Example sentences of "[to-vb] about their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Bajaur agency , the top opium and heroin producer in Pakistan , the government controls less than 36per cent of the district , leaving traffickers to go about their business peacefully and unimpeded . |
| 2 | Moreover , Zuwaya and Magharba thought that their larger groupings were temporary : activated to demand compensation , they then relapsed into the noumenon , leaving households to go about their business ; revenues from taxes were not kept in a fisc , but allocated to household budgets — and so on . |
| 3 | ( Even if the activities do present curbs on the rights of the general public to go about their business , street action might still be justified where , for example , it brings to public consciousness some injustice that would not otherwise receive a public hearing . ) |
| 4 | It is as if , once they had found an effective way of surviving and reproducing , and a relatively stable environment in which to go about their business , there was little pressure to change their way of life . |
| 5 | Against the need for a society in which persons are free to go about their business unmolested might be weighed other considerations such as the importance to be placed on freedoms of speech and assembly . |
| 6 | The point is , we 've cleared up the area and it 's safe for children to play and people to go about their business . |
| 7 | Couples in this kind of situation , suddenly confronted by each other 's moods , prejudices , foibles , and , indeed , continued presence day after day , may find themselves facing a great new emotional challenge at a time in life when they thought they knew everything they needed to know about their relationship . |
| 8 | The Law Commission committee says that this principle is not good enough ; sellers should be under a legal duty to reveal everything they know and ought to know about their property — which would oblige them to carry out a survey before offering it for sale . |
| 9 | People who can allow themselves to know about their envy at least give themselves a chance of attempting to handle it relatively wisely . |
| 10 | A phone call to Crowfield for PPR confirmed that Wattisham were closed until 2.00pm local that afternoon , obviating the need to worry about their MATZ . |
| 11 | Had they seen billions of neutrons as well as the heat then they would have known for sure that fusion was occurring ; and may already have begun to worry about their health from prolonged exposure . |
| 12 | I think people who are liable to worry about their condition have a very very difficult time at three and four in the morning and er old ladies are particularly vulnerable I think . |
| 13 | Encourage children to talk about their preference for a particular toy . |
| 14 | The polytechnic plans to build a hostel on the Morrell-Pollock site in North Oxford , and tonight , local residents will have the chance to talk about their proposal at a public meeting . |
| 15 | The idea is to invite youth workers to ring up onto a party line on a certain night , giving them the theme for discussion beforehand , linking them up with other people to talk about their work . |
| 16 | The Federal government should , Boning thinks , help German scientists broadcast their results more effectively by providing facilities for them to publish in English and travel more to talk about their work and learn new methods . |
| 17 | A national telephone directory gained extremely good coverage on local radio by training two of their telephone sales girls to talk about their work , and some government departments also achieve a high degree of positive coverage by training staff to take part in advice and phone-in programmes . |
| 18 | They called it God , understood it in terms of Christian theology and used the terms " meditative " , and " contemplative " rather than " mystical " to talk about their experience . |
| 19 | Sharon 's parents were too shocked to talk about their daughter , but issued a statement through an uncle . |
| 20 | Some are finding it easier to talk about their past as each weekly get together follows the last . |
| 21 | Not to talk about their loss but to have people to go to the pub , cinema , even on holiday with . |
| 22 | The couple from Edinburgh to be married by Father Buckley said they did n't want to talk about their wedding plans . |
| 23 | Six stated that they were embarrassed to talk about their habit ‘ in public ’ . |
| 24 | Most people need to talk about their grief , to express it with others and have some kind of ceremony to show what an important life change it brings about . |
| 25 | We visited women to talk about their situation . |
| 26 | Hunter 's solicitors , Shepherd and Harris , of Enfield , Middlesex , refused to come to the telephone to talk about their client . |
| 27 | Up to now I 've avoided mentioning our day-to-day domestic life , for much the same reason that ex-prisoners are reluctant to talk about their time inside . |
| 28 | No-one wants to read about their chairman and the things that I 've read this week . |
| 29 | After 1985 the Americans were increasingly happy to forget about their affair with Ceauşescu , but for almost twenty years it was a important plank of their foreign policy . |
| 30 | The town 's new Mayor , only the second since it gained the town title , spent the day at the fire station to learn about their work . |