Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] with their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overlap with the districts needs to be eradicated , it 's a black hole at the moment , every district can pass a its surplus on to another district , and indeed it would be the last district to prepare a district wide local plan that has to meet the residue of the Greater York requirement , it may maybe a good stimulus for the districts to get on with their local plans , but that 's not an planning way . |
| 2 | In a parallel development , the old fruit and vegetable market was rapidly becoming the Right-On commercial centre where trendy shopkeepers cashed in with their hand-knitted sweaters , ethnic crafts and designer clothing . |
| 3 | It can bring together polar opposites in a way that would never happen in London or LA , where musicians hang out with their own kind . |
| 4 | There is fat chance of that for as long as the Government allows the banks to carry on with their grasping one-way policy . |
| 5 | The mice and rats have simple , slender spines mixed in with their ordinary fur . |
| 6 | No wonder Inspector Blakelock was often so quiet ; that when the police officers came in with their hearty banter he answered only with that slow , gentle smile . |
| 7 | European manufacturers are afraid of getting left behind if the emerging handheld personal communicators generate a sudden rush of consumer excitement , and rather than wait for their labs to come up with their own local products , are weighing putting their names on one of the American products and manufacturing it locally . |
| 8 | Towards evening the owls start up with their eerie hooting and screeching . |
| 9 | The children met up with their new foster parents , Bill and Janet Matthews . |
| 10 | None of the people on stage knew what was happening , the girls continued to sing their plaintive song and the other men danced on with their own pieces of chiffon , hoping that Ken would go away and disappear for ever . |
| 11 | they feel confident in using the term ‘ success ’ to describe the experiences of the majority of these families and children and there is little evidence that a group of similarly aged white children growing up with their natural parents would not include a number of children experiencing similar or greater difficulties'. ( pp. 132–3 ) |
| 12 | It will ask why women put up with their subordinate position in society , or rather , examine the strength of the pressures which make it difficult for women to produce social change despite their continuing attempts to do so . |
| 13 | Major areas of application of consumer multimedia include music , games , home education and self-improvement , popular reference , ‘ how to ’ applications such as DIY , car maintenance etc , and child-minding software designed to keep children quiet and entertained while adults get on with their own lives for short but blissful periods of time . |
| 14 | The variation in the proportion of students carrying on with their full-time education was large , as Table 4.4 shows . |
| 15 | Identical twins growing up with their own image constantly near them , sometimes very in tune with what the other is thinking and feeling , may have a problem in their search for a marriage partner on several counts . |