Example sentences of "their [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The title of Nigel Osborne 's serenade , Albanian Nights , while moist obviously referring to the disguises assumed by Ferrando and Guglielmo while testing their fiancées ' fidelity in Così fan tutte , is also a metaphorical allusion to our own relationship to the music of the past : ‘ We 've got to recognize that we come into Mozart 's world like characters in disguise : we 've all flown in airplanes , driven fast cars , eaten junk food — things he could n't even have imagined . |
| 2 | They had overheard nothing of their superiors ' conversation . |
| 3 | This is an example of opportunism by middle managers , due to their superiors ' inability to check their claims about what is actually in the best interests of the firm . |
| 4 | She shut her eyes , waiting , hiding from their giants ' toy-shop of beds and cubic rooms . |
| 5 | As heads of the paid service and principal policy advisers , with primary responsibility for implementation of the council decisions and effectiveness of their authorities ' administration as a whole , chief executives are the key-link between their councils and their staffs . |
| 6 | In the meantime , Zealot contingents commanded by a descendant of Judas of Galilee seized the fortress of Masada on the Dead Sea , exterminated the Roman garrison and prepared defensive installations that would withstand their enemies ' siege until A.D. 73 . |
| 7 | They are subject to a work permit system which ties them to one job and makes them dependent on their employers ' goodwill to continue their stay in Britain . |
| 8 | A number of economists and politicians have recently proposed that British workers be paid wage rates which change with their employers ' profitability . |
| 9 | However , the employees also have responsibilities and are required both to exercise reasonable care , and to cooperate with their employers ' health and safety policies . |
| 10 | There are also specific duties on employees to use equipment in accordance with training they have received and to report dangerous situations and any shortcomings in their employers ' health and safety arrangements . |
| 11 | Along with the press and promotion staff , the marketing department has to ensure that every potential record-buyer is aware of their artists ' work . |
| 12 | Corporate funding , which rose to around £30m last year , has its part to play , irritating though it is when executives parade as great patrons while giving away their shareholders ' money . |
| 13 | IT IS sometimes difficult to remember that company directors are merely the custodians of their shareholders ' money , rather than the owners of the business free to do with it what they will . |
| 14 | It suggested that if a firm had low debts and was paying a lot of corporate tax its managers were actually being incompetent : while proudly keeping their credit ratings high , they were handing their shareholders ' money to the taxman . |
| 15 | They are still trying to persuade you that Palatine really needs Anglo-Welsh , and they are evidently prepared to spend vast amounts of their shareholders ' money on national advertising to impress you . |
| 16 | Next year the British candidate gained the throne of the Carnatic ; the directors of the French Company decided that Dupleix had been wasting their shareholders ' money , and in 1754 they recalled him , which must at the time have struck everybody as a prudent step to keep expenses down . |
| 17 | Many quoted companies , which must satisfy their shareholders ' dividend expectations , are beginning to build up considerable amounts of unrelieved or surplus advance corporation tax ( ACT ) . |
| 18 | Their opponents ' difficulty was that they had not even read the original patent . |
| 19 | A FOOTBALL team is putting rivals in the shade — after painting their opponents ' dressing room PINK . |
| 20 | Wishful thinking made political partisans more optimistic about their own party 's prospects and more inclined to forecast their opponents ' defeat . |
| 21 | Tranmere , keen to salvage some Merseyside pride and also consolidate their own mid-table position , took full advantage of their opponents ' fatigue to claim the points with two exceptional goals . |
| 22 | The Pakistan camp were clearly peeved , and united in their conviction that they had been wronged , a conclusion based on a deep and enduring suspicion of their opponents ' stance . |
| 23 | Of course , locked up out in the suburbs , they would grow fretful , shrill , agoraphobic ; lash their daughters into a competitive frenzy of accessorising , pray for their sons ' success at swim meets the way a punter prays for his greyhound , wax the floors into glass to catch a glimpse of their own reflection . |
| 24 | These emphases , particularly as brought out in the typical case histories in a host of texts , revealed , we may suggest , the fear of masturbation as actually fixed in the minds of middle-class parents , disturbed by their sons ' unwillingness to live by the respectable sexual ideology , and attend to their duties and to future marriage . |
| 25 | The Palace said both Charles and Diana decided two weeks ago the statement should be made just prior to their sons ' Christmas break from school . |
| 26 | The others have been very positive about the programme , stating that they preferred to know about their sons ' condition from an early stage . |
| 27 | All seven families with a transient result were interviewed to gain their perspective of the programme and ensure they had no lingering doubts about their sons ' health . |
| 28 | There will be a written test of the representatives ' knowledge of law and procedure and ability to think through a problem and formulate advice and a practical assessment of the representatives ' ability to argue their clients ' case and intervene appropriately and assertively during interview . |
| 29 | Among the applications he foresees are remote auditing , where accountants could get instant access to their clients ' accounting systems via an on-line data link . |
| 30 | Against this background , firms have to improve their clients ' satisfaction , and the question is invariably how one starts a client care programme . |