Example sentences of "that their [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 To make sure that their knowledge of enemy military procedure was correct and up to date , Buck had also recruited a couple of Afrika Korps men who had been taken prisoner .
2 The evidence shows that such children will make greater progress in English if they know that their knowledge of their mother tongue is valued , if it is recognised that their experience of language is likely to be greater than that of their monoglot peers and , indeed , if their knowledge and experience can be put to good use in the classroom to the benefit of all pupils to provide examples of the structure and syntax of different languages , to provide a focus for discussion about language forms and for contrast and comparison with the structure of the English language .
3 It 's because people know so little about themselves that their knowledge of nature is so little use to them .
4 It can be seen that their knowledge of AEA was very sketchy and fragmented , they were confused about our range of services and they felt we were too civil service and bureaucratic .
5 Finally , some teachers did not return the questionnaire because they had not been in the school at the time of the review and felt that their knowledge of SSE as a general notion was too limited even to enable them to complete the section on general attitudes .
6 If the marital rape exemption had been abolished in England and the decision to prosecute left to the police , there is no reason to think that their approach to marital rape cases would have been anything other than cautious .
7 Umanskii concludes that their subjection to the Russians was nominal .
8 DURING the next six weeks Scotland are pledged to find the right blend in order that their assault on the Rugby World Cup Sevens at Murrayfield does not self-destruct .
9 Although the broadcasters ( subject to the existing obligation to ensure political balance in their programmes as a whole ) are not under any parliamentary or governmental control in such matters , there is an unwritten understanding that their coverage of the proceedings of the House must have some regard to the wishes of the House and its Members .
10 Some pensioner constituents have written to me to say that they think that their cost of living is rising by more than 4.1 per cent .
11 They 've actually said , that their cost of three hundred and ninety five pound , out of which two hundred and fifty is for lighting .
12 C&P are currently calculating that their cost of non-conformance could be as high as £400m or 10 per cent of turnover — a sum which could , in theory , be added to profitability if the various defective jobs were only done right , first time .
13 In the wake of last September 's humiliation on the foreign exchanges , ministers took to claiming that their release from the disciplines of the Exchange Rate Mechanism afforded a happy opportunity to pursue a fresh strategy aimed at economic recovery and the creation of jobs .
14 Even during the height of enthusiasm for the monarchy in the first half of the 1680s , Anglican polemicists offered hints that their loyalty to the Church came before their loyalty to the Crown .
15 A number of arts professional development teachers reported that their involvement in schools was often initiated by primary headteachers feeling that staff were giving inadequate time to an area of the curriculum vital to the personal development of the pupils .
16 First , out of all the responses made , only two participants stated that their attendance on the course had not been worthwhile and none said that the course should be discontinued .
17 The Woodvilles ' power , by contrast , was almost entirely derivative , so much so that their identification with the prince was more of a bulwark for them than vice versa .
18 The Woodvilles ' power , by contrast , was almost entirely derivative , so much so that their identification with the prince was more of a bulwark for them than vice versa .
19 The TGAT Report insisted that their framework for assessment was criterion referenced , that is , pupils ' achievements would be measured against specific targets , not against the average performance of the age group :
20 The Conservatives want to demonstrate that the Prime Minister is a man of the people ; Labour , in contrast , that their man of the people can look like a Prime Minister .
21 I 'm merely saying that their interpretation of certain policies is not coincident with my own .
22 The evidence shows that such children will make greater progress in English if they know that their knowledge of their mother tongue is valued , if it is recognised that their experience of language is likely to be greater than that of their monoglot peers and , indeed , if their knowledge and experience can be put to good use in the classroom to the benefit of all pupils to provide examples of the structure and syntax of different languages , to provide a focus for discussion about language forms and for contrast and comparison with the structure of the English language .
23 It may be that their experience of GIST has given them a better idea of the amount of work and energy involved in trying to change things ( Kelly et al . ,
24 After Pentecost , they became assured that their experience of God 's activity in their midst and in their mission was nothing less than the continued work and presence of Jesus among them .
25 We hope that their experience of both SCOTVEC and centres will strengthen the systems verifier team and increase the support that we give to centres .
26 It is often stated that young children are in the concrete operational stage of development and that their experience of the adult world and their ability to understand are restricted .
27 It also stated that ‘ 90 per cent of the respondents indicated that their experience in the programme had helped them to see more clearly the forces at work in their lives and had in fact helped them to take more control over their lives ’ .
28 Undoubtedly the succession was an important issue ; the terms Whig and Tory had been coined in the first place to describe different sides taken during the Exclusion controversy , whilst for a long time after the Glorious Revolution Whigs continued to be able to embarrass the Tories by alleging that their attachment to the divine-right , hereditary succession meant that deep-down they were Jacobite sympathisers .
29 Several respondents noted that their choice of course and/or individual staff member to attend , was at least partly based on the principle that , as attending an external course was ‘ inherently good ’ , that therefore everyone should be ‘ allowed a turn ’ if at all possible .
30 They also suggest that their choice of index was incorrect but justify it by pointing out that it included both industrial and financial sectors and so could not have any undue bias .
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