Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six months ago six major E C Health and Safety Directives came into effect covering workplace safety , machinery , protective equipment , manual handling , work with computers and word processors , they 've built on a framework directive giving workers new rights to consultation and the right to stop the job and the union has been watching the government and the H S E and me as well , in their attempts to water down the requirements of these directives and we might well lodge a formal complaint with Brussels that could land the Tories in Europe 's Court of Justice . |
| 2 | ( The Australian Conservation Foundation and the Wilderness Society , the country 's two main environmentalist groups , called on their supporters to vote for the Democrats — the centre party which held the balance of power in the Senate but which possessed no seats in the House of Representatives — but to direct their second preferences to the ALP . ) |
| 3 | He knew from long experience that a kidnapping usually meant the involvement of the Sardinian shepherds who had , over the past twenty years or so , been steadily leaving their island and bringing their flocks to graze on the hills around Florence . |
| 4 | Only a maniac , he said , would think that the wretched pittance of the industrious poor should be wrung out of their pockets to pay for the follies and profligate expenses of anyone . |
| 5 | On Nov. 23 the government responded to the deteriorating situation by invoking new emergency measures requiring all householders and their guests to register with the police . |
| 6 | Publishers often make their appointments to coincide with the parties . |
| 7 | Even now , some gardeners arrange the planting of their seeds to coincide with the phases of the moon . |
| 8 | PEOPLE who seem to want their names to vanish from the voters ' roll are causing a borough council problems . |
| 9 | IT 'S THE TIME OF THE karāti , THE NIGHTS LEADING UP TO THE full-moon festival , when the gods enter the dhāmis and use their bodies to dance among the villagers . |
| 10 | School librarians can help their users to prepare for the complexities of the future and using viewdata in the school library can provide an introduction to the concepts of organization and interrogation of information which will play a part in the future working and domestic lives of today 's pupils . |
| 11 | Their millions of compatriots follow the details on West German television , day by day , while the domestic media have confined their reports to abuse against the authorities in Bonn , and sometimes against those who have left . |