Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Buildings may remain structurally intact but tilt like rows of old tombstones as their foundations lose their grip . |
| 2 | The original suspended wooden ground floor was entirely removed after penetration of this structure for the installation of the new cross-walls and their foundations showed that some residual sections were badly affected by woodworm . |
| 3 | He was born into cricket ; his grandfather started manufacturing bats and cricket equipment in the 1890s , his father carried on , and Stuart and his brother Percy eventually took over and built on their foundations to make it internationally successful . |
| 4 | Paintings which he in spected personally have their titles printed in bold capitals , distinguishing them from those known primarily through books and hearsay , whose titles ap pear in lower-case . |
| 5 | Their titles invoke the Situationists ' rhetorical use of long and rhapsodic titles . |
| 6 | Several programmes , as their titles suggest , present aspects of life in Britain : At Home In Britain and Britain Now , for example . |
| 7 | Their titles tended to be variants on phrases such as ‘ the onward march ’ . |
| 8 | Publishers interested in having their titles included in the catalogue should contact Planning and Environmental Books , , ( ) . |
| 9 | They touch our country and their shackles fall ! |
| 10 | The diamond ring presented by two out of three Anglo-Saxon swains to their fiancées declares the enduring nature of their mutual love , just as the fact that the ring bestowed at their wedding , traditionally made of untarnishable gold , marks the entry into a permanent relationship . |
| 11 | The lowly ‘ polis ’ , with little or no power in the system , deplores this situation and complains of its escalation , while the detectives moan about the incompetence of the uniform ‘ wollies ’ who never get close enough to their prisoners to extract their own ‘ coughs ’ or admissions and who fail to understand that the system largely depends on the ability of the department to manipulate a statistical norm in detected crimes . |
| 12 | These disconcerting robots slid on magnetized feet along the corridor , carrying their prisoners suspended weightlessly . |
| 13 | Their peaks seemed to float above the ground . |
| 14 | They and their values had also forfeited the right to exist . |
| 15 | In no sense was this upper class anti-capitalist ; but their values related to forms of profit far removed from the dirty details of production . |
| 16 | So why were so many firms — and bits of firms — bought and sold in the 1980s , and why did their values vary so much ? |
| 17 | The National Children 's Bureau 's parent education and support project identified a number of trends affecting parents in the 1980s ; for example , the pressure on parents as a result of our increasing knowledge of child development and society 's high expectations of the parental role ; the tendency for professionals to undermine parents ' self-confidence with their expertise ; the isolation felt by many parents with young children ; the need for information and knowledge , for social and practice skills , and for self-awareness and understanding of how their values affect the way in which they bring up their children ( Pugh and De'Ath , 1984 ) . |
| 18 | Cyclic nucleotides were extracted from homogenates by boiling and sonicating , as previously described , and their values measured by radioassay ( cyclic AMP assay kit , code TRK 432 ; cyclic GMP RIA kit , code TRK 500 , Amersham , Buckinghamshire ) in freeze dried 3500 g supernatants ( 20 minutes at 4°C ) , reconstituted in water . |
| 19 | As the views of parents as consumers become increasingly important so the need for sensitivity towards their views becomes sharper . |
| 20 | Parents who can not attend or have been excluded should be given an opportunity to have their views represented . |
| 21 | There was no mention of the rights of people to combine collectively to have their views represented , no where in that , it was all me me me . |
| 22 | I hope as many older people as possible will come along and make their views heard . ’ |
| 23 | Pluralism is a development of democratic theory and recognises that often individuals can best get their views heard by combining in groups to give them a stronger voice . |
| 24 | Similarly , if parents are able to have their views upheld ( as might occur on an appeal against a decision not to reinstate a permanently excluded pupil ) , ‘ it may not be clear whether it is primarily the child 's right or the parents ' rights over upbringing which is being upheld ’ . |
| 25 | Where there is limited choice or competition , as in many public services , individual citizens can not as easily make their voices heard or their views count . |
| 26 | Most foreign nationals in Japan continued vociferously to oppose any change in their advantageous position , but their views had less and less weight with government representatives both on the spot and at home . |
| 27 | They want to be consulted and their views listened to in meetings even if the decision does n't go their way . |
| 28 | Sister Marcus first had to talk to the S.M.O. and S.S.O. , as inevitably their views mattered . |
| 29 | Their views reflect a lack of enthusiasm among the British people at large for John Major 's idea of European unity . |
| 30 | Other party leaders , such as the former Communist Herbert Wehner , agreed change was needed , and in November 1959 their views triumphed in the Bad Godesberg programme , drawn up at a special party meeting . |