Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun] to their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it only incomers who protest at perceived threats or is there a true grassroots feeling about such changes to their way of life ? |
| 2 | In the county that has produced men of such credit to their country as Bruce and Burns , the name of John Dalrymple should be spoken of with shame . |
| 3 | Since the value of these slaves to their master lay so often in the slaves ' intelligence , initiative and skill , incentives ( such as the possibility of purchasing freedom ) were used more consistently than physical coercion as a means of persuading slaves to accept their inferior status . |
| 4 | We often find that people quite junior in the hierarchy have influence out of all proportion to their position because of their standing in the informal structure . |
| 5 | Here most of the hills are rocky and small , but since they thrust up their shapely , jagged features from lochan-speckled moors , they create a presence out of all proportion to their size : sort of miniature weathered sandstone versions of the Torridon giants . |
| 6 | Tiny though they were by today 's standards , they had a local importance out of all proportion to their size . |
| 7 | Take the example of Italy , where proportional representation has created permanent instability , with a series of coalition governments that have had to depend on several minor parties whose influence has been out of all proportion to their success in the polls . |
| 8 | Mr Ferris asks us to point out that one of the requirements of the UK Air Navigation Order is that the current registered owner of an aircraft must keep the Authority informed of any changes to their address or ownership details in order that the UK Register of Civil Aircraft can be kept up to date . |
| 9 | The visually handicapped pupils attending an ordinary school may be greatly helped by a physical and social environment that has been planned with some sensitivity to their special needs while retaining a challenging or ‘ normal ’ character . |
| 10 | Eventually an old gentleman who had been listening with much amusement to their discussion said that what mattered was not whether the earthworm has an immortal soul but whether it has a purpose . |
| 11 | There has been little methodological writing about them until very recently ; there are major researchers , such as Goffman , with many volumes to their credit , who have not published a single line on their techniques ; and , while quantitative data are conventionally available to other researchers for re-analysis , no such traditions exists in qualitative research ; field-notes , indeed are often jealously guarded . |
| 12 | In this run-in to their cup final , Southwick scored through Terry Liddington ( 2 ) , Nick Snelling , the Clutterbrook brothers , John and Mark , and Warren Bailey . |
| 13 | This entailed a study of the assessment objectives for the module ( made available to them in a handout from the syllabus ) and some consideration of the problems of presenting new language forms from these areas to their class . |
| 14 | By defining sites of special scientific ( mostly ecological and geological ) interest , and setting upper limits to catches of seals , fish and krill , between them these measures ensure that the Antarctic area will not be despoiled casually , and that its biological resources will not again be exploited without some reference to their capacity for sustained yield . |
| 15 | Protestant Unionists had begun to respond to this threat to their supremacy by organising a private army , the Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ) , said to have had the backing of the Conservative Party and the British military establishment . |
| 16 | Such discrimination is contrary to the principle of equal treatment of men and women regarding access to employment , which requires the setting up of a single list of successful candidates , without any regard to their sex , according to the marks obtained , and the hiring from this list according to the marks , irrespective of the candidates ' sex and the needs invoked by the employer , except in cases of occupational activities for which , by reason of their nature or the context in which they are carried out , the sex of the worker constitutes a determining factor . |
| 17 | Quite honestly , I think the whole species should be locked up , or banished to a penal colony in the South Seas where they could all shout at each other to their heart 's content and charge each other £32.6O for writing a letter . |
| 18 | Coleman 's introductory lecture began late in November , and students had to stay in London in the heat of the following summer , when in those pre-formalin days they cut up carcasses at some hazard to their health . |
| 19 | Julies are notorious for getting very upset at any alteration to their environment , especially when breeding and they then proceed to kill each other . |