Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun pl] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , there is the question of the correct model on which agents base their expectations of the outcomes of particular policy actions . |
| 2 | Yet the time may come when the unions will have expiated their follies of the sixties and seventies , partly through the rationalisation and mergers of the past decade , partly through reforms forced on them by changes in the law during the eighties , partly by a public rediscovery that trade unions are a necessary part of a free society . |
| 3 | Serious naturalists could sprinkle their descriptions of the internal organization of new species with references to the skill of the Creator who had designed such complex living structures . |
| 4 | Oh , right from the beginning when we talk to citizens about using their friends of the theatre I nearly fell about you know |
| 5 | Discrimination between individuals consists in making it easier for some than for others to realize their ideals of the good . |
| 6 | Freeman ( 1987 ) and Rothwell ( 1982 ) embed their conceptions of the technological change between waves in a broader confluence of social factors . |
| 7 | This information will help to identify factors which shape their perceptions of the language and cultures of the Arab world . |
| 8 | As , like Pontius Pilate , the ancestors gladly wash their hands of the sordid business of administering justice , witchcraft readily steps forward to take the necessary action , acquiring in the process an even more clearly defined moralizing character . |
| 9 | They wash their hands of the matter . |
| 10 | Furthermore , the above analysis may be justifiably criticised on the grounds that it compares two surveys which employed different agencies to reach their estimates of the prevalence of known opioid use . |
| 11 | Those handling the interviews did not have the chance to discuss their observations of the candidates till later that day . |
| 12 | The young men holding office were still tactful , and even complicity helped people to avoid saying the wrong things ; but they spoke with the authority of government , and informed their elders of the facts of cases and the truths of matters . |
| 13 | Those who had attended informed their colleagues of the fact — and they took the hint . |
| 14 | The Government seem to have washed their hands of the problem : they are taking no responsibility for it , and that is not good enough . |
| 15 | The development officers were cautious in describing their expectations of the project . |
| 16 | Astronomers may travel into the depths of space and time , but on their return they must still convince their colleagues of the truth of what they saw . |
| 17 | Those of the first two Edwards were fought against enemies whose common aim was to rid their countries of the English aggressor , but whose methods of doing so differed . |
| 18 | Consider their explanations of the US-Soviet arms race . |
| 19 | The Student Enterprise Officer has also been heavily involved in the evaluation process of Enterprise and Modularisation by interviewing groups of students to gauge their opinions of the development and assessment of Enterprise content within modules . |
| 20 | The Irish League can not just wash their hands of the matter , as Morton McKnight seems to have done . |
| 21 | It should not be the intention of the data processing department to ‘ wash their hands of the applications ’ if the major role in decision-making related to their development rests with the users . |
| 22 | To persuade their clients of the merits of the extension , the DLC salon is holding monthly wig parties , and punters are already swamping them with demands for afros and bouffant , bum-length Dolly Parton styles . |
| 23 | The UN said that despite undertakings from Serb commanders the helicopters would be given safe passage it appeared Mr Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic , the Serb commander , could not control their troops of the ground . |
| 24 | Or was it that they developed their legends of the deities and then saw' those deities portrayed in the sky ? |
| 25 | They set about spreading their memories of the books . |
| 26 | But the communicators have just as many , and their prejudices affected their accounts of the campaign . |
| 27 | The remaining cousins signed their copies of the memorandum , either on the day of the funeral or within a few days afterwards . |
| 28 | Mr Ramsay said they " take advantage of their official position and avail themselves of a report on a school in order to publish their views of the sanitary state of the village in which the school is established , and to offer an opinion regarding the management of an estate of which that village forms a part . " |
| 29 | As most of us watched the Rodney King verdict and its horrifying aftermath on TV , journalist James Ryan and photographer Andrew Macpherson drove separately into South Central LA to record their views of the riots ; meanwhile , KRS-One , Heavy D , NWA and other rappers give their comments |
| 30 | Three women are now ready for an informal support group to share their experiences of the child protection system . |