Example sentences of "[verb] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discussing statements like these and saying whether they agree with them or not gives children an opportunity to consider views which conflict with their own and to modify their existing views . |
| 2 | Since this situation is likely to continue for the foreseeable future , professional social workers and social work educators need to modify their profession-centred view of service provision in order to make the best use of available personnel . |
| 3 | To this extent it may be correct to say that there is a rule of law against the application of an exceptions clause to a particular type of breach … and in Photo Production v Securicor Lord Diplock recognised that the parties are free to modify their contractual obligations " within the limits that the agreement must retain the legal characteristics of a contract " . |
| 4 | To prepare multilayer films , the Israeli scientists first needed to modify their special molecule . |
| 5 | But given the reluctance of businessmen , their legal advisers , and their legislatures to modify their national law in favour of harmonization measures it is perhaps worthwhile restating the advantages of harmonization . |
| 6 | It is probably in this area that the House of Commons has had most effect in persuading governments to modify their original proposals . |
| 7 | The singles Heartache and Goodbye Stranger both reached the top 20 , and countless magazines profiled their public and private lives . |
| 8 | Campaign badges and honour markings , yes , those of course , on the greaves protecting their right shanks — in many cases quartered and augmented with extra honours . |
| 9 | A pamphlet produced by the Department of Trade and Industry ( The Single Market — an action checklists for business , May 1989 , HMSO ) perhaps best sums up how companies can take advantage of the single market in terms of protecting their existing markets and developing new markets . |
| 10 | ‘ They are protecting their miserable skins while Ireland falls further into my grasp . ’ |
| 11 | The skua colony turned out to be impressive , with few eggs but a host of great and Arctic skuas all intent on protecting their chosen nest site at all costs . |
| 12 | These models suggest that women 's and men 's subjectivities stem from female and male animals , universally different interests , in protecting their genetic investments and spreading their genes widely , respectively . |
| 13 | Poland and Lithuania have signed an agreement aimed at protecting their natural environment . |
| 14 | It does have a its prime function is erm protecting the coalescence of Harrogate and Knaresborough and and protecting their special character . |
| 15 | Residents of Horncastle , Lincoln and Boston were the next to suffer their nefarious practices , then they faded into the night , only to reappear in Dublin . |
| 16 | This level , however , has been achieved by many of the developing countries today and expansion of their secondary and further education sectors will not by itself solve their economic problems . |
| 17 | McGhee himself later confessed : In retrospect I am amazed at our confidence , at the time , in our country 's ability to help these people [ Arabs and others ] solve their enormous problems . |
| 18 | If the rails are not bent they may be covered with drifting sand so that the train can only creep along , making it a perfect target for anti-government tribes who like to vent their political frustrations on the train . |
| 19 | Most of the parents , however , had come intending to talk about their boys , either out of a genuine or an assumed interest in them ; and few of them were prepared to waste time on Onyx when there were real teachers on whom to vent their parental concern . |
| 20 | The two men just want to brew their traditional beers and make enough money to live on , but as things stand it 's becoming more and more difficult . |
| 21 | On the contrary it seems on the face of it to be likely that with some learners a conscious awareness of how language works and the subjection of their experience to analysis would suit their cognitive style , increase motivation by giving added point to their activities , and so enhance learning . |
| 22 | One of the most striking features of IBM 's lamentable personal computer business is that there is not a single reason embedded in the hardware why IBM mainframe and AS/400 users should buy their personal computers from IBM rather than from its army of tormentors led by Compaq Computer Corp : presumably few customers have actually asked IBM for 3270 and 5250 emulation in ROM on the motherboard at no extra charge in its PS/2s — or perhaps IBM thought that would kill off its dumb tube business and resisted until it was too late — now it makes no money on personal computers and sells few dumb tubes . |
| 23 | Every summer they bloated on the surfeits of the garden and waddled hopelessly about like feathery puffballs , pondering , I thought , on the unlikeliness of launching their fat selves into the laughing air again . |
| 24 | And next month the port 's owners , Sealink , will hit back by launching their fast Sealynx service . |
| 25 | This kind of crying may have to be relearnt by those whose early life experiences have distorted their natural capacity . |
| 26 | With reduction in costs as a key objective for Banks , they hope that staff loyalty to customers will allow them to widely market their new hours without properly managing these issues . |
| 27 | Simpson angrily jerked their manacled hands down again . |
| 28 | However , when that same individual is observed spending some of its vital time and energy budget assisting others to survive or rear their young the logic of Darwin 's theory would suppose it to be engaged in activities that would tend to lower its biological fitness . |
| 29 | Their captain ( for so I must term him — though their forces understand no battle order and hurl themselves pell-mell on us like mere animals who must quench their parched throats with blood ) , a certain youth who is called Dulay to his people , with a trick of the eye that makes him seem to look at you and yet not see you ( and other tricks beside — I have seen this same swart creature climb a ladder into the air as if it were a tree planted there foursquare ) , we apprehended as he fled from our justice . |
| 30 | Yet no Scot who regularly watches BBC 's Rugby Special , and has seen for himself the standard of much of the club game in Wales , will doubt their latent capacity to erupt in attack . |