Example sentences of "and their [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Piecemeal , we are beginning to build up a number of different techniques of analysis which will provide an answer to our initial problem : what is it that gives stretches of language in use their meaning and their unity ?
2 In evidence presented to the commission in the first few months , details were given of irregularities in the handling and documentation in Antigua of the shipment of arms from Israel and their discovery in Colombia .
3 Such " regular casuals " can remain " regular casuals " only if they are prepared to accept the schedules set for them and to take their free days when there are no events and their holidays during the off-season .
4 Later he thought that his early affection for Fly cathedral had something to do with his interest in churches and their architecture .
5 Not that Segesta was itself a Greek community : the Segestans were Elymiots , that is , natives , of some kind not yet understood , although the scribblings from their vases are in Greek letters , Kokalos , 1967 , pp. 233ff. and their architecture was Greek .
6 ( 4 ) In the case of new/modified products ( e.g. : high fibre muesli loaves ) , locate and identify types of innovative buyers and opinion leaders , and their shopping patterns .
7 Most people have vivid memories of their first day at school and their childhood home .
8 AD 675 , a shortage of gold forced a change to silver coins ( sceattas ) and their frequency in Kent points to both Kentish supremacy in exchange and , perhaps , the direction in which commerce was moving when the change was necessary .
9 The complete listing of linknames and their frequency is shown here
10 Dicentric chromosomal lesions with accompanying dissimilar chromosomal fragments result in cell death in mitosis , and their frequency therefore gives a measure of intermitotic time .
11 In considering which approach is to be used in the design-based process , it is necessary to take into account which structure is best suited to the storage , modification and retrieval operations to be evaluated and their frequency of use .
12 Nonetheless , both types of abortion are pregnancy wastage , and their frequency in these data is further confirmation of the need for measures to enable young , zero-parity women and older ones with many children to avoid undesirable pregnancy outcomes , among other unwanted effects , and they should be targets for assistance in postponing or terminating childbearing , as appropriate .
13 The problem is that without measuring the heights , and their frequency , of all adult males we will not know what a representative sample would be .
14 The presence of six or more of these factors showed the strongest relationship with sociopathy , and their frequency and seriousness also increased the relationship .
15 Each such frequency is termed a longitudinal mode frequency of the cavity , and their frequency separation c/ is termed the free spectral range .
16 Because some people are making large profits , and raising the total of profits by so doing , it is proposed to come down on the ‘ innocent ’ businesses , whose profits may actually have gone down , who have been being ‘ responsible ’ and not increasing their prices ; and their taxes will be put up — all because of the other bounders , who meanwhile are laughing their heads off .
17 In a 1975 survey on library lectures and their evaluation , Hernon found that about two-thirds of the responding libraries were not evaluating their library lecture programmes .
18 These explanations are influenced by the sociologist 's theoretical perspective and their evaluation of the services provided by professionals .
19 Attention will be oriented to the imagery and assumptions about reproductive physiology on which methods of contraception and their evaluation are based .
20 It may also have the effect of precluding those members who can not find the time to attend a few workshops and may therefore strengthen management committees and their bureaux in the long run .
21 And their hate breeds death .
22 But the mainstream discipline still treats women subjects cursorily , concentrating on traditionally woman-identified issues like the family , ignoring many areas of women 's lives , like their experiences at work and their friendships , and underestimating the importance of differences between women .
23 The differences between them and their mainland cousins were only small , but if such changes had taken place , was it not possible that over many millions of years , the cumulative effects on a dynasty of animals could be so great that they could bring about major transformations ?
24 Turning to what has been termed the analytical approach to materials in which the reasons for the macroscopically observed behaviour are sought in molecular configurations and other aspects of microstructure , there has been a recent acceleration of research into polymer chain configurations and their modification by stress and deformation .
25 On the first day , five tons of cable were towed forward on sledges by tanks , together with 120 poles , numerous telephones and their exchanges .
26 Then their freedom is curtailed , their choices limited and their frustrations increased .
27 This use of attire , stands by the very ordinance of God ; who , as he hath not sorted all men to all places , so he will have men to fitte themselves and their attire , to the qualitie of their proper places , to put a difference betweene themselves and others …
28 A comparable process is also found among Scolytid beetles in which , after moving to a new tree , the insects ( of both sexes ) do not fly and their flight-muscles are reduced to functionless ribbons .
29 It explores the inter-relationships between official policy and professional practice and their adaptation to each other .
30 Men tried their wits , and their wit , against the set and its perhaps unvarying message .
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