Example sentences of "[verb] of their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , we could follow up people 20 years on to assess the results of our child care work , but even if we could successfully trace them , is it right to contact them after all that time when their spouses and children may not know of their earlier histories ? |
| 2 | In short , he begins to display precisely the comportment his contemporaries would have expected of their rightful king . |
| 3 | Her eyes dropped of their own accord to his hard mouth . |
| 4 | Feasting her eyes on him as he quickly enclosed his nether limbs , Gina was forcibly reminded of their first meeting . |
| 5 | In conclusion , tutors are again reminded of their great responsibilities for achieving the high aims set out in the first paragraph . |
| 6 | He ought to have been reminded of their joint suffering before he committed his fault . |
| 7 | Nor to be reminded of their smouldering resentments against this girl of their of age who was so ‘ lady-like ’ and ‘ nose-in-the-air ’ so that they might feel that she needed to be brought down a peg or two . |
| 8 | And if so , it is devoutly to be wished that both his SNP and Liberal Democrat opponents in North Aberdeen at the next election will together ensure that his constituents are reminded of their sitting member 's fundamental disagreement with his own party 's long-established policy on this key constitutional question . |
| 9 | They do not want to be reminded of their own ageing by the evident blooming of youth at such close quarters . |
| 10 | At the same time , socialists do not like being reminded of their own dismal record when in government a long time ago . |
| 11 | If the perceptions of Paisley 's critics are revealing of their underlying attitudes , the same could be said for the perceptions of his supporters . |
| 12 | Griffin is right to the extent that we do entertain fantasies of inhabiting other ‘ skins ’ ( David Garnett 's Lady into Fox ( 1932 ) is a good example of the literary genre , although Kafka 's Metamorphosis ( 1961 ) is pre-eminent in casting the shadows of paradox involved in the attempt ) but the failure to achieve this does not in any way put at risk our understanding of what others say of their own or others ' consciousness . |
| 13 | The embassy grounds , emptied of their temporary visitors , were unrecognisably battered . |
| 14 | No matter how much they eat of their current food , they just ca n't get enough energy from it . |
| 15 | But even many of these have some interesting hues , at least to our human sight , though just what other creatures perceive of their own or other species is not so easily understood . |
| 16 | As an example he cites a review that the health authority and the mental health trust have just completed of their mental health strategy , using the planning team as an important part of the consultation mechanism . |
| 17 | Did this affect the image Tanzanians were given of their own country ? |
| 18 | But in the next few years , these areas were practically drained of their promising material . |
| 19 | At this time , fears of a timber famine were being expounded as earlier laws had failed to redress the impact of lumber companies and agricultural development and it was becoming increasingly apparent that public lands were being sacked of their natural timber resources . |
| 20 | Whatever we may think of their evocative names , ‘ Queen Elizabeth ’ and ‘ Peace ’ are much too boisterous to be given room in genteel society . |
| 21 | Our main purpose in life is to make people aware of the problem , to make them think of their own vulnerability and responsibility and make them act in a safe and sensible way . |
| 22 | The distinction between the two concepts , the commission of a crime and the production of a literary work , is a vital one , for although it is clearly desirable to deter crimes , it is not transparently obvious that we should seek to deter the production of literary works , whatever we may think of their intrinsic merits . |
| 23 | Individuals are neither slaves to their attitudes , nor are they necessarily masters of their own destiny . |
| 24 | She was horribly aware she was being manipulated , knew his cynical tactics for what they were , yet she was powerless to resist , and when his mouth traced a line of feather-like kisses across her cheek her lips parted of their own accord , begging for their share of the richness . |
| 25 | It was designed to rid Iran of the remaining elements of the invading force in these sectors ( some having withdrawn of their own accord ) and took the form of powerful punches to which distinctive names were generally given , evocative of important features of Islam 's past . |
| 26 | Scum in uniform … he yearned for a parade ground of his former troops , for the whip crack of their rifle drill , the unison stamping of their marching boots . |
| 27 | And there were the baskets of fruit , perfect small melons , late plums , under-ripe medlars waiting to soften , peaches , pears hollowed out by a bird or a wasp , figs that had fallen of their own accord , all the fruits of September naturally ripe and sometimes still warm from the sun . |
| 28 | The organisation that calls the general election closest is the one that is most attractive to Tesco or Finefare or whomever it might be when they want to discover what the public thinks of their baked beans . |
| 29 | Previously Manupur had been divided into a number of well-defined hereditary and hierarchically ordered groups or castes whose jobs , social status and economic relationships ( i.e. the share they got of their own and each other 's profits ) were pre-determined by tradition . |
| 30 | Even what appears to be what Adam Smith called an " offensive " combination — one which " without any provocation … combine of their own accord to raise the price of their labour " — may turn out to have been workers taking advantage of a temporary shift in the labour market to restore previously enjoyed conditions of employment . |