Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that their deposits are ‘ money ’ , there is an overwhelming case from an economic point of view for dwelling on their similarities ( and calling them all ‘ banks ’ ) rather than on their differences . |
| 2 | The Liberals apparently entered into secret negotiations with both parties , a surprising development given that their leader , Economic Affairs Minister Itzhak Moda'i , had in 1986 resigned from a Cabinet headed by Peres after an acrimonious personal feud [ see p. 34770 ] ; Moda'i was also a noted supporter of leading hardliner Ariel Sharon . |
| 3 | The trick is to make the qualification time long enough so that the people who go to a club towards the end of their career and get large transfer bonuses do not qualify , but short enough for the players to feel that they will not have to wait half their lives to get theirs . |
| 4 | The Foreign Ministers of Iran , Syria and Turkey , meeting in Ankara on Nov. 14 on the initiative of Turkey 's Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel , made clear their concern about the possible Kurdish nationalist ambitions of Iraqi Kurd leaders . |
| 5 | Even those uncommitted to either side in the English dispute made clear their disapproval of any procedure ‘ that gave the keeping of the kingdom to a woman ’ . |
| 6 | The Irish Roman Catholic Church bishops yesterday made clear their disapproval of the form of wording chosen by the government to permit abortions in cases where the life of a mother-to-be is at risk . |
| 7 | It is however in the naked male figure , always the central theme of Greek art , that we first see , alongside the changed spirit , the vital loosening of formal structure by which sculptors of this generation made clear their break with archaic conventions and opened the way to classical developments . |
| 8 | The 14 allies made clear their intention of maintaining the basis of the NATO concepts of " forward defence " and " flexible response " with a mix of conventional and nuclear forces and a continued United States presence in Europe . |
| 9 | The sponsors of the bill made clear their intention to press for a vote on it within the current legislative session . |
| 10 | A number of the more left-leaning activists from the first strike , such as Bob Pagels and Glen Barr , made clear their opposition to this second stoppage . |
| 11 | The leaders of the Alliance Party and the Social and Democratic Labour Party ( SDLP ) made clear their dissatisfaction that the Unionists had been allowed to ignore the Brooke ultimatum . |
| 12 | The report said that the opposition made clear their desire for the prime minister to be chosen from the MDR ; it added that each of the opposition parties had claimed three ministerial posts and the ruling party six . |
| 13 | Gibraltar , whose importance as a naval base was now much diminished , caused continuing diplomatic embarrassment with Spain , although the local population made clear their wish to remain British . |
| 14 | There they sold half their animals , bought goods with the proceeds , loaded them onto the remaining animals and returned to Kufra , resuming the annual north-south movement . |
| 15 | Consequently managers must be involved with plans of change in medical activity and make clear their accountability for the standard of nursing care . |
| 16 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 17 | Such is the notion uncritically entertained in the Alliance Report : competing candidates of the same party would make clear their differences on policy issues , and on the balanced slate so presented to him the voter would pick and choose . |
| 18 | Suffolk people hiccup half their words away . |
| 19 | The parley was unproductive , with Miles demanding unconditional surrender of all arms and Joseph requesting that his people be allowed to return peaceably to the Wallowa , while returning half their guns for hunting . |
| 20 | Middle-class families get their investment back in two to three years if they cook half their lunch every day in the cooker . |
| 21 | I wish they would buy all their groceries from the Cairnbaan Post Office as they meander past . |
| 22 | And one prominent club , Bangor City , want to go even further by staging all their home games in midweek . |
| 23 | Defensively , Maghery are strong and resilient but will need all their resources in this department if they are to contain the Clans . |
| 24 | They 'll need all their sharpness . |
| 25 | Unbeknown to them and the Fuehrer himself , surveillance staff at Bletchley Park have just cracked all their codes and are intercepting information that 'll help lead the Allies to victory . |
| 26 | This will guarantee all their school fees and the basis of their future . |
| 27 | And now they had the immense task of reclaiming all this land and rebuilding all their homes . |
| 28 | The anthropologists have not solved all their problems in this area but they feel , with some justification , that where human behaviour is concerned , most of the arguments now being put forward by the sociobiologists as if they were major scientific discoveries were effectively disposed of sometime around 1865 . |
| 29 | Success has n't solved all their problems — Cindy Wilson has taken time off to be temporarily replaced by David Lynch 's protegee Julee Cruise — but it has put the bounce back into the bouffant bop from which their name is derived ( a B-52 being a hairdo ) . |
| 30 | Until then , police are keeping all their options open . |