Example sentences of "are [adv] [verb] [prep] their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having decided that the rude manners and customs of an outback community ‘ are rather produced by their situation than derived from their ancestors ’ , he examines first how they regulated themselves traditionally ; then , the introduction and enforcement of the country 's general body of legislation — for instance , theft of cattle from drovers had long been a problem in the Highlands ; now their passage was growing safer . |
| 2 | Where the new Lady Grandison exclaims , with an effusiveness Sir Leicester would have approved-'What pleasure had I in hearing the history of this ancient family , from this unbroken series of the pictures of it , for so many generations past ! ’ — family portraits are rather put in their place by Jane Austen . |
| 3 | The young however , tend to join others in large creches and are eventually deserted on their parent 's departure for Heligoland . |
| 4 | Through therapy , teaching and psychological help , some patients are eventually rehabilitated for their return into society . |
| 5 | These people are rarely honoured in their lifetime . |
| 6 | Service users are rarely paid for their time . |
| 7 | Locke does not mean , though , that ideas are necessarily received in their simplicity : complexes can be got directly from experience , and do not always actually have to be built up from experienced simples . |
| 8 | But A-levels are much admired for their depth and rigour . |
| 9 | Has the man from British Rail ever wondered ? ; — Supermarket managers taking toddlers through the check out and telling them they ca n't have the sweets that are especially positioned within their grasp . |
| 10 | Eight times larger than a lion , the griffin has an acute sense of hearing , and its talons are highly prized for their ability to change colour when they come into contact with poison . |
| 11 | ‘ The final process is the quality service composite , whereby guests are randomly mailed for their judgement on our service . ’ |
| 12 | Francesco Primaticcio and Niccolo del'Abbate are better known for their work outside their native city , and an outsider , Dionys Calvaert , adopted Bologna to exert great influence on the next generation of painters . |
| 13 | The most generally accepted mechanism of evolutionary change is the modern version of Darwinian natural selection , based on the simple propositions that ( a ) like begets like , though with minor , essentially chance , variations ; ( b ) all organisms are capable of producing more offspring than actually can survive to maturity and reproduce in their turn ; ( c ) those offspring that do survive to reproduce must in some way be variants that are better adapted to their environment than those that fail ; and ( d ) those favoured variants are likely to reproduce the favourable variation in their own offspring . |
| 14 | Those destructive birds that ‘ mash ’ seeds can take fruits larger than their gape , when compared with those species that swallow fruits , so are less restricted in their feeding than the more benign swallowers . |
| 15 | In contrast to the majority of medical discoveries which are jealously named after their progenitor , the Aborigine was anonymously honoured by calling the agent ‘ Australia antigen ’ . |
| 16 | Yet such groups are extremely limited in their scope . |
| 17 | Another way might be to raise your hand — a bit more tiring if some are so engaged in their work that they do n't stop what they 're doing for a couple of minutes . |
| 18 | Sometimes these foals bought at sales and markets are so traumatized by their experience that they can never be handled . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're saying that Stella , Jean and the manager 's wife are necessary evils who are merely tolerated for their usefulness ? |
| 20 | It also illustrates the fact that the Conservative government are yet again lagging behind even the right wing and Christian democratic parties in Europe and are utterly isolated in their unwillingness to contemplate electoral change of any kind . |
| 21 | To achieve this end , it proposes to provide students with experiences which are functionally related to their course work . |
| 22 | These are called " optimising models " and are best known from their application to queuing , scheduling and routing problems . |
| 23 | Accordingly , the proposed Second Banking and Investment Services Directives prohibit member states from subjecting firms from other member states which wish to set up branches or provide cross-border services in their jurisdiction to their own authorisation requirements in the case of activities for which they are already authorised by their home member state . |
| 24 | Generally , children are already selected for their communication ability , but although Hegarty , Pocklington and Lucas are optimistic about the provision they describe , it is clear that in language and interaction there are problems . |
| 25 | The low number of trainers , who are already stretched to their limit , gives rise for concern . |
| 26 | My friends are already applying for their summer jobs . |
| 27 | His works are easily recognised by their medium : no-one else is able to achieve such diverse , original effects with printed poster paper . |
| 28 | It should be possible to obtain a compromise which is effective in the legislation and which says , in effect , ’ There will be some crossings which are so rarely used that people are not inconvenienced by their closure . ’ |
| 29 | One hundred and twenty-two researchers have published papers which are not related to their PhD theses . |
| 30 | Inertia has kept the sites occupied , but functionally many of them are not related to their countryside surroundings . |