Example sentences of "[coord] [vb infin] their [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Failure to provide this care will not lead to imprisonment unless there is evidence of criminal neglect , but may well reduce or remove their claim to maintenance on their husbands . |
| 2 | The banks normally could not restrict or avoid their liability for breach of their duty of care towards their customers , the plaintiffs in the case , but their lawyers suggested that the deed of release did just that . |
| 3 | I agree with my honourable friend er one of the er satisfactory features of the C B I er survey last week , one of the many , was that eighty four percent of firms er in the U K intend to increase or maintain their spending on training and of course she 's absolutely right , they will be the firms that will benefit most from that investment in training as we continue through recovery into growth in the longer term . |
| 4 | The image of the ‘ press baron ’ partly reflects literal reality : politicians continually courted publishers with peerages to secure or reward their support in case the intangible ‘ power of the press ’ turned out to be real . |
| 5 | The latest Confederation of British Industry survey of manufacturing companies shows that more than six times as many companies expect to maintain or increase their investment in training over the next year than expect to reduce it . |
| 6 | In 1913 , in his first attempt to define the movement , he wrote : ‘ Sincere artists today feel the need to canalize and tame their inspiration in order to extract from their faculties the maximum returns , and to strike a balance between sensitivity and reason … |
| 7 | I find it very difficult when you have a journalist round , and you will perhaps cooperate as much as you can with an interview , and then sometimes they 'll go and dip their pen in acid and write really horrid things . |
| 8 | It is when the physical phenomenon of soil erosion affects people so that they have to respond and adapt their mode of life that it becomes also a social phenomenon . |
| 9 | then introduced our Sports Council Liaison Officer who has always been most helpful and had volunteered to come along and present their point of view . |
| 10 | Pupils , we say , must revise and redraft their writing in response to their own or other people 's reading of their texts . |
| 11 | However , learning is also dependent on interaction in another sense , for it is participation in conversation that provides learners with opportunities to construct and test their representation of language , both as system and as resource . |
| 12 | And yet those very same employees who once heaped praise on him will be too busy eulogizing some new figure to stop and examine their sense of judgement . |
| 13 | Elected or unelected public officials can normally maintain and strengthen their support in society , alter the attitudes of opponents , and neutralize , weaken or instill uncertainty amongst their enemies . |