Example sentences of "their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Most politicians , in any case , are not interested in the machinery of government ; their absorption is with the end product , the pensions , houses , levels of income and foreign policies that come out of the machine . |
| 32 | We 've also included in there , on item twelve , a net bill item , but does need to be recognized as an addition to your total spending , and that is , you 've been involved for many years with the health authority in arranging for the discharge of people from long-stay hospitals , and their absorption into the community , and each of these are a provider of many services , and daycare services to those particular individuals . |
| 33 | The arrival of Islam and the Arabic language was to mark another of the great turning points in the history of Egypt , and their absorption by Egyptian society went on over a long period , being generally a peaceful and incremental process . |
| 34 | I hope the people ( seeing their temples are not destroyed ) will leave their idolatry and yet continue to frequent the places as formerly , so coming to know and revere the true God . |
| 35 | The Communists , their fellow-travellers and their dupes did that . ’ |
| 36 | He said : ‘ As usual , the Government and their fellow-travellers are trying hard to slither out of their own responsibility for it . |
| 37 | Not only are these introns inserted at identical positions of the coxI gene , but in addition their ORFs are quite similar ( Fig. 7b ) . |
| 38 | International pressure has compelled the governments of Japan , Malaysia and Hong Kong to close their rhino markets . |
| 39 | This they make by chewing wood , masticating it with their saliva and then expelling it as a moist pulp which hardens as it dries . |
| 40 | When people kiss , they exchange not only these secretions in their saliva , but also sebum , which is produced by glands around the mouth after puberty . |
| 41 | They have discovered that in the period when most deaths occur between two and four months 80–90pc of babies produce a sticky substance in their saliva which makes it easier for bacteria to stick to the nose and throat . |
| 42 | That is the sort of thing poets either have to learn to put up with , or retire from the scene in order to retain their sanity . |
| 43 | He talked on , feeling a great relief , thinking , it 's not surprising Catholics are able to preserve their sanity ; they can unburden themselves in the confessional . |
| 44 | But I imagine this often happens — people are for all practical purposes sane as far as the analyst 's door and become mad as they stretch themselves out and explain their sanity . |
| 45 | After a short ceremony at their Sheffield Park Station at 2.00pm in the presence of Mr Andrew Dow , head of the NRM at York , she will haul a VIP train over the full length of the recently extended Bluebell . |
| 46 | Qureshi and Simons ( 1987 ) have been able to show this on the basis of data from their Sheffield study of elderly people and their carers . |
| 47 | New South Wales continued their Sheffield Shield renaissance with a resounding innings defeat of South Australia in Sydney yesterday to move equal second behind last year 's champions , Victoria . |
| 48 | The enthusiasm has , of course , been exploited , in the opportunistic launching of courses in women 's studies , and by the publishing industry which has filled the shelves of bookshops — general as well as academic — with books with ‘ women ’ in their titles . |
| 49 | Yet almost 30 years after Indira Gandhi stripped the princes of their titles , the ex-Maharajah of Bharatpur continues to exert a regal influence over the affairs of his former state . |
| 50 | History text-books invariably included in their titles such key-words as ‘ Decline ’ , ‘ Downfall ’ , and ‘ Eclipse ’ . |
| 51 | Their titles invoke the Situationists ' rhetorical use of long and rhapsodic titles . |
| 52 | Miss Jekyll 's books are pleasantly readable and as uncluttered as their titles — Home and Garden ; Wood and Garden ; Children and Gardens ; Old West Surrey … this last with 300 photographs to record early Victorian life in those parts . |
| 53 | Despite the aggrandizements to Biddick , the house was seldom used by subsequent Lambtons , who were forever increasing their fortunes , their titles and their castle . |
| 54 | Paintings which he in spected personally have their titles printed in bold capitals , distinguishing them from those known primarily through books and hearsay , whose titles ap pear in lower-case . |
| 55 | Most of them have been accidentally obtained from seeds so they must not be esteemed as different species , therefore I shall only insert their common names by which they are known in gardens , that those who are inclined to collect all the varieties may be at no loss for their titles . |
| 56 | Of the volume Henry Jones published in 1749 nearly half the poems have in their titles the name of some eminent person , while the volume as a whole is dedicated to Chesterfield and five individual pieces to him or his wife . |
| 57 | How many courses or conferences have you attended or even seen advertised that mention children in their titles ? |
| 58 | Yet among the half million Palestinians now living in Lebanon , many stubbornly went on cherishing these keys and their titles of ownership in Palestine . |
| 59 | In 1963 the Peerage Bill became law and members of the House of Lords could now renounce their titles and preserve their political careers in the Commons . |
| 60 | ‘ Nobody 's Twisting Your Arm ’ , ‘ I 'm Not Always So Stupid ’ , ‘ Do n't Laugh ’ and ‘ Nothing Comes Easy ’ all expressed negative sentiments in their titles but Gedge did not realise this until it was pointed out . |