Example sentences of "their [noun pl] and [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the brothers filed through their shackles and made a desperate and final bid for freedom . |
| 2 | The most appealing strategy is integration or collaboration , by which groups in conflict modify their views and seek a third alternative . |
| 3 | For the next few hours they went among the high street shops , first searching through the shelves of Joseph Toms , Toys and Fancy Goods , for novelties , then looking among the tiny cupboards of Charles Weaver , Apothecary , sampling the sweet-tasting , harmless powders on their fingers and mixing the brightly-coloured liquids in beakers . |
| 4 | The early 1880s also witnessed some quite extraordinary scenes of disorder when an organisation calling itself the ‘ Skeleton Army ’ mobilised these same roughs against the Salvation Army , attacking their meetings and bombarding the houses of sympathisers . |
| 5 | As they move upwards they lose their nuclei and synthesize the special proteins like keratin that give the skin its protective toughness . |
| 6 | They preferred to have a quick yoghurt at their desks and spend the rest of the time shopping . |
| 7 | Other companies within the Group are now considering joining M&ETA to ensure the standard of their personnel and gain a commercially competitive edge . |
| 8 | The Railway Children , after completing their educations and entering the professions , took early retirement to Glastonbury , where they ran a museum devoted to railway memorabilia , This enables them also to be active in the campaign for penal reform . |
| 9 | The two dogs were whining softly in the back of their throats and sniffing the air as if distressed . |
| 10 | While such statements could be interpreted as being passive rather than negative in terms of the advancement of building surveying , the Report went on to state that building surveyors ‘ have been less ebullient [ than quantity surveyors ] in recent years — partly because they are less numerous and their work less homogeneous or well defined ; but , to a large extent because they have made a less prolonged and concerted effort to develop their skills and explore the horizons of opportunity , although there has of late been a welcome resurgence in this respect ’ . |
| 11 | Already their numbers had been so diminished by persecution and by unfavourable trading terms in Henry III 's reign that the tallage which they paid annually to the king was less under Edward I than he might gain by seizing their estates and inducing a clerical subsidy by their expulsion . |
| 12 | The third , and most interesting part of the research , is to explain the persistence into the 20th century of large numbers of local and regional designs of agricultural edge-tools and the failure of large manufacturers to standardise their products and reduce the number of lines until after the Second World War . |
| 13 | A limited , but informed , middle-class electorate ( composed of less than one in six adult males ) enjoyed the right to elect persons of calibre and substance to represent their opinions and serve the national interest in the House of Commons . |
| 14 | They should be encouraged to express their opinions and argue a point of view , to be receptive to the contributions of others and be helped to make their own contributions confidently and effectively . |
| 15 | The religious communities — or millets — occasionally petitioned the sultan for redress if their religious leaders behaved in an oppressive manner , but on the whole they were left alone , provided they paid their taxes and caused no trouble . |
| 16 | They 're all overjoyed about it , but before they make their plans and get the sales force excited , they want to be … quite sure … that you are … completely fit . ’ |
| 17 | I would urge DTC to reconsider their plans and leave the 11.17 service alone , perhaps every half hour would suit . |
| 18 | Shortly after that they must call a meeting of their creditors and present a statement of affairs including a list of all the company 's debts . |
| 19 | Children make progress at various speeds at different ages and by watching their activities and offering the next stage when they are ready for it teachers can give them the breadth of experience that will make the formal work of later years more meaningful . |
| 20 | To analyse what managers actually do , Mintzberg categorised their activities and calculated the amount of time they spent on each . |
| 21 | Instead , he protected less profitable state farms by writing off their debts and delaying the implementation of a new procurement pricing system . |
| 22 | Eventually these advantages were to tell against England in the war , but in its early phases such disparity was of less account , and the ability of the two kings to mobilize the financial resources of their realms and to command the support of the nobility was to be of greater consequence . |
| 23 | He discusses shortly the history of the island , the visit of M. Thurot of the French navy , superstitions , the wild animals , cattle , the health of the people and their houses and includes a delightful drawing of the interior of a weaver 's cottage . |
| 24 | He discusses shortly the history of the island , the visit of M. Thurot of the French navy , superstitions , the wild animals , cattle , the health of the people and their houses and includes a delightful drawing of the interior of a weaver 's cottage . |
| 25 | He united their clans and established an expanding kingdom around the former Gallo-Roman city of Durocortorum : once the capital of the Gaulish tribe of Remi , the city is still commemorated today by its name Reims . |
| 26 | Then they can go back to asking each other where they got their blow-drys and leave the rest of us in peace . ’ |
| 27 | They did in the first century , and they do still when the Christians come out of their ghettos and chatter the good news in the streets . |
| 28 | Also they should encourage the objectors to the railway 's extension to realise that there is a case for considerable numbers of cars drivers being prepared to leave their cars and let the train take the strain . |
| 29 | I mean , the young ones , a lot of them sitting around in Edinburgh and begging off the streets and that , they could get off their backsides and get a job ! |
| 30 | They are concerned , which makes it all the more alarming that the Opposition Front-Bench spokesmen continue to sit on their backsides and endorse the TUC 's policy . |