Example sentences of "with their [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apple , however , were unhappy with their reliance on an external supplier for such a crucial part of their system . |
| 2 | In this way the confusions and limitations of the people are demonstrated , together with their reliance upon senses which are more fully developed and exploited than our own . |
| 3 | ‘ The strength of the personal relationship with our account manager has allowed us to get through a number of fairly serious problems , ’ says Mr Miller , who believes the owners of small businesses need to make extra efforts to communicate with their bankers during hard times . |
| 4 | The rest of the great narrative , right up to the end of the Books of Kings , and the prophetic books of the Old Testament also , will make clear what this decision costs God , and the Gospels of the New Testament will make it even plainer with their accounts of the passion and death of Jesus of Nazareth . |
| 5 | He remembered the local papers of his youth , with their accounts of flower shows , weddings and the meetings of societies . |
| 6 | And the fact that the height of the stars in medieval astronomy is very small compared with their distance in modern , will turn out not to have the kind of importance you anticipated … |
| 7 | But these theories ' notions of culturally stable femininity often elide with their concept of a biologically stable individual . |
| 8 | She was better satisfied with their trip to a beauty parlour , where Martha 's hair was released from its braids , anointed with a number of glutinous white creams , cut to the level of her shoulders and wound upon enormous wire rollers . |
| 9 | These creatures appear to be crinoids that have neither stalk nor rootlets and are lying in an inverted position with their mouths on the ground and their five arms outstretched . |
| 10 | I think even Control Room where at one stage it was a , a male domain , it is not so now there 's , there 's , I would think now there 's a predominance of women there , erm purely I think again that Control Room work suits them better , they , they , they concentrate better , I think , they , they lend themselves better to that type of work and they 're more dextrous with their fingers on , on these buttons and , and typewriters and , and other things |
| 11 | I step over tiny children drawing with their fingers in spit on the rusty floor outside our cabin . |
| 12 | Until he arrived , the poor bastards in the area would have to sit with their fingers in their ears . |
| 13 | Later came the ‘ Carry On ’ films , launched by Carry On Sergeant ( 1958 ) , films as defiantly un-Ealing as one could conceive , with their emphasis on the inability of institutions ( army , hospital , school , etc. ) to contain the animal natures and the sheer potential for vulgarity of the humans within . |
| 14 | For example , how may Evangelicals integrate it with their emphasis on the word expressed in preaching and Bible study ? |
| 15 | The Labour Party knows this and so do the Liberals ( now Democrats ) with their emphasis on community politics . |
| 16 | In the last four decades , Modernist architects , with their emphasis on function , have despised what they call ‘ facadism ’ with the implication that a facade is a sham . |
| 17 | His Meditations , with their emphasis on the vicissitudes of perpetual change , exude an air of world-weariness . |
| 18 | And , if you want to press the architectural simile a little , the many variations on a helical theme ( with their emphasis on a set of rules of proportion ) represent a style that is unmistakably classical , with much of the same appeal . |
| 19 | The traditional patterns of social organisation with their emphasis on hierarchical differentiation then become a major obstacle to the most efficient use of the technology . |
| 20 | With their emphasis on a world of forest spirits and magical dominations , they seem to have differed little from the experiences and practices of mainland Northern Europe . |
| 21 | That the implications of her increasing influence were world-wide was demonstrated in the postwar disarmament conferences of the 1920s and 1930s with their emphasis on the naval balance between Britain , the US and Japan . |
| 22 | This reply illustrates the strengths and weaknesses of the somewhat positivist approach of Bohr and his friends , with their emphasis on classical measuring apparatus . |
| 23 | On the other hand , the flight in some literature departments from traditional methods of study , with their emphasis on the detailed analysis of texts , towards theory-laden forms of criticism with an explicit political agenda , is a development which is not favourable to the search for objectively quantifiable features capable of computerized study . |
| 24 | However , with their emphasis on rehabilitation of stock and on area-wide environmental improvements , GIAs had a relatively limited impact , and only about 5 per cent of grants since 1969 have been issued within these areas . |
| 25 | These new beginnings within community care would be seriously compromised if institutional models , with their emphasis on compulsion and surveillance , are simply relocated in a different guise in the community as the power base of psychiatry , namely the asylums , is run down . |
| 26 | Such a stance , it has also to be said , was sharply at odds with the educational aims to which their schools were purportedly committed , with their emphasis on engendering open , questioning minds , a love of reading and so on , a contradiction of which such heads seemed unaware . |
| 27 | This research project seeks to give a critique , both historical and theoretical , of current Anglo-American versions of liberalism with their emphasis on individual rights and a purely procedural conception of liberty and equality . |
| 28 | Whereas the massive unemployment which had plagued the interwar period has at least served to keep the lid on money wages , the switch to Keynesian policies , with their emphasis on the objective of maintaining full employment , might open a Pandora 's box of inflationary money wage claims . |
| 29 | Van Dijk 's analyses , with their emphasis upon the creation of ideology ( e.g. van Dijk , 1986b , 1987 ) , do not make the mistake of assuming that impression-management follows culturally universal laws ( e.g. Tedeschi , 1981 ) . |
| 30 | Buddhists with this expectation of Maitri , Jews with their longing for the messianic age , Christians with their hope of the second coming of Christ , can talk together about the golden age ahead — their respective eschatologies , their glimpses of an eternal city , the abiding home of the human spirit . |