Example sentences of "their [noun pl] for [art] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The numerous victims of their rapacity and greed had no reason to risk their necks for the king and his favourites ; nobles such as the king 's half-brother the Earl of Norfolk , who might have expected to enjoy some influence at court , hated the Despensers for their monopoly of the king 's presence ; and the heirs of the victims of 1322 had everything to gain from the overthrow of Edward 's regime . |
| 2 | That diagnosis is not far distant from Disraeli 's own ; it is in their prescriptions for the future that they differ . |
| 3 | On the basis of the information given the children will discuss their tactics for the match and decide the instructions to be typed in . |
| 4 | In America the political conventions are designed to enthuse the participants and television viewers to go out and campaign for their candidates for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency . |
| 5 | However , the most we could offer these determined inventors was a chance to be well-known by their peers for a week or two . |
| 6 | It can only do that , however , if more people come forward to share their lives for a day or two each month . ’ |
| 7 | Oh , he had them locked antler to antler now , two proud stags with lowered heads and rolling eyes , gathering their sinews for the thrust that should send one of them backing out of the contest . |
| 8 | Aspects of this more sociological and humanistic interpretation of teaching quality will be developed within the chapter through a discussion of teacher cultures , careers and strategies , and their implications for the maintenance and persistence of those ‘ transmission ’ styles of classroom teaching which appear to be incurring official disapproval . |
| 9 | I admit I was party to their tricks for a while but in Brittany the Luciferi began to remove , through assassination or spurious trials , any who opposed the French crown . |
| 10 | Secondly , the LEAs will be required to delegate many of their responsibilities for the management and control of the schools ' budget share , and for the appointment and dismissal of staff , to the governing bodies of the schools ( and of the larger colleges that remain under LEA control ) . |
| 11 | It has also encouraged LEAs to exercise their responsibilities for the curriculum and encouraged those outside schools , such as governors and people in industry , to play a more important part in discussions about the curriculum . |
| 12 | He had been planning to talk to scientists there about their fears for the future when the project ends . |
| 13 | While at the hospital Mr Cook spoke to staff about their fears for the future when the trust comes into operation . |
| 14 | But the serrated gratings must have sufficiently broken the crust of the brick-broken mutilated plastimetal that covers a great deal of the world that is an eyeball , and little light yellow-green stubs poked through , cos the Sun was still up there , way up there , even though someone had devised a new kind of force of matter transference and was attempting to move the Sun to his laboratory-country where it would be used to grow humlants — in which the old human brain was to be stretched in durable fibrosity and connected inextricably to root and flower , making rings of energy that took their partners for a whaltz or a flexitrot and multiplied their species by being fried on a plasetal plate whose temperature was so great that they never actually touched it but skimmed over , coming off the other side as a more-than-when-they-started . |
| 15 | Funerals are very special occasions in the Dales , when people who may not be on the friendliest of terms would forget their differences for a while and come and pay their respects . |
| 16 | The mothers were asked to complete sleep diaries for their children for a week before the group began and throughout its duration . |
| 17 | Jaq imagined the priests of the squadron instructing the ultimate warriors righteously and reverently , honing their spirits for a task that was awesome — and yet almost abstract . |