Example sentences of "are [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it any wonder that I now plead with my right hon. and learned Friend to intervene on behalf of pupils and parents who wish to move their children over the border to Staffordshire because they are fed up with their own high-spending council and they want that council to take responsibility ? |
| 2 | Trees and cultivation are fenced off against their hungry assaults . |
| 3 | I remembered that sometimes men are decked out in their best suits with collars and ties . |
| 4 | Over at the laibon 's engang they are bedded down behind their own thicket of thorn bushes , the cattle jammed together in a large boma and the goats in a smaller one right in the middle , as far from the athletic leopards as possible . |
| 5 | We are cut off from their happy little world which we know nothing about and are unable to recognise much of our ways within theirs . |
| 6 | Reception and speeches are scheduled for exactly one hour before the main participants are escorted back to their separate cells . |
| 7 | This deprives the zooxanthellae in their tissues of oxygen , light and food and they quickly die and are cast off by their invertebrate host . |
| 8 | ‘ This is for people who are put out of their natural home without any living skills . |
| 9 | The result is that they are thrown back on their own individual and collective resources . |
| 10 | Works by Sickert and Vanessa Bell are singled out for their frank appraisals of the ‘ plump ’ figures of their models and this tendency reaches its climax , according to the terms of the exhibition , in Lucien Freud 's painting depicts the female figure resting against a pile of rags , used by the artist for cleaning his brushes . |