Example sentences of "[be] [verb] their [noun sg] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're breaking their part of the contract now . |
| 2 | And they are losing their tradition of the food that they have been getting from Eastern Europe . |
| 3 | But the distinguishing feature of those films ( even if they can not quite be credited with inventing the conceit ) was what might be called their sense of the inverted anachronism . |
| 4 | Sri Lankans , who have lost two of their three main political leaders within eight days , will be asked their opinion of the remaining politicians at provincial elections on May 17th . |
| 5 | Serbs and Albanians rarely talk to each other now and are mutating their image of the opposing culture into something evil and sinister . |
| 6 | We take considerable heart from the knowledge that — despite the strain on educational resources — many teachers are showing their awareness of the importance of money management education to the future lives of their pupils by active efforts to integrate it into curricula . |
| 7 | Phonological spelling errors are often characteristic of good readers who are extending their use of the phonological strategy into an inappropriate task . |
| 8 | The multiples in particular are increasing their share of the market . |
| 9 | By the end of the year the country had become a republic and the king was on trial for his life ; the Girondins were losing their command of the situation , and some critics have seen Wordsworth 's departure from the scene at this point as evidence that he foresaw their fall from power ( which took place in the summer of 1793 ) . |
| 10 | Historians have correctly pointed out that to understand the kind of exchange that took place between Huxley and Wilberforce it is important to recognize that a major social transformation was taking place in which the clergy were losing their domination of the intellectual life of the nation . |
| 11 | It was immediately adjourned by the ruling Democratic Liberal Party when it became clear that the opposition parties were continuing their boycott of the legislature . |
| 12 | As Japanese , Thai and Khmer Rouge officials met in Bangkok to try to end the impasse , the Khmers Rouges suddenly announced on Aug. 27 that they were dropping their boycott of the peace monitoring process and would resume co-operation with UNTAC . |
| 13 | Indeed , in the pre-war years peasant households of this kind were increasing their proportion of the land , output and inventory of central Russia . |
| 14 | Rather the role of the Holy Spirit is to heighten their awareness of the problem and enable them to identify with those to whom they are called to speak . |
| 15 | Western feminists ' growing interest in differences between women is strengthening their awareness of the need for a more complex view of socialization . |
| 16 | What people are doing when they 're gambling on horses is placing their assessment of the horse 's chance of winning against the odds offered by the bookie . |
| 17 | Others feel outsiders are scuppering their chance of the bypass they have long wanted . |
| 18 | Jeff was voted their Player of the Year last season , but they 've let me have him for six months . |