Example sentences of "[pron] of their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little wonder , really , that right now the two of them are looking for the time of their life with someone of their own age . |
| 2 | His arrogance and bullying alienated the Imperial family ; and in their desperation they called in the armies of the Hindu Mahratta Confederacy from the Deccan to help rid them of their troublesome Vizier . |
| 3 | In the long-run , this money illusion will disappear as workers come to realise that price inflation is depriving them of their perceived increase-in real income . |
| 4 | THE TORIES owe their victory to a swing to Labour scarcely half that required to deprive them of their overall majority . |
| 5 | When the wind dropped an occasional rumble in the distance reminded them of their first taste of war 's excitements . |
| 6 | The obvious unfairness of such poverty side by side with conspicuous affluence reminded them of their vulnerable parents back home . |
| 7 | Chelsea moved swiftly after Saturday 's cruciate knee ligament injury to Paul Elliott , which has robbed them of their defensive kingpin for a year . |
| 8 | The tendency to render horrific incidents of this sort into funny tales or ‘ atrocity stories ’ ( Dingwall 1977 ) , told ritualistically within the occupational culture of the station , is a further attempt to strip them of their emotional hold . |
| 9 | All I intend to do is rob them of their chief copywriter . ’ |
| 10 | That had seemed enough to placate the deputies , who are living in fear of a referendum being called on dissolving the Congress and depriving them of their privileged status . |
| 11 | Perhaps one day an Ayrshire school or other organisation will pursue the theme and bring the peoples of the old and new worlds closer to each other by reminding them of their common bonds . |
| 12 | But that does n't deprive them of their fair share of malignant little blisters full of pop to inflict on their potential audience , who may soon be buying their T-shirts and phlegm samples by the lorry load . |
| 13 | But they had a lively fear that enclosure might rob them of their valuable rights — rights which made a real difference to their standard and their mode of living — in the interests of the large freeholders and a corporation known to be corrupt . |
| 14 | He had taken a group of talented individuals and moulded them into a superb team , ridding them of their old factions and weaknesses , and showing the disbelievers that black men were every bit as good as white . |
| 15 | They would appear from time to time and taunt the old couple , reminding them of their past lives and the failures or mistakes which had brought them to the castle ( though never detailing them — neither Quiss nor Ajayi knew what the other had done to justify sending them here . |
| 16 | The British were suspicious of the loyalty of headmen , and soon stripped them of their judicial powers . |
| 17 | As Wood and Wood comment , ‘ relating ideas to their social context ’ far from ‘ depriving them of their universal meaning ’ in fact ‘ rescues them from the emptiness of ethereal abstractions which have no human meaning at all ’ ( ibid. p. x ) . |
| 18 | It is intended mainly , although not exclusively , for young people and informs them of their basic rights . |
| 19 | As in Between , the binary definitions on which structuralist theory is founded receive parodic treatment which voids them of their original function and uses them for the purpose of telling the tale(s) of the novel . |
| 20 | ‘ You take men from their homes or their chosen occupations , you confine them in insalubrious conditions upon a wholly inadequate diet , you subject them to the tyranny of bosun 's mates , you expose them to unimagined perils ; what is more , you defraud them of their meagre food , pay and allowances — everything but this sacred rum of yours . |
| 21 | The wind was growing stronger , whipping the branches of the trees and shredding them of their fading leaves . |
| 22 | Given this conception of morality , it is evident that the parties to the original position know nothing of their moral beliefs . |
| 23 | It is an accurate statement of the difference of definition between void and voidable contracts , but it says nothing of their different effects . |
| 24 | His principles are chosen by people behind a hypothetical ‘ veil of ignorance ’ , where they know nothing of their social position in society , their sex , race , abilities or conceptions of the good ( Rawls , 1972 , in particular pt . |
| 25 | I hasten to add that the North West , Yorkshire and Southern Divisions have notified me of their annual events and members will be most welcome on these occasions as well . |
| 26 | At least they had told me of their bad luck already or I might have succumbed to the old tales of women on ships and the bad omens they can bring . |
| 27 | Presbyterian ministers from South Korea have told me of their daily dawn prayer meetings , many of them attended by thousands of people . |
| 28 | include FINGER , for ‘ telephone'-type enquiries , i.e. finding the e-mail address for the person or institution you want ; GOPHER , a system of linked menus to help find resources anywhere in the Internet ; ARCHIE , which allows searching indexes to remote computers to find out which of their searchable files are of interest to you ; WAIS , for searching remote databases ; and WWW ( World-Wide-Web ) , which is similar but which uses an extremely user-friendly full screen with hypertext features . |
| 29 | In place of the original image of the power of God in which man was created , came a distorted travesty of it " a foule merk wrecched trinite " ( 43b.314. – 114 ) in which God is not recognised and things which of their very nature can not fully satisfy desire become its object . |
| 30 | Grazers have the enormous advantage that there is plenty of their favourite food available , all around them , stretching for as far as the eye can see and regrowing time and again regardless of how much they crop it . |