Example sentences of "[vb pp] their [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | should now have received their list for the next two months . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Having made sure students have written their name in the appropriate space , at the top of the paper , collect in all the papers which are then ready to mark . |
| 19 | These two emerging types of household have traditionally sought their housing in the rented sector , both public and private . |
| 20 | In 1948 , Francis Rogallo and his wife Gertrude were granted their patent for the flexible kite that has been credited so often as the origin of the ‘ modern ’ species . |
| 21 | The great majority of practitioners proclaimed their belief in the only way they could — through sound classroom practice . |
| 22 | Furthermore , some liberals had pushed their rationalizing of the Christian faith to the extreme point where it was fashionable to argue that ‘ God is dead ’ and that the only truly Christian thing to do was to abandon the churches altogether . |
| 23 | Benson 's at Brimscombe have transferred their production to the third world . |
| 24 | I think if anything it 's more likely that what we 'll have at Oxford is some extremely tough women , because these are women who have made their way through the educational system and are tough cookies . |
| 25 | The whole company had then made their way along the considerable length of the dripping tunnel by torch light , until they had exited at its other end into the moonlit woods outside the perimeter fence . |
| 26 | Ferguson accompanied the European Ryder Cup team as Colin Montgomery 's personal guru to Kiawah Island last year and has groomed many leading amateurs , several of whom who have made their mark on the European professional circuit . |
| 27 | Certainly these two had made their mark on the ever-widening fields of botany and horticulture when John Bartram wrote his first letter to Philip Miller on 20 April 1755 : |
| 28 | And the records at St Albans and Stamford show that these permanent buildings had made their appearance by the early fourteenth century . |
| 29 | Alas , many others had already made their judgment on the flimsy evidence of that supposed phone call … and had found the next King guilty . |
| 30 | I believe that , by investing here , German and Japanese companies and those of other countries have shown their confidence in the British economy . |