Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] their [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social workers can manipulate their ‘ system ’ in favour of some clients because their agency grants them licence to deploy such commitments . |
| 2 | The two-tier structure under which forensic work would only be done by specialists , as envisaged in your editorial , may or may not become a reality , but it will not lessen the need for all doctors to be trained in the elements of medicolegal matters if their work brings them into contact with those in police custody . |
| 3 | But the men stayed locked up for two hours until their boss agreed they would repair the faulty central heating immediately — on overtime . |
| 4 | When object-oriented database systems become more widely available , there may be a number of application domains where their advantages make them a good choice . |
| 5 | This legitimation function is also its limitation in as much as it is tied to the prevailing ideology of the family which will inhibit the articulation of problems as structural , societal deficits : children and young people will become problems because their parents failed them . |
| 6 | The smaller leaves on the roses can also be pressed , of course , but you will have to discard the stalks as their thickness prevents them being pressed successfully . |
| 7 | Such cases may have been exceptional , but a great many servants seem to have passed their lives in households where their employers knew them by their functions , not their names . |
| 8 | Cliff , the concrete contractor , and Tessa , the schoolteacher , were flipped off the paddle boat in a suck hole and held underwater by the boiling currents for a few seconds before their life-jackets brought them spluttering to the surface . |
| 9 | Shortly after reading that I was fascinated to come across Hugh Seton-Watson 's account , in a book written 44 years ago , of how in Eastern Europe between the wars the word ‘ Communist ’ had become popular with the poor subjects of largely dictatorial regimes because their rulers used it as a term of abuse against ‘ ordinary men and women who have asked for reforms , protested against bureaucratic abuse , or resisted the gendarmerie in the execution of some wanton brutality . ’ |