Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both parties to the contract may have their own terms , and each may wish to contract on its own terms . |
| 2 | The Legal Aid Act 1974 provides that solicitor and counsel may receive their remuneration only from the fund . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ British Rail should train their staff as to what they 're supposed to do . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | From now on the people of Marinus must find their own answers . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ But people violent without excuse should forfeit their right to see a doctor . ’ |
| 10 | Applicants seeking credits for areas of study , for Sections of the certificate level areas C1 or C2 , or for elements from within an area of study at diploma level must submit their application to the HCIMA and should have received a favourable decision prior to enrolment on a programme or area of study . |
| 11 | The aim of the self-monitoring project is to provide the tool with which staff of the Humanities department may evaluate their own teaching performance and practice . |
| 12 | Even though the PTA or parents ' association may have their own management structure including a treasurer there needs to be inbuilt into the system a means of close financial supervision by the school . |
| 13 | Platelets are studied in an artificial environment and the very process of preparing the platelet sample for study may affect their behaviour . |
| 14 | For example , extreme or bizarre reactions to bereavement may have their roots in unconscious feelings belonging to earlier experiences of loss . |
| 15 | Whilst physical infirmity may make physical care of great significance to the old person and mental infirmity may limit their capacity to give and receive other kinds of care , the efforts we make to relate to the whole person are critical if we are to avoid the stigmatising and depersonalising processes which insult the integrity of the old person . |
| 16 | It should be thrown out and the electorate should make their views known at a general election so that the Government can come back with a better Bill at a later stage . ’ |
| 17 | The Opposition must withdrawn their policy , and do so today , or everyone will know what their policies mean for British Steel . |
| 18 | Applicants from charities registered with the Charity Commissioners or those approved for charitable status by the Inland Revenue should send their name and address on a postcard to : Ann Derby , Post Office Charity Stamp Appeal , Charities Aid Foundation , 48 Pembury Road , Tonbridge , Kent TN9 2JD . |
| 19 | Even in a legal system which had the narrowest of definitions of murder — say , premeditated intention to kill — there would still be an argument that some cases which fulfil that criterion should have their label reduced from murder to manslaughter because of extenuating circumstances . |
| 20 | Students enrolled on the programme should consult their student pack for additional information on this week 's work . |
| 21 | Llandovery College must regard their third consecutive triumph at the Midland Schools invitation tournament , at Walsall RFC , as the high spot of a successful start to the season . |
| 22 | It also describes the way the New OED Computer Group and the Computer Services Department must complete their sections of the forms to inform the lexicographers that the tasks set by the issuing of these forms have been completed . |
| 23 | According to one loyalist thirties thirty or so of his colleagues think it 's more fun to vote against the Government , a smaller number go further , they think a spell in opposition might enhance their own careers . |
| 24 | The issues about which respondents expressed concern included the use made of the results by , variously , the police authorities and the IRA , and the associated question of whether the field-worker was a spy for the authorities or the Republican paramilitaries ( on researchers as spies see Hunt 1984 : 288–9 ; Manning 1972 : 248 ) ; the obtrusiveness of the ethnographer 's ubiquitous notepad ; sensitivity to how the research might compromise their personal security or lead to a transfer , and worthies over the field-worker 's religion ; and the whole focus and topic of the investigation . |
| 25 | But it is likely to prove empty in the end , even if the workers are right in thinking that , at this stage , they have nothing to lose and that a threat to withdraw their labour might help their union representatives wring a few more concessions from those in whose hands the firm 's fate now rests . |
| 26 | He suggested the discussion of a draft constitution ‘ so that representatives of the opposing side could express their proposals ’ . |
| 27 | Mr Ashdown descended on the area yesterday for the third time in his marathon campaign amid growing recognition among Tories that the South-West could prove their Achilles ' heel , a danger underlined by the Press Association opinion poll which showed a swing against the Conservatives in the region of six per cent . |
| 28 | Some 65,000 cars a day are illegally parked and anyone unlucky enough to get caught in future could lose their driving licence for a time . |
| 29 | QPR are reluctant to let England squad member Bardsley leave but the right bid could force their hand . |
| 30 | I 'm even more disappointed in the conservatives , for not opposing it , I do n't object to their list of members being published , I do n't see that that would do any harm , as far as I 'm concerned , every employee could have their wages printed up on the wall . |