Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the men the discussion of politics , the destruction of game , or the dissipation of the ale house was substituted for the duties of their occupation during the former part of the week , and in the remaining three or four days a sufficiency was earned for defraying the current expenses . |
| 2 | The victims , according to the SMG , were being partly blamed for the actions of their assailants . |
| 3 | Previous sexual partners of the accused man may be interviewed about the details of their sex life with him . |
| 4 | This ‘ front-back ’ pattern of fungal distribution has been observed in many variations among a number of insect groups , supporting the contention that insects are inoculated with the spores of their respective fungi during copulation . |
| 5 | The other three were caught with the joints in their hands . |
| 6 | Some years before lie had resigned from the forces for their sakes and was personnel manager of an oil refinery in Perth . |
| 7 | ‘ Chance ’ trade is the term used also to describe the business which comes from guests who take meals or drinks in the hotel which are not included in the terms of their reservation and has to be charged to them . |
| 8 | Among the ten-year-olds , the protocols revealed the care and sensitivity with which ‘ instructors ’ responded to the needs of their ‘ pupils ’ . |
| 9 | What had come to the poets in their most serene or passionate moments we glided into as easily as we gathered flowers for Maud or Blanche or Mabel , as we lay in the grass with our eyes divided between the books , the land and the clouds . |
| 10 | SHEILA KEOGH and Carol Morrison are perched on the stairs outside their third floor office , lighting up again . |
| 11 | Because wives are looked on a surrogates for their husbands while the latter are at Westminster , their attitudes to constituency work and their appearance are considered important . |
| 12 | The tassels of the head scarves spilt down the sides of their faces . |
| 13 | Without any explanation , he jumped out and approached one of the Ayurvedic healers who for centuries have sat on the roadside here , surrounded by the ingredients of their trade : live iguanas whose fried juices are said to cure impotence ; ginseng for philtres used to spread or extinguish the fires of love ; tree bark to ward off a woman 's menopause ; the bringraj herb from the high Himalayas said to conquer baldness or thicken the beard of the most effete Sikh . |
| 14 | It was claimed by the witnesses in their evidence that Hegan was the poor relation , he claims he was offered £1,000 , and swore he heard Bremner say ‘ Give us a penalty and I 'll give you a grand . ’ |
| 15 | Under section 18 of the Act , control of the curriculum in county schools has shifted to head teachers , although they must ensure that the curriculum is compatible with their LEA 's statements on curricular policy — as modified by the governors in their own such statement . |
| 16 | By contrast , sociology 's more popular rivals are necessarily constrained by the requirements of their own , rather different , audience , the mass audience , whose interests are more practical , more ideological or more aesthetic . |
| 17 | However , abolitionists who began as moralists had been ‘ constrained by the necessities of their struggle ’ to become hygienists . |
| 18 | He reckoned that the islanders would be so devastated by the deaths of their children that they would be incapable of taking up arms against the invaders and , later , would be easily subjugated . |
| 19 | Ants and mice and rats , some said , had crept between the bricks of their new storehouses and eaten half their crop . |
| 20 | As New Zealanders sifted through the ashes of their World Cup defeat they were beginning to realise that after forming a recipe with which to win the Cup in 1987 they just as surely set up a system which would lead to losing it in 1991 . |
| 21 | Relations were worsening , moreover , between the major capitalist nations and the developing countries , which were being robbed of the fruits of their labour and forced to suffer poverty , illiteracy and famine . |
| 22 | This cobbled route is still a joy to follow ; the top half of it , as it curves down to the church and the river , lined with sober houses built from the local cocoa-coloured stone and dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries — datable precisely in some cases from the inscribed lintel stones ; then the church , seventeenth-century and disappointingly dull ; the old bridge over the Nive , which is the place to look up — and downstream , at the houses built along the banks with their projecting wooden galleries ; and then on towards the Porte d'Espagne , past the shops and more very decent old houses . |
| 23 | Illness or disease could result from ignoring such strictures and cattle could become ill if stones from an ancient site were incorporated into the walls of their shelter . |
| 24 | Early in the new year , when the king ordered the ninth to be collected from the clergy despite their earlier exemption , the archbishop excommunicated the collectors who complied . |
| 25 | The final scheme would be a tribute to the vision of ‘ the greatest son of the Romanian people ’ rendered by their skill and hands and made from the fruits of their native soil . |
| 26 | The Zenon Papyri have shown how in about 259 B.C. the agents of the finance minister Apollonius operated in the interests of their master : one of his estates was at Bet Anat in Galilee ( Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum 1 , 1–5 ) . |
| 27 | The primary task of the external auditors is to report on the truth and fairness of the financial statements which are presented to the members at their annual general meeting . |
| 28 | This version is then presented to the users for their comment . |
| 29 | Drs Malhotra and Thorpe , though , took the view that the differences between the anoles were probably related to the differences in their environments , rather than to reproductive isolation , and they set out to prove it . |
| 30 | The numerically dominant stratum of unskilled labour encompassed and eventually unified two distinct traditions which were related to the origins of their members , namely , rural labour from the depressed eastern counties and the casual poor from East London . |