Example sentences of "[to-vb] their [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However existing members of a scheme prior to the change taking effect ( i.e. 1 June 1989 ) are not affected and are still entitled to defer their pension under the old rules , provided their employer is agreeable . |
| 2 | The period between May 1989 and February 1990 was dominated by the death in early June 1989 of the spiritual leader , Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini [ see pp. 36724-25 ] , and the struggle between " radical " and " pragmatist " factions within the Islamic regime and in the Majlis ( Parliament ) to establish their leadership in the post-Khomeini era . |
| 3 | Some small successes had already been achieved ; for example , by 1880 foreigners had agreed to entrust their mail to the Japanese postal system . |
| 4 | Will the Lord President urge the security services to concentrate their search for the alleged theft of information from hon. Members on the organisations that regularly spy on hon. Members , including the organisation that last week published a ludicrous volume full of slanders and innuendos about hon. Members ? |
| 5 | It now seems more fruitful to many political scientists and sociologists to concentrate their analysis upon the political structure and processes of change within fairly well defined types of political system — tribal societies , city-states , bureaucratic empires and other imperial regimes , absolutist states , socialist or capitalist industrial states , and so on — without attempting to locate them in some all-embracing historical scheme . |
| 6 | Oxford United hope to secure their place in the second round of the Coca Cola Cup tonight . |
| 7 | In the absence of any express directions the parties are expected to adduce their evidence in the following order ( FPCR , r21(3) ; FPR , r4.21(2) ) : ( i ) the applicant ; ( ii ) any party with parental responsibility ; ( iii ) other respondents ; ( iv ) the guardian ad litem ; ( v ) the child if there is no guardian ad litem ( or he is conducting his own case or giving instructions to a solicitor on his own behalf ) . |
| 8 | While Dennis and Millie and the first four of their children , Jean , Carol , Suzette and Noel , had headed for the prosperous southern city of Melbourne , Dennis and Joan Riddiford decided to try their luck in the tougher climate of Cairns , in northern Queensland . |
| 9 | They include a party of German businessmen , keen to try their hand at the traditional Highland Games sports of shot-putting and caber-tossing , and a group of Australians . |
| 10 | So they have to find their way into the international financial system , where they can be given a veneer of legality . |
| 11 | Both powerplants are unlikely to find their way into the five-door shell . |
| 12 | With industries and jobs disappearing around them as they still try to find their way in the new Germany , many east Germans find it comforting to enjoy some harmless fun where , for once , they get the upper hand . |
| 13 | Indeed the ability of the newcomers to find their way around the local political system has often prompted the improvement of other rural amenities , albeit on a highly selective basis . |
| 14 | Introducing the collection of essays , Crisis in the Humanities , in which Steiner 's essay appeared in 1964 , J. H. Plumb calls for " less reverence for tradition and more humility towards the education systems of those two great countries — America and Russia — which have tried to adjust their teaching to the urban , industrial world of the twentieth century " . |
| 15 | Active during the day as well as at night , they appear to adjust their pace to the human by-products on which they depend , such as scraps from butchers shops and other handouts . |
| 16 | The Vichy authorities in Lebanon ordered French troops loyal to Petain to stand their ground against the Allied invasion from Palestine in 1941 . |
| 17 | In Washington , US Administration officials said the soldiers — members of the elite Green Berets — feared the rebels had left booby traps behind and waited for Salvadorean troops to work their way to the sixth floor , on which the soldiers were trapped . |
| 18 | Moreover , once imbalances have been created , they tend to work their way through the higher age groups in situ . |
| 19 | Many other contemporary examples of both national as well as international institutional policy in which the market is seen as the only means to improve peasants ' and pastoralists ' incomes and to increase their contribution to the national exchequer can be found in Heyer , Roberts and Williams ( 1981 ) . |
| 20 | As the contribution of Britain to the UNHCR is very much greater than that of France or Germany , will my right hon. Friend encourage our European partners to increase their support for the vital work of refugee relief ? |
| 21 | Everton always looked the more competent side and were unlucky not to increase their lead in the 50th minute . |
| 22 | Everton always looked the more competent side and were unlucky not to increase their lead in the 50th minute . |
| 23 | The band were forced to cancel their appearance at the recent MTV awards ceremony due to Gallup 's ill health . |
| 24 | Italians were now coming to the fore in car racing thanks to Alfa , and Nuvolari joined the team as the man to spearhead their attack on the German manufacturers . |
| 25 | it is your duty as a manager or supervisor to tell your subordinates all that they need to know to perform their work to the best of their ability |
| 26 | Individuals are required to perform their job to the full , but not to overstep the boundaries of their authority . |
| 27 | For some chairmen , moreover , the prospect of playing Father Christmas ( which their rural electrification largesse offered them ) provided a not entirely unwelcome opportunity to affirm their commitment to the local community , and the voices of discontent raised against the policy were few . |
| 28 | The League had little alternative but to disband and thus allow its members to continue their campaign within the Labour Party as individuals . |
| 29 | Equally , women like Susannah and Andrea have chosen to continue their work in the grant-aided sector but at some point that option may no longer remain open to them . |
| 30 | Mentally handicapped adolescents are now able to continue their education beyond the school-leaving age to nineteen , and incorporate the essential social skills for independent living as adults wherever possible . |