Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though in theory taking life was contrary to the tenets of Buddhism , it was considered more shocking to kill animals for other persons , or for their hides , than to kill for a meal . |
| 2 | Or for their troop movements . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A number of British studies provide some evidence about such relationships or about their contribution to care , but this material remains unco-ordinated . |
| 5 | It must be clearly stated , however , that few other governments had , since the summer of 1989 , made a point of informing either their national Parliaments or their people about the preparations for the inter-governmental conferences or about their progress . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And this vacuum is the perfect breeding ground for the inflation of self-doubt and self-criticism , and increasingly unfounded imaginings about other people 's competence , or about their disdain towards oneself . |
| 8 | The guilt that girls feel about eating , being fat , or about their bodies in general , and in particular their guilt about what they think of as their ‘ vanity ’ if they are obsessed with their bodies , came up over and over again . |
| 9 | Now , perhaps because I 've had a baby , friends talk to me about sex , or about their relationships with their boyfriends , where before they would n't . |
| 10 | Each of the group members presents one of the units , and takes it in turn to entertain their fellow travellers by talking about their interests in life or about their travels . |
| 11 | Many left bequests to educational establishments ‘ to the maintenance of Christ 's holy gospel ’ ; others gave financial support , either during their lifetimes or through their wills , for the endowment of lectureships or the payment of stipends to preachers . |
| 12 | Common safeguards If companies in Europe are to deal across national boundaries , it is important that investors , customers and creditors are able to deal with confidence with enterprises from other member states , whether directly , or through their subsidiaries and agencies . |
| 13 | Or through their charisma , reputation , energy , or sheer popularity — qualities which help win business and motivate staff . |
| 14 | Either through this , or through their exercise of coercive powers , the great landed nobility were able to minimize damage to their incomes in the first twenty years or so after the first onset of the plague . |
| 15 | Well , people tend to be referred through the psychiatric services as they currently exist locally , er or through their G P . |
| 16 | All public services are paid for by individual citizens , either directly or through their taxes . |
| 17 | How many had been beggared while the war between the royal cousins had swept across their fields or through their towns , while the barons who should have protected them looked only to their own gain , shifting loyalties so often that the ordinary common man found himself constantly besieged and attacked by both sides ? |
| 18 | ‘ It is tiny , only about two inches , and very narrow , and it parasitises larger fish by entering through their gill openings , or through their cloacas . |
| 19 | My experiences suggest that an increasing number of doctors are becoming involved in the promotion of dubious treatments , either by acting as medical advisers to companies or through their association with clinics providing unorthodox treatments . |
| 20 | SEL 's two managers , Patrick Murphy and Graeme McLeish , themselves Salford graduates , are always glad to hear from former Salford students in commerce who can bring in new business in translation or language training either through their own companies or through their business contacts . |
| 21 | These pidgin languages were also learnt by the slaves themselves , before , during or after their passage across the Atlantic to the Americas . |
| 22 | ( ii ) In redrafting their work they should be encouraged to think of the first draft as tentative so that they are prepared to rethink their whole approach in the light of their own critical appraisal or of their discussions with their peers or teacher . |
| 23 | There are little data on the nutrition of abyssal ophiuroids ( Litvinova & Sokolova 1971 , Litvinova , 1980 ) or of their predators or parasites . |
| 24 | However if as a consequence , of a panel recommendation or of their decision on a panel recommendation , the County Council decide to modify the deposited structure plan , there would of course at that stage have to be a public planning enquiry . |
| 25 | But what really counts is this indirect usefulness to her , it released her from the patterns of the novel of society and therefore , permitted the flowering of her real talent , a talent for finding and giving dramatic form to impulses and feelings which because of their depth , or mysteriousness , or intensity , or ambiguity , or of their ignoring or transcending every day norms of propriety or reason , increase wonderfully the sense of reality in a novel . |
| 26 | Their perceptual distinguishability , alone , is no proof either of their actual existence or of their distinguishability per se . |
| 27 | No explanation of the documents or of their effect was given to Mrs. O'Brien . |
| 28 | ( b ) We accept responsibility for death , bodily injury or illness caused to your or others named on your booking form by the negligent act or omission of our employees , agents , suppliers or sub-contractors or of their employees or agent acting within the course or scope of their employment ( other than that of air , sea and land carriers performing any domestic internal or international carriage whatsoever where we limit our liability to that provided for by the relevant international conventions in respect of such carriage ) . |
| 29 | Four episodes seem to have attracted the attention of the artists — or of their patrons . |
| 30 | It is to include the date of removal of goods or of their arrival , a description of the goods sufficient to identify them , the value or consideration involved and , if the goods are subject to a process , then a description and value of the process . |