Example sentences of "their [noun] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , although these five writers belonged to a minority group in their society , and although they say that their experience derives from a source greater than human reason can comprehend , they are fired with a certainty that it is intimately related to the deepest needs and purposes of human being , and has about it the simple inevitability of fulfilment . |
| 2 | You should have shown your readers that there is n't a Prince Charming , so they wo n't feel disappointed and cheated if their prince turns into a frog , like mine did . |
| 3 | Utilities were among the more buoyant sectors , helped by the search by pensions funds for higher-income investments to compensate for the five-point drop in their investment returns as a result of the Budget changes . |
| 4 | As already stated , well beyond cut-off their attenuation increases at a rate of 20n dB per decade of frequency . |
| 5 | As Packer ( 1968 ) has pointed out , the criminality of their enterprise acts as a kind of ‘ tariff ’ that protects them from the competition of ‘ legitimate ’ entrepreneurs unwilling to take the risks of illegal enterprise , and provides them with customers who have no legal redress against the most excessive forms of exploitation . |
| 6 | Their secret is soon discovered , however , when the local nuclear waste storage facility where their father works as a physicist records mysterious disappearances of radioactive materials . |
| 7 | Their paper returns to a theme raised , as we have seen , by parsons , namely the similarity between professions and businesses as economic enterprises and the place of altruistic and self-interested motives . |
| 8 | Their argument depends on a notion of society as a system which is dominated by particular forms of social and economic organization . |
| 9 | Their argument begins from a position very similar to that of the restructuring school : that the loss of manufacturing jobs in urban areas is in part the resuIt of national shifts , from manufacturing to services , and towards higher unemployment . |
| 10 | Many common passerine species must also have increased their downland ranges as a result of the slow advance of scrub and woodland over the remaining grass , and probably the downland avifauna is more varied today than in 1939 despite losing its characteristic and most interesting specialities . |
| 11 | Their society has in a word been bowdlerised . |
| 12 | Woodvale eased their relegation fears with a thumping 10 wickets win over Instonians , but Lurgan lost by 15 runs to Downpatrick . |
| 13 | Digestion is suspended and their food lies like a load in the stomach ; fullness and distress come on immediately after eating . |
| 14 | However , it can lead to difficult questions in deciding when the goods delivered are so different in kind that their delivery amounts to a breach of fundamental term : for instance , in Geo Mitchell ( Chesterhall ) Ltd v Finney Lock Seeds Ltd [ 1983 ] 2 AC 803 the contract was for sale of " winter white cabbage seed " . |
| 15 | In expanding on this point they do develop some important arguments concerning the constraints which would face a socialist government attempting to advance an AES ( for instance , the problems of ‘ forcing ’ investment referred to above , and the potential conflicts between such a government and the trade unions , given the need to raise labour productivity in order to develop a tenable trading position for the national economy ) yet ultimately their position tends to a form of defeatism . |
| 16 | ( David and Margot Wizansky have no financial interests in the properties , but their company acts as a consultancy and can provide a management service . ) |
| 17 | Their effectiveness depends on a number of factors , including personality , sensitivity , their parental and other models of marriage ( good and poor ) , and their understanding and level of commitment to each other . |
| 18 | The current edition breaks down expected road expenditure and the tax-take from road users for the current financial year and shows , as previous editions have done , that road users cover their track costs by a factor of 2.4 to 1 . |