Example sentences of "[noun pl] for their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it must be remembered that the Chinese communists resembled the Kuomintang in using captured Japanese personnel for their own purposes after 1945 and indeed during the Chinese intervention in Korea from October 1950 . |
| 2 | These fundamental differences in the explanations of Brown and Harris and those of Henderson and his colleagues about the role of social support in the aetiology of depression have prompted a search for the reasons for their discrepant findings . |
| 3 | A substantial literature has emerged analysing the ideas of the New Right , the distinctions between different schools , and the reasons for their political and intellectual ascendancy in the 1980s . |
| 4 | Other reasons for their conspicuous absence could be an apparent weakness in software , as DSP requires powerful software support tools and availability of these tools is a prime consideration when specifying a DSP for a design project . |
| 5 | It is at once an anthology of selected short stories and extracts of narratives often Afro-American women writers over 100 years ; a scholarly treatise and critique of their work ; and a highly politicized and womanist questioning of the reasons for their relative obscurity up until the recent ’ renaissance ’ in Black women 's writing . |
| 6 | Patrick had briefed him on the reasons for their sudden turnaround in Bucharest and the dash back to the Channel . |
| 7 | Tail-less rabbits are previously unheard of , and the reasons for their sudden evolution are unknown . |
| 8 | Whether the weavers of today are aware of the symbolic meaning of their designs — or whether they simply reproduce them out of a general reverence for tradition — is a matter of considerable debate , but there is no doubt that the symbolic potency of nomadic designs is one of the major reasons for their growing popularity in the West . |
| 9 | At the postmortem conducted by the FGRA , Alliance candidates analysed the reasons for their disastrous performance . |
| 10 | Despite the political reasons for their intellectual difficulties , many Christians persist in blaming only ‘ new ideas ’ rather than new political freedoms for increasing secularisation . |
| 11 | The reasons for their subsequent divorce were not vouchsafed . |
| 12 | Many people were no longer content to record ancient monuments : they wanted to know more about them and , in particular , they wanted objects for their private museums . |
| 13 | The museum houses the collection built up by the industrialist Josef Mueller who started purchasing objects for their aesthetic qualities in Europe after the First World War . |
| 14 | The last ten years have seen the beginnings of a trend away from the study of objects for their own sake , stimulated partly by the discovery and excavation of settlement sites which have encouraged the formulation of a new range of questions ; the nature of and change in human societies have replaced the barren side of the artefacts . |
| 15 | Our ability to ‘ read ’ objects for their social appropriateness and to impose upon any series or new forms that order which would make them culturally acceptable does not in any respect lessen the place of strategy , or the possibility of intent ; both , however , are accomplished within objective conditions of which we have an underlying experience , even if we choose to deny them in formulating strategy . |
| 16 | Furthermore , despite the proven efficacy of warfarin in primary stroke prevention , physicians remain reluctant to prescribe oral anticoagulants for their older patients with AF because of fears about haemorrhagic complications and understandable concerns about drug compliance in elderly outpatients . |
| 17 | Soviet leaders anticipated that the Brezhnev plan could stimulate interest among certain key Red Sea states for their own ‘ zone of peace ’ aimed at excluding the Western military presence . |
| 18 | But further concessions from these states to Soviet military requirements will in fact be difficult to justify while Soviet officials routinely castigate other developing states for their military concessions to the West . |
| 19 | A person buying and selling investments for their own account . |
| 20 | They require special skills for their effective performance and there are a limited number of individuals with the necessary ability to acquire such skills . |
| 21 | After comfortable wins for their first and third pairs , it was left to Julian Godfrey and Laurence Matthews to clinch the championship with a nail biting 7–6 , 7–6 success over Richard Pannell and Dylan Williams . |
| 22 | The processed tapes will be deposited with the ESRC Data Archive from where social scientists may obtain copies for their own research |
| 23 | Because she knew she swelled and paled , in the grip of her look , she smiled even more and then invited them to start talking about their plans for their future home , which they did at once , and ceased to notice her . |
| 24 | The legend relating to Dicky o'Tunstead caused the London North Western Railway Company many problems and succeeded in forcing this railway company to reconsider their plans for their new line between Chapel-en-le-Frith and Buxton . |
| 25 | All other plans ( outside London and the old metropolitan county areas where ‘ unitary ’ plans now operate ) are local plans and the great majority are the responsibility of the districts who prepare district plans for their whole area or local plans for smaller parts of it . |
| 26 | The issue of 5th February sees the start of a new monthly column , entitled ‘ Coming Attractions ’ and featuring details of their plans for their big titles . |
| 27 | Prior to the establishment of the Federation Cup by the ILTF ( now the ITF ) in 1962 , the former US player , Margaret du Pont , together with former Australian pro , Thelma Coyne Long and supported by the USTA , had drawn up plans for their own women 's international team competition and had even offered to donate a cup for the event . |
| 28 | In addition to Lagos at least ten other states have well-advanced plans for their own television stations . |
| 29 | Within this general consensus , the armies of individual states made plans for their own circumstances . |
| 30 | They learned to negotiate for grants , find a patch of land , buy it , hire their own architect , and then work on detailed plans for their own homes , the colour of bricks , the design of window frames , the landscaping of their estate . |