Example sentences of "[coord] their [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | In higher grade cases , some Down 's people have undergone operations , either at their own or their parents ' instigation , to alter the physical characteristics which have become a stigma for them . |
| 2 | Adults will watch the sexual emergence of their offspring , or their friends ' offspring , with a mixture of satisfaction , anxiety and envy . |
| 3 | Helicopters dropped experts onto unsuspecting villages in Nepal ; Tunisian women were coerced into buses to have loops inserted without explanation ; African women were given contraceptive injections against their or their husbands ' wills . |
| 4 | Their long swords were drawn and their horses ' teeth bared . |
| 5 | They continued on their way , the hiss of the wind and their horses ' hoofs the only sounds . |
| 6 | Moreover , most strikers did not see themselves relying on supplementary benefit during the strike — rather they envisaged getting by on their savings and their spouses ' wages . |
| 7 | However , thanks to the ‘ core plus options ’ structure of the Associateship course , introduced as a result of the recommendations of the Wilkinson Committee , individual candidates are not expected to become ‘ Jacks of all trades ’ , but are able to concentrate on specialisms that are in keeping with their own career aspirations and their employers ' needs . |
| 8 | Increasingly they live in giant slums centred on the world 's major cities and their countries ' limited social services and education and health systems are being ravaged by the market economy . |
| 9 | The House of Lords found for the company on the ground that the union had knowingly induced breaches of the hiring contract and their members ' contracts of employment . |
| 10 | Some owners , of course , inherited papers — and their fathers ' flair or good fortune . |
| 11 | Our lives have been the same as our fathers ' and their fathers ' before them . |
| 12 | The banks utilized domestic and foreign financial resources , they were shareholders of and suppliers of credits to domestic and foreign industrial companies , they combined the short-term business of deposit banking with the long-term business of investment banking and also provided stockbroker services , managed their clients ' portfolios , acquired shares and voted their own and their customers ' stock at general meetings of joint-stock companies . |
| 13 | The chief immediate control on women 's actions and opinions was other women ; and girls who wished for one reason or another to do unusual things needed the tolerance , perhaps even the support of their mothers and their mothers ' friends . |
| 14 | This view is hedged about with reservations — and indeed few parents who know both their children 's capacities and their teachers ' helpfulness will expect schools to be measured entirely in this way . |
| 15 | A third aspect of the study concerns the couple and their families ' expectations of marriage and actual marriage patterns . |
| 16 | Their motives tend , I suspect , to be a mixture of concern for their own and their families ' future , concern for countries and people who are less well-off than they are and a sympathetic response based on a wish for the better treatment of the animal world . |
| 17 | They stood up to be counted , to save their men 's jobs , their community and their families ' futures and I salute their courage and wish them well in their pit vigil . |
| 18 | Briercrest is slowly dying … just a few old widows there now … not one living soul lives on the farms any more … all the old men are dead … but the old girls still have their little teas and their Ladies ' Aid meetings … have gardens and are happy as larks … |
| 19 | After the initial effects of this wear off , children begin to realise their own and their parents ' position . |
| 20 | The effect was to make it difficult for children to contribute to their own support , let alone the support of other people , thus removing the reciprocal nature of support between the young and their parents ' generation , and establishing childhood and youth as a period of one-way dependence of the young on their parents ( Pinchbeck and Hewitt , 1973 ; Anderson , 1980 ; Gittins , 1986 ) . |
| 21 | Omar is part of a multiracial London club network of singers , rappers and musicians who have grown up listening to modern ‘ cutting edge ’ music and their parents ' record collections . |
| 22 | However , apart from their own and their parents ' socio-economic characteristics , demographic factors such as early marriage and childbearing experience also have a substantial effect . |
| 23 | Many black adolescents I talked to were conscious of the differences between their own Creole and their parents ' . |
| 24 | Although everyone in Rush River told the story the same way , most of them said ‘ and their slaves ' instead of ‘ and their people , ’ but Martha knew that Nana did not like the word ‘ slave . ’ |
| 25 | Bricklayers ' money wages , apart from a slight fall from 1736 to 1742 , were unchanged from 1717 to 1792 , and their labourers ' rates shared their constancy at a ratio of 3 : 2 . |
| 26 | The trouble is that directors involved in buying the company from existing shareholders clearly face a conflict between their own interests ( as buyers ) and their shareholders ' interests ( as sellers ) . |
| 27 | When conservative academics eventually became aware of the supposed invasion , they viewed it with alarm , as a threat to their , and their students ' , proper activity of reading , studying , and enjoying literature . |
| 28 | Individuals , denied a common conception of their own and their fellows ' human goals within a shared moral tradition , are unlikely to be able to come to any agreement with others or to articulate their desire for fulfilment on the basis of procedural rules alone . |
| 29 | They have made them because they are determined to do everything they can to save their business and their employees ' jobs and to secure a healthier future . |
| 30 | The virus has since been passed on to their children , their sexual partners and their partners ' partners . |