Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to their [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many parents bitterly objected to their loss of control over their children ( and particularly to the violence of ritualised corporal punishment ) . |
| 2 | By the same token , teaching them is important , but only if it is constantly related to their purpose within religions . |
| 3 | He told the police they normally walked to their accommodation in Forest Road by a different route , but on that day they went along Boundary Road because the other path was muddy . |
| 4 | Subsequent benefactions by George and Harry Wills enabled the principal buildings to be constructed and a cousin , the first Lord Dulverton , generously contributed to their repair from damage suffered in the Second World War . |
| 5 | He regarded it as essential that men become more deeply committed to their work through the formation of professional/occupational groups , since for them an involvement in the family did not provide a sufficiently sound moral basis for continued existence : ‘ Men must gradually become attached to their occupational or professional life … |
| 6 | The economic differences are that taxes are not related to the services which taxpayers might receive from the authority ; whereas rents paid by individuals are directly related to their occupancy of council houses . |
| 7 | Some English academics are genuinely at home with them , in a way that is directly related to their familiarity with French intellectual culture . |
| 8 | Davidoff et al have shown that the Beau Ideal was underpinned by a morality of mutual duty and service , although the benefits and freedom which each participant drew from such an arrangement varied directly according to their position in the hierarchy . |
| 9 | And it can get awkward when people take things too Literally — you say , ‘ Hello , how are you ? ’ and twenty minutes later you 're still listening to their philosophy of life . |
| 10 | It is then possible to argue that the so-called terraces really represent parts of a single warped surface , but a close study of the altitudes usually leads to their interpretation as distinct terraces . |
| 11 | Although some clinics still refer to their patient by number , most have now adopted the more human approach of calling people by their names . |
| 12 | They believe that 's directly linked to their exposure to ionising radioation . |
| 13 | Many of these wrecks were caused by storms , but a large number of these ships were purposely led to their demise by islanders patrolling the beaches at night with lanterns to lure a careless ship on to the reef offshore . |
| 14 | I can tell the House exactly whom they will go to — they will still come to their Member of Parliament at Westminster . |
| 15 | They have also added to their range of superb hand-pollinated delphiniums with the inclusion of the lavender-grey ‘ Southern Debutant ’ . |
| 16 | This pessimism may have some truth given the present management approach within our schools but it is suggested here that if that managerial frame of reference was itself to be radically re-oriented , then teachers ' perceptions of their own professionality would also be powerfully affected and they may indeed come to feel that effective classroom activity was positively related to their performance in the wider school context . |
| 17 | They must produce evidence that the theoretical and practical knowledge or training to be acquired in the foreign laboratory will be beneficial to their scientific development and must also return to their country of origin upon termination of the fellowship . |
| 18 | One way of summarizing the results of European economic progress before 1914 is to group nations roughly according to their increase in wealth . |
| 19 | Political agents in the UK often refer to their candidate as ‘ an unfortunate necessity ’ . |
| 20 | Antony firstly seeked the political side , he now appeals to their greed by producing Caesar 's will and saying that he is n't going to read it . |
| 21 | Commentators frequently referred to their objective as a " velvet divorce " ( to follow the " velvet revolution " of November 1989 ) . |
| 22 | People 's own occupational level is also strongly related to their level of educational attainment . |
| 23 | Some of our cathedrals regularly add to their repertoire in this way . |
| 24 | Because their correlations were strongly linked to their rating of the respondent 's perceived adequacy of their social relationships but not to their availability , they conclude that it is not therefore the actual social environment of people which is important to the development of neurotic symptoms , but rather that , when faced with adversity , it is those individuals who view their social relationships as inadequate who have a substantially increased risk of developing neurotic symptoms . |
| 25 | Their inability to see or echolocate over longer distances undoubtedly contributes to their frequency of net entanglement . |
| 26 | Over here , it 's MCA who have shown themselves more than keen to clutch them to the corporate breast , and have consequently raised the stakes uncomfortably high for a band who readily confess to their ignorance of this caper 's day-by-day dealings . |
| 27 | The Begum family had rung a pizza delivery service three times on Saturday night when it was late delivering to their home in Heelands in Milton Keynes . |
| 28 | Concern over nitrates is principally related to their association with methaemoglobinaemia , or " blue baby syndrome " . |
| 29 | But it also shows that a writer 's verbal art can often be more profitably examined within the narrower scope of a chapter , a page , or even a paragraph , where the stylistic values can be more closely related to their function within a particular context . |
| 30 | Three more — Joseph Cicippio , Edward Tracy and Frank Reed — were seized in 1986 by kidnappers newly alerted to their value in Hawks and TOWs , giving a net result of zero . |