Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | On the same day the Soviet Union and Hungary agreed to conduct their bilateral trade in hard currency from 1991 onwards , replacing previous barter arrangements . |
2 | On the pitch they are struggling to preserve their Premier Division status with the worse defensive record among the top clubs while boardroom battles continue to drive a wedge between club and supporters . |
3 | It can be made more complicated by trying to value the choices that managers could make to affect their future cash flows , such as closing a factory , and the choices that are contingent on other choices . |
4 | ‘ Of course schools will want to continue their good practice of regular reports to parents and responding to any concerns parents might have . |
5 | ‘ … and carve them into art forms which the Coriads purchase and contemplate to stimulate their lateral thinking . ’ |
6 | We were eventually released and returned to find some of the crew busily repairing the mainsail on the dock , while the rest , with Tandri and the officers , were being bullied by lesser officials who were nosing around the hold and demanding to see their personal possessions . |
7 | It is not two years since a rag-tag group of about 200 men , few of them daring to wear their Soviet uniforms , gathered in the Kiev building that housed a short-lived nationalist government in 1917–18 , to found the Ukrainian Officers Union . |
8 | Receivership is anathema to corporate financiers , who hate to see their fat fees going to those who just pick over the bones . |
9 | And I think that was on the basis that we were insisting that everybody visited the local F E college or you know sort of Yorkshire , Scarborough , Harrogate got got their irregular updatings and S and Selby when whatever . |
10 | During the days , the various sections met to conduct their own meetings , hearing papers from both eminent and unknown men of science . |
11 | That the UFC so clearly mistrusted publication data has been discussed earlier , but they failed to support their preferred method of assessment — peer review — with any objective measures or guidelines . |
12 | YWAM do not want to discontinue their current policy of encouraging in every way current initiatives for church planting and feeding people in to help such work . |
13 | Regarding the second theme , market liberals concur with radical liberals like Illich that professionals and bureaucrats tend to promote their own interests rather than meeting the needs of their clients . |
14 | Although well able to acclimatise to most aquarium conditions most Rasboras will reward any efforts made to accommodate their particular requirements . |
15 | Both Japan and Germany agreed to increase their financial assistance to help defray the costs of the Gulf war . |
16 | Again , few long-standing customers will surely want to compromise their future bargaining position by revealing to the court the true weight which they gave to the various considerations before them prior to the placing of interim contracts with the employer . |
17 | Why birds should want to increase their active sleep is a mystery . |
18 | Most attacks on stock occur in the autumn , when the young mink disperse to find their own territories , and in the spring , when males wander in search of females . |
19 | The strength and breadth of these definitions and emphases were to prove encouraging to many institutions , and people in institutions , struggling to establish their own research policies and activities . |
20 | Most recently , second phase schools were sent question and pupil answer sheets as before but asked to provide their own apparatus from a detailed list supplied along with administration instructions by NFER . |
21 | The servants did not want to offend their young master , and Mrs Reed could see no fault in her dear boy . |
22 | The staff appraisal interviews were conducted by the Head and the Deputy Head ( Staff ) , who claimed that the main benefits were : a report on individual teachers , agreed with them , on their personal file ( to which the Head added ‘ they 're helping to write their own references ’ ) , and clarification for the Senior Management Team as to what INSET actions they ought to take on the individual teacher 's behalf . |
23 | Most women were more cautious and conscious about how they spent the household 's money but about half were just ‘ living from week to week ’ , struggling to meet their financial commitments with every penny of the weekly budget accounted for . |
24 | The Secretary of State will be aware that the social services departments of many local authorities are struggling to meet their financial commitments in implementation of the Children Act 1989 . |
25 | COUNCILS have been accused of refusing to come to the rescue of hard-pressed small firms struggling to meet their Uniform Business Rate demands . |
26 | The local office of the World Council of Churches runs a refugee camp for displaced Kampucheans and is struggling to meet their basic needs . |
27 | ‘ I want to see their little nest . ’ |
28 | They want to see their own chaps , keen as mustard , potting Jerries ( or Tommies ) whenever the opportunity arises . |
29 | This is usually a very popular event as parents want to see their own children involved in something special . |
30 | More importantly , however , teachers want to enjoy their own teaching . |