Example sentences of "[prep] their [noun sg] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mixture of praise and criticism for general practitioners ' care of people in residential homes was similar to comments about their care of others during the last year of their lives . |
| 2 | Current drugs education materials targeted at 13-17 year olds are based on two premises : i ) that substance abuse needs to be approached in the context of the general use of legal drugs in society and ii ) that young people should be encouraged to make rational decisions about their use of drugs on the basis of criteria related to personal health , self-identity and relationships with others . |
| 3 | The children , via the network , are able to learn about one another and develop their understanding of global issues through their exchange of messages on the system . |
| 4 | Primary nurses act as ‘ leaders ’ for their caseload of patients by prescribing their care after ‘ negotiation ’ with each patient and discussion with the nursing team . |
| 5 | The major element of ‘ common funding ’ derives from an institution 's staff-student ratios which are based on slightly different norms for their provision of courses in art and design , laboratory-based subjects and non-laboratory subjects respectively . |
| 6 | The whole circular design is set within a square formed by the inner border of an arrangement of repeating geometric panels ( panels which , themselves , are significant not only for their suggestion of links with the continent ( section 4.4 ) and with other simple , geometric designs , but also for their inclusion of eight circular medallions , each of which is reminiscent of the three , minor concentric circular designs listed above ) . |
| 7 | IN the musical South Pacific , American GIs sung of their pursuit of women on the mythical , tropical island of Bali Hai . |
| 8 | But if it was so easy for me to see this evidence and to talk to those who had substantial proof of their ownership of homes in mandate Palestine , surely it would be no more difficult to go to Israel , find those same homes and — the idea had a special excitement about it — to knock on those same front doors . |
| 9 | Gilbert and Ward found that renters made up 36.4 per cent of their sample of inhabitants of spontaneous housing settlements in Bogota , 12.7 per cent of those in Mexico City and 4.5 per cent in Valencia ( Gilbert and Ward 1985 ) . |
| 10 | and she would I think be prepared to as she 's in charge of their sort of arrangements for where they dance , er it 's easier than ne negotiating with someone who who I 've only met once er very briefly . |
| 11 | [ That this House calls upon the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and the Minister of State for Overseas Development to grant Aid Trade Provision Cover and ECGD cover over three years from 1992 to enable Communication Supplies Ltd. to continue to export further System X telephone exchanges and ancillary equipment to Kenya , which they have done successfully for the past seven years ; and furthermore notes that the Kenyan Government considers this project as top of their list of priorities for trade with the United Kingdom , and the project will save and provide many thousands of jobs throughout the United Kingdom and will lead to repeat business for many years to come , and that if funding is not forthcoming the contract will be lost to the United Kingdom and awarded to either Japanese , French or Italian companies , all of whom have shown open interest . ] |
| 12 | In thinking about the terms " active " and " contemplative " in medieval devotional writing , however , it is important not to confuse their use to designate outward life-styles with their designation of modes of being which enable argument about the purposes of man 's existence . |
| 13 | Eventually , when the eggs are about to hatch , he hops down to the edge of the pool and dips his legs with their burden of eggs into the water . |
| 14 | This was found by the staff of the R.C.H.M. ( England ) in their survey of earthworks of the county for publication in a special volume which is now in the press . |
| 15 | The royal colleges and the Joint Committee on Higher Medical Training ( JCHMT ) are often accused of inflexibility in their interpretation of requirements for accreditation in the case of academics , whereas in fact such applications are treated sympathetically . |
| 16 | Samuels and colleagues seem to have been especially unfortunate in their experience of babies with prolonged expiratory apnoea ( blue breath holders ) . |
| 17 | With news of yet another triumphant performance in the Davis Cup by Andre Agassi , it is worth asking what the American Tennis Authorities are thinking of in their choice of players for the Barcelona Olympics . |
| 18 | In the same way men have enhanced their success as human beings rather than as mere primates by exercising discrimination in their choice of symbols of excellence . |
| 19 | But these latter in their occupation of positions in the academic field , as university teachers and as students , have provided a sort of bas-clergé for the new institutions and subjects , and have been important institutional mediators for the pervasion , previously of Marxism and now of postmodernism , in the intellectual field . |
| 20 | The mosaics from Cirencester ( the Congregational Church site and Locke 's Timber Yard ) , Gloucester , and Bath , although fragmentary , have a comparable simplicity of decoration : in their filling of medallions with simple guilloche ( or thin , dark lines ) , the filling of medallions with single motifs , and the use of complex but regular geometrical filling devices ( alternating with simple floral motifs ) . |
| 21 | We are joining B'ham West in their distribution of leaflets to newly delivered mums in Q.E . |
| 22 | They depart from the perspective of the constitutional authorities , however , in their advocacy of proposals for devolved and decentralised government , and for more open government . |
| 23 | They did not consider the introduction of a poll tax in their review of sources of local taxation . |
| 24 | Moed & Vriens found , in their study of inaccuracies in citations 146 , that the largest single cause of discrepancies was the method of dealing with compound names , such as van , van der , de , Mac , and hyphenated names ( some authorities cite under the first part , some under the second , some ignore the hyphen ) . |
| 25 | Moed & Vriens found , in their study of inaccuracies in citations , that the largest single cause of discrepancies was the method of dealing with compound names , such as van , van der , de , Mac , and hyphenated names ( some authorities cite under the first part , some under the second , some ignore the hyphen ) . |
| 26 | Hay & Maddock 93 , in their study of theses on human geography , found that the modal value was 0 , i.e. the largest number of thesis-derived papers were published in the actual year of thesis deposit . |
| 27 | Hay & Maddock , in their study of theses on human geography , found that the modal value was 0 , i.e. the largest number of thesis-derived papers were published in the actual year of thesis deposit . |
| 28 | Golding and Middleton ( 1982 ) analysed press reports in their study of attitudes to poverty , and Ferguson ( 1983 ) analysed thirty years ' worth of three women 's magazines as data for her research into what she calls the ‘ cult of femininity ’ . |
| 29 | In their study of patients with peptic ulcer , Schmitz and Renooij report the presence of cardiolipin in quantities comparable with the phosphatidylglycerol values we obtained in chronic atrophic gastritis . |
| 30 | For the above sub-heading I have deliberately copied from the title of a recent publication by Cecily O'Neill and Alan Lambert ( 1982 ) , for it is a manual offering guidance to teachers in their planning of projects for drama . |