Example sentences of "[vb pp] their [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that the thieves confined their attention to the Early Cycladic display case , ignoring many other important works , suggests that they may have been stealing to order something which is a matter of concern to museum staff and archaeologists in Greece . |
| 2 | We can certainly agree that political sociologists have not confined their attention to the narrower governmental sphere or believed that this constitutes a part ( albeit an important part ) of the world of politics . |
| 3 | Danov said : " I certainly assume that Zhivkov and some other people in his government who have paraded their innocence in the last few years will be indicted . " |
| 4 | He and his four fellow sixth formers at Barnard Castle School have won their way to the regional final of a music contest in Newcastle . |
| 5 | Having won their votes from the gullible , as well as the dedicated , the republicans now show their utter contempt for democracy . |
| 6 | In 1793 the first Republican French ambassador received a rapturous welcome when he arrived off Seraglio Point , his ship flying the Ottoman , Republican French and American colours , ‘ and those of a few other powers that had not sullied their arms in the impious league of tyrants ’ . |
| 7 | Yet the time may come when the unions will have expiated their follies of the sixties and seventies , partly through the rationalisation and mergers of the past decade , partly through reforms forced on them by changes in the law during the eighties , partly by a public rediscovery that trade unions are a necessary part of a free society . |
| 8 | The couple worked at the same tasks as their staff , they dressed in the same way , educated their children at the same schools and ate in the same canteen . |
| 9 | No word had come from Rose , and surely she would have cancelled their arrangements at the least hint of scandal ? |
| 10 | He and his partner , Gary Armstrong , playing together in a major international for the 25th time , plus a few other Scots , must have booked their places on the forthcoming British Lions tour to New Zealand . |
| 11 | And while Black Dwarf staff might have protested their separateness from the two underground papers , readers in London , and students and hippies elsewhere , would not . |
| 12 | She says , ‘ How am I going to get round all these people phoning me up saying , ‘ Why am I not getting calls , it 's all your fault ’ , you know , all the rest of it ’ , when they have n't diverted their telephone to the right extension number . |
| 13 | For thousands of years a few men have searched for these human fruits ; they have filled their minds with the lovely ideas and have taken up their long search and watch on the lonely shore of the other world . |
| 14 | should now have received their list for the next two months . |
| 15 | But the caution of other princes may not have blinded their followers to the possible propaganda value of the Laudes . |
| 16 | The bridges , they say , have not been painted regularly and this penny-pinching has exposed their steelwork to the corroding effects of salt , pollution , water and debris . |
| 17 | Repeal feminists justified their entry into the political arena on the grounds that the issues raised by the acts touched on all the great trusts of their womanhood — the questions of virtue , purity , decency and social welfare . |
| 18 | Cleo had never , to her knowledge , seen a ghost , although she had often sensed their presence in the shadowed , tragedy-haunted alleys of the Burrows . |
| 19 | The average cost per square foot provided here are national averages based on actual costs incurred by clients of leading package supplier Design and Materials Ltd , all of whom have completed their homes in the past six months . |
| 20 | An Estonian history professor , Arnold Palm , said Balts regarded their status within the Soviet Union as ‘ political , not juridical ’ , and ‘ by no means definitely established ’ . |
| 21 | European Community foreign ministers have recalled their ambassadors from the Yugoslav capital , Belgrade and demanded the withdrawal of their occupying forces in Bosnia-Herzogovina . |
| 22 | In one participating practice one general practitioner declined to take part in the study and a further three were excluded — two because they had joined their practices within the previous six months and one because he left the practice during the study . |
| 23 | Given their reputation in the 1970s , who would have thought that British car workers would match their counterparts in Japan or Germany as they do now , not only for productivity , but for quality as well ? |
| 24 | Notably absent from this taxonomy is any reference to the socio-political context — somewhat of a surprise given their reference to the changing direction of the ‘ political winds ’ in the 1981 coal strike . |
| 25 | Given their experience of the remote jargon of their teacher training , and of the demonstrable lack of impact of the pundits on education , as well as their weariness and preoccupation , it is entirely understandable that teachers should be turned off ideas at least as much in 1989 as they were twenty-five years ago : understandable but a mistake , as I am trying to argue . |
| 26 | It might be thought that , given their aversion to the whole terrain of culture , antiracists are generally immune to the kinds of criticisms set out above . |
| 27 | Weak or not , in her opinion men should be given their rights as the dominant sex . |
| 28 | They had not yet given their opinion to the present proposal — given outline permission by East Hampshire District council 's northern area planning sub-committee on March 24th — because the plans had at that stage only been submitted in outline . |
| 29 | However , when government and international planning agencies have turned their attention to the specific problem of " development for women " , it has been almost exclusively in terms of population control . |
| 30 | Mrs Vince and her computer analyst husband , from Grimsby , Humberside , have visited their babies in the neonatal unit . |