Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such an equivalence suggests , perhaps wrongly , that most candidates in comprehensive schools will be expected to do no better than score an F or a G in their GCSE . |
| 2 | The first and most accessible was that used by tourists , rich and shoestring ( ‘ poor ’ was a word with a precise , living meaning here ) as a base for their trip to Machu Picchu . |
| 3 | Naturally enough , war raged fiercely in Spain ; in 1704 the English captured Gibraltar and held on to it , initially as a base for their communications in Spain ; a good deal of the naval activity of the war took place around Spanish waters and the English managed to stop the Bourbon forces from setting up any effective siege of Gibraltar . |
| 4 | Moreover , difficulties may arise if both parties have such a provision in their standard terms . |
| 5 | The official French champagne industry organisation and a representative champagne producer , Taittinger , had sought a High Court injunction banning Dr Guy Woodall and his partner , Mr Ray Bevan , from Leatherhead , Surrey , from using the name champagne pending a trial over their action . |
| 6 | What , McLeish wondered acerbically , did he imagine his wife and surviving daughter were thinking about — or did he assume they had taken the death of a daughter and a sister in their stride ? |
| 7 | They also collected money in a bucket on their way . |
| 8 | The cows were standing at the entrance to a small byre , while the farmer poured a purple fluid from a bucket into their wounds . |
| 9 | Such metalwork and fabric may have been decorated in a way which conveyed meaning to the wearer and the viewer , but all of the artefacts whose technology we have considered had , first and foremost a function to their owners . |
| 10 | Just how remote this stance in fact is from the aesthetic is a matter for further debate , but it is perhaps worth interpolating that the implied valorisation of the products of these engaged avant-gardes as a function of their engagement is defeasible . |
| 11 | The weightings are based on agreement between the faculty heads and this may be a function of their power and past spending allocations rather than an objective assessment of need . |
| 12 | The superpowers have seen the conflict as a function of their own struggle , and seen regional contestants either as friends or as surrogates of the enemy . |
| 13 | Many claims are made for their disinfectant properties but the results obtained may be more a function of their excellent detergency in removing , rather than destroying , micro-organisms and their recommended method of use in sequence with other cleaning agents followed by a number of rinses . |
| 14 | With regard to description , computer analysis of text provides the means for identifying these expressions since their normality is a function of their occurrence as holistic units . |
| 15 | 1979 ; Wells 1981 ) have reported that the amount of talk by children and their caretakers varies , both in respect of the time of day ( more talk first thing in the morning and early afternoon ) and as a function of their familiarity with the process of being recorded ( less talk on the first day , compared with subsequent days ) . |
| 16 | Not only do we have the situation in the UK where partial-hearing units ( PHUs — integrated settings ) are using Total Communication ( e.g. Hegarty , Pocklington and Lucas , 1982 ) , but young deaf people do not see the use of BSL as a function of their contact or lack of contact with hearing people . |
| 17 | Instead , Marx argues that the needs of individuals are a function of their social environment . |
| 18 | If we allow for the expectations of individuals and the values ( valency ) they place on certain outcomes or rewards , then we can propose that the degree to which they will release energy in the pursuit of their goals is a function of their expectations about likely outcomes and the importance they place on those outcomes or rewards : |
| 19 | So pre-programmed did their behaviours seem , that they themselves might have been the subjects of some meta-experiment and the pallor of their laboratory coats a function of their caged confinement . |
| 20 | That is , the reader is invited to believe that the ranking of interventions in the table is a function of their relative value for money , independently of the methods of the original economic evaluation study or the quality of the clinical evidence on which it was based . |
| 21 | It admittedly makes intuitive sense , and fits in with the general observation about staffs ' professional identities being a function of their research identities . |
| 22 | For instance , the considerable differences in the number of interactions ( compare , for example , the pseudonymous Claybourn and Greystock ) is partly a function of their length : a relatively tow number of interactions does not indicate prolonged periods of silence , and most teachers were interacting with children most of the time . |
| 23 | In part the support of the two centrist parties for the bill was a function of their wish to avoid provoking the government into calling an early election in the lower chamber to coincide with the partial elections for the upper house which were scheduled for July 26 . |
| 24 | To substantiate the continuum hypothesis De Camp and others ( for example , Bickerton , in his detailed studies of Guyanese Creole ) point to the following well-documented facts : few Jamaicans or Guyanese speak Standard English , few speak maximally broad Creole all the time : most speak ( by their own assessment as well as a linguist 's ) something " in between " ; and how close to the standard or the broad Creole they speak , is largely a function of their social class . |
| 25 | I mean , that is n't just a function of their age |
| 26 | The initial result was that the Conservatives had sought to counter the collectivist strategy of progressivism with a collectivism of their own , while individualist arguments had been relegated to the margins of Conservative politics . |
| 27 | After each film was seen subjects had to decide whether they had seen the film section before or not and give a rating of their confidence in their decision . |
| 28 | An unusually detailed account survives of the fortunes of the ancient and revered Benedictine abbey of Evesham in Worcestershire in a case against their local bishop , the bishop of Worcester , as to his jurisdictional rights over them and whether he had the right to inspect them . |
| 29 | All through the week they gathered waiting for someone to pop his or her head round the entrance and shout that there was an audition , and they were off like a shot , their audition clothes naturally packed in a case by their table . |
| 30 | TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME is so rare that most medical professionals will not encounter a case in their entire careers … but it can kill . |