Example sentences of "their [noun pl] were [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furniture manufacturers could only operate under licence to the government and most of their products were designated for the defence of the realm . |
| 2 | Party leaders should consider taking the major drug companies into public ownership so that their products were developed on the basis of need rather than profit . |
| 3 | Surprisingly few big names have gone under , which may prove what many long suspected : that their products were over-priced in the first place . |
| 4 | Their policies were riddled with the logical absurdities on pricing of which Gaitskell had earlier been so critical . |
| 5 | They were forbidden by law to return to within thirty kilometres of their estates , and their houses were turned into the offices of state farms , rest homes for party bosses or factory workers , schools , mad-houses , orphanages or just left to crumble . |
| 6 | Persons in close contact with them at work or at their houses were drawn from the majority population for ‘ security reasons ’ . |
| 7 | Tottenham2 Aston Villa5 THE most disappointing aspect of Tottenham 's 13th home defeat of the season was not their naive defending or individual errors that made Aston Villa think some of their opponents were practising for the PFA strike . |
| 8 | The second reason for urban bias was the fact that the radio broadcasters themselves lived in the towns : the people who spoke to them and commented on their programmes were living in the same environment . |
| 9 | Their sons were educated at the school at one fifth of the fees normally charged , under a concessionary scheme . |
| 10 | Both their cars were stolen in the space of three days . |
| 11 | Two sales staff employed in the Watford office remained in that area as their clients were based in the south of the country . |
| 12 | Not only did farms become larger and more specialized , but village craftsmen — millers , blacksmiths , carpenters , wheelwrights , bakers , and cobblers — were squeezed out as their trades were concentrated in the towns . |
| 13 | Whatever the Navy 's intentions , their shells were landing in the Commando positions and causing some havoc . |
| 14 | Beyond the windows , tropical trees and shrubs that bore guava , papaw , mangosteen and pomegranate sprouted in profusion from the moist earth of a walled garden , and heaped bowls of fruits picked from their branches were clustered on the altar , along with tiny dishes of spiced meats , fish , lotus seeds , vegetables and porcelain beakers of tea and rice alcohol . |
| 15 | She stood for a moment looking at them , and saw how their heads were tilted in the listening attitudes of forest creatures , how their ears were pricked , and how their eyes were bright and intelligent . |
| 16 | Twelve of their heads were impaled on the Charles Bridge pour encourager les autres and remained there for more than a decade . |
| 17 | Ella noticed , with some alarm , that their eyes were fixed upon the silver basket which Dimity was proffering . |
| 18 | Thousands of their supporters were charged with the same offence . |
| 19 | Last week Frankfurt finalised the WOMBAT negotiations with Albania and Mongolia , and their currencies were absorbed into the Global Numismatic Unit ( GNU ) , so named because one specimen was ‘ minted ’ ( made in metallic hard-copy form ) into what our grandmothers used to know as a ‘ coin ’ . |
| 20 | Most of their criticisms were related to the survival ‘ of a nineteenth century tradition that council members must themselves be concerned with actual details of day-to-day administration ’ ( Maud 1967 , Vol. 1:1X ) . |
| 21 | Pascal 's target here is Descartes and , in trying to think oneself back into the overwhelming urgency of their debate , it has to be remembered that their lives were overshadowed by the struggles of the Counter-Reformation . |
| 22 | Although by law hire purchase advertising had to be ‘ accurate ’ , there was no reporting process to make this more effective than a formality ( except for the efforts of individual weights and measures inspectors who became concerned about credit provision when their duties were extended by the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 to cover a very wide range of consumer affairs ) . |
| 23 | Even as far away as Australia commentators talked about a quiet revolution in the way Australians and their communities were responding to the types of learning challenges being presented to them by the changing social conditions of the 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 24 | The English study site , in Dorset , was a group of four old flooded clay pits between 225 and 830m apart ; the distances were critical because , in addition to finding out how often toads moved between ponds , the researchers wanted to know if their movements were related to the distance between ponds . |
| 25 | Although their car and many of their belongings were destroyed by the bomb , they said they would continue their honeymoon . |
| 26 | Their guests were assembling in the open-air piazza below . |
| 27 | Their organisations were split over the original decision to send troops to the Gulf : the National Association of Arab Americans ( NAAA ) supported the build-up , while the ADC , a larger organisation , opposed it . |
| 28 | Their reservations were voiced at the long-running Sizewell public inquiry , where the Suffolk local authorities have just finished their evidence . |
| 29 | Their reservations were voiced in the run-up to the 44th annual joint meeting of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank on Sept. 26-28 , 1989 , in Washington [ for which see p. 36908 ] . |
| 30 | Their days were spent in the makeshift hospital . |