Example sentences of "[conj] their [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British food , for example , may be unfamiliar or not uncommonly , unacceptable on religious grounds , but it is very easy to get diet right if catering staff ask individuals or their relatives about their dietary habits . |
| 2 | By March 1990 Navan Resources still had not told the islanders the extent of the gold find or their plans for it . |
| 3 | Quite apart from the obvious undesirability of verbal agreements for the sale or purchase of land , no transfer of land can be validly achieved in France other than by an acte de vente , which is a notarial document prepared by a Notary and signed by all parties or their Attorneys before him … |
| 4 | Men who ca n't keep their minds on their job , or their hands to themselves . ’ |
| 5 | Local parties were not very representative of Unionist voters , but this did not affect their independence or their control over their candidates . |
| 6 | All that vast enlargement of educational opportunity which has happened in the century since then and continues to accelerate has not robbed their vision of its truth nor their example of its value . |
| 7 | The evidence shows that such children will make greater progress in English if they know that their knowledge of their mother tongue is valued , if it is recognised that their experience of language is likely to be greater than that of their monoglot peers and , indeed , if their knowledge and experience can be put to good use in the classroom to the benefit of all pupils to provide examples of the structure and syntax of different languages , to provide a focus for discussion about language forms and for contrast and comparison with the structure of the English language . |
| 8 | And say that their members save their newspapers too . |
| 9 | I think we would be wise to reflect a little longer and to think that perhaps the Government is not so far wrong in what it is saying and I have to say finally My Lords that I never in my public life , or indeed in my private life have met anybody who has said to me that their attitude towards their local police force has been in any way influenced by the fact that the members of the police authority were or were n't democratically elected . |
| 10 | James and Avril Grant , for instance , discovered that their fears of what Anne got up to at night were often unfounded or even ludicrous . |
| 11 | Far from condemning this local authority I hold that they behaved properly and that their exercise of their difficult statutory role was properly performed . |
| 12 | It thus comes as little surprise to find that police and fans share similar commonsense conceptions of territoriality , and that their accounts of what goes on during ‘ raids ’ on Ends have much in common . |
| 13 | I wish to say on behalf of highway engineers , both in the counties and the boroughs of the metropolitan districts , that their contribution through their professional associations — the Institution of Civil Engineers , the Institution of Highways and Transportation — and in co-operation with the experts in the Transport and Road Research Laboratory and the Department of Transport has led to much enthusiasm among many of those responsible . |
| 14 | I have suggested elsewhere that their presentation of their evidence benefits from closer examination . |
| 15 | Our main argument in this paper is that linguists have not often recognised the need for this sort of justification ; that their views about what is educationally relevant in the field of language study does not always coincide with the concerns expressed by educationalists ; and that linguists and educationalists need to begin a common search for relevance in which the linguists ' knowledge is related to a frame of reference based on the needs of learners and teachers . |
| 16 | Some shape names are complex and , if pupils have a limited appreciation of the properties of a shape , it is not likely that their memory for its name will be enduring . |
| 17 | Emerson noticed this propensity of flags to make ordinary people ‘ poets and mystics ’ , to set off a tingle in the blood ; and flags were festooned round Iran-contra like bunting , exceedingly hard Brought to trial , the players could not believe that their love for their country had caused them to commit crimes ; and the light penalties handed down to all these men , with only Poindexter receiving a jail sentence , suggested that the judges , to some degree , accepted patriotism in mitigation . |
| 18 | Since there is no suggestion that their perception of their own situations may itself be explicable in holist terms , the two accounts are distinct , but are also complementary ; the conceptual space occupied by agents reflects the constraints under which they labour . |
| 19 | This would not end the wars , but it would in effect be a declaration from the Israelis announcing that whilst they intend to fight to keep the disputed territory , they are nevertheless admitting that their right to it is no different from that of anyone else , and until the world produces some better way than fighting , this is how they will-operate . |
| 20 | At the same time , I believe that their claim on us is absolute . |
| 21 | I think , however , that their use of it is still often confused and inhibited by mistaken ideas about what equality demands , and that the senseless ideal of standardisation still produces a waste of effort on this topic , as on many others . |
| 22 | This means that their relatedness to their organization can be construed as being infantile-like in that it evokes relationships reminiscent of childhood . |
| 23 | Such a framework needs to be flexible enough to move with the times , keep abreast of public sympathy , but ensure that their control over our lives remains essentially untouched . |
| 24 | ‘ THE most disheartening thing is that I have always had a really strong idea about what I want the group to be and I 'm not very good at relating to people who think that their version of what my group should be is more important than mine , ’ complains Stuart Adamson , singer/guitarist with Big Country . |
| 25 | He was aware that their confidence in him was in part based on the myth that he was devoid of any of the normal human weaknesses such as fear or self-doubt . |
| 26 | In this group of 27 respondents , only two specifically noted that they were able to spend their full time on training , another two did not offer any estimate of time , and a further two indicated that their time plus their assistant 's time equalled one full-time post . |
| 27 | It was jealousy , I suppose ; the fact that I had spotted a chance they had not , although I could n't get over the suspicion that their reaction to me had something to do with how Liza had told the story . |
| 28 | The major problem here is that their image of what this community consists of tends to be markedly different from that of the local population . |
| 29 | Mrs Hill , on the other hand , with her vague indifference , did not rouse their cruelty , so their behaviour in her classes left them unashamed . |
| 30 | I know two or three lads of the next generation beyond us who are doing in their twenties rather better than their fathers in their fifties . |