Example sentences of "their [noun pl] to a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The course is specifically designed to hone their skills to a professional level . |
| 2 | Local producers may simply sell their products to a domestic marketing board or wholesaler and neither know nor care who the final consumers will be . |
| 3 | However Mr Botham discounted the idea that with 15 per cent of arable land now in set aside , farmers were cutting back on their inputs to a parallel degree . |
| 4 | The doctors may broadcast their scripts to a drug-hungry nation like showers of autumn leaves , but they still act as an intolerable bottle-neck between manufacturers and their clients , the latter , poor sods , often not even knowing what wondrous remedies are to hand for the asking . |
| 5 | Some , such as the caterpillars of the white butterfly , fix their chrysalids to a vertical surface , e.g. a twig or the wall of the cage . |
| 6 | The Ellan Vannin Diaries have obligingly altered the time of their deliveries to a later hour in response to one or two complaints of sleep disturbance . |
| 7 | Many of them have directed their writings to a popular audience , and as Ferguson says , ‘ in doing so , have often sacrificed standards of logic and evidence in favor of the pithy illustration or memorable quote ’ ; and he continues ‘ Wilson [ 1978 : 99 ] raises the favorite question of college seminars and cocktail party conversations which is , ‘ are human beings innately aggressive ? ’ |
| 8 | The rather surprising introduction of a moral dimension to this apparently scientific debate does , however , render it ambiguous — an ambiguity which becomes even more manifest when scientists present their ideas to a wider audience . |
| 9 | Cut all main branches back to a few inches long and for each prepare 2–3 scions of the new variety as for whip and tongue grafting , but trim their bases to a long wedge shape . |
| 10 | Two hundred years ago , early morning watchers in the sand dunes could have been rewarded by the sight of male bustards inflating their throat pouches into balloons , and extravagantly flaunting their plumages to a bizarre extent in their efforts to attract a female ; white under tail feathers and white under wings were raised high , forced forward , almost turned inside out — and fanned invitingly . |
| 11 | Tonight they 'll be toasting 50 active and important years , raising their glasses to a nostalgic fly- past by a lone Spitfire . |
| 12 | Several newspapers and magazines opened their pages to a full-fledged debate , complete with angry letters , editorials , and articles with headlines like ‘ Are we ruled by clergy ? ’ |
| 13 | For example , some localised industries would now be able to offer their goods to a wider market . |
| 14 | The same pressures — the sharpening of international trade competition , a growing fear of being left behind by more enterprising or better-organised rivals — underlay the efforts increasingly made by foreign offices to adapt their structures to a new situation . |
| 15 | And while there are thousands of would-be stars willing to lend their names to a good cause , it is the successful stars that the charities squabble over . |
| 16 | Both features resembled their names to a baffling degree but , despite this , Abu was moved to expound upon them with such fervent body language that we nearly plunged into the ravine and terminated our lives at the very lip of the sacred symbol of where we had begun it . |
| 17 | ‘ My homesite was Cape Wrath but before I ever made my first flight a Man came and … ’ and he began to tell her his story , of the Zoo , of the Cages , of the Men there and his sudden escape … only leaving out mention of the other eagles in the Cages for in his heart he knew their pride would ask that he did not mention their names to a free eagle , nor would they wish for pity from outside . |
| 18 | Before Coleridge 's lengthening visit had come to an end , the two dissatisfied young men had pursued the logic of their arguments to a startling conclusion . |
| 19 | The ski resorts have done their bit too , grooming many of their slopes to a baby-bottom smoothness that is less fun for adolescent hot-doggers but easier on older legs . |
| 20 | As discussed during Delors ' visit to Tokyo in May 1991 [ see p. 38202 ] , the three leaders issued a joint economic and political declaration pledging closer co-operation , intended to elevate their relations to a new level . |
| 21 | Men-at-arms , wearing the royal livery of Scotland , attempted to impose some form of order but the situation was not improved by a horde of courtiers standing around also issuing their instructions to a vast army of retainers all wearing different liveries . |
| 22 | This involves the creation of small teams who need to be able to turn their hands to a wide variety of tasks . |
| 23 | A sizeable number of old and younger men provide such care for their own elderly relatives and , in our generation , we have seen some men assume ‘ mothering ’ tasks for their children to a greater degree than in the past . |
| 24 | They took their drinks to a quiet corner table and sat down . |
| 25 | Under the scheme , successful claimants would pay about 10 per cent of their winnings to a central fund which would meet the costs of unsuccessful claims . |
| 26 | As they did last year , the big-hearted bunch have decided to donate their winnings to a local charity . |
| 27 | After a little more conversation , mainly expressing amazement at the splendour of Tamar 's circumstances , they urged their horses to a brisk pace and had no further chance to speak . |
| 28 | With the overriding need to introduce their systems to a wider market , massively parallel systems builders are having to come out with ever smaller configurations of their machines to get the entry price down , and Beaverton , Oregon-based Adaptive Solutions Inc has cut its CNAPS pattern recognition system down to 64 processors to create the CNAPS/64 . |
| 29 | With the overriding need to introduce their systems to a wider market , massively parallel systems builders are having to come out with ever smaller configurations of their machines to get the entry price down , and Beaverton , Oregon-based Adaptive Solutions Inc has cut its CNAPS pattern recognition system down to 64 processors to create the CNAPS/64 . |
| 30 | The PVO rebels went back to their old game of harassing the Karens who had been restless ever since their claims to a separate state on ambitious lines had failed . |