Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Added to this , small scattered rural communities with high levels of unemployment can not easily raise all the funds they need in their own area . |
| 2 | Added to this , small scattered rural communities with high levels of unemployment can not always or easily raise all the funds they need in their own area . |
| 3 | Added to this , small scattered rural communities with high levels of unemployment can not easily raise all the funds they need in their own area . |
| 4 | Likewise , leasing companies were unlikely to be able to retain more than one third of the aircraft they ordered on their own balance sheets . |
| 5 | They derive narcissistic satisfaction from their cultural ideals when they compare themselves with others ; ‘ … the right to despise the people outside it ( their culture ) compensates them for the wrongs they suffer within their own unit ’ . |
| 6 | Drawing upon their experiences they produced in their own country buildings which echoed those of Imperial Paris , as anyone familiar with the architecture of , say , Philadelphia and Washington , will readily admit ( in the autumn of 1978 the city of Philadelphia recognized its debt by staging , in its Museum of Art , an exhibition devoted to the Second Empire ) . |
| 7 | All the same , Americans are naturally most comfortable with what they know , and Mr Major 's win is obviously welcome to people in power — both for reassuring them about their closest ally in Europe and for the omens it casts on their own politics . |
| 8 | Once Fanatics are in place they move during their own turn at the beginning of the movement phase once charges have been declared . |
| 9 | Fatness may indicate avoiding the deprivation they experienced in their own childhood . |
| 10 | The experiments in mortification they performed on their own faces — the piercings , the pallor . |
| 11 | Previously Manupur had been divided into a number of well-defined hereditary and hierarchically ordered groups or castes whose jobs , social status and economic relationships ( i.e. the share they got of their own and each other 's profits ) were pre-determined by tradition . |
| 12 | That they are not ‘ ends in themselves ’ , to continue with Kantian terminology , simply marks the contrast with human beings whose desires and needs operate within the context of the pattern they impose upon their own lives . |
| 13 | As important as the planned content of teaching — the knowledge , skills and understandings of the National Curriculum — are the messages conveyed to children about their status as learners , about the value of the ideas and understandings they bring to teaching encounters , about the control they have over their own learning , about what it is to be a successful learner . |
| 14 | Passengers liked them for their smooth ride , comfortable seating and the good views they gave from their many windows . |
| 15 | In church they kept to their own groups , but here they jostled shoulder to shoulder , watchful and sulky . |
| 16 | HELPLINE , the Institute 's computerised information service can provide busy managers with all the information they need via their own personal terminals . |
| 17 | In the main they relied upon their own convictions and inspirations and on secondary sources of various kinds . |
| 18 | Further evidence that children are attentive to Conventionality comes from the repairs they make to their own lexical choices . |
| 19 | That would give the electricity supply industry the free run of the distribution network , while consumers could signal in any way they liked on their own mains wiring without bothering anyone . |
| 20 | It it was about ten to , five to eleven mm Bob said you know cos we went , me Ron Bob went in in Shirley 's car and er cos Dave and Tracy they come in their own car because Sarah was not feeling very well so they had . |
| 21 | An integral part of the removal of barriers between member states has been and remains the implementation of the fundamental principle of Community law that member states should not discriminate against one another and should assimilate the treatment they accord to nationals from other member states to the treatment they accord to their own nationals . |