Example sentences of "on their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we pray this prayer we join with those generous young men as they set out on their missionary journeys . |
| 2 | But the constraints on their existence implied by operating from open waste land or shacks have created a situation where they have little security , and the owners of such enterprises are discouraged from reinvesting a high proportion of their profits back into the business . |
| 3 | They talked to him of their lives as if by that they smeared some ointment on their existence . |
| 4 | Steadily , quietly , till we stumble on their existence with shocked surprise , pit after pit has been sunk and worked in the beautiful stretch of country which covers the eastern half of the county of Nottingham . |
| 5 | It may be , says George , that the public should be privy to the codes which doctors use to rustle up data on drugs on their TV screens . |
| 6 | Canadians long used to seeing environmental campaigners arguing with corporate polluters were stunned to turn on their TV sets and see Isaacs rubbing shoulders with Loblaws ' gnome-like marketing genius , David Nichols . |
| 7 | In my view our fellow Members , who lived with us cheek by jowl , were fully aware of my strengths and weaknesses and were unlikely to be impressed by pictures of me on their TV screens dressed in a striped apron and pretending to wash up in the kitchen , as had happened during the Tory leadership election . |
| 8 | Both needed to replace material ‘ unusable ’ after being seen by millions of viewers on their TV shows . |
| 9 | Since last May many of these same passers-by have come face to face on their TV screens with the agony , desolation and despair of the people of Ethiopia and the Sudan . |
| 10 | But I 've called into other tax offices and they too can get on their video screen y th your history from your tax office . |
| 11 | About 80 percent of the total descriptions could be unambiguously assigned to one of the 40 junctions , either because the subject knew the road names or described the junction or events in sufficient detail for the description to be uniquely associated with one situation on their video . |
| 12 | They stay up for hours watching the Wizard of Oz and Grease 2 again and again on their video upstairs . |
| 13 | You were set up for life with them , ’ Olive Fitzgerald of the Samaritans , bracing for a flood of calls over the next few months on their telephone helpline , told Reuters ' man . |
| 14 | But last night they at least could not be faulted on their spirit . |
| 15 | Customers are being urged to demand compensation for blunders at the same rate as the charges on their accounts . |
| 16 | Few of us felt any sympathy for them , because apart from the beatings which we had received on their accounts , we all knew the rules by now , and being caught and failing in any way was wrong . |
| 17 | Without the explicit power to charge depreciation , this effectively means that local authorities have to adopt the ‘ charge in lieu of depreciation ’ method of accounting and as such has a significant effect on their accounts ( see Chapter 9 ) . |
| 18 | Such customers generally provide information to the Bank on flows on their accounts and hence help in the process of predicting the cash position in the money market . |
| 19 | The buyers will pay for these securities with cheques drawn on their accounts with the commercial banks . |
| 20 | Her story was plastered all over the December issue of Playboy and every time he switched on the television , she was there repeating it all as a multitude of chat-show hosts clamoured to get her on their programmes . |
| 21 | Now they sat eagerly on the rows of brittle gilt chairs with red velvet seats , their exquisitely made-up faces carefully devoid of expression as they made brief notes on their programmes , pretending not to notice that sometimes the clicking cameras were directed not at the catwalk models , all of whom had already done a photo-call session for the photographers the previous day , but at them — the society women of America and the international circuit , the bored charity conscious wives of big businessmen , the famed actresses of stage and screen , even the occasional European princess . |
| 22 | The second reason for urban bias was the fact that the radio broadcasters themselves lived in the towns : the people who spoke to them and commented on their programmes were living in the same environment . |
| 23 | ‘ I say , is it really true that the French artillery had to fire on their infantry ? ’ |
| 24 | Ten years on their problems are behind them |
| 25 | Simply getting depressed clients to work in groups and focus on their problems in living has been found not to effect significant changes in level of depression ( Nezu , 1986 ) . |
| 26 | ‘ After we stuck five past Liverpool , everyone concentrated on their problems . |
| 27 | Practitioners and clients are the best experts on their problems so researchers need to make a greater effort to learn from and listen to practice . |
| 28 | In all cases , clients can benefit from our ability to bring all our multidisciplinary skills and resources to bear on their problems . |
| 29 | Orrell , whose county contingent have decided the club have prior claim on their services , are favourites for the league title , though Bath and Northampton , who play Leicester tomorrow evening , are pushing them hard . |
| 30 | Welfare services will have to respond to this and agencies will be increasingly required to produce clear written information on their services for parents and children and to ascertain and consider clients ' views when decisions are made . |