Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One week several AEs were sacked from DPR for their inability to convey the concept of financial futures . |
| 2 | The reference given is dated 1983 , since when many developments have taken place , not least that American otorhinolaryngologists have adopted the Miller technique as their treatment of choice for allergic perennial rhinitis . |
| 3 | The complicated nature of women 's response to doctors ' views about their role also characterised the way in which women dealt with the whole area of sexual difference and its implications for their position in terms of both the separation of spheres and of female dependency within the private sphere of home and family . |
| 4 | It appears that policemen and women the world over have similar views about their job and agree on what aspects of police work they like and dislike . |
| 5 | So a statement such as ‘ Lots of parents have different views about their children ’ or ‘ I wonder if there are times when you do n't totally agree with each other ? ’ may enable this to happen . |
| 6 | The assumption was that women would be working because of their husband 's fecklessness and would therefore need legal protection for their earnings . |
| 7 | Her province was terrestrial , the mountains and hillsides where wild animals needed her protection for their nurture . |
| 8 | Comprised of master craftsmen , the medieval guilds had the exclusive rights of trading in the towns and provided aid and protection for their members . |
| 9 | The Germans , too , began with tariffs more favourable to farming than industry , and it took the McKinley tariff in the U.S.A. and the enormous Russian protective duties to convert the German rulers to protection for their manufacturers . |
| 10 | Heavier plate ensured attachment to the fuselage and the team created a crude cradle for their baby . |
| 11 | Athelstan 's pleasure increased when-he saw that Benedicta , her hair now braided and hidden under a wimple , had a small basket by her side in preparation for their journey to Smithfield . |
| 12 | Local Galatic holidaymakers are now being invited to sign up and receive a free certificate of registration and luggage labels in preparation for their travel . |
| 13 | The tutors contacted felt that the Access students compared favourably to other groups of students and believed that the Access courses were a good preparation for their course . |
| 14 | From the beginning , Lewis was a conscientious tutor who tried to keep the balance right between amiability or conviviality ( not always possible between incompatible types ) and his duty to the pupils to give them sufficient preparation for their examinations . |
| 15 | Training in research methods is part of their preparation for their research projects on the basis of which they will write a dissertation . |
| 16 | They trailed 20–7 at half-time as Harlequins ran through their repertoire of slick back-line moves in preparation for their Cup final showdown with Bath . |
| 17 | Or if an adult hospital patient with young children is known to be terminally ill , it should be possible to provide some kind of support for the spouse and the children in preparation for their loss , in order that they may work through their grief and come to terms with their new situation . |
| 18 | Finance ministers from the Group of Seven industrialized countries also met on April 14 in preparation for their meeting on April 28 . |
| 19 | This they have plainly not been able to do and yet they still try and bounce us along the same old route through their friends in the media . |
| 20 | Microsoft Corp and Intel Corp have won the support of cable television equipment specialist General Instrument Corp for their television control system combination of a version of Windows running of an 80386 chip . |
| 21 | Hitherto , the Greeks had instinctively interpreted their experience through their myths and so given it " the stamp of the eternal " . |
| 22 | At the other extreme are those planners who compose the most thorough set of notes for their essays . |
| 23 | A church group in Lima , Peru , study the notes for their correspondence course in media education . |
| 24 | School musicians are likely to have taken either a graduate course at university or music college , or a specialist music course during their teacher training . |
| 25 | The Oxford economists , Bacon and Eltis , found a receptive audience across the political spectrum for their diagnosis that Britain was generating far too few producers of wealth . |
| 26 | Barefoot men jogged past , close-packed about their leaders on their colourfully bedecked , trippling mules ; groups of horsemen , mostly Galla , cantered past or were engulfed among yet more men on foot . |
| 27 | Consequently they have been short of riders for their opening British League Division One matches , and for last night 's rained off home meeting with Wolverhampton they were due to use David Norris , who has been sold to Eastbourne for £15,000 , and use the rider replacement facility for Shirra . |
| 28 | He admires the old classic musicals for their spectacle if not their storyline , and says that Vincente Minelli ‘ had a camera like a hawk after a mouse ’ . |
| 29 | On retirement or death in office ( botanists tend to be long-lived but not quite immortal ) , their book collections were frequently sold off to defray debts or to provide a settlement for their widows . |
| 30 | This enabled the barley growers to organise themselves effectively to protest to the authorities about their loss of land , and to challenge the monopolistic price-fixing of ‘ middlemen ’ . |