Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | The basic problem with these killed virus flu vaccines is that they do not provide either complete protection or retain their effectiveness for very long . |
| 2 | Ultimately , loans were granted to customers by means of issuing notes or crediting their accounts with deposits ( loans ) in excess of the gold stock held by the goldsmith . |
| 3 | People have to choose whether to pay back their debts or feed their children . |
| 4 | For instance , women may be forced to leave their job for domestic reasons or to follow their partner to a new job . |
| 5 | No statute in terms prohibits offenders from telling their story or expressing their feelings . |
| 6 | In particular , grazing molluscs leave characteristic erosions from a leaf edge ; birds , particularly the wood-pigeon , feed on clover and often leave characteristic beak-marks ; weevils remove circles of tissue , often leaving the upper epidermis intact ; sheep ( causing damage probably indistinguishable from that caused by rabbits ) remove whole leaves , leaving torn petioles or leave their bite marks on the leaflets that remain . |
| 7 | There are those whose keenest pleasures in their job are to be found outside the class-room , in informal contacts with their pupils , where they may be able to exercise their own skills or pursue their own hobbies while helping others enjoy the same pleasures . |
| 8 | People would yell or shout out , put excreta through the door hatch or throw their dinner out . |
| 9 | Fewer people grow their own vegetables or make their own soup . |
| 10 | reserve the seller 's title to the goods themselves ( i.e. until either the buyer has paid or else the goods are sold by the buyer or lose their identity in the buyer 's manufacturing or other process ) , and |
| 11 | When music historians coin or appropriate their own terms ( e.g. Ars Nova ) , they themselves can define the stylistic and chronological boundaries and guarantee that the two are congruent . |
| 12 | International appeals can help to secure the release of these prisoners or to improve their detention conditions . |
| 13 | International appeals can help to secure the release of these prisoners or to improve their detention conditions . |
| 14 | Mhairi McMillan , a counsellor at St Andrews University , said : ‘ There may be a sense of glamour attached to a tutor or a lecturer for somebody who 's maybe just come up to university or working their way through . |
| 15 | difficulties in the learning of simple actions , such as learning to brush their teeth or tie their shoes because of a difficulty in imitating . |
| 16 | The models behind the sun-baked cellophane smiled with shining teeth or pushed out kissing pouts or let their dewy bottom lip drop ; they arched and twisted and perched , strategic stickers interrupted the full view of their parts , spotted animal skins here and there hinted at biting beasts on the loose . |
| 17 | Education and housing departments , water and electricity boards have often failed to follow policy guidelines or to co-ordinate their work . |
| 18 | In an undisturbed home , all domestic cats see themselves as subordinates of their human owners , so under normal circumstances all domestic cats use litter trays or bury their faeces in the garden . |
| 19 | the there are choice , either submission or going their own way , the pride of the world |
| 20 | Women have preferred to act as collaborators , as messengers or guards or offering their houses as meeting places , all of which subject then " to considerable risk . |
| 21 | Cuckoo nestlings do n't live inside robins or reed-warblers ; they do n't suck their blood or devour their tissues , yet we have no hesitation in labelling them as parasites . |
| 22 | Professional development teachers rarely seemed to have been offered an induction programme or had their work regularly reviewed . |
| 23 | ‘ Are you sure ? ’ they ask without fail , regardless of whether you are offering help or an invitation to lunch , giving them a cup of tea or paying their bus fare . |
| 24 | Hypertension is but one among many diseases , and progress has been made similarly in developing new drugs for regulating or adapting other parts of the body : drugs to strengthen the heart , to promote formation of blood , to help blood to clot or to prevent blood from clotting , to aid respiration , to increase the flow of urine , or selectively to increase or to diminish the amount of some selected component , to prevent conception or to promote fertility , drugs to stimulate the production of hormones or to block their actions , drugs to influence some particular aspect of the metabolism , and so on . |
| 25 | In the same way , the old horsemen believed that the milt and the frog 's or toad 's bone contributed almost wholly to their skill in drawing or jading their horses . |
| 26 | They will wince at the idea of paying for their children 's school books or having their gallstones removed , but think nothing of spending half a year 's income on a car . |
| 27 | As the entrance requirements for universities , colleges and the professions have become more demanding in recent years , so increasing numbers have stayed on for a Sixth Year to study for Certificate of Sixth Year Studies examinations , to take ‘ crash ’ courses or modules in new subjects or to upgrade their existing results . |
| 28 | It should be borne in mind that many labour-only sub-contractors lack administrative and management ability and therefore find themselves in financial difficulties when employing labour or expanding their gang size . |
| 29 | For example , if it is costly for firms to hire more labour or adjust their capital stock it will be optimal for them to spread out over time their response to any relative price signals they receive . |
| 30 | Another pointer in favour of Wimbledon and West Ham was that the clubs had already taken action or announced their intention to take action against certain players involved in the incident . |