Example sentences of "their [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1963 the Peerage Bill became law and members of the House of Lords could now renounce their titles and preserve their political careers in the Commons . |
| 2 | The severe psychological damage inflicted upon the captive Biros led them to tear themselves from their shackles and plunge into toilet bowls , become suicidally entangled about gear sticks or wrap themselves around handlebars . |
| 3 | However , the brothers filed through their shackles and made a desperate and final bid for freedom . |
| 4 | Such an inequality has been modified and refined in the decades since emancipation , but blacks have never quite shed the remnants of their shackles and have stayed socially unequal . |
| 5 | It 's their enthusiasm that inspires me . |
| 6 | Most artists , like everyone else , need some points of success to help fire their enthusiasm and keep them going . |
| 7 | 'Mill made maximum use of their advantage and scored eight in each half . |
| 8 | You see , if you were to make it public now , you would empower those people who might be the victims of this cut to articulate their views and to lobby and to be part of this process , rather than just passive participants . |
| 9 | The most appealing strategy is integration or collaboration , by which groups in conflict modify their views and seek a third alternative . |
| 10 | ‘ I will be holding surgeries at Netherton Park Community Centre so people can air their views and tell me if there is a problem , ’ he said . |
| 11 | In the debate Lord Holland recognised the dread among the upper classes that the lower orders might be seduced by subversive principles , " particularly afloat at this moment " , but also considered that some masters were taking advantage of this moment to " enforce their views and render their workmen more dependent than they had hitherto been and than in all fairness and equity they ought to be " . |
| 12 | It is of crucial importance that , while Social Services Departments , voluntary agencies , and professionals are adjusting their views and talking about issues relating to transracial adoption , the matter should be dealt with in a sensitive way . |
| 13 | Community Policing will involve local residents , listen to their views and engage their help in the fight against crime . |
| 14 | This would be so particularly if the employees had terms in their contracts that provided for such extra amounts , or if the employees included directors who were entitled to such extra amounts under their service contracts . |
| 15 | These units will fear they may lose their contracts and close . |
| 16 | ‘ We may still have to make penalty payments or let some of the existing agencies run out their contracts and buy airtime . ’ |
| 17 | Likewise , it is submitted that no modern court would say as Sir George Jessell MR did in Printing and Numerical Registering Co v Sampson ( 1875 ) LR 19 Eq 462 : … if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting , and that their contracts when entered into freely and voluntarily shall be held sacred and shall be enforced by courts of justice . |
| 18 | One night Len 's wife , a small woman , had repeatedly asked a trio of Teds from the next village to cut down their noise and stop carving the backs of the seats . |
| 19 | Blake found being a passenger in the mechanical ‘ land-rovers ’ , with their noise and billowing fumes , frightening . |
| 20 | Hunting dogs in Africa and wolves in North America also hunt in teams , snapping at the heels of an antelope or a moose , one taking over from the other until their victim is so exhausted that they can get a grip on it with their teeth and pull it down . |
| 21 | From this point , Witney took the bit between their teeth and fought back in search of an equaliser . |
| 22 | Those who have lost their teeth and wear dentures should still visit their dentist every six months . |
| 23 | The reptiles underwent tremendous changes in their skeletal structure , their jaws and their teeth during over their history of more than two hundred million years , some of the predators developing razor sharp rows of fangs , other herbivores losing their teeth and acquiring beak-like jaws . |
| 24 | And evidence shows that women feel more inhibited by things like not having cleaned their teeth or feeling grubby . |
| 25 | difficulties in the learning of simple actions , such as learning to brush their teeth or tie their shoes because of a difficulty in imitating . |
| 26 | Humans are a priori sociable beings ; it is their co-operativeness that has enabled them to survive , not their aggressive impulses . |
| 27 | The wielder swings the heavy ball over the side of the War Wagon , knocking riders from their mounts and sending foot troopers flying . |
| 28 | The most pessimistic view is that the process of ‘ deprofessionalization ’ of teachers will become almost complete , leaving them with virtually no autonomy , no scope for exercising their judgement and expressing their interests through their teaching . |
| 29 | Leasing the herbage and pannage would disturb the deer in their lairs and deprive them of their pasture . |
| 30 | Thru enacts this strategy of ‘ wild jay-walking ’ between theories by side-stepping their systematicity and making them into stories . |