Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The survival of many stone walls and buildings , and especially churches , from the centuries of this book , testifies that even before the mid twelfth century their wealth and pride and religious sentiment were sufficient to beautify them in lasting materials — and often , and especially with the smaller ones , their condition reflects the declining prosperity of later centuries which saved their older buildings from being replaced . |
| 2 | These modules provide students with the opportunity to plan and undertake a leisure and recreation programme which extends their current appreciation of what constitutes leisure and recreation activities . |
| 3 | Since then , Labour has never made a generous offer of co-operation with other Scottish groups or parties which recognised their differing views on home rule or democracy . |
| 4 | The appropriate change in day length causes the animals ' bodies to produce hormones which activate their reproductive organs . |
| 5 | ( 5 ) Sales of certain capital assets such as ships and aircraft which have their own registration formalities . |
| 6 | In particular , notice that the critical frequencies of m-derived T and Π-sections are determined by the general condition which renders their characteristic impedance zero or infinite respectively . |
| 7 | In the same boat close to the bottom of Yorkshire Division plunged to a 20–6 defeat who played their best rugby of the season . |
| 8 | This might have implications for the many companies which import computers made outside the European Community especially the " clone " importers who affix their own name to the equipment . |
| 9 | Similar arguments for the need for flexibility were given by employers in the entertainments industry who recruit their seasonal staff on open-ended contracts and , more particularly , by employers In the holiday camps sector . |
| 10 | We arrived at the border and ‘ commenced battle ’ with the Hungarian border guards who made their inevitable demand for ‘ whisky , chocolates , etc etc ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ We arrived at the border between Hungary and Romania ‘ commenced battle ’ with the Hungarian border guards who made their inevitable demand for ‘ whisky , chocolates , etc etc ’ |
| 12 | Teenagers who get their own way all the time interpret such laissez-faire permissiveness as indifference . |
| 13 | Helping Dr Kennedy in this campaign is a group of Labour supporters who want their national party to abandon its opposition to organising in Northern Ireland . |
| 14 | In exile she expected their first child , having left her husband in Russia ; he was later killed , and she suffered the blow of another death — her own child . |
| 15 | And what about the buggy pushers who hand their little darlings a picture book to keep them quiet while they browse through adult fiction ? |
| 16 | The new Moscow churches still followed the Byzantine ground plan and inside were decorated with Byzantine style mosaic and fresco on walls with few interrupting mouldings , but outside Renaissance ornament made its appearance , introduced by the Italian craftsmen who brought their new style with them . |
| 17 | She is one of the hard-working peers who take their political roles seriously . |
| 18 | Serbs say Albanians ‘ are Muslim fanatics who enslave their own people with cruelty and primitivism ’ . |
| 19 | As a ghetto they create their own lifestyles and moral values and often express theologies that are anti-Christian as well as anti-human — pelagian , Arminian and gnostic . |
| 20 | Over five centuries they developed their own art and architecture , which were derived from Greek and oriental sources , but adapted to their needs in Italy . |
| 21 | This week William and his horse Chaka have been training with the rest of the British team at Badminton … back in the spring they enjoyed their finest hour here when they finished seventh in the annual championships … |
| 22 | On Saturday they stretched their unbeaten run over the Edinburgh side to seven matches and hardly had to break sweat to do it . |
| 23 | When approached by a possible killer they hide their real heads and raise up the tips of their tails . |
| 24 | From this figure they deduct their estimated income from charges and central government grants together with any cash balances available for the purpose . |
| 25 | Boswell is the one who tells us the legend of the seahorse from the lakes who devoured a man 's daughter , and was eventually trapped by the lure of a sow on a spit ; from Boswell we learn that of the hundred-strong little army the Laird of Raasay mustered , eighty-six came back from Culloden ; Boswell chronicles the ash and plane trees , the limestone rocks , the caves and their stalactites , the black cattle , the plover , the pigeons and blackcock , the rainfall , nine months in a year , the juniper , the peat , the belief in the existence of a gold mine , and the women wawking or waulking the tweed , a tedious operation where the tweed is rubbed over and through water in order to shrink and thicken it ( in the outer Hebrides they add their own urine to the vat , although Bozzie missed that one ) , and the women sang a worksong to accompany the rhythmic labour , and did not succeed in drowning out Johnson 's deep voice as he asked them questions . |
| 26 | The choice is varied and students may take advantage of tuition in many sports or alternatively may organize their own programme of activities and book the various sports facilities at times which suit their academic timetables . |
| 27 | It was inevitable that this strength , particularly when confronted by such weakness , generated the belief in both countries that they could transact a peace settlement which safeguarded their respective concerns . |
| 28 | ( d ) Structure words which indicate relationship — words like on , in and under — may first be presented through objects which illustrates their particular type of relationship ( Mackey 1965 ) . |
| 29 | What they found was that the river bottom invertebrates which spend their larval stages among the gravel and pebbles on the riverbed plummeted in numbers immediately after the inundation . |
| 30 | In that country they first appeared in the mid-thirteenth century , groups of men who , under the leadership of enterprising leaders , contracted ( hence the name condottiere which they were given ) with individual city states which lacked their own armies but had the funds necessary to pay them , to guard their territory and maintain a measure of order . |