Example sentences of "[verb] [be] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very often , when they sound pallid and over-precise , the versions we have received are their latest re-telling , too smooth and polished , fixed and logical . |
| 2 | I take it that these are essential to capitalist society and that what has to be explained are their precise bases , their degree of effectivity and their often largely unintended consequences . |
| 3 | That , says Mr Tyson , has been their only blessing . |
| 4 | In the past , one of the most serious barriers to the growth of online services has been their unfriendly character . |
| 5 | Their two eldest sons returned home from school to find their parents loading a furniture van … but worst affected has been their youngest BJ . |
| 6 | A constantly recurring theme of The Wedding Present has been their overriding normality . |
| 7 | The Wedding Present violently oppose most rock 'n' roll ethos , but perhaps one of the few areas where they have shown loyalty to tradition has been their gluttonous appetite for live work . |
| 8 | BRITISH sub-aqua divers are being warned not to desecrate what the Japanese say are their biggest war graves in the South Pacific . |
| 9 | Similarly , the fact that the tiger is unable to figure it out from our behaviour that we have practically no sense of smell , demonstrates how instinctive and preprogrammed are their mental functions . |
| 10 | What must count is their present resources : their home , their pension , their health , their family , their friends , their psychic energy . |
| 11 | Well do you know , when I met , I , I 'm meeting old chaps through this very excellent marriage agency , I 've never expected any thing like it , they are marvellous , and the sent me a nice old lad , but I knew I was onto a looser when he said , of course I go to my daughter-in-law every Saturday for lunch , she absolutely insists because she says , she wants to make sure that I 'm eating properly , now this is a very healthy old man with a very good income who could afford to buy any food he wants and the fact of the matter is his that he 's son is probably not , he does n't want to upset his old dad , and it 's handy to have him to come on Saturday for lunch and be done with it as it were , but I thought surely Bernard your own sense would tell you that nobody want 's their old father and father-in-law every Saturday of their life , for lunch oh . |
| 12 | What has mattered is their ultimate reception as ecumenical by the Church at large . |
| 13 | Eventually your voice , and other voices which speak for society , must be taken inside the psyche of the child so that what he or she obeys is their own voice of conscience . |
| 14 | Also welcome was their TC-130G Hercules Fat Albert support ship , still steadfastly wearing team colours . |
| 15 | It must have been their sheer size and the impression of power you got even when they were standing still . |
| 16 | For most it would have been their first experience of the internationalism of the movement . |
| 17 | It may well be that the Tories ' most lasting and damaging contribution to the cultural life of the nation will have been their deliberate subjection of Britain 's television companies to the crudest of market forces , which will almost certainly reduce the best programmes in the world to the shoddy idiocies everyone else in Europe and US is fed . |
| 18 | An inquest 's heard how two singers died in a car crash just days before what could have been their biggest break . |
| 19 | That the magazine never got round to asking who might be the ‘ Sports Writers ' Sports Writer ’ seems like an act of wilful self-effacement , given that the overwhelming winner would have been their own man , Hugh McIlvanney . |
| 20 | might have been their own company life before they |
| 21 | And the Beau Nash Room might just as well have been their luxury coach : twenty-three of them only for the minute , with Eddie Stratton now being held in custody by the New York Police , distanced by only a few yards , as it happened , from the mortal remains of his former wife ; and with Sam and Vera Kronquist , one of the three married couples originally listed on the tour , still in their room on the second floor of the hotel — Sam watching a mid-morning cartoon on ITV , and Vera , fully dressed , lying back lazily against the pillows of their double bed , reading the previous February 's issue of Country Life . |
| 22 | Artemis sat absolutely still in her bath , trying to hear what Rosie and the other maids were saying , but all she could hear were their silly giggles . |
| 23 | Rescuing is their own business . |
| 24 | To understand roads we need to begin with the premise that all roads are very , old indeed and that what we need to study is their changing importance through time as man adapted them to his requirements . |
| 25 | What the deaf people of Liverpool needed was their own building , so in 1876 , Healey started a building fund for a new institute . |
| 26 | What Fleischmann and Pons needed was their own proof of the neutrons and Harwell was well equipped with the necessary measuring instruments . |
| 27 | Newborn creatures who refuse to cross a ‘ visual cliff ’ apparently have some innate procedure for recognizing the absence of support , where the object to be supported is their own body . |
| 28 | Now all that mattered was their mutual desire . |
| 29 | Other forms of life on earth today seem much more closely to resemble what one knows , based on the fossil record , to have been their evolutionary ancestors of many million years past . |
| 30 | They would feel happier north of the river like everyone else ; Islington seems to have been their favourite suburb , and that was where they had moved to by the time the next child arrived , three years later . |