Example sentences of "their [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The price the French exacted for their support was the deployment of the Castilian fleet against England . |
| 2 | And , I talked to other publishers erm , including a very large one which will be nameless and they have a pretty good spread and their experience was the same as ours . |
| 3 | As an initial hypothesis , this seems reasonable : given the amounts of money involved in the experiment , and the fact that their payment was the total over the eight periods of the experiment , this would seem to be a reasonable approximation . |
| 4 | An important part of their creed was the existence of classical measuring instruments . |
| 5 | Their favourite was the great Barbarian Conspiracy of AD 367 , and had the Great Casterton villa been dug in the nineteenth century , this would certainly have been considered a victim whereas , of course , the pottery is certainly not earlier than AD 375 , and maybe much later . |
| 6 | Boxing was also the sport in which blacks first grew to prominence in Britain , though , of course , their presence was the result of the predilection of the wealthy to engage their interests in the noble art and therefore encourage the cross-fertilization between Britain and America . |
| 7 | The liberal democrats and labour say their budget was the only way to prevent drastic cuts . |
| 8 | The factor which clinched their decision was the discovery of a house which they could only afford to buy if all three pooled their resources . |
| 9 | He explored her shamelessly , and his squeezing and probings froze something inside her , so that their effect was the exact opposite of what he intended . |
| 10 | I talked to the lady for some time and we seemed to like the same things , so I was pleased when their bid was the successful one . |
| 11 | And their amp was the Fleet Canteen . |
| 12 | One intellectual reason why Western Marxist writers accepted ‘ party discipline ’ and a rigid orthodoxy on their work was the conviction that the Bolshevik revolution ( and the spread of Marxist regimes to Eastern Europe , China , and Cuba ) had ‘ validated ’ the ‘ scientific ’ character of Marx and Engels ' work — credit which Communist thinkers also extended to Lenin 's reworking and extension of classical |
| 13 | Their breakthrough was the free loan of a large Victorian house . |
| 14 | Not surprisingly , effective kings worked well with their bishops , even when their morality was the subject of open criticism : weak kings are likely to have had very much less influence on their clergy , unless like Guntram they could command some ecclesiastical respect because of their piety . |
| 15 | The reason is often simple : their home was the one with the milk bottles left on the step , or a newspaper sticking out of the letter box ! |
| 16 | Their racialist Fascist policies and activities were a thorn in the flesh of Sir Oswald Mosley 's movement throughout the 1930s , and their flag was the Union Jack with a swastika in the centre . |
| 17 | But the injustice of their attitude was the undoing of their arguments . |
| 18 | To their right was the massive Arsenal . |
| 19 | To their right was the nave altar and behind that was the organ loft separating off the choir , presbytery and apse chapel . |
| 20 | They were able to show that at least one of the reasons for their failure was the immigration of insects from surrounding , untreated areas . |
| 21 | Another card the Iraqis kept up their sleeve was the helicopter gunship . |
| 22 | While these two strata took different paths , one working from within the tsarist regime and the other confronting it , their aim was the same : both sought forceful economic modernization of backward Russia , and both aspired to monopolize power over the distribution of wealth in the new society . |
| 23 | Nevertheless their aim was the expression of the experience of a knowledge which integrates human faculties , not a scholastic dissection of its separate parts , important though this is to the history of thought . |
| 24 | In their midst was the red bitch , standing rump-to-rump with the ā gri 's black-and-tan mastiff mongrel . |
| 25 | Many police inquiries brought one or two of those to the fore and mostly their motive was the uncomplicated one of gaining praise and attention . |
| 26 | Men abusing positions of trust by sexually assaulting teenage boys in their charge was the main focus of the reports on male sexual assault of males . |
| 27 | Among their group was the ‘ young ’ Frank Gilbride , now the Professional at Exeter Golf Club . |
| 28 | What we were looking for in Committee , and what the children 's legal aid centre was looking for , was a declaration that the Government 's signature to the United Nation convention on the rights of the child would be enshrined in the spirit of law in this country and that there would be independent panels that could look after the welfare of the children to ensure that their welfare was the primary consideration . |
| 29 | The best of the autograph collectors would not have accepted for one minute that their pursuit was the poor relation of manuscript collecting proper . |
| 30 | Their constituency was the silent majority of music paper readers that critics love to sneer at : students , ex-students , and those destined to be students ( sixth formers and fifth formers ) . |