Example sentences of "[subord] their [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most other aspects of personnel management are single-status , too , although IBM UK has gone with the national trend by providing cars for managers where their outside counterparts would merit cars . |
| 2 | Trees of a pendulous habit are for streams and riversides where their fallen leaves can be whisked away by the rains of autumn and winter . |
| 3 | The Glass-Steagall Act and the McFadden Act prevented banks from operating in more than a few states at a time , and also restricted their scope for involvement in the securities markets and other financial services — areas where their international competitors already had wide powers . |
| 4 | Presumably this principle would apply to trade unions taking action in the same dispute where their fellow members had been injuncted . |
| 5 | Savage Orc Shamans are best placed with units of Savage Orcs where their protective tattoos will be enhanced . |
| 6 | Administrative elites form part of a cohesive , co-ordinated and self-conscious vanguard of social or business elites where their real interests and loyalties lie . |
| 7 | A year later George and Mary Sumner moved to Farnham Castle , where their two daughters were born . |
| 8 | They settled principally in the towns of East Sussex , particularly Rye and Lewes , where their new gospels found a welcome reception among men who misinterpreted the speed with which Henry VIII was prepared to change the church . |
| 9 | Most of the Powis Square mob frequented a particular betting shop where their noisy ways were tolerated . |
| 10 | In his discussion of two lyric poems Keith Green suggests that the deictic expressions occurring in each text guide the reader in the construction of a context where their symbolic meanings can be realised indexically , i.e. where they perform a referential function . |
| 11 | but where their filmy skins caught the light |
| 12 | ‘ We always had to be aware where their main dangers were coming from and defensively we did that . |
| 13 | So we 've got to start from where the kids are , where their musical experiences are mostly . |
| 14 | Wordlessly Roman followed her back to the terrace , where their half-finished drinks stood on the table . |
| 15 | In any case they were quite clear where their own priorities lay : |
| 16 | The head needs to encourage staff to scrounge for good management , display and communications ideas from schools where they have previously worked , schools where their own children attend , industry , supermarkets , courses , magazines and even books . |
| 17 | For working-class women , especially the many who lived still in conditions of severe poverty where their own wages were essential to the household , a decision to share a household with an elderly person simply could not mean full-time unpaid caring . |
| 18 | Bernice moved purposefully over to the corner of the passenger section where their meagre supplies were stored . |
| 19 | Some Reiver families went further afield , to America 's Wild West , where their cattle-rustling instincts were once more allowed full rein . |
| 20 | Retiring public servants now routinely move into jobs where their previous contacts and responsibilities can enrich themselves and their employers . |
| 21 | Most will be educated in special schools for the severely handicapped where their academic achievements will be limited but capable of development . |
| 22 | Women , as a distinctive category of workers , tended to be ignored except where their domestic responsibilities raised uncomfortable problems for management . |
| 23 | For instance , there is no spectrum connecting the two senses of expire , so their lexical units would not be assigned to the same lexeme . |
| 24 | Plant tulips in complementary colours in the borders below , so their cupped flowers ‘ float ’ above lower plants . |
| 25 | Luckily , all Ralphs lorries are refrigerated , so their perishable cargoes are't in imminent danger . |
| 26 | ‘ Just so their beastly readers can feel sorry for her . ’ |
| 27 | Card publishers are keen to supply a wider range of outlets other than their traditional markets . |
| 28 | There might have been twenty or thirty figures in there , but it was too dark to distinguish anything more than their vague shapes . |
| 29 | They earn a lot more , at the last count , averaging 4.63 an hour — though this was a lot less than their on-site colleagues , for they only earned when there was work . |
| 30 | Yet it should be remembered that the school-leaving age was not actually raised until after the Second World War and that the suggestion that they should receive secondary education was tainted by the official assumption that the children of the working class were innately less intelligent than their middle-class brethren . |