Example sentences of "with [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is expected some of the Manual will be suitable to be offered to the Contracts and Purchasing Working Group charged with producing their own procedures document for BS5750 . |
| 2 | In the last chapter we described how Bob and Joan Halton had been drawn together — had ‘ chosen ’ each other — by an unconscious preoccupation with handling their emotional greed . |
| 3 | Many of the great fortunes in this country are still in the hands of the landed aristocracy who tend to be preoccupied with maintaining their great estates and country houses , no doubt feeling that opening them to the public is in itself a form of patronage . |
| 4 | It would , however , be too simple to portray antislavery after the late 1830s as purely a scene of contending sects more concerned with maintaining their own kinds of purity than achieving anything practical . |
| 5 | The expense of improving the standards of qualification and training of both categories of investigator was high , but these days newly recruited Inspectors ( Ops ) usually have a current qualification on modern aircraft and the cost is concerned merely with maintaining their currency on these types and giving them the opportunity to fly light aircraft regularly . |
| 6 | ‘ Pineapple pyramids : I always felt that the Jews made them to mourn all the slaves before them that the Egyptians had broken with building their mighty pyramids . ’ |
| 7 | An indication of progress on the subject of SLCMs was provided on July 14 , when the US National Security Adviser , Brent Scowcroft , commented that ( Soviet ) proposals to ban SLCMs altogether ( in the light of perceived verification problems associated with ascertaining their numbers ) were " one of the open areas in the strategic arms negotiations ' ( the USA had formerly wanted to exclude SLCMs from the talks ) . |
| 8 | It would be inconceivable for pop musicians or film stars to be charged with bringing their profession into disrepute , but footballers are different , they are expected to bear the burden of representing values that few individuals can live up to . |
| 9 | The comparative stability of the oligopolistic structure in the United States may well have bred a complacency which Japanese and German capitalists , faced with rebuilding their position on world markets almost from scratch , could never afford . |
| 10 | It seems the Greeks were not satisfied with perfuming their clothes and their bodies : food and wine had to be scented as well . |
| 11 | But Stanislavskian actors are nevertheless concerned in rehearsal and other preparation time with tapping their own reservoirs of emotional memories to find within themselves a sophistication , subtlety or depth of emotional engagement so that in concentrating on the character 's actions , a wider , deeper range of emotions may be released . |
| 12 | Thus the primary motivation of professionals is public service rather than personal gain : doctors are concerned primarily with the health of their patients rather than with lining their own pockets . |
| 13 | During the 1960s and 1970s , three explanations in particular gained credence : conservatism ( men innovate , women stick more closely to traditional forms ) ; status consciousness ( women are more sensitive than men to the social meaning of speech and more concerned with elevating their own status through speaking ‘ properly ’ ) ; and feminine identity ( women are expected to talk like ‘ ladies ’ , that is , like middle-class speakers . |
| 14 | Turn right into er what is a very busy er road in any event at that time but that the dangers is that many drivers are becoming impatient with waiting their turn in the queue and what they 're doing is driving down on the wrong side of the road in order to utilise a little back road that 's a service road which runs alongside road and leads into Nightingale avenue . |
| 15 | The analysts were concerned at this point with improving their understanding , by taking the conceptual model of the IPS as a starting point , and using the instruments to explore the relationships between the model and the actual situation . |
| 16 | The majority of blacks are working class and many black organizations are directly concerned with improving their class situation . |
| 17 | During the academic year , the Institute runs special programmes , free of charge , on behalf of the University , for postgraduate students registered for a degree who need help with improving their English . |
| 18 | Those local education authorities which have begun seriously to seek a place in the curriculum of their schools for locally-used languages have in many cases to be content with providing their own in-service training on a relatively ad hoc basis . |
| 19 | After a while they seemed to get bored with kicking their legs in the air . |
| 20 | As a reform candidate Reagan had made clear his low view of legislators , presenting them as the tools of special interests , primarily concerned with feathering their own nests . |
| 21 | As the prospects of war increased , many children became obsessed with getting their parents out of Germany . |
| 22 | He threatened his crew with having their tongues cut out if they would not swear that they had sailed along the coast of the Indies ( they had , in fact , been sailing past Cuba ) . |
| 23 | His explanation begins by assuming that , as a matter of definition , dominant classes are well placed to put pressure on the institutions of the state , so that the interesting question is why they should ever put up with having their interests thwarted . |
| 24 | However , in Chipata , in Eastern Province , there were reports of shopkeepers threatened with having their trading licenses withdrawn and public workers dismissed for supporting the MMD . |
| 25 | Even if parents succeed in coming to terms with letting their children go , their best efforts are likely to be undermined by the ‘ dirty washing ’ gambit , or proprietorial claims to ‘ my room ’ which the child will not relinquish . |
| 26 | Even those who are acutely aware of these constraints have to be content with doing their job to the best of their ability , although they may be aware of the probable shortfall in impact of the whole project . |
| 27 | ‘ Some residents who were moved after the last round of home closures are now faced with losing their homes a second time , ’ said Mr Common . |
| 28 | There was some dissent in the Aube , but not a great deal , for there was little chance of enforcing the law and the Aubois were content with continuing their business of supplying those houses in the Marne which covertly required their wines . |
| 29 | Many companies delay payment as long as they can while maintaining an accounts section charged with chasing their own debtors for early settlement of accounts . |
| 30 | Many companies delay payment as long as they can while maintaining an accounts section charged with chasing their own debtors for early settlement of accounts . |