Example sentences of "their [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With their absorption of the vicomté of Béarn through marriage and inheritance in 1290 , the counts of Foix became the single most powerful house in the south-west . |
| 2 | Applying Shirk 's concept of ‘ adaptive behaviour ’ ( Shirk 1982 : 5 ) , their enthusiasm for a number of major student ‘ tides ’ such as going abroad to study , doing business and having love affairs , can be viewed as strategies for escaping from the depressing reality of everyday life in contemporary China . |
| 3 | Many of us will remember their enthusiasm for the work of the Lord and the joy that they had in the fact that God should use them in such a way . |
| 4 | The difference between American and British approaches to obscenity law lies in the harms they seek to curtail and in their comprehension of the processes by which those harms are inflicted . |
| 5 | In these circumstances , whenever , we need independent opinion , we look for confirmation of our confidence in the credibility of the credibility of the people concerned : we then back their judgement on the likelihood of success , for they will be staking part of their careers and reputations on the outcome . |
| 6 | It seems all part of life 's colourful plan that deer-watchers , like every other group of people pursuing a common goal , secure their elitism by the use of jargon . |
| 7 | They took her in their arms and lifted her gently so that she could feel their support along the length of her body . |
| 8 | They objected because Nkrumah had set up a ‘ Ghana National College ’ for the education of students expelled because of their support during the banishment of the Big Six ; they objected to his launching of the Accra Evening News , an anti-colonial voice which achieved immediate popularity ; most of all they objected to his Committee on Youth Organisation , set up as a branch of the UGCC . |
| 9 | He also consulted protestant church leaders on the religious elements of the new constitution , a step unprecedented in catholic Ireland of his day , and gained their support on the basis of the recognition of their churches the constitution was to give . |
| 10 | Indeed , we might even be inclined to suggest that third parties that are buoyant in the opinion polls , and have a diffuse appeal beyond specific regions , are only able to sustain their support on the basis of an attractive ambiguity about their main policy objectives that precludes the presentation of crisp programmes and , therefore , the possibility of programmatic support . |
| 11 | Writers and actors have been pledging their support at the start of National Library Week . |
| 12 | The Confederation of British Industry and Trades Union Congress have both given their support to a reduction in the male pension age , as have the House of Lords Select Committee on Unemployment ( 1982 ) and the House of Commons Select Committee on Social Services ( 1982 ) . |
| 13 | White liberals , including the President 's wife , Eleanor , gave their support to the cause of the blacks , and in 1941 Roosevelt set up the Committee on Fair Employment Practices . |
| 14 | The best source of information was the Ministry of Internal Affairs , but the ministry 's leading figures were virtually unanimous in their support for a version of emancipation which provided peasants with land . |
| 15 | The heads of government pledged their support for the attempts of the Organization of American States ( OAS ) to find a solution to the crisis in Haiti [ see p. 38758 ] and condemned the attempted coup in Venezuela [ see pp. 38759-60 ] . |
| 16 | On Aug. 23 seven of the 12 political organizations which had initially supported Pascal-Trouillot 's appointment declared their support for the Council of State and demanded the postponement of the elections until such time as the safety of voters could be guaranteed . |
| 17 | The accord follows a threat by the Greens to withdraw their support for the Socialists in the regional assembly unless consideration for environmental factors was built into development strategies . |
| 18 | Men and ( especially ) women , pacifists and Communists , Liberal , Labour and ( some ) Tory activists , Co-operators and Christians trudged through the streets distributing and collecting Ballot forms and — despite the organizers ' pretentions to scientific objectivity — persuading people to declare their support for the League of Nations . |
| 19 | The NATO leaders stressed their support for the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) — which grouped east and west European countries , the USA and Canada — and urged that the CSCE 's role be enhanced and expanded . |
| 20 | The association , all of whose members are required to sign a statement pledging their support for the use of animals in research , is planning to raise the issue with the Medical Research Council . |
| 21 | Central Council records its thanks to the recipients of Honours and Presidential Certificates for their support of the work of the Association , and extends its congratulations on their awards . |
| 22 | The emperor Valentinian I enlisted their support against the Alamans in 369 . |
| 23 | They are nevertheless pleased not to see a greater erosion of their support after the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the virtual disappearance of Communist parties in the West . |
| 24 | In 1253–54 the French sent an embassy to the Great Khan in the Far East , hoping to convert the Monguls to Christianity and to enlist their support in a crusade against the Muslims . |
| 25 | City stockbrokers James Capel , sponsor of the NYA National Match Racing Championship since its inception two years ago have been forced to withdraw their support in the light of the current financial climate . |
| 26 | The names listed below have given their support in the period between press date and publication of the last issue , and their contributions are included in the sum mentioned above . |
| 27 | This might seem to show a strong awareness on their part of the workings of power : it is relative power that determines what is or is not socially valued . |
| 28 | While representatives of the leading clubs would prefer to move immediately to a Premier Division of ten , there is also an acknowledgement on their part of the need for compromise . |
| 29 | Well in the last 2 days Firmin and Antonio have been getting more and more hostile ( which is n't hard to do given how Charlie and Matt are currently feeling about one another ) and you could really sense the Indians getting involved , following it all from their part of the raft as if their lives depended on it — which in a way they did I suppose because we were arguing about whether they had the right to be baptised and have their souls saved or not . |
| 30 | Given the importance of the French holding their part of the line in Southeast Asia the threat of a settlement was itself sufficient to elicit renewed US support . |