Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Distinguishing Rex v. Clarke , 22 Cr.App.R. 58 and Reg. v. Hall , 43 Cr.App.R. 29 , Shelley J.A. , delivering the judgment of the court , observed that the defence is entitled to see such a statement , not by virtue of any general rule of law , but by virtue of the prosecution 's duty to inform the defence of statements in their possession made by a witness whose evidence at the trial differs substantially from what has been said in the statements . |
| 2 | It will link the income of hospitals to their success in attracting patients . |
| 3 | Directors , although often members themselves , are answerable to the majority of shareholders for their actions . |
| 4 | Abisala pledged to retain the majority of ministers in their posts until legislative elections , scheduled for Oct. 25 . |
| 5 | Since most of the other states can settle the majority of claims in their national courts , this offers a distorted picture of Britain 's human rights record in comparison with them . |
| 6 | What is certain , however , is that currently English teachers are being urged by the majority of voices in their midst to concentrate upon encouragement of their pupils ' creativity . |
| 7 | Another study conducted in 1989 is starting to show the same phenomenon : the majority of patients with their first myocardial infarct do not have severe , diffuse coronary disease ; they may have a single lesion affecting only a single vessel . |
| 8 | We have looked at the attachment of motorists for their cars , the increasing use of heavy lorries , and the reasons why governments are reluctant to impose taxes which push up inflation and weaken an important manufacturing industry . |
| 9 | Although most local authorities take as their priority the provision of services to their electorate , an appreciable minority have elected members whose priorities are concerned largely with the advancement of an ideology , a situation to which the streets of some London boroughs , for example , provide mute witness . |
| 10 | However , particular emphasis will be placed on the more recent techniques designed to study the differentiation of cells in their normal environment in the intact embryo . |
| 11 | A whole range of means of assisting families of children ‘ in need ’ is spelled out in the legislation , giving some substance to the local authority 's duty to promote the upbringing of children by their families . |
| 12 | Social workers wanting to assess the progress of children in their care look closely at the child 's placement . |
| 13 | sole practitioners are expected to pay for the dishonesty of partners through their contributions to the Indemnity Fund ; |
| 14 | … The want of ideas of their real essences sends us from our own thoughts , to the things themselves . |
| 15 | Rangers had the excuse of injuries for their cockups but the scum were at full strength . |
| 16 | It will be important for marketers to assess the experience of customers with their particular products in case it possesses some unsatisfactory performance or operating characteristic to which customers will eventually build up resistance . |
| 17 | Draper says , ‘ the dice are loaded against the parents ’ ; Holman that the 1975 Act ‘ concentrates exclusively on facilitating the removal of children from their families and on reducing the rights of natural parents ’ . |
| 18 | And at one point , showing how the books were formed into the New Testament by the early Church , the report expressed the belief that God gave the early Church its three gifts of ordering of the New Testament , creeds like the apostles ' creed , and the ministry of bishops in their succession from the apostles . |
| 19 | The reason for their inclusion is that they are seen as influencing ( or being indicative of ) the responsibility of offenders for their actions . |
| 20 | The railway station seems to have symbolized the reliance of Europeans upon their servants throughout Asia and Africa . |
| 21 | The groups of children were soon swallowed up among the trees , and the sounds of the forest overlaid their fading voices and laughter , the soughing of the wind in the canopy of branches above their heads , the calls of the birds and the rustling and murmuring in the undergrowth . |
| 22 | Other forms of alternative dispute resolution , some of which arise out of Government initiatives , include the involvement of the Advisory , Conciliation and Arbitration Service in many industrial disputes , the work of the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Commission for Racial Equality in the settlement of disputes in their fields of interest , the role of ‘ ombudsmen ’ to deal with disputes in the banking and insurance worlds , as well as complaints against central and local administration and the National Health Service , the various alternative methods for resolving consumer disputes , and the use of arbitration to resolve commercial dispute in private . |
| 23 | The WWF is calling on governments to set up conservation programmes which take into account the needs of local people , and ensure that they can draw direct benefits from the presence of tigers in their area . |
| 24 | Those , and the presence of Myrcans in their midst . |
| 25 | Building societies began , in the eighteenth century , as friendly or mutual societies into which members made periodic payments to finance the building of houses in their immediate locality . |
| 26 | Boris Anrep , for instance , whom the Berkeleys used to encounter when they stayed with Maud Russell at Mottisfont , gave them the model he painted for the mosaics which were intended for the apse of Westminster Cathedral ( it stands on the chest of drawers in their bedroom ) and Hugh Honour and John Fleming gave them the marble hermaphrodite which reclines on the top of a bookcase in the study . |
| 27 | Section fifty four A makes your local plan structure plans extremely important governors on what happens on the ground and it 's for that underlying reason that we find E two unjustified and reasonably repressive and an unreasonable extension of constraint by the county on the freedom of districts in their local plans to choose the geography of their of land allocations . |
| 28 | 1989 saw a sustained effort by campaigners and some African governments to stop the slaughter of elephants for their tusks . |
| 29 | From evidence available this week , by which I mean the remarkable feats of sharp reflex and well-practised agility Peter Shilton performed against Poland in a crucial World Cup qualifying tie in Chorzow , England ought not to embark for Italy next summer without first packing trench tools and barbed wire , while giving some serious attention to the laying of mines in their penalty area . |
| 30 | Nor did they lack ethical principles — contrary to much biased misunderstanding on the part of Russians with their Christian European prejudices , especially in the field of sexual mores . |