Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Type I disease is usually seen in calves grazed intensively during their first grazing season , as the result of larvae ingested 3-4 weeks previously ; in the northern hemisphere this normally occurs from mid-July onwards . |
| 2 | Ribose ring puckers are not well defined at this resolution , and were not specifically restrained during refinement , but deviate little from their original C2'- endo conformation in the initial model . |
| 3 | While police in Strathclyde push on with their high-profile weapons amnesty , Operation Blade , the Lothian force has adopted a lower key approach in keeping with the scale of the problem . |
| 4 | It was strange , too , Anne thought , that everyone got on with their normal lives , in spite of the constant raids and disturbed nights , and had become used to seeing servicemen in so many different uniforms thronging the streets and the cinemas , and in the public houses she was sure , although she had never been in one . |
| 5 | As a growing proportion of an ageing population lived on into their eighties or even nineties , the disparity between their life chances and those of the able-bodied employed became more and more apparent . |
| 6 | Of the widowed and single , by contrast , only two-thirds now lived on in their own homes , usually with their children or lodgers , or very rarely grandchildren , but 12 per cent on their own . |
| 7 | Love ( 68 ) and Couples ( 71 ) clung on to their overnight lead , three shots ahead of host nation Spain . |
| 8 | Walking through Ricky 's woods , Daisy noticed ruby-red sticky buds thrusting out on the chestnuts , although many of the trees still clung on to their shrivelled brown leaves . |
| 9 | Soviet military planners tried to circumvent the treaty cutting conventional forces in Europe , because they thought the cuts agreed on by their foreign ministry went too deep . |
| 10 | This book shows teachers how they can gain a better understanding of what goes on in their own classrooms , and how to use this understanding to guide their learners effectively . |
| 11 | There is fat chance of that for as long as the Government allows the banks to carry on with their grasping one-way policy . |
| 12 | ‘ The whole set up is there and yet the other parties want to carry on with their wasteful plans . ’ |
| 13 | Governors should recognise their power to co-opt on to their working groups , in a non-voting capacity , any member of the local community who could offer specific expertise and skills which they may be lacking . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's not my intention to stay cooped up in here , waiting for them to go on with their little games . ’ |
| 15 | But the interpretation from dealers and experts is that motorists are hanging on to their ageing cars instead of buying new ones . |
| 16 | " Nice to hear of someone hanging on to their old family possessions . |
| 17 | It is therefore likely that Unproductive and Low-Productivity researchers will remain so throughout their scientific careers , and that the Highly-Productive earth scientists from Cambridge will continue to publish more papers than average in the course of their work . |
| 18 | It is therefore likely that Unproductive and Low-Productivity researchers will remain so throughout their scientific careers , and that the Highly-Productive earth scientists from Cambridge will continue to publish more papers than average in the course of their work . |
| 19 | Social workers in Orkney , it seems , even ignored the guidelines laid down by their own association . |
| 20 | They had been briefed to report in on their mobile telephone at certain checkpoints en route , and to inform the Ops Room of any suspicious incidents , but their main task was to stop and talk to locals , in order to make their presence known in as friendly a way as possible . |
| 21 | Lyles would like to thank the Stoddard ‘ non-playing ’ Captain , Jimmy Shiels , for stepping in as their late replacement , scoring a creditable 26 points . |
| 22 | It came without pause , as the two remaining dogs recovered swiftly from their missed strike and hurled themselves at him again . |
| 23 | They have fallen much from their early splendour , and are today really just roving gypsies of the Eastern seas , though they ply their various trades in the only true " tall ships " still sailing for a living — for even the giant dhows of the Arabian Gulf are now powered by Perkins , Mitsubishi and Rolls-Royce engines . |
| 24 | As well as procedures , structural grammar developed the technique of immediate constituent analysis , a technique for cutting a sentence into its immediate constituents , which in turn were broken down into their immediate constituents and so on to the ultimate constituent . |
| 25 | The intellectual principles which were common to the broad formation — open rational inquiry , the development of morality through education , opposition to oppression and to arbitrary laws — were specifically composed into novels which integrated individual lives and social and moral circumstances by a new formal integration of ‘ character ’ and ‘ plot ’ , with the founding assumption that character and action grew together out of circumstances and could be altered only by their general alteration . |
| 26 | A new edition of the JCT Prime Cost Contract was published and the Tribunal continued to keep under review the Standard Forms of Contract and Sub-Contract together with their ancillary documents , issuing amendments , variants and re-editions . |
| 27 | It will finance costs that are justified only by their global benefits . |
| 28 | Hamad was exceptionally enterprising : most government employees produced only for their own consumption , and their shops were sometimes very much spare-time activities . |
| 29 | They lived together in their own apartment . |
| 30 | In one group of eight , half chose to go in for their first farrowing ; the second time they farrowed , all eight went in . |