Example sentences of "their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Racal Electronics Plc and Honeywell Inc have unveiled a new Satcom multi-channel , in-flight telephone system that will enable several calls to be placed and received aboard an airliner simultaneously at their Racal-Honeywell venture . |
| 2 | The original suspended wooden ground floor was entirely removed after penetration of this structure for the installation of the new cross-walls and their foundations showed that some residual sections were badly affected by woodworm . |
| 3 | Buildings may remain structurally intact but tilt like rows of old tombstones as their foundations lose their grip . |
| 4 | And their preservation was not due to any touristic interest ; for in a real as well as a metaphorical sense , colonial Cuzco was built on their foundations as well as on the backs of the native population . |
| 5 | He was born into cricket ; his grandfather started manufacturing bats and cricket equipment in the 1890s , his father carried on , and Stuart and his brother Percy eventually took over and built on their foundations to make it internationally successful . |
| 6 | Theories about perception and knowledge which it has seemed possible to prove or disprove a priori turn out to depend on concealed analogies ; with the exposure of the analogy their foundations collapse . |
| 7 | And they will adjust their foundations or powders until they match your skin exactly . |
| 8 | competition from the new commodity , the new technology , the new source of supply , the new type of organization … competition which commands a decisive cost or quality advantage and which strikes not at the margins of the profits and the outputs of the existing firms ( and possibly even entire national economies ) but it their foundations and their very lives . |
| 9 | I knew that shrinks were meant to respect the inability of their patients to express certain fundamental anxieties , that the whole thrust of their endeavour was to move around the edifice of such neuroses , gradually excavating their foundations in memory with a sort of verbal teaspoon . |
| 10 | Cosmetic companies are building on their foundations for black skin this spring : |
| 11 | If institutions are out of phase with social formation , the most powerful institution will be that which is most useful in regulating the conflict between interests which have their foundations in different modes of production — the bureaucracy . |
| 12 | Swivelling , almost blinded by the plunging edifice of her emotions as he struck at their foundations , she groped towards the door . |
| 13 | More than 600 people were evacuated from their homes in Norfolk and eight bungalows collapsed after the sea washed away their foundations . |
| 14 | I want to dwell on this subject a little while , to look at a few areas which are important and necessary and have their foundations in team spirit . |
| 15 | When Tiananmen finally broke their reserve , a million or more , a fifth of the population , turned out for the biggest of several demonstrations in sympathy with the Peking students . |
| 16 | It 's only really in the last two general elections that we have begun to bring fun and excitement into campaigns , to raise people 's enthusiasm to the point where they can let down their reserve a little bit . |
| 17 | Harry had told her very little about his discussion with Sir Gregory : all she knew was that Tristram had been caught trespassing and that Jennifer had been caught going to meet him ; but although each had sworn that nothing untoward had happened , and their reserve and good behaviour seemed to confirm their innocence , Ann could not forget the scandal they had caused ten years before , nor could she believe that Tristram would have scaled the Roscarrock wall simply to sit with his cousin and talk . |
| 18 | But granted the credit for historical reliability which accrues to the evangelists through their reserve about the Spirit , that still does not help us with the problem of why there is practically nothing in the Gospels about men and women being filled with the Holy Spirit now that he was clearly in business again . |
| 19 | One lot of five Continental cross bulls offered through Wright-Manley sold for 118.5p per kg but another bunch of 16 failed to reach their reserve . |
| 20 | It was consumers in the UK who forced manufacturers to stop using CFCs as propellants in their aerosols . |
| 21 | Regional companies that retained their licences , such as Granada and Scottish , can keep their ITN stakes or reduce them . |
| 22 | As the King s head was struck from his body there was a great groan from the crowd , who were dispersed by the cavalry ; some came back to dip their handkerchiefs in the King 's blood . |
| 23 | ‘ City Slickers ’ is certainly slick , a superbly-paced slice of Hollywood entertainment that will leave the cynical reaching for their sick-bags while the sentimental go for their handkerchiefs . |
| 24 | ‘ I thought at first , what was the mother like since there 's so little of the Flowers in any of them , since they are so good and clean and wipe their noses always on their handkerchiefs and never on their sleeves7 But the veneer is rubbing off already . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Take our love to Father ! ’ they cried , as they waved their handkerchiefs . |
| 26 | As the train drew out our dear friends on the platform blew kisses , shed tears and waved their handkerchiefs . |
| 27 | When Lafargue , a Proudhonist , argued later that nationalities were ‘ antiquated superstitions ’ , Marx teased him gently by replying that ‘ by his denial of nationalities , he quite unconsciously understood their absorption in a model French nation ’ . |
| 28 | Constance remembered the many times she had seen her mother and him alone together either in the village street or at home ; she had been uneasily aware of their absorption in each other . |
| 29 | With their absorption of the vicomté of Béarn through marriage and inheritance in 1290 , the counts of Foix became the single most powerful house in the south-west . |
| 30 | Not only does alcohol displace essential nutrients from the diet , but it blocks their absorption by the body . |