Example sentences of "[vb pp] their [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of the community were to be permitted their own opinions in matters of politics and religion , but property would be held in common . |
| 2 | Many residents have installed their own faxes to complete the office-from-office style . |
| 3 | But where other churches have owned their own schools , as does the Church of Ireland in the South , a similar position has been adopted , though the reasons for the position have been on different grounds . |
| 4 | VICTORIA State Museum and the RAAF Museum formally committed their collective resources towards the development of the National Air & Space Museum of Australia ( NASMA ) in 1991 . |
| 5 | CGI 's top three officials , including chairman Robert Mallet , who together hold 25.4% , have committed their own shares to the bid . |
| 6 | Many Puritans were given to extreme introspection , and regularly committed their innermost thoughts to paper in the diaries and memoirs which they used as spiritual account books . |
| 7 | Even the massed ranks of City supporters behind the United goal could not have expected their great rivals to throw away their lead in such a foolish manner . |
| 8 | One of the saddest aspects of this issue is the heavy strains and burdens placed on elderly people who might have expected their last years to be more enjoyable . |
| 9 | Local authorities whose members believe that their particular ideologies should be furthered through schools have added their own ingredients . |
| 10 | The authors have added their own glosses on and redefinitions of some statements of attainment . |
| 11 | Thereafter , as many as a dozen other females will have added their own babies to the creche in the tunnel in the same way . |
| 12 | But on the North American mainland , colonies had been affected very little by the earlier wars among European countries ; except for the brief clash that had led to the Dutch loss of New Amsterdam the colonies had fought only with ill-armed Indians and had won their little wars without help from England . |
| 13 | Such is the mood of pessimism here it is hard to find anyone who believes the All Blacks , having won their seven matches in Wales , will face any significant threat during the next fortnight . |
| 14 | The early-morning sun dappled their exposed shoulders through swaying fish-tail palms . |
| 15 | Sixteen head tenants were absentees who let all their land , while thirty-seven ( or half ) of the cultivators occupied their entire holdings as undertenants . |
| 16 | To believe that people have been sensible of God in other ages is not however to accept what I may call the ‘ vehicle ’ of the Christian myth which has carried their religious sensibilities . |
| 17 | The men had exaggerated their black eye-sockets with kohl and mascara . |
| 18 | Some clients have carpeted their own rooms and got their own curtains and things like that . |
| 19 | The conservative Cornish , who had not forgotten their previous grievances , had a deep affection for the Latin Liturgy . |
| 20 | United by a sense of shared adversity , party leaders in Peking and East Berlin have now forgotten their past quarrels to confront what both see as their common enemy — the forces of change sweeping the rest of the Communist world . |
| 21 | Five bishops during the course of 1326 suffered such confiscation ; four were under similar threat for the way in which they had earlier filled their royal offices . |
| 22 | The notice-board in the workroom contains heartfelt letters of thanks from those who have received their new books and it is clear that the sense of involvement in the lives of real and unfortunate people in the outside world draws a very positive response from the men involved . |
| 23 | Those responsible , except you , Sir Edmund , have received their just deserts . ’ |
| 24 | The red card shown to Walsh and Marta meant that a total of 12 players have now received their marching orders in a competition that has yet to reach its semi-final stages . |
| 25 | Tell customers that we have received their written complaints and claims for compensation within 24 hours of receiving them ; |
| 26 | Owen and Roger , the two heads of centre , have developed their respective strategies in response to the broadly similar sets of expectations and demands that confront them . |
| 27 | These fish have developed their electric sensors to perform a wide range of functions . |
| 28 | Our local starling population is a race apart in that they are non-migratory and have been isolated in the islands for long enough to have developed their own characteristics . |
| 29 | The successful schools , in contrast , took up more GIST suggestions more enthusiastically , or even developed their own ideas for interventions . |
| 30 | They copied the Gallo-Belgic coins , soon developed their own styles , and , by the decade prior to the conquest , Rome 's official assessment of Britain , according to Strabo , was a healthy balance of trade . |