Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | The medium-sized town stations sometimes reflected the styles in vogue for their grander counterparts . |
| 2 | From about 18 months a child will watch and show interest in naughtiness by their siblings ( Dunn and Munn 1985 ) . |
| 3 | While other ions abound in cytoplasm in their millimoles , liberal estimates of free Ca concentrations run around 0.1 micromolar , maximum . |
| 4 | Both Pyro and Nancy may have a claim in negligence for their injuries under the narrow rule in Donoghue v Stevenson . |
| 5 | And although the Marian exiles were hurrying back to England , there was no evidence that she was in sympathy with their Calvinist brand of Protestantism . |
| 6 | It seems to be because , in their doggie way , they share a similar range of social emotions and behaviour and have a subtle structure in sympathy with their human companions . |
| 7 | When she contacted the humanists two years ago , she found herself deeply in sympathy with their values and beliefs . |
| 8 | We see ourselves very much in sympathy with their sober , selective approach to what they show , and with their scholarly cataloguing . |
| 9 | Can I explain to her that I am fully in sympathy with their monomania ? |
| 10 | The lavender hedge , as if in sympathy with their views , failed to survive the first fen winter and Sprogg 's Cottage remained Sprogg 's . |
| 11 | Unlike classical or demi-caractère ballets today 's romantic ballets have few stereotyped heroes and heroines because they deal with the moods , emotions and actions of one or more individuals in response to their circumstances and the unfolding of the plot . |
| 12 | Paul Keating , the treasurer in Mr Hawke 's government , told American bankers , in response to their concern about conducting business in Australia : ‘ The pilots ’ federation is not a trade union . |
| 13 | some solvent misusers may do bizarre and possibly dangerous things in response to their ‘ hallucinations ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Du n no what you 're on about , ’ he said quietly in response to their praise . |
| 15 | Pupils , we say , must revise and redraft their writing in response to their own or other people 's reading of their texts . |
| 16 | The deployment of particular arguments both in response to their opponents and when they went beyond those limits , revealed a family resemblance in fundamental ideas . |
| 17 | Through her interactions with children in response to their work , the teacher also models processes of actively listening to and responding to ideas , questioning , exploring and sharing which the children will then be able to use for themselves . |
| 18 | Some of these now strongly argue that evaluation which is initiated and conducted by teachers in response to their own perceived needs and interests has a greater capacity to promote professional development , because the role of teachers is extended but their autonomy is preserved . |
| 19 | Those schools who changed their outlook and practice in respect of relationships with parents and the community did so for their own reasons and in response to their own sense of priorities and needs . |
| 20 | In response to their charge ( Mark 3:22 ) that it is through demonic power that he casts out demons , he replies that no divided house can stand : if Satan casts out Satan , his empire is doomed . |
| 21 | He is speaking in response to their grumbling . |
| 22 | In defence of their economic record , government spokesmen have claimed that from the second quarter of 1983 the numbers in employment increased and that more jobs were being created in Britain than in the rest of the EEC states taken together . |
| 23 | Indeed , the measure of the difficulty they were in can be seen in their own statement of 6 August in defence of their lack of achievement , made on the very day they had been disappointed by Cecil 's letter ; for Knox was inscribing a letter from Argyll and lord James to Sir James Croft , captain of Berwick , saying that they were ‘ sorry to be judged slow , negligent and cold in our proceedings … . |
| 24 | Leeds made a good start in defence of their men 's title when Stephen Akers won the 1500m freestyle in 15min 37.77sec . |
| 25 | Paul Kammerer had unwittingly fallen into an invidious trap , partly as a result of the circumstances of his times and partly as a consequence of the vicious narrow-mindedness that thinkers of every age and generation are prone to in defence of their personal commitment to particular theories . |
| 26 | Skilled munitions workers , in the Amalgamated Society of Engineers ( ASE ) were militant in defence of their own exemption . |
| 27 | Courts are not authorised to use directly arguments of policy in defence of their decisions . |
| 28 | But beware , this tameness leads them to be very bold in defence of their nest , and they will laugh a strident ‘ heh , heh , heh ’ as they clip you across the ear with a stiffly held wing-tip ! |
| 29 | Tolls taken by the Durfort in the Agenais hampered the economic development of some Cistercian houses of the region , and the abbeys of Moissac , Belleperche and Grandselve engaged in litigation not only with the Plantagenet king-dukes but with many local seigneurs in defence of their rights and revenues . |
| 30 | Invading fans are not only repulsed by the occupants in defence of their home ‘ turf ’ , but also by the police in their pursuit of law and order and the status quo . |