Example sentences of "their [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This focus on kinship had an influence on both Marx and Engels which culminated in their enthusiasm for Lewis Henry Morgan whose two principal books had a decisive effect on their later work . |
| 2 | If Bass & Co had to fork out £20,000 per tenant their enthusiasm for leases would swiftly fade . |
| 3 | Most puppies have a rather limited attention span , such is their enthusiasm for life . |
| 4 | As Sikes , Measor and Woods have found in their life history interviews with secondary teachers , many teachers regard examinations not as a constraint but as a resource for motivating pupils at an age when their enthusiasm for school might otherwise be waning . |
| 5 | My answer to this criticism was that teachers of English are virtually unanimous in their enthusiasm for literature , but need persuasion if they are to accept our recommendations for the teaching of grammar , Standard English and knowledge about language . |
| 6 | Fuji 's range of films , including Velvia and the print film Reala , reflects their enthusiasm for garden photography — an interest shared by our readers , to judge from the number of people who took photos of our Chelsea garden ! |
| 7 | Yet if they press home their advantage of games in hand , they will overtake Blackburn , who have shown a staggering decline recently and could be left to fight for a play-off place . |
| 8 | There are , however , homœopathists who carry about with them on their visits to patients the homœopathic medicines in the fluid state , and who yet assert that they do not become more highly potentised in the course of time , but they thereby show their want of ability to observe correctly . |
| 9 | Their judgement of people is based entirely on whether they are treated gently or harshly , kindly or unkindly , with love or with disdain . |
| 10 | This factor was identified by a number of DCSLs and , particularly in the earlier stages of the project where there was very little participation in the selection process by the inspectorate , was felt to have compromised their judgement of project " status " : |
| 11 | Candidates will be required to exercise their judgement on matters of appropriacy and adequacy . |
| 12 | Naturalists had to fall back on their judgement in family grouping ; and some then and since have followed Adanson , a great French contemporary of Linnaeus , in trying to weigh up all characteristics of an organism instead of taking one or a few as crucial . |
| 13 | SCOTTISH beef farmers could be offering live , prime cattle to new customers from a range of European Community countries by the end of the year if their governments could be persuaded to lift their ban on imports of British animals . |
| 14 | He has some very harsh words for the Japanese about their ban on Frankie Detory saying it 's shortsighted and harsh in the extreme and we 'll all say yes to that . |
| 15 | After a few weeks newspapers lifted their ban on match reports , and while the war was waged on the front page , the struggle for League points gathered pace on the back . |
| 16 | Their kind of experience was incalculable . |
| 17 | In future we could extend their kind of insurance benefit to people who are divorced , separated or unmarried and looking after children . |
| 18 | Asked why Stan and Ollie were so popular , he once said : ‘ Because there 's a lack of their kind of comedy . ’ |
| 19 | While it is impossible to either prove or disprove this estimate , as a matter of observation it is true that a high proportion of churches seem to attract ‘ their kind of people ’ . |
| 20 | In fact , he suggests , their kind of advertising is not about selling at all . |
| 21 | erm and you know and that would be their kind of bible get one with a lock on |
| 22 | So it is not only the inward patterning of particular species which makes creatures different , but individual members of a species are different , too , and most species can distinguish fellow members of their kind by sight , sound , smell or other senses and probably by behavioural patterns too , just as we do among our fellow humans . |
| 23 | These tugs built by John Lewis & Sons Ltd. in Aberdeen and more commonly known as water tractors were the first of their kind in Scotland . |
| 24 | A man was arrested and released on police bail in the first raids of their kind in Gloucestershire . |
| 25 | Explain why it is so important that everyone who benefits from Medau work should demonstrate their support through membership . |
| 26 | Of the 101 delegates , 100 evenly divided their support between Senator Stephen Loosley , the candidate of the right , and Barry Jones who was backed by the left . |
| 27 | MAY I express my thanks and those of the Willington Labour Party to the voters of Willington , Oakenshaw and Page Bank for their support on Thursday , February 20 in the Willington East by-election . |
| 28 | Lord Balfour thought it was Asquith 's duty to keep Baldwin in power , Lord Long that the Conservatives should offer their support to Asquith . |
| 29 | Key business figures , members of professional and trade organisations and financial institutions have already met and offered their support to Essex TEC to help potential Superstart candidates develop and grow their business ideas . |
| 30 | But the rest of Mr Foster 's vote looks soft , with many of the 1987 intake of Labour MPs switching their support to Mr Davies in protest at what they see as Mr Foster 's lax disciplinary regime over the parliamentary party . |