Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] their [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I notice the government also talk about job seekers these days as opposed to people who are unemployed but for those who get up early in the morning or raise their head off the pillow as I do , see the business news on half past six on er B B C 1 . |
| 2 | reserve the seller 's title to the goods themselves ( i.e. until either the buyer has paid or else the goods are sold by the buyer or lose their identity in the buyer 's manufacturing or other process ) , and |
| 3 | The restoration of the monarchy and its patronage proved a particularly valuable source of wealth and position to those who had remained faithful or changed their allegiance with a careful eye to the future . |
| 4 | Most people find it easy to drink large quantities of calorific drinks , sweet or alcoholic , without in any way lessening or delaying their appetite for the next meal — and these drinks , and sugar itself , are perhaps the ultimate example of fibre-free calories . |
| 5 | They are employed by multinational companies which , during this period of structural change , have organized or reorganized their production on a worldwide basis with different parts of the production process carried out in different countries . |
| 6 | Every staff member who leaves , retires or ceases their employment of the Bank , should be replaced by a full-time official . |
| 7 | A NEW directory of scientific research projects at Oxford University is available free for companies looking for opportunities to collaborate with academics or transfer their technology to the marketplace . |
| 8 | There are mothers and daughters who can talk freely about sex , and mothers who send or accompany their daughter to the doctor to get the Pill , as Tracy 's mother had , but they tend to be the exception . |
| 9 | It is possible to regard the perceived characteristics of the universities as both strengths and weaknesses , to applaud or to regret their commitment to the ‘ guardianship ’ of knowledge and their resistance to performing the ‘ wider service ’ , and in both cases to end up with the binary policy . |
| 10 | Also , while I do n't desperately miss most of the extra facilities found on the big brother GP12 preamp , I really feel a balanced DI output would be a great advantage here when feeding a desk and would obviate the need for a separate DI box , as I 'm sure a large number of this combo 's potential users will be hoping to use it either in the studio or to reinforce their sound through a PA . |
| 11 | The posters on the walls were all the same old ones of 1950s legionnaires in tanks looking at the desert through binoculars , or cutting their way through the jungle with machetes . |
| 12 | Beginning to take responsibility for their own property , they may be proud to count how many paintings they have done or sort their work from the pile , to take home . |
| 13 | Here the blaze had started , killing Dame Frances whilst the rest of the nuns , given some warning , had managed to jump out of the windows or find their way down the outside stairs . |
| 14 | If someone catches a human soul or throws their spear into a human body thereby causing illness to the victim , then this is either plain bad luck or the direct result of some transgression which permits the animal/being to attack . |
| 15 | Visitors can see Barnaby 's bazaar of teddy bear souvenirs or try their luck at the tombola , where they could win one of the teddies donated by a celebrity . |
| 16 | The state has a monopoly over the use of coercion which is perceived to be legitimate only because those exercising such power have been democratically elected or derive their authority from a democratic legislature . |
| 17 | When they are supposed to be arguing about the rider or scrawling their name on the walls , they sit quietly down and start replying to fan letters , or in Solowka 's case , it 's off with the flat-cap and out with the calculator . |
| 18 | He was also alleged to have dragged or thrown their sister by the neck so as to cause bruising to the upper arm and neck . |
| 19 | But even when that linkage has been broken by the entrance of a new press owner — Conrad Black , Rupert Murdoch , David Stevens — the newspapers in question have either maintained or reasserted their commitment to the political right . |
| 20 | Women then feel a choice has to be made — one that has been socially determined — between attempting to conform or relinquishing their claim to a ‘ proper ’ sexual identity . |
| 21 | The linguists were allowed to diminish or extinguish their study of the sciences : the scientists , if they were to maintain a full programme in three separate sciences , had no time to waste on languages . |
| 22 | It may be argued that this is an appropriate restriction , since the law catches only those who disseminate or broadcast their propaganda on a wide scale , and not those whose correspondence is entirely private . |
| 23 | For instance , women may be forced to leave their job for domestic reasons or to follow their partner to a new job . |
| 24 | Not a single one of the millions of fish that fought their way up the river ever returns to the sea . |
| 25 | All of them sheep and cattle yes , even the savage beasts birds of the air and fish that make their way through the water . |
| 26 | It encourages individuals to make a personal pledge to change their lives in a way that minimises their impact on the environment — each of the eight pledges shown here will make a real difference . |
| 27 | Great cars helped to develop great drivers and wealthy Britons Lord Howe and Sir Henry Birkin were two of the many aristocrats that tried their hand at the sport . |
| 28 | A charge of magic bigger than he had ever seen was building up ; when he moved , in painful slow motion , his limbs left trails of golden sparks that traced their shape in the air . |
| 29 | Electoral studies of the period show that an increasing number of people were making their support for one or other of the main parties conditional upon the calculation of ‘ rational self-interest ’ or ‘ governmental competence ’ , rather than basing their voting upon a ‘ class reflex ’ . |
| 30 | It is much better to evaluate information needs and establish information flows in advance of the decision-making process than to discover their omission at a later stage . |