Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [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 No statute in terms prohibits offenders from telling their story or expressing their feelings .
3 People would yell or shout out , put excreta through the door hatch or throw their dinner out .
4 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
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 the there are choice , either submission or going their own way , the pride of the world
8 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 .
9 Professional development teachers rarely seemed to have been offered an induction programme or had their work regularly reviewed .
10 ‘ 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 We will need to discover who is really being stopped from going ahead with legal action , or whether people are making choices between legal action or re-mortgaging their house , a holiday , a car or otherwise freeing money which is tied up . ’
16 Firms could choose to operate under the new statute or retain their existing national corporate existence .
17 The study discards current Window 3.1 users in the intermediate term because it neither improves their speed nor enriches their functionality .
18 The workers who were fiddling at this particular factory were able to keep their self-image and conduct their working lives as good citizens ; like most unconvicted white-collar criminals they were not stigmatised .
19 But they raised the question of authority only in the most ambiguous terms : ‘ we have yet made no mention of change in authority nor has it even entered our hearts , but seeing that France and the Queen Regent here , her priests , etc. , intend nothing but suppressing Christ 's evangel … we are fully purposed to seek the next remedy and withstand their tyranny ’ .
20 They need to learn new ways of thinking and handling their emotions , because it is the wrong handling of emotion that causes the bulk of so-called stress in today 's society .
21 Political chaos was having the effect of making Elisabeth and Daniel take stock and order their time on the island particularly efficiently .
22 The van was impounded and SL2 had to hire a car on their Visa card and make their own way to the rave — which had been cancelled !
23 INSURANCE giant Sun Alliance and US group Chubb have completed a reciprocal deal and cut their stakes in each other .
24 Their purpose is to convey the peoples ' mode of perception and suggest their interpretation of phenomena .
25 He has spoken up for them when their homes have been threatened with closure and voiced their opinions on Radio Cleveland .
26 They 'd always taught her that the only truly good things were those of permanent value ; her first school had been a church school , and twice a week they 'd had to set their chairs in a raggedy half-circle and fidget their way through one of the vicar 's haranguing lectures on Life .
27 These qualities spring forth in every area of the movie and find their most brilliant focus in De Niro 's performance .
28 Frequently , they expressed a sympathy for guerrilla activities and direct action , without recognizing that successful guerrilla movements were either controlled by an organized and disciplined party ( as in China ) or turned themselves into a traditional type of party ( as in Cuba ) when it became necessary to consolidate their rule and implement their policies .
29 Many feel reluctant to take a back seat and allow their children to enjoy the special attractiveness of the teens and twenties .
30 The best advice anyone can give is for people to get their hands on a copy of the official festival programme and to plan their own agenda .
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