Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | These accounts may therefore imply that , as language strengthens its hold on consciousness and , through writing , on the explicit world of knowledge , objects may retain their place in the ordering of the unconscious world . |
| 2 | Employers may employ their own valuers to determine house prices in different areas to assess payments under an excess mortgage allowance scheme . |
| 3 | Both parties to the contract may have their own terms , and each may wish to contract on its own terms . |
| 4 | Most homeless persons and families have the common feature of poverty although a variety of personal and other reasons may underlie their homelessness . |
| 5 | But she was still slightly surprised when she found Father Barnes showing round groups of visitors , experts interested in Victorian architecture , who enthused over the baldachin , admired the Pre-Raphaelite paintings on the eight panels of the pulpit , or set up their tripods to photograph the apse , and who compared it , in confident , un-ecclesiastical tones ( surely even experts ought to lower their voices in church ) with the Cathedral of Torcello near Venice or with Blomfield 's similar basilica at Jericho in Oxford . |
| 6 | The Legal Aid Act 1974 provides that solicitor and counsel may receive their remuneration only from the fund . |
| 7 | For instance , IVF pioneer Robert Edwards spoke to the Eugenics Society of London ( yes , they still exist ) in 1982 about how the new technologies may serve their social aims . |
| 8 | Activator and quencher ions may produce their effects at extremely low concentrations , below the detection limits of the electron microprobe . |
| 9 | Here there is usually a ramp or board up which cyclists may push their bicycle . |
| 10 | Here there is usually a ramp or board up which cyclists may push their bicycle . |
| 11 | While , theoretically , local authorities may spend their own incomes in ways they themselves choose , the government , in calculating local government grants , increasingly indicates how it expects the authorities to allocate funds between priorities . |
| 12 | The true nature and worth of such pursuits may elude their contemporaries , since history tends to impose a time-lag on the degree to which the public can keep in touch with the sensibilities of the artist . |
| 13 | Solicitors may produce their own forms provided that the content and format is the same . |
| 14 | Solicitors may produce their own contract on word processors and are permitted to reproduce the standard contract incorporating the standard conditions of sale by reference . |
| 15 | These constituencies are broader and more diffuse than mere pressure groups , though such groups may comprise their most visible and vocal components . |
| 16 | The propensity children have for imposing meaning distinctions of their own in their adherence to Contrast may delay their discovery of the absence of a difference between an adult form and a child innovation . |
| 17 | Since almost all the basic sports medicine provision within governing bodies of sport is provided by doctors who are either paid nothing or who are given a small honorarium , the prospect of maintaining separate medical defence cover for their voluntary activities may place their valuable contribution to sport in jeopardy . |
| 18 | A rights issue in which the existing shareholders may exercise their pre-emptive rights to subscribe to the new shares in proportion to those already held . |
| 19 | The Lions must get their act together on Wednesday in New Plymouth when they play Taranaki . |
| 20 | In particular , the Panel is concerned that it should be made clear in the offer document , acceptance form and subsequent documents whether shareholders must lodge their certificates by the closing date of the cash underwritten alternative in addition to their completed acceptance forms in order to receive cash ( see para 11.3.16 below ) . |
| 21 | The MCC should have their review finalised for the ICC meeting in January . |
| 22 | Compact employers should encourage their employees who belong to unions to work in schools , and should allow them paid time to do so . |
| 23 | If the overcrowding which Howard so decried is not to become worse , let alone be diminished , either courts must change their sentencing practices or more prisons must be built ( Howard 1792 : 170 , 221 , 224–5 ) . |
| 24 | ‘ British Rail should train their staff as to what they 're supposed to do . |
| 25 | Counsel for the applicant advised that the examination be limited to the issue of the applicant 's fitness to plead and that the defence should instruct their own forensic psychiatrist to report on other possible defences . |
| 26 | After interviews have been conducted , interviewers must check their schedules for errors of recording , omissions , or any other faults , and good supervision will again ensure that this is done . |
| 27 | From now on the people of Marinus must find their own answers . |
| 28 | Their family reputation may be thought to be at stake ; the parents may fear lest care of the grandchild should become their responsibility ; the prospect of the girl 's becoming a " bad girl " may weigh heavily ; punishment — of the girl , the man concerned or both -may be a primary demand . |
| 29 | For the monastic reformers Odilo of Cluny and Richard of St Vanne were renowned for their consolidation of monastic demesnes , their determination to ensure that what had once been granted to their houses should remain their inalienable property . |
| 30 | Other posts could be ‘ teleworked ’ and anyone interested in the possibility of working from home by computer link should contact their departmental personnel officer to discuss the matter . |