Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] their [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ivan the Terrible had not only decimated their ranks during the oprichnina but had eroded the distinction between their hereditary property ( votchina ) and the conditional terms of the pomestie by establishing a norm of military service to be borne by all estates . |
| 2 | I 've already given their names to the constable in the library . |
| 3 | It speculated that some 20,000 deaths might have come about during the forced evacuations from Moslem villages , and estimated that the Bosnian Serbs had already largely completed their plans for the creation of homogenous Serb-populated areas . |
| 4 | In 1793 the first Republican French ambassador received a rapturous welcome when he arrived off Seraglio Point , his ship flying the Ottoman , Republican French and American colours , ‘ and those of a few other powers that had not sullied their arms in the impious league of tyrants ’ . |
| 5 | Michael Jackson , Ringo Starr and Madonna have already lent their voices to the popular cartoon series . |
| 6 | With both teams having already secured their places in the knock-out stages of the competition , home advantage in the quarter-finals is at stake in Saturday 's clash . |
| 7 | If , however , local authorities had not exercised their powers by the end of 1911 , then further JACs could be established . |
| 8 | But , as Oliver has already challenged their whereabouts on the evening Sabine was killed , I will say this : on that evening the Josephs were at that man 's house . |
| 9 | That is apart from the colossal cost of fitting cars with the number plates and finding out which cars needed to be fitted , catching drivers who had removed the plates , sending out bills , dealing with drivers who said they had not driven their cars on the date in question , and many another items . |
| 10 | Among the champagne houses that have already increased their prices to the wine trade are Moet et Chandon ( 9.6 per cent ) , Laurent Perrier ( 4.9 per cent ) , Bollinger ( about 3 per cent ) and Lanson ( about 4 per cent ) . |
| 11 | As a direct consequence of our sampling decision ( see above ) , most of the schools in the survey had already submitted their reports to the Education Committee . |
| 12 | The European companies were hoping to meet the deadline set by the International Radio Consultative Committee for the presentation of technical proposals for a new system which , once chosen , would effectively set a world standard , Japan and the USA having already submitted their applications to the Committee . |
| 13 | Ninety percent of them said yes , that it depends on how you present the figures , so in actual fact I wonder how our tenant farmers all of a sudden find themselves in a position that they perhaps would rather sign a petition and not put their heads above the parapet bearing in mind you are in a community , bear in mind you are connected , bear in mind that your livelihood is with those others and I have to say it is true that a certain business in my area connected with farming has been threatened . |
| 14 | Sixty people have already lost their jobs at the Norfolk Smokehouses food processing plant . |
| 15 | Many councils have employed too many staff over the years , have been too inefficient , and have not maintained their homes for the elderly and residential care homes as well as they should have done . |
| 16 | It should also be possible for students who have not achieved their goals by the end of the fifth year to make good in the sixth form or at college . |
| 17 | They may have already informed their masters of the contents of the letter . ’ |
| 18 | For example , managers of large companies have usually reached their positions through the traditional channels of manipulating the personal ties of kinship , compadrazgo , clientelism and friendship and also through the modern channels of merit , that is , acquiring qualifications and skills . |
| 19 | They have gradually refined their techniques over the years , with additional factors , such as ley length , continually being built in to the equation . |
| 20 | They were also asked their views on the quality of referral letters in general . |
| 21 | They had both lost their fathers in the same year , Preston 's having fallen victim to leukaemia , William 's to the charms of Another Woman , and this had left William 's grandad as the only adult male presence in both households . |
| 22 | Buoyed by their success , workstation makers have now turned their attentions to the $10 billion personal-computer market . |
| 23 | He said that officials had now halved their projections of the number of Soviet Jews set to arrive in 1991 , and now expected some 200,000 , or only slightly more than in 1990 ( 185,000 ) . |
| 24 | The Democrats had correctly concentrated their efforts on the more heavily-populated states , as was shown by the electoral college victory of 303 to 219 . |
| 25 | CNC machine tool manufacturers have often promoted their products with the claim that they can be operated by unskilled operators , and it was widely believed for some time that engineering companies were taking the opportunity given by the introduction of CNC machine tools to replace skilled craft workers by unskilled or semi-skilled operators on the shop-floor , and putting white-collared technicians in the programming office . |
| 26 | At least four ministers had reportedly lost their seats in the election , and Namaliu himself secured re-election in his Kokopo constituency by a margin of only 358 votes . |
| 27 | The other irritant was the discovery by hundreds of English-speaking Quebeckers , who had courageously chosen to send their children to schools where the teaching is in French , that they had thereby deprived their grandchildren of the right to be taught in English if they wished . |
| 28 | Shortly before five o'clock the sepoy cavalry made an attack near the Cutcherry but fortunately the men had not yet left their positions at the rampart . |
| 29 | Beyond the town , the old county boundary is crossed , Caithness being left for Sutherland , both of these ancient counties having now sadly lost their identities in the new-fangled administrative area known as the Highland Region — one hopes that Caithness will for ever remain Caithness and Sutherland Sutherland in the minds of Scotsmen : historical associations should not be trampled on by modern bureaucracy . |
| 30 | Why do you think so few people in your kind of position have actually stuck their heads above the parapet and cried ‘ No ’ ? |