Example sentences of "their [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | competition from the new commodity , the new technology , the new source of supply , the new type of organization … competition which commands a decisive cost or quality advantage and which strikes not at the margins of the profits and the outputs of the existing firms ( and possibly even entire national economies ) but it their foundations and their very lives . |
| 2 | The Communists , their fellow-travellers and their dupes did that . ’ |
| 3 | Despite the aggrandizements to Biddick , the house was seldom used by subsequent Lambtons , who were forever increasing their fortunes , their titles and their castle . |
| 4 | Each of these faces absorbs us within their sphere of reflection where , although the formality of their titles and their professional roles in the artist 's life is relaxed , they continue to respond to the person who was in our vantage point at the time , the photographer . |
| 5 | The beauty and novelty of the scenery , the luxuriance of the shrubs and above all the originality of the Natives has astonished them beyond description , and so raised their enthusiasm that they seem scarcely to have felt the labour and fatigue of ascending high mountains or traversing deep glens and ravines , in fact so many wonders in the shape of animal creation have sprung up , as it were before them , that their imaginations have been kept in one continued state of delighted excitement . |
| 6 | They took what there was to take , all the mounts that were fit to travel , all the arms that lay masterless about the field , and vanished in the dusk up-river into the mountains with their prisoners and their triumph . |
| 7 | But if , if , if that beginning , you know , i if you 're going to go for a rich peasant economy , you 've got ta convince them that it 's , it 's their advantage and it 's gon na last . |
| 8 | and so it seems to me that the erm really from the county 's point of view , er to their advantage as it were , the employment land requirement stays the same . |
| 9 | In addition , whilst Falangists Arrese and Girón de Velasco were ousted respectively from the Party Secretariat and the Ministry of Labour , they were replaced by two men who were also Falangists but who , by contrast , were known to be more moderate and flexible in their views than their predecessors . |
| 10 | Of course its members gain because they work in the service , but they put forward their views because they want to make sure that the service does not collapse under the strain and we do not have a repetition of the destruction that we saw at Strangeways . |
| 11 | Both proponents and protesters are right to present their views and it is incumbent on politicians to ensure that adequate regulatory controls provide as large a degree of environmental protection as is possible when dealing with the relatively unknown . |
| 12 | He was always waiting , very receptive to new ideas and so he did like people and organizations to present their views and he did like to hear discussion . |
| 13 | It 's I do n't know what it was , er they hardly , we were having a discussion with the doctor , erm none of them would put forward their opinions or their views or what they thought |
| 14 | ‘ I wish other men of science would show themselves as patriotic in their views as yourself , ’ he wrote to Gould in 1839 . |
| 15 | Psychologists , analysts and therapists often hold strong fundamental allegiances to one set of theories or another , but then temper their views as they are influenced by other approaches . |
| 16 | You do n't let players get to the end of their contracts or you get peanuts for them . |
| 17 | At first the health authorities will have to place their contracts where they have placed them in the past . |
| 18 | Dogs would do it to us with their teeth but they have laws and guns instead . |
| 19 | I know enough about geophysics to say that these people are lying through their teeth when they claim they can eventually guarantee long-term safety underground . ’ |
| 20 | Autumn came and they picked bilberries on the mountain : tiny , purple fruit that stained their teeth and their clothes . |
| 21 | And erm they 've done their teeth and they 've had a wash and they 've done everything really so all you 've got to do is get them in there . |
| 22 | Their grey sandy fur was ruffed out for warmth and occasionally he saw the snarl of their teeth as they turned for a moment on each other in play . |
| 23 | I think in general term they will go along with the erm the de-furbishment or the destruction of the er but my understanding is they are reserving their judgement until they 've seen some version of the plan . |
| 24 | But they do n't have a crystal ball , all they have is their judgement and they do what 's best in the circumstances . |
| 25 | Subordinates who accept the instructions of their superiors because they recognize its legitimacy rather than because they fear coercion are participating in the transformation of power into authority ( Pfeffer 198 1 , pp. 4–5 ) . |
| 26 | Others are as big as dragons , great bloated monsters which can hardly move from their lairs and which are revered by the Forest Goblins as gods of the forest . |
| 27 | Some things are going to have to last you a very long time and withstand a great deal of wear so these must be the best of their kind that you can possibly afford . |
| 28 | this freedom we talk about is worthy of their support because it is for them we fight ; it is for the establishment of a social system that is going to provide them with the opportunity and the means to develop all that is best in them and the Nation . |
| 29 | But he found himself in a double bind ; the bankers said they would withdraw their support if he left and this would have killed the business instantly . |
| 30 | It was on the day that the bishops were acquitted , 30 June , that the famous seven — Bishop Compton , the Earl of Danby , Lord Lumley , Edward Russell , Henry Sidney , and the Earls of Devonshire and Shrewsbury — sent an invitation to William of Orange pledging their support if he brought a force to England against James . |