Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the nights grew darker and colder , dinner parties grew scarcer and most nights Alexandra spent by her own fire , doing her meticulous accounts , writing faithfully to her father or answering George Langley 's breezy and frequent letters from Cambridge , Rose and Grace Langley were in London until Christmas , their hunters idle in the stable and Alexandra 's life was both peaceful and satisfying in their absence . |
| 2 | Then they heard — their ears alert for the slightest changes in the grind of the traffic — a car slowing just behind them . |
| 3 | Some of the arachidonic acid derived eicosanoids ( prostaglandin E 2 , leukotriene B 4 , and thromboxane A 2 ) have been incriminated in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease , because their concentrations increase in the inflammed intestinal mucosa in the acute phase of the disease . |
| 4 | Matthew and Luke in their Gospels speak of the Holy Spirit for Christians only in the Mission Charge which anticipates their future role as ambassadors of Christ . |
| 5 | Their footsteps echo between the ancient stone buildings . |
| 6 | The arrangements set up by the two Houses differed widely , but they have had in common that their powers derive from the practical assistance given by the United Kingdom Government in the prompt provision of legislative proposals and other Community documents , and from the Government undertaking not to agree any proposal in the Council of Ministers until parliamentary scrutiny is complete . |
| 7 | The company says the market is tiough … but their figures prove with the right approach houses do sell . |
| 8 | Although James Braid is correctly credited with the course design , the Sandwich Professional was also involved for both their names appear on the first year 's accounts published in July 1908 for ‘ laying out , and advising as to links ’ , their respective fees being £15 6s. 6d. and £5 . |
| 9 | Their Lordships turn to the first of the orders under appeal , namely the order of Barnett J. refusing to overturn the decision of Judge Cameron not to grant a perpetual stay of the Barclays ( Asia ) prosecution . |
| 10 | The fact is that all the examples adduced to support the proposition that there should be a qualitative — or ‘ radical ’ — extension of the role of trade unions into the management of the business employing their members fail at the crucial oint . |
| 11 | These bodies insist that their members work to the highest standards set out in the relevant Codes of Practice and strongly recommend that their surveyors are qualified by becoming a Certified Timber Infestation Surveyor ( CTIS ) and Certificated Remedial Damp-proofing Surveyor ( CRDS ) . |
| 12 | ( This would be roughly analogous to claiming that the two different posts in an organization are really the same because their occupants report to the same superior . ) |
| 13 | Their answers result in the supreme irony of lorry-loads of young men , having scraped together some money from their extended family , travelling for days in the backs of trucks as tight-packed as rush-hour subway trains . |
| 14 | Firstly the idea that parasites will cooperate with hosts to the extent that their genes pass to the next generation in the same reproductive cells as the genes of the hosts — squeezing through the same bottleneck . |
| 15 | Richer countries had a special responsibility " in view of the pressures their societies place on the global environment " . |
| 16 | Richer countries had a special responsibility " in view of the pressures their societies place on the global environment " . |
| 17 | These people and their children differ from the so-called mixed race children only in terms of time , and are only a few generations removed from the point at which the mixture occurred . |
| 18 | And he got hi I think their children go to the Catholic School . |
| 19 | And he g he I think their children go to the Catholic school . |
| 20 | Bored gauchos sit out of the wind , sucking yerba maté from gourds ; their horses munch at the thin grass in a desultory fashion . |
| 21 | Their breeds range from the English Shire horse to the Shetland pony . |
| 22 | The men , their faces sallow in the small light of the cabriolet 's twin lamps , stared reproachfully at the wealthy officer whose carriage clipped by so smartly behind its matched pair of bays . |
| 23 | These others with the black line drawn across their escutcheons belong to the leading supporters of de Montfort . |
| 24 | Their roots emerge from the spinal cord about halfway down the back , then pass between the vertebrae at the base of the spine . |
| 25 | Quality manager Francine Galivel says the objective of the visit was fully achieved because everyone — the shift operator , the operator who loads the tanker , the person who plans the haulier 's despatch notes , the chemist who checks that the product meets specifications — all came back with a better understanding of how their jobs fit into the unbroken line from supplier to end product . |