Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] be their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this country , it is often assumed that teachers are a law unto themselves once they are inside the classroom and that it is their professional training and sense of professional responsibility that are the chief influences on their practice . |
| 2 | The girls insist that it is their fundamental right to wear their scarves at all times , just as some of their fellow students wear skullcaps or the cross . |
| 3 | I shall argue that it is their particular use of rhetoric that permits this . |
| 4 | A second difficulty with this most obvious method of testing is that , even if a preponderance of Protestants were to emerge , it would not follow that it was their religious convictions that supplied the motivation for their science . |
| 5 | Would the rest of Britain simply accept that it was their democratic right to self-determination that was being exercised ? |
| 6 | The children learned from the example of adults that it was their supreme duty to protect the Royal Family from the degradation of other people 's curiosity . |
| 7 | Although a degree of corruption was inevitable , it seems in Æthelred 's reign to have gone so far beyond what many of his subjects considered acceptable that it was their main preoccupation when they considered having him back . |
| 8 | Having duped Ajax into thinking that he is their chosen man against Hector , the Greek leaders , who had earlier made such a fuss about being mocked by Thersites and Patroclus , now mock Ajax in asides ( also , naturally enough , in prose ) : |
| 9 | As Paul Preston writes , " the United Nations had given [ Franco ] a winning hand to play , allowing him to persuade the Spanish people that he was their heroic leader in yet another foreign attempt to destroy Spain " . |
| 10 | He was really concerned for the crowds because he knew that he was their only hope . |
| 11 | The Gowrie faction guarded James for almost a year , issuing decrees in his name while claiming that he was their willing guest . |