Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ultimately , loans were granted to customers by means of issuing notes or crediting their accounts with deposits ( loans ) in excess of the gold stock held by the goldsmith . |
| 2 | People have to choose whether to pay back their debts or feed their children . |
| 3 | For instance , women may be forced to leave their job for domestic reasons or to follow their partner to a new job . |
| 4 | In particular , grazing molluscs leave characteristic erosions from a leaf edge ; birds , particularly the wood-pigeon , feed on clover and often leave characteristic beak-marks ; weevils remove circles of tissue , often leaving the upper epidermis intact ; sheep ( causing damage probably indistinguishable from that caused by rabbits ) remove whole leaves , leaving torn petioles or leave their bite marks on the leaflets that remain . |
| 5 | There are those whose keenest pleasures in their job are to be found outside the class-room , in informal contacts with their pupils , where they may be able to exercise their own skills or pursue their own hobbies while helping others enjoy the same pleasures . |
| 6 | Fewer people grow their own vegetables or make their own soup . |
| 7 | International appeals can help to secure the release of these prisoners or to improve their detention conditions . |
| 8 | International appeals can help to secure the release of these prisoners or to improve their detention conditions . |
| 9 | difficulties in the learning of simple actions , such as learning to brush their teeth or tie their shoes because of a difficulty in imitating . |
| 10 | The models behind the sun-baked cellophane smiled with shining teeth or pushed out kissing pouts or let their dewy bottom lip drop ; they arched and twisted and perched , strategic stickers interrupted the full view of their parts , spotted animal skins here and there hinted at biting beasts on the loose . |
| 11 | Education and housing departments , water and electricity boards have often failed to follow policy guidelines or to co-ordinate their work . |
| 12 | In an undisturbed home , all domestic cats see themselves as subordinates of their human owners , so under normal circumstances all domestic cats use litter trays or bury their faeces in the garden . |
| 13 | Women have preferred to act as collaborators , as messengers or guards or offering their houses as meeting places , all of which subject then " to considerable risk . |
| 14 | Hypertension is but one among many diseases , and progress has been made similarly in developing new drugs for regulating or adapting other parts of the body : drugs to strengthen the heart , to promote formation of blood , to help blood to clot or to prevent blood from clotting , to aid respiration , to increase the flow of urine , or selectively to increase or to diminish the amount of some selected component , to prevent conception or to promote fertility , drugs to stimulate the production of hormones or to block their actions , drugs to influence some particular aspect of the metabolism , and so on . |
| 15 | They will wince at the idea of paying for their children 's school books or having their gallstones removed , but think nothing of spending half a year 's income on a car . |
| 16 | As the entrance requirements for universities , colleges and the professions have become more demanding in recent years , so increasing numbers have stayed on for a Sixth Year to study for Certificate of Sixth Year Studies examinations , to take ‘ crash ’ courses or modules in new subjects or to upgrade their existing results . |
| 17 | No-one had told him about schools or explained their purpose . |
| 18 | You 're trying to focus attention on the presenter , the person giving the speech or answering the questions and it is a dreadful distraction to have beside and behind him or her numbers of men and women who invariably want to whisper , gesticulate , stare in the wrong direction , scratch their heads , pick their noses or make their exits at completely the wrong moment . |
| 19 | Either they must draw back from the spotlight and forfeit their privileges or pick their partners based on purely practical criteria . |
| 20 | Most other weapons can not be considered to have characteristics that make their use illegal whatever the circumstances ; although some others perhaps do — for example , bacteriological weapons , which can equally be argued to be per se illegal . |
| 21 | These were songs that laced their natural exuberance with a strain of English satire that was remarkable because it seemed so unaffected . |
| 22 | He writes songs that bare their roots with an unsubtle pride , and in choosing to cover both a Ron Wood song and a very Clash-version influenced ‘ Pressure Drop ’ , he has outlined his mission very clearly ; namely , to be the sort of rock musician who thinks that Keith Richards is a force for change in the world and that Los Angeles poodle metal is bollocks . |
| 23 | Specialized ornithischians in the late Cretaceous were the remarkable duck-billed dinosaurs , animals that lost their front teeth and had arrays of tiny grinding teeth at the back of the jaw that were continually replaced , like those of the shark , and must have been able to cope with tough vegetation . |
| 24 | Because of their low ratings , some of America 's biggest banks pay more for short- and long-term funds than do their industrial customers . |
| 25 | For organizations that want their employees to give of their best the conclusion must be that ‘ we can not afford not to have an effective communication policy ’ . |
| 26 | It was n't easy to tell , from the filthy and shapeless rags that covered their filthy and shapeless bodies , but I guessed that there was a man and a woman and some smaller ones that were children . |
| 27 | At just over six foot , with thick curling brown hair and eyes that owed their startling blueness to his Irish ancestry , Tom was used to being the object of female appreciation whilst being slightly puzzled by it . |
| 28 | It was his eyes that riveted their attention . |
| 29 | Their pupils were covered with red mud from slips and falls , but the teachers were unmarked except for ochre spatters that streaked their mailed tunics |
| 30 | All these books have strengths that justify their place on the library shelf and on every reading list on the history of seventeenth-century science . |