Example sentences of "as their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular West Ham and Poplar and a handful of other Boards with active Labour members went as far as their resources permitted in providing out-door relief and improved workhouse conditions even for the unemployed , even though they faced considerable opposition from the LGB . |
| 2 | Then , by watching and joining in with the children 's play , the balance of new and old can be altered as their interests change , without having everything in the water at once . |
| 3 | In some cases , though , the co-operation has to be institutional — the instruments of understanding , as well as their products , have to be held in common . |
| 4 | Recently-hatched dogwhelks ( plate 1b ) are found at the same level as their capsules and seem to prefer the empty cases of barnacles to the shells of living or dead mussels . |
| 5 | Stevie 's and Buck 's method were as different as their clothing . |
| 6 | Such an attitude derives from a centuries-old idea that the people of this country are not free and independent individuals whose rights are inborn , but vassals of the Crown , to be granted such privileges as their rulers see fit . |
| 7 | They probably adopted as their standard of ‘ homophonic polyphony ’ with clearly intelligible text the Preces speciales of the Italianized Netherlander Jacobus de Kerle ( c. 1532–1591 ) and his Mass ‘ Regina coeli ’ ; the ‘ special prayers ’ for the Council 's success had been commissioned by a German cardinal , Truchsess von Waldburg , in 1562 and were sung at Trent three times almost every week . |
| 8 | Behind Rayne stood his two servants , Ant and Monkey , as thin as their master was fat ; their job was to deliver the food to those who bid successfully for it . |
| 9 | I suggest they tire out their bodies as well as their brains by doing more physical work . |
| 10 | However , as their memberships declined in the less favourable atmosphere of the 1990s , they began also to provide ‘ friendly ’ benefits . |
| 11 | This appealed to them as their grocery listing had been long ticked to exhaustion and their husbands were all unsympathetic pathetics . |
| 12 | There are only two network providers — Cellnet and Vodafone — and as their licences prevent them from dealing directly with end users , this role is fulfilled by the service providers . |
| 13 | At least they can get out when the going gets rough , as their grandmothers could n't . |
| 14 | Smaller eels are not too much of a problem , but as their size increases , the options are few . |
| 15 | As far as their size is concerned , the 1966 White Paper envisaged that they would average about 2,000 full-time students each , together with a substantial number of part-time and occasional students . |
| 16 | The Labour Party saw its strongholds in Scotland and Wales endangered and some of the — younger members elected in 1964 and 1966 , who had been interested in devolution and governmental reform long before the nationalist challenge arose , saw this as their chance to press for a degree of devolution to an elected all-Welsh or all-Scottish council . |
| 17 | Such approaches probably owe a great deal to consideration of research by the National Children 's Bureau under Dr Mia Pringle and a consideration of children 's needs as well as their rights . |
| 18 | Yoshida stressed that labour unrest must be diminished so that trade unions and workers understood their responsibilities as well as their rights . |
| 19 | Hanson 's head-office managers , however , have no day-to-day managerial role : instead , they fix the business managers ' sights on shareholder returns , and reward or penalise them as their performance varies . |
| 20 | Drivers will be looking at the turbo variants , as their performance is more equivalent to petrol versions . ’ |
| 21 | Ministers should realize that ability to manage their Departments is as important to the country as their performance on the floor of either House or in Committees . |
| 22 | Valenzuela was fascinated by Gallardo 's willpower , and as their relationship changed Gallardo established a subtle ascendancy over his young captor . |
| 23 | As their relationship progressed , it was apparent that Mimi had the upper hand in terms of authority . |
| 24 | As their relationship develops , the comedy gets blacker and the eroticism more perverse . |
| 25 | As their relationship to the USSR is well known , the armed forces tend to attract the more pro-Soviet elements of the population . |
| 26 | ‘ Revenue and costs are accrued ( that is , recognised as they are earned or incurred , not as money is received or paid ) , matched with one another so far as their relationship can be established or justifiably assumed , and dealt with in the profit and loss account of the period to which they relate ; provided that where the accruals concept is inconsistent with the prudence concept , the latter prevails . ’ |
| 27 | He 'd be stuck there with Terry and Tom sitting as close to him as their chains would allow , hardly letting him finish a thought before jumping in with an idea that took them miles away from Brian 's original argument . |
| 28 | Free marketeers rejoiced as their predictions came true . |
| 29 | Beware of marker pens , as their ink tends to seep deeply into the wood . |
| 30 | The matter is complicated by the fact that across the social spectrum some families changed their surnames as often as their surcoats , and individuals had , in the course of their lives , sometimes as many as three or four surnames , any of which could be adopted quite haphazardly by their progeny . |