Example sentences of "theirs to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past year the bank has managed to raise its provisions from 30% to 50% of its loans to poor countries while rivals have hiked theirs to the 70% level . |
| 2 | Quiksilver responded by hoisting theirs to $55,000 . |
| 3 | Germans want their children to become scientists or engineers ; the French want theirs to be teachers ; the British , lawyers ; the Italians , clerks . |
| 4 | Her own childhood had been lived on the margins : she had wanted theirs to be calm , to be spared the indignities of fighting unnecessary territorial and social wars . |
| 5 | Indeed , some of the British contributions to the study of this topic assert theirs to be a distinctive academic subject , ‘ social administration ’ , which has this concern as its hallmark . |
| 6 | ‘ When we come to power , my dear Schiller , ’ Frick had concluded , ‘ we shall return what is rightfully theirs to those who have supported us . |
| 7 | But my aunty and uncle gave my cousins fifteen pounds each and have theirs to themselves . |