Example sentences of "to their [noun] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , perhaps , a tribute to the privatisation structure that the market is proving to be very volatile , and industrial customers will not be tied to their suppliers unless they so wish . |
| 2 | Below them was a larger group , sometimes called geburs ( origin of the modern ‘ boor ’ ) or freeman cottagers owing more services to their thegns than they had freedoms . |
| 3 | Is it realistic to expect junior house officers to admit to their consultants that they are overburdened when their career progression depends on getting a good reference ? |
| 4 | The Elves hid themselves in caves , woods and mountainsides and prayed to their gods that they would not be found , and that a hero would emerge to deliver them from this evil . |
| 5 | I do not see how the Asian and West Indian pupils that I am responsible for can take on English behaviour for half a day when they are at school and change to their culture when they are at home . |
| 6 | He had even established a system for sending money home to their families once they had set up house in this country . |
| 7 | Amanda Lavelle , a urology ward sister at St Bartholomew 's Hospital , London , sees many patients with prostatic cancer : ‘ Men tend not to go to their GP when they first have urinary symptoms , because they think it is a normal part of aging . |
| 8 | Daley countered this with his idea that black players can use the mental facility only with other blacks , believing that even the black players who had commanded football league places had not been allowed to play to their utmost because they were engulfed by whites who were on ‘ different wavelengths ’ . |
| 9 | He also accuses Munroists of having a ‘ blinkered attitude ’ to their surroundings as they head for their chosen objective . |
| 10 | That is why the Revenue backed Banking Ombudsman Laurence Shurman when he suggested people should make changes to their cheques so they were less susceptible to fraud . |
| 11 | It is a remarkable tribute to their builders that they have survived for fifty years in regular service , albeit in rebuilt form . |
| 12 | CIVIL servants are to hand a 3500-signature petition to their employers when they stage an anti-privatisation protest at the Scottish Office tomorrow . |
| 13 | Paratenic hosts such as rodents or birds may ingest the infective eggs , and the L2 travel to their tissues where they remain until eaten by a dog when subsequent development is apparently confined to the gastrointestinal tract . |
| 14 | All around them benches were quickly filling with ladies in silk gowns , giggling and chattering , who clutched velvet cushions to their bosoms as they simpered past the young men eyeing them . |
| 15 | The US secretary of the treasury agreed that there was no easy way to " get round " Churchill without injury to Anglo-American relations : the British feared " world-wide damage to their prestige if they appeared to yield " . |
| 16 | And it was to their credit that they accepted the new er system er and the new times . |
| 17 | This involves the parties being returned to their positions as they were before the contract , i. e. the return of the price to the buyer and the goods to the seller . |
| 18 | Also , in a similar way , many people , not necessarily just old people , prepare by sleeping with instructions by their bed as to what should happen to their effects if they should die during the night . |
| 19 | They discover to their horror that they are still legally liable . |
| 20 | They glanced up curiously as the Kubelwagen arrived , rising to their feet when they saw Schellenberg 's uniform . |
| 21 | How do we know whether people gave money to their parents because they felt a sense of duty to support them financially or because they feared prosecution ? |
| 22 | Up at HM Systems Plc in North London , they innocently ran a letter through the thing , and once they had stopped chortling , they rang us to advise that people should stick to calling the new chip the 80586 in any correspondence they give to their secretary unless they 're confident that , in the words of Larry Hart , she 's a broad with a broad , broad mind . |
| 23 | Staff hope offenders who take the sport seriously may adapt the discipline of weights to their lives when they finish their sentences |
| 24 | She remained in role at the manhole , available as an ear to their reporting-back if they needed it . |
| 25 | Few people nowadays prefer to walk to their objective if they can be carried on wheels , and Fell End Clouds is so remote from centres of population that visitors invariably arrive by car . |
| 26 | Rebel MPs told of threats to their futures if they did not back the Government . |
| 27 | The king 's mother and sister took her to their hut and they prepared the finest clothes for her . |
| 28 | They are so strongly committed to their unionism that they are prepared to go some way towards moving some of their evangelical principles into the area of private life and personal choice , rather than alienate non-evangelical unionists . |
| 29 | At the more routine end of the scale , studies of the relationship between mothers and daughters , from Young and Willmott onwards , document how daughters turn to their mothers when they are anxious about their children 's health , or unsure about some aspect of child rearing ( Young and Willmott , 1957 ) , despite the tendency of professional advisers to devalue ‘ old wives ’ tales ' . |
| 30 | Politically it was the awakening of these groups which was most important , for as Professor Christie has concluded : |