Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | All power , all profits , all our sources of livelihood are in their hands — but the one thing they leave behind will destroy them — the hatred of a million coolies ! |
| 2 | From the parallel position to impact and through , the legs , hips and right side are at their strongest in the golf swing . |
| 3 | Shiloh was some twenty miles from the camp , but the storyteller does not dwell on the sight of the Israelites ( and the Philistines , too ! ) twiddling their thumbs while the runner and then the ark are on their way . |
| 4 | Mr Arias , the Christian Democrat leader , said yesterday : ‘ Noriega and the defence force are at their weakest moment . |
| 5 | PETER HORBURY takes the telephone receiver and the operator tells him the police and ambulance are on their way . |
| 6 | If his materials and workmanship were of their normal high standard , he is entitled to some explanation for this unexpected outcome . |
| 7 | For Franco knew that if the pro-Allied military men had been unable to secure active Allied support for an anti-Francoist coup when negotiations with the Axis for Spanish entry were at their height , their chances of success dwindled even further after June , when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union and the focus of the war moved away from Europe 's southern flank . |
| 8 | His body and his mind were about their different businesses . |
| 9 | … the staff of the College have realized that the future and reputation of the institution were in their hands and they have undergone the transmutation which occurs when full academic responsibility is placed upon professionally competent individuals . |
| 10 | If the big parties do not like it the remedy is in their own hands : all they have to do is to steal that third party 's votes . |
| 11 | BLACK WEDNESDAY and your future is in their hands |
| 12 | This is because they try to get up before their body weight is over their feet . |
| 13 | But if 60 per cent of Conservative members really believe that standards may suffer , the remedy 's in their hands : they must use their corporate power to change the Bill for the better . |
| 14 | LAURA WITH HER FIRST CHILD , JANE , BORN IN 1953 , OUTSIDE THE FRONT ENTRANCE 'S TO THEIR FLAT IN ST GEORGE 'S SQUARE , GATHERING ENERGY BEFORE MOUNTING THE NINETY-NINE STEPS TO THE TOP . |
| 15 | But it would spoil the illusion if all the merrymakers were to think that their spending bonanza was for their own satisfaction . |
| 16 | ‘ I believe we suffered the downturn because of the way in which we kept our clients up to date , insofar as when the recession hit , our clients did n't need to come to us because the Revenue was on their backs . |
| 17 | Only half her mind was on their conversation ; the other half was reacting wildly to his touch . |
| 18 | Instead all their talk was of their nephews : the sons of Teodor 's brother . |
| 19 | One of the biggest differences between the best and worst firms in the industry was in their attitude to the future . |
| 20 | The wind was in their faces all day . |
| 21 | The wind was in their hair and they were determined to win , ever known a successful non-competitive surveyor ? ! |
| 22 | Newspapers will not normally be aware of improper motives lying behind otherwise defensible statements they report : in such cases , the better view is that they are not " infected " by the improper motivation of the accusers , unless either they ought to have known of it , or the accuser was in their employ . |
| 23 | The peaks surrounding glacier-dominated Saas Fee may be less distinguished , but the ice-falls of the Feegletscher hanging over the village are in their way just as striking . |
| 24 | The only time things went a bit quiet was when a couple of Eladeldi came in and sniffed around , on patrol , because all gatherings on the plat are at their sufferance , public or private . |
| 25 | As Mr Watt says , the County Council are on their way out . |
| 26 | When however consideration is given to which patients should be transferred back to locally based hospitals from the geographically remote major illness hospitals , there are comparatively few for whom such a transfer is in their best interests , clinically or socially . |
| 27 | They are also closely associated with University College Cork , which makes it particularly pleasant to welcome them to Queen 's for their first visit . |
| 28 | Browne knew the Masai well and understood how alien such a proposal was to their consensual system of politics , but nevertheless this was the beginning of a long and unavailing effort by the British to set up the laibon as chief of the Tanganyika Masai , until at last in 1933 the current occupant asked to be relieved of his office . |
| 29 | Gloucester Place seemed awash with the carriages of other guests attending the ball and Emily chafed as she sat waiting impatiently to move on , watched by ladies ' maids and servants of the lower orders who seemed to think that the spectacle was for their pleasure . |
| 30 | Mr Knapp warned passengers and rail workers alike their fate was in their own hands if they voted for candidates supporting privatisation . |