Example sentences of "[coord] their [noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Note that there is no reason for anyone to restrain their thoughts or their reflections on the reasons which apply to the case , nor are they necessarily debarred from criticising the arbitrator for having ignored certain reasons or for having been mistaken about their significance . |
| 2 | Crevasses claim lives and the majority of crevasse deaths happen to those who travel on glaciers unroped , closing their eyes or their minds to the risks . |
| 3 | ‘ I do not wish to be hard upon poor people in great affliction ; but I can not help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls ‘ tempting God' ’ — staking their property and their lives upon the chances or no earthquakes coming , while they ought to have known that an earthquake might come an day . ’ |
| 4 | They made slow progress and as there was no reason for haste they soon made camp again and this time were particularly careful to conceal themselves and their horses among the trees well away from the ride ; they also arranged for watches through the night which they had not done before . |
| 5 | Their attitudes to teaching and their conceptions of the effects of classroom activities are taken into account . |
| 6 | The earliest use of either of the terms so far located ( aside , of course , from that in the Kanunname itself ) is in a list of medreses and their incumbents in the archives of the Topkapi Sarayi , drawn up some time in the years 942–4/1536–7 . |
| 7 | In the past there has been considerable dispute between teachers and their employers over the teachers ' role in the collecting of dinner money and the supervision of children during the mid-day break . |
| 8 | As the Turks moved out , their estates in the rural areas were bought by Serbs and their houses in the towns were occupied by diverse groups of immigrants , who also took over their occupations . |
| 9 | ‘ No , it was a public building , meant to protect merchants and their customers from the elements . ’ |
| 10 | I have tried to do that year in , year out because I believe that in environmental terms — if in no others — keeping people , their sheep and their cattle in the hillsides is essential if the hillsides are to be kept as they should be . |
| 11 | There will be more displays relating to the Rothschild family and a first important addition will be the long-term loan of seven panels painted by Leon Bakst which depict the story of Sleeping Beauty , with members of the Rothschild family and their friends as the characters . |
| 12 | Because of his fast-track methods , such people may well be returned to face even greater danger to themselves and their families in the countries from which they have come . |
| 13 | Three participating managers are interviewed , and their answers to the questions are illustrated with sequences filmed at the relevant events in Portugal and France . |
| 14 | ‘ The constructors and team-managers have enjoyed for some years now such unrealistic power and influence , have commanded so much attention , they have begun to think of themselves and their cars as the stars . |
| 15 | The move of Kenneth MacAlpin 's capital to Scone must have meant a great deal more physical comfort for kings and their retainers after the rocks and raw rain of Argyll , but the heads wearing the crown were offered little chance of lying easy . |
| 16 | Although initially the hospital and jail environment may be frightening or cause anxiety , the emphasis on dialogue shifts the focus to the youth 's feelings , their world view , and their solutions to the problems they face in their communities . |
| 17 | Students were interviewed in groups at the start of the Semester to assess their level of understanding of transferable skills and their expectations of the benefits that development of transferable skills would bring to them . |
| 18 | So leaders , and their followers on the frontiers of empire , often looked like disobedient and violent men . |
| 19 | This will enable the current coaches , now established as a so-called cluster , and their successors in the years to come , to identify and monitor the development of present and future Canada players as they work their way up through the system . |
| 20 | The pair eventually finished in less time than many bipeds , got their faces on television and their backs in The Times |
| 21 | The interviews with the class teachers centre on their parent involvement and multi-cultural practices and their assessments of the children 's behaviour and achievement . |