Example sentences of "[noun pl] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Dressed in religious vestments their dry delivery and material was new and original . |
| 2 | For many fans their only chance of getting a coveted Wembley ticket was to collect all three vouchers and hope their numbers came out in a draw . |
| 3 | I 'd never enjoyed the media interest and the goldfish-bowl aspect of driving , and while I was grateful to have fans their continual invasion of my privacy got me down . |
| 4 | Wherever they are now , black people are descended from Africans , but over the centuries their genetic heritage has become diversified and complicated by various permutations of mating . |
| 5 | While parental choice embodied in the Educational Reform Act has broken down the traditional secondary-feeder primary school catchment areas , for the vast number of secondary schools their associated primaries are unchanged . |
| 6 | Jean-Georges Noverre in his Letters on Dance ( 1760 ) described the seven movements which give steps their varying qualities , namely : to bend , stretch , rise , jump glide , dart and turn . |
| 7 | The dinner would have given many motoring journalists their first chance to see the new Mondeo model , which will replace the Sierra . |
| 8 | It makes clear , firstly , that Eighth Army and AF HQ were brought fully into the picture as to the methods being used by 5 Corps to effect the repatriation of the anti-Tito Yugoslavs and , after all the discussions which had gone on in previous days , gave those methods their complete support . |
| 9 | Mounted centrally on the roof was a tall tower supporting a neat diamond pantograph collector , which gave the cars their popular name . |
| 10 | The minutiae of naval , political and social life are introduced with the utmost literary tact so that the reader can enjoy the piquancy of surprise and can sense the author 's secret enjoyment of allusions which give the books their total authenticity . |
| 11 | So why not give the obvious candidates their big chance , asks WAYNE SHELFORD . |
| 12 | Indeed , asking subjects their first thoughts on seeing the critical slide confirmed that they were more likely to be thinking about the woman than the general environment in the arousal condition . |
| 13 | But the whole thrust of this production is to undercut rhetoric and to give Webster 's pithy , metaphysical images their due weight . |
| 14 | Freeze marking is used by a growing number of owners to give animals their own serial number and put off thieves . |
| 15 | Aberdeen2 Motherwell0 ABERDEEN 's revival is firmly on course but their £400,000 signing of Finland international striker Mixu Paatelainen has yet to produce the goals their cultured football deserves . |
| 16 | In respect of garage M the appellants agreed to sell and the respondents agreed to buy from the appellants for a period of four years and five months their total requirements of petrol for resale . |
| 17 | For someone over seventy her descent of that great staircase was as good as a frolic ; her satchel swung wildly round merrily bumping her large bottom , her sensible suede shoes skippetty-hopped like the finest quality glass slippers , while her honest tweed skirt flirted up her legs in order to give her long beige knickers their first sight of the sunshine in quarter of a century . |
| 18 | Eager to build on the positive response to the earlier guide-lines , and to impress on employers their collective responsibilities in assisting returners to practise safely , the UKCC put forward the following proposals for consideration : |
| 19 | In practice considerably more has been attempted in Francistown including suggestions for production of localised materials and in some cases their actual design and issue . |
| 20 | Various other courtyard structures have been located , though in all cases their exact function is hard to define . |
| 21 | After considering a variety of cases their main conclusion is that , operationally , the genome ( the genes of an individual animal ) is a common unit of selection and that to refer to individuals as units of selection is not necessarily in error . |
| 22 | For more than two hours their quiet breathing was the only sound in the small room . |
| 23 | Steve and his wife , Angela , have chosen to make one of the attractive four-bedroom , Farndale-style detached houses their future home . |
| 24 | Behind them , she envisaged the faces of the Committee for the Preservation of Morals , as she had last seen them , glistening with almost sadistic anticipation of the crushing of the young author and of giving Mr Pascall and the cigar-store merchants their proper comeuppances . |
| 25 | They introduce into our austerities their Italianate blandishments . |
| 26 | The Scarlet Ibis comes from forested wetlands of Central America , where it feeds on invertebrate animals containing the pigment carotene , which gives the birds their gorgeous plumage colour . |
| 27 | At other times their self-evident frustration sets your teeth on edge . |
| 28 | At other times their self-evident frustration sets your teeth on edge . |
| 29 | THE NUMBER of times their new minister was seen slipping into Jakes and Nell 's brewery in Meadow Lane , Leeds , worried some of his congregation . |
| 30 | In the late eighties , this could mean almost unlimited credit , in some cases the facility to borrow as much as four times their annual income to buy a house . |