Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] to their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the fact that the royal scholars had found conservative rather than revolutionary arguments to support their case only added to their appeal , and Henry read the Collectanea with interest and approval in the late summer of 1530 . |
| 2 | NO 2 column amounts remain low during winter and in the springtime polar vortex , and later in spring gradually recover to their summer maximum values . |
| 3 | One way of summarizing the results of European economic progress before 1914 is to group nations roughly according to their increase in wealth . |
| 4 | More importantly for long-run , strategic competitiveness , US firms have emphasised technologies best suited to their home markets , not necessarily the global ones . |
| 5 | Many parents bitterly objected to their loss of control over their children ( and particularly to the violence of ritualised corporal punishment ) . |
| 6 | Although some clinics still refer to their patient by number , most have now adopted the more human approach of calling people by their names . |
| 7 | Labour MP Tam Dalyell yesterday said : ‘ The fact that these allegations are made in a book generally praising the conduct of British troops only adds to their seriousness . |
| 8 | Cut off from God 's communion and divine love , the rebels still clung to their leader Lucifer , their fallen star , who still glowed with forgotten glory and the heat of defeated bitterness . |
| 9 | J. G. Frazer in his monumental work on folklore in the Old Testament maintained that the belief that the gods revealed themselves and declared their will to mankind in dreams was widespread in antiquity ; and accordingly people resorted to temples and other sacred spots for the purpose of sleeping there and holding converse with the higher powers in visions of the night , for they naturally supposed that the deities or the deified spirits of the dead would be most likely to manifest themselves in places specially dedicated to their worship . |
| 10 | Flowering plants also respond to their environment as shown by the charming example of Linneaus , flower clock ( Table 1.1 ) . |
| 11 | The drawbacks mainly relate to their atypicality ( especially if the case has been chosen because it is ‘ interesting ’ ! ) , to issues of selection of events and confidentiality . |
| 12 | " endeavour to find out a person both to answer to their expectation and those of the Town , and … to superintend and assist him for a while . " |
| 13 | Political agents in the UK often refer to their candidate as ‘ an unfortunate necessity ’ . |
| 14 | Their inability to see or echolocate over longer distances undoubtedly contributes to their frequency of net entanglement . |
| 15 | Rangers rarely respond to their outcry when a person is trampled to death by the same beasts . |
| 16 | This rate also applied to their Cessna 172 , and the 152s were even cheaper : £31 dual and £25 solo . |
| 17 | This belief , or something similar , is to be found as the basis of almost all religious writings , which are , after thousands of years still holding millions of people completely committed to their acceptance . |
| 18 | Almost three-quarters of city residents felt that their neighbourhood was a good or excellent place to live , whilst around two-thirds felt strongly attached to their neighbourhood ( Ahlbrandt and Cunningham , 1980 ) . |
| 19 | Contemporaries believed that the English archers played a decisive part in the victory , but poor leadership and indiscipline in. the French forces also contributed to their downfall . |
| 20 | However , local authorities have had a duty , since 1968 , to provide adequate sites for gipsies normally resorting to their area and , where they have done so to the satisfaction of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment , they have criminal powers to remove illegal campers . |
| 21 | Each job has a close relationship between the performance of the task and the immediate reward of money ( conversely , they avoid salaries in preference for commission payments or fees directly related to their performance ) . |
| 22 | Three more — Joseph Cicippio , Edward Tracy and Frank Reed — were seized in 1986 by kidnappers newly alerted to their value in Hawks and TOWs , giving a net result of zero . |
| 23 | Commentators frequently referred to their objective as a " velvet divorce " ( to follow the " velvet revolution " of November 1989 ) . |
| 24 | It is then possible to argue that the so-called terraces really represent parts of a single warped surface , but a close study of the altitudes usually leads to their interpretation as distinct terraces . |
| 25 | Some of our cathedrals regularly add to their repertoire in this way . |