Example sentences of "[prep] their [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | its officials are adequately trained to look after their members ' interests in an efficient and responsible way . |
| 2 | It is interesting that both Mrs Pankhurst and Millicent Fawcett only entered public life as feminists after their husbands ' deaths . |
| 3 | of business men were less optimistic about their companies ' prospects . |
| 4 | However , half of the chief executives polled were optimistic about their companies ' prospects , while only 35 per cent voiced concern . |
| 5 | First of all , children were likely to protest about their parents ' departure . |
| 6 | Although it was 12 years ago , both vividly remember the day they learned about their parents ' seperation . |
| 7 | Glancing up , she caught Ross 's nod and warm smile of approval at the efforts she was making to reassure Emma and Sophie about their parents ' condition . |
| 8 | The others have been very positive about the programme , stating that they preferred to know about their sons ' condition from an early stage . |
| 9 | All seven families with a transient result were interviewed to gain their perspective of the programme and ensure they had no lingering doubts about their sons ' health . |
| 10 | Yet even peasants , bounded through their lives mostly by their immediate vicinity , could sometimes travel further afield , whether pursuing a legal claim , like the Mitry group , or about their lords ' business , like the men of St-Germain-des- Prés who owned transport-services between Anjou and the Paris neighbourhood . |
| 11 | AIRCRAFT unions will today seek assurances about their members ' futures when they meet American buyers of the 125 business jet . |
| 12 | Janssen care a great deal about their customers ' people , too . |
| 13 | Instructors can be mistaken about their students ' ability to control the initial part properly if one or two launches go well . |
| 14 | In the past they have been made implicitly by the providers , although general practitioners may have adjusted their referral patterns based on knowledge about their patients ' preferences and clinical practice in given hospitals . |
| 15 | Hospital doctors , for example , are still expected to have the last word about their patients ' discharge dates , or about their transfer to other institutions , or to decide whether they should be offered facilities such as regular readmission to relieve carers . |
| 16 | Similarly farmers are more prepared to be indulgent about their employees ' working hours as long as the necessary tasks are carried out efficiently . |
| 17 | Countries newly unsure about their neighbours ' capabilities would find themselves ever more tempted to try to get a bomb themselves . |
| 18 | But ten times as many children of divorce live with their mothers as with their fathers ; more than eighty-five per cent of divorces , granted on the grounds of unreasonable behaviour , are given to wives complaining about their husbands ' conduct , and the number of wives made to pay off their ex-husbands is still tiny . |
| 19 | Nor can they help forming snapshot impressions of their colleagues in action — the way they speak to pupils , the degree of calmness or rowdiness they seem to achieve in their lessons and the way they write about their pupils ' work in formal reports . |
| 20 | In the 1950s , the Boards found the Conservative Government increasingly concerned about their shops ' competition with the private sector of electrical retailing . |
| 21 | If I chose not to reap the benefits of this scheme then I might consider the fate of a few ungrateful citizens who had thought likewise and then seen their homes repossessed , had been inflicted with uncanny storms that ripped tiles from roof and threw chimney stacks into the street , had undergone torment at the hands of timeshare salespeople , had been billed for new and exorbitant taxes and had been struck off their doctors ' registers . |
| 22 | Governors , parents , teachers and heads themselves can not now take their eye — for too long — off their pupils ' achievements in the basic curriculum . |
| 23 | In fact the Jag is just about the only one that can really wipe the smiles off their drivers ' faces , unless you 're talking Rolls-Royce or Bentley . |
| 24 | The main study , which was commissioned by the Home Office , aimed to describe the developmental trajectories of Unit babies during their mothers ' imprisonment . |
| 25 | Not surprisingly princes were concerned to build up a position of strength during their fathers ' lifetimes . |
| 26 | It is also worth saying that spouses provide invaluable support during their partners ' periods of office and , in some cases , are very much involved in district society affairs . |
| 27 | The case breaks new ground in Britain in that it seeks a ruling on whether radiation damage can be passed on to children through their fathers ' sperm , in which case , under current legislation , BNFL would be liable . |
| 28 | The military arm of the revolution was the workers ' militias , believed by their advocates to be both necessary to defend the revolution and capable of defeating fascism through their members ' commitment to the new society . |
| 29 | In the early afternoon , Allied reserve divisions and tanks passed through their comrades ' lines and by about 15.10 the ridge in its entirety was securely held and all objectives taken . |
| 30 | Through their brokers ' offices , the shareholders , as leading cultural establishments , will be able to offer tours , pictures , rights to hold exhibitions , scripts or even ideas . |