Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] to their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too many customers wait too long for replies to their complaint — replies which in too many cases are badly written and do not deal with all aspects of the complaint . |
| 2 | Despite the interest of some well-known industrialists , manufacturers as a group seem to have contributed only in proportion to their weight in the population . |
| 3 | Hence today such schemes will rarely lead to the creation of a special class of share ; it is only in relation to their allotment , financing , and provision for re-purchase by the company or the trustees of the scheme that there will be special arrangements which the Act facilitates by exclusions from the normal restrictions on purchase of own shares and on the provision of finance by a company for the acquisition of its shares . |
| 4 | Within the citadel there was constant bickering between abbot , Viscount and towns-people — grown so rich that they obeyed no one , remarked Geoffrey of Vigeois ruefully — and yet also a sense of being bound together in opposition to their neighbour , the bishop 's city . |
| 5 | Support for the Distribution 's ‘ tails ’ diminishes rapidly in proportion to their distance from the centre . |
| 6 | Those staying for a further week will be transferred directly from Kufstein to their resort . |
| 7 | It is interesting how many of the social workers who regard themselves as identified with their clients , sharing some sense of oppression by the ‘ bureaucracy ’ that weighs upon them both and working therefore to help the clients receive resources from the ‘ system ’ , have a view of social security field staff that is directly in contrast to their view of their own position . |
| 8 | In this respect , I have drawn evidence from case studies of two women teachers in a Roman Catholic comprehensive school to illustrate the way in which gender , religion and feminism interact with each other not only in relation to their appointments but also in relation to their work with pupils . |
| 9 | Colquhoun ( 1981 : 130 ) is also concerned to expose the limitations of semiotic studies of objects based on Saussure , but in this case mainly with respect to their synchronicity , attempting to characterize several differences of objects from language in the way in which architectural styles change . |
| 10 | Anyway I gather from my office cleaner that tickets from Oxford are now on sale to their season ticket holders and members , and will be on sale soon to public people who get a voucher from this saturday 's game . |
| 11 | In more advanced applications of JIT , companies have been very active in restructuring their value chains particularly in relation to their procurement activities . |
| 12 | John Cornforth notes a similar discrepancy in painting , where the outsides of houses , particularly in relation to their setting , are frequently recorded , their interiors rarely so . |
| 13 | However , some of the Holkham tenants , almost in reaction to their landlord 's introduction of the alien West Country breed , decided to combine their native Norfolk and Suffolk types as being more suitable to the region and it was their efforts which , by 1810 , produced by the first selectively bred combinations of the horned Norfolk meat types and the polled dairy Suffolk in the Norfolk and Suffolk Poll . |
| 14 | The first group includes those countries , like India , that had not borrowed heavily in relation to their size . |
| 15 | It distinguishes the classes of society not by reference to the contrasted roles of employer and employee , but rather by reference to their usefulness . |
| 16 | Are these variations personal and idiosyncratic , or does people 's experience vary more systematically in relation to their position in the social and economic structure ? |
| 17 | ‘ Du n no what you 're on about , ’ he said quietly in response to their praise . |