Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [verb] [prep] their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All three of the agencies mentioned in the last paragraph have recently been the subject of central limitations to their activities or curbs upon their freedom ! |
| 2 | Just as young children will cry and remonstrate or say ‘ do n't leave me ’ , so the adult may use just the same words or convey by their behaviour that this is their worry . |
| 3 | Judgement is particularly important in the initial assessment of risks and deciding on their tolerability . |
| 4 | According to Western reports , during the first months of 1990 the Khmers Rouges increased their infiltration of fighters and supplies from their border camps into Cambodia proper . |
| 5 | That a large and heterogeneous society like the United States has maintained just two parties for almost its entire history suggests that the job of aggregation has been performed admirably , but it must be remembered that in the United States these interests are really only aggregated once every four years , just long enough for the parties to select their presidential candidates and fight for their election . |
| 6 | What the better libraries have done is to spend some time contacting shareware authors and acting as their representative . |
| 7 | It is written on children 's notebooks and chanted by their youth groups . |
| 8 | The Samaritans petitioned the Syrian king in order to dissociate themselves from the Jews , to be considered Sidonians and to give to their god the name of Zeus Hellenios : " Now you have dealt with the Jews as their wickedness deserves , but the King 's officers , in the belief that we follow the same practices as they through kinship with them , are involving us in similar charges , whereas we are Sidonians by origin , as is evident from our state documents . |
| 9 | Grey skies failed to cast gloom over the pilgrims as they greeted friends made on previous pilgrimages and settled in their coach seats determined to make the most of their time together . |
| 10 | This posits that the company or any group of individuals acting together for a common purpose creates a living organism , or a real person , capable of willing and acting through the people who are its organs just as a natural person wills and acts through their brain , mouth and hands . |
| 11 | Well if that 's case she can go and work for one of the taxi companies and sit in their office and ans |
| 12 | The orthodox gave the latter term a pejorative sense ; the apocryphal texts were correctly seen as an attempt to replace the books accepted by the mainstream communities and included in their church lectionary as authentic representatives of the apostolic tradition of faith . |
| 13 | Mort Shapiro recommends : that firms take their time , since undue haste could diminish performance ; that every stage should be documented ; that accurate language should be used on all occasions ; and that auditors stick to their checklists and deviate at their peril . |
| 14 | Sultan Mahmud I ( 1730–54 ) attempted to disband the janissaries and to put in their place a modern force , modelled on the standing armies of his European enemies . |
| 15 | The court decided that victims of art thefts should be protected against the usual requirement in civil cases that the owner must make some effort to recover stolen goods within three years ; it ruled that the clock does not start ticking for the statute of limitations until the victim locates the stolen artworks and asks for their return . |
| 16 | Although the call to the Bar is an exercise of power by the individual Inn it is an exercise of power permitted by the judges and exercised under their supervision . |
| 17 | explained , at p. 253 , how the jurisdiction of the benchers of an Inn is derived from the judges and exercised under their superintendence . |
| 18 | Patients who dislike the Government 's NHS plans are to be urged by the British Medical Association to visit their MPs ' surgeries and write to their health authorities . |
| 19 | ‘ You ca n't disappoint your parents and renege on their holiday . ’ |
| 20 | Mary Georgina Boulton observes that women with pre-school children , in order to restore a sense of control in their lives and cope with their workload , need to create a structure to their work . |
| 21 | Once in power , the armed forces immediately abolished all state institutions and established in their place the non-military State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) and a Cabinet , most of whose members were also SLORC members , both of which were headed by Saw Maung . |
| 22 | Add richness with a few dried wild mushrooms , soaked for 20 minutes and added with their liquor . |
| 23 | ‘ As for the Copts , I will cut their throats and dance in their blood . ’ |
| 24 | ( a ) Do the parties put forward programmes of policies ? ( b ) Do the programmes offer a meaningful choice ? ( c ) Do the winning parties actually implement their programmes and deliver of their mandate once in office ? |
| 25 | Do the winning parties actually implement their programmes and deliver of their mandate once in office ? |
| 26 | To the entrepreneurial hero belongs all the inspiration ; the drones are governed by the rules and valued for their reliability and pliability . |
| 27 | CND was accused of using its computer to record the political activities of its 60 000 members , to allocate them to local groups and check on their attendance at meetings . |
| 28 | They , on the contrary , the police authority have a working party which had four very long and very detailed meetings and went through their budget line by line by line , and these are the figures they came up with . |
| 29 | Kemp frequently provides details of superficial social acquaintance between scientists and artists and refers to their reading habits . |
| 30 | Opinions vary , however , as to the form of air pollution policies in structure plans , the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution for example felt that the only way to control the air we breathe is by indirectly limiting emissions and recommended a system of air quality guidelines for major pollutants which could be adopted by local authorities and incorporated in their structure plans . |