Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | History text-books invariably included in their titles such key-words as ‘ Decline ’ , ‘ Downfall ’ , and ‘ Eclipse ’ . |
| 2 | Few people are unwilling to give their organs posthumously — those that are , usually make their views clearer . |
| 3 | If that choice is not to the liking of those with voting power , many of whom will be ratepayers , they can make their views evident through the ballot box . |
| 4 | And finally , it offers hardware and software maintenance , which makes up the remaining 39% , and which Bland said the company is keen to develop as it provides a ‘ predictable cash flow and profits ’ — customers tend to renew their contracts year-on-year . |
| 5 | And , revealing their teeth first , the girls would go through their hoops . |
| 6 | Well everybody ought to go to the dentist if they want to keep their teeth nice and healthy . |
| 7 | Huddersfield Town .... 3 Nottingham Forest .... 3 ( aet ; score at 90 minutes 3-3 ; Forest win on away goals ) NOTTINGHAM FOREST , the Littlewoods Cup holders , stayed in the competition by the skin of their teeth last night at Leeds Road , where it took the League 's away goals regulations to defeat the otherwise indomitable spirit of Huddersfield in a stirring tie . |
| 8 | But I ca n't help feeling that sugar does n't do their teeth any good , and so I would n't recommend feeding them too much of it . |
| 9 | ‘ Otherwise , ’ they told their superiors last weekend , ‘ the people will be misled into thinking the bishops have withdrawn the letter . |
| 10 | A person felt safer if they kept their possessions close by them . |
| 11 | The case became a public examination of one of the most controversial episodes at the end of the Second World War when under the Yalta agreement the British were obliged to hand over to their authorities all East European prisoners . |
| 12 | How can we justify rich landowners taking public handouts while making their farmworkers redundant ? |
| 13 | Having burned their fingers two years ago , senior Ford executives will continue to press for change , but preferably not at the expense of another strike . |
| 14 | Many claimants and appellants are in a poor state of health , and are often not able to present their cases unaided . |
| 15 | First , there is no system at all for publishing information about individual determinations , or about the subject generally : and secondly , the parties themselves often agree to keep details of their cases confidential , and that agreement is a binding contractual obligation . |
| 16 | We note with approval the Management Group decision to speedily make copies of the non-confidential parts of their Minutes accessible to staff through deposit in the Library and the specialist gardens . |
| 17 | But although they 'd pursued the same career , that career had taken them in different directions , their meetings infrequent . |
| 18 | But their loving was a secret thing and their meetings furtive because of her parents . |
| 19 | Joe was still careful to keep their meetings secret lest some kind friend wrote about them to Terry , but Maureen and Sarah 's father made the meetings easier for them . |
| 20 | Sticks against the dashboards , diving , brakes on , down , down , down … the more reckless pilots dived down through the barrage , but those with more vivid imaginations pulled out of their dives several hundred feet above the shellbursts . |
| 21 | According to reports , large numbers were allocated to rural and border regions where conditions would be hard and opportunities to develop their talents scarce . |
| 22 | But overall , it does n't have the premises to give their talents full reign . |
| 23 | [ H. M. Colvin , A Biographical Dictionary of Architects 1600–1840 , 1978 ; Rupert Gunnis , Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660–1851 , 1953 ; John Frederick Harris , ‘ Pritchard Redivivus ’ , Architectural History , vol. xi , 1968 , and Catalogue of British Drawings for Architecture … in American Collections , 1971 ; Ted Ruddock , Arch Bridges and their Builders 1735–1835 , 1979 . ] |
| 24 | Pupils at Armstrong Primary School were back at their desks this morning . |
| 25 | Ministers arriving at their desks next week will find detailed briefs waiting for them and officials asking for decisions to be taken quickly . |
| 26 | The fourth of Ashby 's proposals consists of the introduction of special incentives to employers , both in the private and public sector , to take on to their payrolls those who have failed to find work , even though they have done everything asked of them — are actively seeking work , registered for a job , been a member of a Job Club and been on an ET course . |
| 27 | Our mum said it was a fantastic , she 'd never been , she said her and her mate was wetting their knickers all night . |
| 28 | Increasingly these came to employ London banking houses as agents to honour their bills drawn on London and to cash their notes payable in the City , either investing the realised funds or remitting cash into the country . |
| 29 | While a fervid interest in sex overpowered other girls , she listened to their confidences unmoved . |
| 30 | It has been tested on over 1000 people with anxiety problems , and will be further assessed in a mass trial on Warwick University students when they sit their exams next summer . |