Example sentences of "[prep] their [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | its officials are adequately trained to look after their members ' interests in an efficient and responsible way . |
| 2 | It is interesting that both Mrs Pankhurst and Millicent Fawcett only entered public life as feminists after their husbands ' deaths . |
| 3 | This ungiving endurance is admired by working-class boys who grow up to write about their mothers ' flinty courage . |
| 4 | of business men were less optimistic about their companies ' prospects . |
| 5 | However , half of the chief executives polled were optimistic about their companies ' prospects , while only 35 per cent voiced concern . |
| 6 | First of all , children were likely to protest about their parents ' departure . |
| 7 | Although it was 12 years ago , both vividly remember the day they learned about their parents ' seperation . |
| 8 | Glancing up , she caught Ross 's nod and warm smile of approval at the efforts she was making to reassure Emma and Sophie about their parents ' condition . |
| 9 | All seven families with a transient result were interviewed to gain their perspective of the programme and ensure they had no lingering doubts about their sons ' health . |
| 10 | The others have been very positive about the programme , stating that they preferred to know about their sons ' condition from an early stage . |
| 11 | Yet even peasants , bounded through their lives mostly by their immediate vicinity , could sometimes travel further afield , whether pursuing a legal claim , like the Mitry group , or about their lords ' business , like the men of St-Germain-des- Prés who owned transport-services between Anjou and the Paris neighbourhood . |
| 12 | However , many of the very same down-trodden , whom Khomeini liked to call the ‘ shoeless ’ , are sceptical about their leaders ' empty promises . |
| 13 | Readers of right-wing papers were well aware of their papers ' pro-Conservative and anti-Labour bias though less unanimous about their papers ' anti-Alliance bias . |
| 14 | AIRCRAFT unions will today seek assurances about their members ' futures when they meet American buyers of the 125 business jet . |
| 15 | Janssen care a great deal about their customers ' people , too . |
| 16 | Instructors can be mistaken about their students ' ability to control the initial part properly if one or two launches go well . |
| 17 | These contacts will also allow partners to share expertise and to improve their knowledge of the education and training systems of other member states , as well as learning more about their partners ' local communities . |
| 18 | In the past they have been made implicitly by the providers , although general practitioners may have adjusted their referral patterns based on knowledge about their patients ' preferences and clinical practice in given hospitals . |
| 19 | Hospital doctors , for example , are still expected to have the last word about their patients ' discharge dates , or about their transfer to other institutions , or to decide whether they should be offered facilities such as regular readmission to relieve carers . |
| 20 | Similarly farmers are more prepared to be indulgent about their employees ' working hours as long as the necessary tasks are carried out efficiently . |
| 21 | Countries newly unsure about their neighbours ' capabilities would find themselves ever more tempted to try to get a bomb themselves . |
| 22 | Furthermore , quite irrationally , some retired husbands begin to harbour dire suspicions about their wives ' working colleagues , imagining romantic entanglements that had never crossed their minds before . |
| 23 | The boards have extensive rights to be informed and consulted about their schools ' educational , disciplinary and financial policies and achievements , and to participate in the appointment of senior staff . |
| 24 | But ten times as many children of divorce live with their mothers as with their fathers ; more than eighty-five per cent of divorces , granted on the grounds of unreasonable behaviour , are given to wives complaining about their husbands ' conduct , and the number of wives made to pay off their ex-husbands is still tiny . |
| 25 | Nor can they help forming snapshot impressions of their colleagues in action — the way they speak to pupils , the degree of calmness or rowdiness they seem to achieve in their lessons and the way they write about their pupils ' work in formal reports . |
| 26 | In the 1950s , the Boards found the Conservative Government increasingly concerned about their shops ' competition with the private sector of electrical retailing . |
| 27 | Editor , — After the full implementation of the community care reforms local authorities will be under increased pressure to use all sources of information about their clients ' and population 's needs for community care services . |
| 28 | Wives , becoming less absorbed as babies become more clearly their own persons , but often remaining tied , tired or bored by the demands of toddlers , perhaps feeling lonely and lacking enough external stimulus , may similarly find themselves resenting and envying what they see as their husbands ' ‘ freedom ’ of action . |
| 29 | If I chose not to reap the benefits of this scheme then I might consider the fate of a few ungrateful citizens who had thought likewise and then seen their homes repossessed , had been inflicted with uncanny storms that ripped tiles from roof and threw chimney stacks into the street , had undergone torment at the hands of timeshare salespeople , had been billed for new and exorbitant taxes and had been struck off their doctors ' registers . |
| 30 | Governors , parents , teachers and heads themselves can not now take their eye — for too long — off their pupils ' achievements in the basic curriculum . |