Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [to-vb] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However they confirm that farmers who had claimed for more quota than they had ewes would be given ‘ around ’ two months after the statutory instrument had passed through Parliament to secure their extra rights to ewe premium and to notify the authorities of the transfer . |
| 2 | ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS : Grateful thanks are extended to Robertson Research International Limited for permission to use their Southern North Sea reflectance data in this study . |
| 3 | Two methods used by the smuggling firms are bribing local officials to allow them to dump waste in landfills and offering to build ( often low-quality ) incineration and energy-producing plants in destination countries in exchange for permission to burn their toxic waste there . |
| 4 | Because educational institutions are largely staff ed by professionals , there has , in the past , been a tendency to allow individuals a lot of freedom to use their professional judgement in deciding how best to achieve the aims of the organisation . |
| 5 | Previous nudes , even when taking the form of courtisanes , never allowed the odour of money to tarnish their classical form ; in Olympia , money is clearly at issue , sex becomes a commodity . |
| 6 | By 1830 the number of towns which had obtained Acts of Parliament to have their own Courts of Requests or Courts of Conscience , on the lines of those established in London in 1749 , had risen to fifty-four . |
| 7 | It is essential to provide places where the more sensitive species of marine fish can retire and a few pieces of rock to simulate their natural reef environment makes for a much more natural and stress-free environment . |
| 8 | ‘ You could n't supply the children of Wales with a toothbrush or tube of toothpaste to promote their oral health with that budget , ’ he declared . |
| 9 | They let them surge out at the gate and shake themselves loose of restraint to take their several ways . |
| 10 | Most oil or liquid gas tankers and dry bulk vessels , are not likely to issue many bills of lading to cover their full cargo load . |
| 11 | The wide mouth might be thought of as a kind of lawn mower for taking up vast quantities of grass to support their huge bodies . |
| 12 | The whole country functioned upon the basis of a unitary and centrally-determined plan and budget , which greatly limited the scope for lower levels of government to choose their own priorities . |
| 13 | It suggested that some polytechnics and colleges should be given complete autonomy by the Secretary of State to validate their own courses ; others should be allowed more limited autonomy , in specific areas ; while in yet others external validation should remain . |
| 14 | The Elle-men are stooped and old , and are happiest when lying in a pool of sunlight to warm their withered limbs . |
| 15 | Sotheby 's sale at the Billingshurst outstation on September 19 ( FP November , p30 ) included an interesting collection of material to accompany their continuing attempt ( albeit largely unsuccessful ) to sell full-size aircraft . |
| 16 | Under the existing system , royal governors entrusted with judicial and tax-collecting powers ‘ fed ’ upon the local population , using their very brief tenure of office to line their own pockets . |
| 17 | It is wise to vary the drilling order so that students can not calculate when their turn will come and have a lot of time to prepare their next sentence . |
| 18 | The Government 's aim is to decide all cases within a matter of months so that all those affected do not have to wait an inordinate length of time to ascertain their legal status in the U K. It 's obvious to everyone not too blind to see that such changes are vital to the mounting pressures on the existing system |
| 19 | Schools will be free under LMS to make their own spending decisions ; LEAs are to assess the cumulative educational effect of these decisions . |
| 20 | The other was more subtle ; by housing his workers in the country , where life was far healthier than in the crowded tenements of the city , he could provide them with space to grow their own vegetables . |
| 21 | As often happens , this younger generation of ‘ Tractarians ’ who were leading the crusade on the side of ‘ collectivism ’ joined forces with the older generation like J. A. Macfadyen who had remained Calvinist in their views and ‘ deplored the modern nondenominational spirit , the temper of indifference to questions of church order ’ , the spirit which saw local churches as ‘ mere voluntary associations for religious purposes , with power to determine their own polity and prescribe their own sphere of action ’ . |
| 22 | They are siblings who feel they have to disagree violently with mother to demonstrate their own independence . |
| 23 | The two times world champion , now rated No. 72 , trailed Stevens 5-4 overnight but , without having to produce his best form , he won the next six frames in succession to win their third qualifying round tie . |
| 24 | Still able to see the problem , they no longer knew where to find its solution , and seemed happy in consequence to embrace their own annihilation . |
| 25 | Le Coq Blanc — a pause from haymaking to admire their fine cockerel . |
| 26 | Each of the group members presents one of the units , and takes it in turn to entertain their fellow travellers by talking about their interests in life or about their travels . |
| 27 | It is here that each year graduating students resplendent in academic dress gather with their families and colleagues in attendance to receive their hard-won degrees . |
| 28 | Though the generals were brought to some sort of obedience by the Cortes and the Regency , in the provinces they used the ‘ egoism ’ of the Juntas and their endless disputes with the relics of the old administration in order to extend their own power . |
| 29 | The Webbs , who had little sympathy with Liberal cosmopolitanism , were happy to come to terms with the imperialist agenda in order to promote their own brand of statist socialism . |
| 30 | A dominant characteristic of the location-factor school is its focus on the particular features of areas in order to explain their relative fortunes . |