Example sentences of "[adv] their [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the lower limb fractures we see occur in casual hill users — perhaps their leg muscles are n't attuned to what they 're doing . |
| 2 | A Metropolitan authority said that they did not yet know how much their training allocation from the central training budget would be , as training is organized to coincide with the academic year . |
| 3 | Commission-paid salesmen sit or stand at their telephones calling punters and reading aloud their sales pitch : a sheet of paper on which is scrawled details of their investment proposition . |
| 4 | They would need to hold together their Republican support while detaching sufficient numbers of conservative Democrats to fashion the succession of majorities required . |
| 5 | ST HELENS are taking legal advice after the Rugby League turned down their compensation plea for injured Test centre Paul Loughlin . |
| 6 | The magazine carried an article which announced that due to the high cost of electricity , there was a large growth in membership of specialist goldfish societies , as fishkeepers deserted their tropical tanks , in a bid to cut down their electricity bills . |
| 7 | National groups could only find outlets for their own beer by acquiring smaller companies and shutting down their brewing plant . |
| 8 | They put down their porridge spoons and stood up , politely and meekly . |
| 9 | At the entrance was a table for a member of the local Assembly executive who checked people 's names and wrote down their identity card numbers as they came in . |
| 10 | They will therefore be willing to hire more labour ( move down their demand curve ) . |
| 11 | These gases diffuse down their concentration gradients , e.g. through stoma pores or lentices to the intercellular spaces of leaf mesophyll or stem cortex . |
| 12 | They threw down their fishing gear and ran as the motorcycle leapt over the embankment and crashed into the deep ditch some 15ft below . |
| 13 | Some Americans wanted to cut down their force levels in Europe . |
| 14 | And firms continue to run down their cash holdings . |
| 15 | So far , firms have dealt with the problem partly by drawing down their cash reserves . |
| 16 | Employers , by contrast , mistakenly thinking that real wages have fallen to , say , , attempt to move down their labour demand function to a position such as point C. Assuming that actual trading in the labour market is determined on the short side , the level of employment rises to . |
| 17 | They had laid down their War Aims and they were waiting for Germany to speak . |
| 18 | There are still old Newfoundlanders around who chopped down their maple trees and ripped ’ O Canada ’ from their song-books on March 31 1949 , when the proud island which had been England 's oldest colony joined the Canadian confederation . |
| 19 | Murrell , who was not going out with Gedge at the time , was surprised when the couple suddenly packed up , tore down their Wedding Present posters and left Leeds . |
| 20 | After walking in and setting down their pocket tape recorder , they soon reveal themselves as inarticulate and badly prepared and the whole encounter is punctuated with long , awkward silences . |
| 21 | Even so , prices are not expected to rise and companies such as John Laing , Barratt and Wimpey have already written down their housing land bank values by up to 20 per cent . |
| 22 | But was n't Mrs Thatcher telling the Japanese to break down their trade barriers the other day ? |
| 23 | After all , one alternative upon discovering from an activity-based costing system that many products are unprofitable is to focus on reducing their costs rather than close down their production lines . |
| 24 | Will the right hon. Gentleman further explain to my constituent why people who reach that age end up in the appalling position of having all their age allowances clawed back by the Government ? |
| 25 | Like the Cheshire cat , many great industrial enterprises , such as Firestone and Dunlop in tyres , have already vanished , leaving behind only their brand names as images to be exploited by their new owners . |
| 26 | The bill amended the 1964 Civil Rights Act to enable victims of intentional discrimination based on sex , religion or disability to claim not only their back pay and legal costs , as hitherto , but also compensatory and punitive damages . |
| 27 | Only their opening wish is new : ‘ Would that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord ! ’ |
| 28 | Two of his elderly constituents had lost not only their life savings , but their homes . |
| 29 | On top of that , proportionately more has gone to those who have only their state pension by way of benefits . |
| 30 | The current moves to encourage still further the provision of private occupational-pensions in preference to state schemes may serve only to emphasize the inequalities between some elderly people who are supported by one or even two occupational pensions , and those , particularly widows , who have only their state pension . |