the eastern counties had failed . |
| 14 | This evolution of human society could explain what mechanisms had produced the ideas , principles , and processes which governed capitalism , why these had come about , why they had strength , and , ultimately , where their weakness was . |
| 15 | Instead they were down the road taking part in the pilot for a new Channel 4 indie pop programme , where their contribution to the proceedings was a ‘ spirited ’ rendition of the RIGHT SAID FRED hit ‘ Do n't Talk Just Kiss ’ . |
| 16 | Most of them were accorded pseudonyms ( ‘ I will call her Sylvia ’ ) and given a few lines of narrative , where their function was little more than to illustrate our hero 's appetite and prowess . |
| 17 | However , direct coercive sanctions require continuous effort , and may in fact be a rather brittle form of social control , so we should not expect dominant groups in different societies to rely wholly and simply on such crude means of retaining their power and privilege , especially where their position has long been entrenched . |
| 18 | It was part of a wider agricultural system with sheep pastured on the rich meadow grass then walked to be folded on fallow arable areas overnight , where their dung helped to maintain fertility on the thin chalkland soils . |
| 19 | They put to sea in an attempt to escape the martyr 's wrath , and were shipwrecked , with 160 of their vessels sinking and another 65 being driven to distant and unknown regions , where their occupants were slaughtered . |
| 20 | It 's a compromise between the straight-ahead disco that guarantees a toehold in the charts — the retread of Never Can Say Goodbye is a rather cheap cash-in on the success of Do n't Leave Me This Way — and the more varied explorations where their hearts probably lie . |
| 21 | And then all conscious thought was obliterated as an urgent , tingling excitement contracted through her body , and she was soaring free with him into realms of exquisite delight , where their hearts and souls became one . |
| 22 | It is widely agreed that such psychoactive plants or preparations from them were much used in religious ceremonies , where their effects were taken as evidence for religious reality ; visions of Paradise which could be reached only by the faithful . |
| 23 | On the other hand , parents who show no sign of caring where their youngsters are , or what they are doing , not only leave them free to get into all kinds of trouble but make it harder for them to take responsibility by depriving them too soon of parental care . |
| 24 | As they listened in class to the dialogues which the children were constructing for themselves they were able to see quite clearly where their preparation had been deficient and where their teaching of new material had not been thorough enough . |
| 25 | 8.38 to 8.40 ) , that , should ( as the Act has done by the previous section ) the currency of a licence be extended to three years , it was desirable that a licensing board should have some form of sanction against the licence-holder where the premises were being misconducted , or where their suitability had deteriorated , and that such a sanction should be the power to suspend a licence . |
| 26 | With Coventry having scored only nine goals since Mr Howe took charge it is obvious where their problem lies and it is hard to see how they can solve it . |
| 27 | If such rights were introduced , this would allow artists legitimately to charge a royalty either on public exhibition or where their work is displayed on a visual display unit . |
| 28 | There were two groups in East Africa who had a direct interest in discrediting Masai administration and suggesting that officials were ‘ soft ’ on the Masai : these were , most importantly , the white settlers who wanted Masai land for farming , and enthusiasts for wildlife conservation who wanted the Masai driven out of areas where their interests were believed to conflict with those of game . |
| 29 | The practical corollary of this , tirelessly expounded in the Round Table in the post-war years , was that the safest place for brown races , for now and the foreseeable future , was within the British empire , where their interests could be looked after and their development , at an appropriately gradual pace , ensured . |
| 30 | Where their interests overlapped with the Maud Committee they reached similar conclusions , and we may concentrate on the latter as dealing in greater detail with the concerns of this chapter . |