Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | competition from the new commodity , the new technology , the new source of supply , the new type of organization … competition which commands a decisive cost or quality advantage and which strikes not at the margins of the profits and the outputs of the existing firms ( and possibly even entire national economies ) but it their foundations and their very lives . |
| 2 | Each of these faces absorbs us within their sphere of reflection where , although the formality of their titles and their professional roles in the artist 's life is relaxed , they continue to respond to the person who was in our vantage point at the time , the photographer . |
| 3 | Spoiled and wilful she might be at times , but the emotional distance between them caused by the difference in their ages and their forced separation in childhood had slowly been closing over the past two years . |
| 4 | You were enticed by the dark magicians into their palaces and their dark citadels and you were shown the powers and the sinisterly beautiful rewards of sorcery . |
| 5 | For over 300 hungry traders at the American Investment Bank , lunch is now delivered to their desks and its still piping hot ! |
| 6 | Several Oxford colleges were taking greater interest in their estates and their profitable management , and Langdon surveyed land over all England for them . |
| 7 | The objective is to trace the relationships between the values and attitudes of managers in small and medium sized enterprises , their strategies and their eventual performance . |
| 8 | I 'm interested , thank you , I 'm interested to notice that this nineteenth century attitude is being repeated now by er , our friends over there in the Labour party , erm and I must say , that really confirm what I 've always thought that a lot of their attitudes and their mental furniture do in fact belong to that century . |
| 9 | The mood is similar , somewhere between awe of their opponents and their colossal price tags and the usual infectious optimism . |
| 10 | ‘ You take men from their homes or their chosen occupations , you confine them in insalubrious conditions upon a wholly inadequate diet , you subject them to the tyranny of bosun 's mates , you expose them to unimagined perils ; what is more , you defraud them of their meagre food , pay and allowances — everything but this sacred rum of yours . |
| 11 | ‘ But the pain and fear on the faces of people who have lost their homes and their loved ones is absolutely haunting . ’ |
| 12 | Some people however , are in danger of losing control not just of their words but their whole language . |
| 13 | After breakfast , I sit in the outgoing waiting-room , facing the door , with Jackie and the women of yesterday morning clutching their knees and their overnight bags , looking pale . |
| 14 | They get it into their heads that their fund-raising dinner for Hypothermic Pensioners In High Rise Blocks In Portsmouth will fall apart at the seams if Dillie Keane is n't there . |
| 15 | ‘ I may is well place before the dog over there the message of God as before those hungry millions who have no lustre in their eyes and whose only God is their bread . ’ |
| 16 | But this will need constant nurturing if it is to develop into an appreciation of the richness of poetry , where words are ‘ alive with a plurality of meanings from their contexts , their associations and their sensory qualities ; they are alive with what Ted Hughes calls ‘ the goblin in a word'' ’ ( this quotation is from Michael Benton 's essay on ‘ The Importance of Poetry in Children 's Learning ’ , from the NATE book Lessons in English Teaching and Learning [ 1988 ] ) ( p. 148 ) . |
| 17 | And many of our society 's institutions and problems can only be understood if we know about their origins and their subsequent development ; our industrial relations system , conflicts between religious groups , the ‘ crisis ’ in the welfare state and the problems of the world economy today are four instances of this point . |
| 18 | The people from whom the trade protection associations of 1818 were protecting themselves , were smaller in number and simpler in their wants than their 1918 counterparts . |
| 19 | I 'd put money in their pockets and their favourite possession by their side and then the others would wait by the death-tent until it was time to bury 'em . " |
| 20 | in the transportation planning committee yesterday , and the , one of the question of opposing them , it was what was going to block , that they , wh wha were they members , gon na get for their pockets and their own patches , and er , I I think , so I mean , I asked a a a councillor , well I asked a question on five per cent for me yesterday , and my response was , yes , precisely . |
| 21 | It was really quite marvellous to watch the ease and spontaneity of their movements and their naive reactions to fear , anguish , hope and liberation ! |
| 22 | In two respects — the nature of their self-concepts and their social networks — their position was quite highly domestic and kin-oriented , but they shared these characteristics with other women in the sample . |
| 23 | So at least eight people with Down 's syndrome were disenfranchised at an early stage by their parents or their electoral registration authority . |
| 24 | This is far too broad a question for us to seek to answer on our own , even if we wished to , affecting as it does everyone who hopes to enter higher education , their parents and their future employers ; but it is imperative that the debate should be joined . |
| 25 | The need to separate the functions of chairman and chief executive has been a raging debate in City of London parlours for the past couple or years , and companies at which the two roles are combined in one person have been under enormous pressure to accept a separation of powers : now the same debate could take off across the Atlantic as Compaq Computer Corp 's ( non-executive ) chairman Ben Rosen tells the House Telecommunications and Finance Subcommittee that the troubles that have beset some of America 's largest companies can be traced to cozy relationships between their boards and their chief executives — he declares that the boards of most US companies are chaired by the company 's chief executive , who picks the board members and controls the agenda — ‘ With an appropriate form of corporate governance , I fully believe that the current problems of IBM , Digital Equipment , Westinghouse and other major American corporations could have been addressed and probably solved far earlier with much reduced ill effects , ’ Rosen told the legislators , adding that a company 's chairman should be a ‘ truly outside independent director , ’ not the chief executive or a former chief executive , and that all board members , with the exception of the chief executive , should also be outsiders , who should get their directors ' fees in the form of shares or options . |
| 26 | All but a handful of the 18,298 crowd stayed in their places but their growing frustration reached fever pitch in the 88th minute when Adams stole in unmarked at the far post to volley home Le Tissier 's inviting cross . |
| 27 | Second , grants may be justified as a method of redistributing the burden of providing an equal level of services among local authorities that differ in both their needs and their available resources . |
| 28 | Taverna menus are rare , but half way through the holiday you 'll know the cooks , their kitchens and their favourite dishes . |
| 29 | We have introduced lap top computers into Ireland and the USA for our sales team , enabling them to keep in touch with their customers and their own offices . |
| 30 | I love their harmonies and their acoustic sound and the wackiness and quirkiness of their songs . ’ |