Example sentences of "their [noun pl] for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 0930 they were all in their coaches for the long journey back to Brighton , for that evening they all became civilians again and had to be ready for their ordinary jobs on Monday . |
| 2 | But there were others who , despite their disaffection to Hanover , had little desire to risk their necks for the positive alternative the Pretender represented . |
| 3 | ‘ Most men I know would hang a title round their necks for the whole world to see ! ’ |
| 4 | He was short and deeply unpopular with everyone because he had cheated them out of their money when he collected their taxes for the Roman army . |
| 5 | Yesterday , Darlington and South West Durham health authorities unveiled their plans for the new Patient 's Charter at a press conference in Darlington . |
| 6 | Mrs Postance 's opposite number at the Haywards primary school at the other end of town , Mike Palmer , talks of ‘ tooling up ’ for the undertaking : ‘ I 've had to use a large slice of my in-service training budget to release staff during the school day for quite substantial periods to match up their plans for the following year . |
| 7 | At this meeting the divisions review their performance in the current year and present and answer questions on their plans for the following year . |
| 8 | Perfectionism : Family members try desperately to get everything exactly right in their plans for the primary sufferer but still blame themselves when the smallest things go wrong . |
| 9 | He also feared that many businesses had already built redundancies into their plans for the coming year . |
| 10 | Ford have ordered a recall of their roofracks for the new Escort and Orion models following three incidents , one involving canoes . |
| 11 | In fact even their proposals for the primary curriculum were largely described in terms of subjects ( e.g. maths , language , science , history , geography , religious education , craft ) . |
| 12 | In every production there comes an awkward jerky stage when the cast abandon their books for the first time , but for The Hooded Owl it seemed to be going on longer than usual . |
| 13 | Teachers are asked to ensure that their entries for the new class lists are brought up to date by the end of July . |
| 14 | Some approached the Santuario on their knees for the last part of the journey , saying the Rosary and imploring the Madonna 's help . |
| 15 | Once they 've joined in the Pirates Club , you 'll be lucky to see them at all , as they go through their paces for the junior cabaret ( where a lot of hidden young talent come to light ) , or as they enjoy the treasure hunts and fancy dress parties . |
| 16 | The durability of the peace will soon be tested as the political parties choose their candidates for the general election due in March 1994 . |
| 17 | They entered for all parts of the competition , and their designs for the Foreign Office and the War Department were both placed seventh on the assessors ' lists , but Burn did not put them so highly , and in the end both designs were rejected by the judges , and their block plan , which had not even been seen by the assessors and presumably never tested against the conditions , was awarded third prize . |
| 18 | For many , the thought of leaving their parents for the first time left them subdued . |
| 19 | A more recent collection , which reflects some of the same debates and also considers their implications for the economic geography of the UK is The Geography of De-Industrialisation edited by Ron Martin and Bob Rowthorn ( London and Basingstoke , Macmillan ; 1986 ) . |
| 20 | The purpose of this project is to survey post-16 provision by the statutory youth service , trends of change in that provision and their implications for the future pattern of provision throughout the age range for which the service is responsible ; to survey the way in which |
| 21 | The foregoing chapters will , it is hoped , form a sufficient background and we may now begin to look at their implications for the social worker and for the social work profession . |
| 22 | The men of the ship 's company lived in a makeshift hut for ten months , and then took to their boats for the homeward passage , reaching Novaya Zemlya , where they met the Hope , commanded by Sir Allen W. Young [ q.v. ] , who had been sent to find them . |
| 23 | Several chandlers are revising their catalogues for the new year . |
| 24 | Far from trying to develop their targets for the long haul , the Milken minions broke them up for quick gain . |
| 25 | Brokers have cut their expectations for the full year from £30m to £28m , suggesting earnings of just under 15p . |
| 26 | To make the country even more civilized the railways were embarking on building great hotels by their stations for the first time . |
| 27 | He paid a brief homage to the Gnomes , who had journeyed all the way from the Gallan Mountains to bring their ideas for the new Queen 's Crown Jewels and did not refer to the fact that they were four days late on account of getting lost on the way . |
| 28 | Karl-Heinz Kretschmer resigned as the ( CDU ) deputy Minister President of Brandenburg following accusations that he too had been involved with the Stasi , and two PDS deputies in the Saxony-Anhalt parliament , Gunter Scholz and Rolf Funda , resigned their seats for the same reason on the recommendation of the party . |
| 29 | However , on each process switch we need to save the contents of all processor registers for the old process ( the process context ) and restore their contents for the new process . |
| 30 | Among their justifications for the present move , Sotheby 's have stated that the average price of a lot sold at Sotheby 's is £1,000 which will result in an extra £50 on the bill ; that this is the first rise in the buyer 's premium since 1975 ; and that the alternative would have been to close down a number of the company 's European offices . |