Example sentences of "their [noun] that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's their enthusiasm that inspires me . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Humans are a priori sociable beings ; it is their co-operativeness that has enabled them to survive , not their aggressive impulses . |
| 4 | When the counts of La Marche and Périgueux paid homage to the duke of Aquitaine , it implied acceptance on their part that to injure the duke 's person or property would be a breach of faith , but little more ; if they came to his court or assisted him on campaigns , it was because they saw profit or pleasure in so doing . |
| 5 | It is in this field that Ashton and MacMillan have made many innovations in those of their ballets that describe very subtle relationships , feelings and emotions such as A Month in the Country and Enigma Variations , The Invitation and Mayerling . |
| 6 | It 's their money that made this possible . |
| 7 | The criminal law sees only some types of property deprivation as robbery or theft ; it excludes , for example , the separation of consumers and part of their money that follows manufacturers ' malpractices or advertisers ' misrepresentations ; it excludes shareholders losing their money because managers behaved in ways which they thought would be to the advantage of shareholders even though the only tangible benefits accrued to the managers ( Hopkins 1980b ) ; it excludes the extra tax citizens , in this or other countries , have to pay because : ( i ) corporations and the very wealthy are able to employ financial experts at discovering legal loopholes through which money can be safely transported to tax havens ; ( ii ) Defence Department officials have been bribed to order more expensive weaponry systems or missiles in ‘ excess ’ of those ‘ needed ’ ; ( iii ) multinational drug companies charge our National Health Services prices which are estimated to be at least , £50 millions in excess of alternative supplies . |
| 8 | ‘ Origins of the Present Crisis ’ , published in New Left Review in 1964 , and ‘ Components of the National Culture ’ , four years later , were texts of their times that excited a generation which , at least in many of the social sciences and humanities , now commands the heights of the academic system even if their radicalism has been dulled by more recent discontents . |
| 9 | According to Friedman , it is the unwillingness of governments to tax-finance their activities that induces them to cover the gap between expenditures and taxes with money supply increases . |
| 10 | They put in eighty thousand into their proposals that deal with the planning we have hole on my pouch , well done , but on the other hand you are not prepared to spend twenty five thousand on an important obstacle plan to stop this sort of mess er er arising . |
| 11 | ( Inimical means that certain remedies have been found to be similar in their action that prescribing them in succession leads to aggravation e.g. Mercury and Silica should n't follow each other without interposing some other remedy ) 2 ) The beauty of the LM system is encompassed in its ability to fulfill §.2 of The Organon : |
| 12 | Solicitors are not permitted to enter into an agreement with their clients that purports to exclude their liability for professional misconduct ( which extends to professional negligence ) though subject to the following rules liability can be limited by contract : ( 1 ) liability may not be limited below the minimum level of cover afforded under the Indemnity Fund ; ( 2 ) liability can not be limited at all for fraud or reckless disregard of professional obligations ; ( 3 ) s60(5) of the Solicitors Act avoids any provision in a contentious business agreement purporting to exclude the liability of a solicitor for negligence or to relieve him of his professional responsibilities ; ( 4 ) ss2(2) and 11(4) of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 will apply to agreements between solicitors and their clients to ensure that limited liability provisions which do not fall foul of any other rule comply with the essential requirement of reasonableness . |
| 13 | And do n't give me that ‘ Yes , but it 's their talent that comes across ’ routine , because your idea of coming across must be very different from mine . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's their self-esteem that suffers , too , is n't it ? |
| 15 | This was a rather naïve reaction on the part of Bell ; as the senior presidential advisers knew only too well , there is always a danger that cabinet members will develop a relationship with their department that takes precedence over their loyalty to the president and his programme . |
| 16 | But those that came from arid islands and had to crane their necks in order to reach branches of cactus or leaves of trees , had much longer necks and a high peak to the front of their shells that enabled them to stretch their necks almost vertically upwards . |
| 17 | ‘ It was their ground , and their floodlights that failed . |
| 18 | There is an amount of innocence and naivety present in their songs that glides over current dour factions in the alternative sector . |
| 19 | But they are much more critically realistic than pluralists in their recognition that state — society ( especially state — business ) connections will require continuous intervention and control . |
| 20 | There was a strength and hardness about their voices that took away the pride he had felt at disposing of the hooded crow so effectively . |
| 21 | They do n't do anything : it 's their currencies that do things . |
| 22 | Some afternoons they talked at cross purposes ; it was not just their vocabulary that differed . |
| 23 | The Jones collaboration in part grew out of such a quest , though there were aspects of their work that had been anticipated in India long before , unrecorded and so unknown to them . |
| 24 | That he could do this without awakening the slightest resentment ill the boys was a sign that they recognised that it was their work that mattered to Basil , and in no way his self-importance , which , to a quite remarkable degree he did not have . |
| 25 | Neutrons , being electrically neutral , do not leave a direct trail , but when they hit protons in the hydrogen-filled chamber the protons recoil , and it is their trails that reveal the impact of the neutrons . |
| 26 | For , in common with every William Osborne lifeboat , a small mascot lives in the wheelhouse — presented by employees of the yard to illustrate their commitment and the part of their lives that has been put into the boat . |
| 27 | The fundamental point that you have to grasp is that parents want any transfers between their siblings that will result in a net gain for the , a , sorry , parents want any transfers between their offspring that result in a net gain for reproductive success . |
| 28 | It is their descendants that come to dominate the population . |
| 29 | Lizards visit particular rocks in their terrain that have been heated by the Sun . |
| 30 | With scarcely a consumer item worthy of the name to buy in the shops , and with a rouble in their pockets that loses value by the week , Soviet citizens are staging a gold rush . |