Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The debate has continued ever since on whether the main emphasis should be on their economic or their social role . |
| 2 | A third of the Membership claimed to be unemployed and their reduced subscriptions of £6 did not cover even mailing costs . |
| 3 | Aware of the history of that awful bloody confrontation throughout the 1969–70 tour , the new-era Springboks are determined to keep their heads high and their political profile low . |
| 4 | But three of the supermarkets involved insist that their hygiene standards are high and their own tests found no evidence of bacteria . |
| 5 | On another level policies are not irrational and their disjointed character is not seen as a bad thing by the apologists of incrementalism . |
| 6 | But male elephants only mature at around 30 years old and their many deaths have disrupted patterns of reproduction . |
| 7 | She was already twenty-one and their self-imposed tests of constraint were severely strained . |
| 8 | Aeneas Coffey married Sussana Logie in 1808 and their four sons all entered the business , three of them after studying at Trinity College , Dublin . |
| 9 | Many Irish catholic nationalists also consider the British and their Orange allies to have established tyrannical government in a part of Ireland . |
| 10 | These singularities , however , are distribution-valued and their physical significance requires further investigation . |
| 11 | They were married in 1985 and their first child , Katie , was born last year . |
| 12 | Four members of the Ulster Orchestra , Ottoline Maas ( violin ) , Jonathan Griffin ( violin ) , Philip Walton ( viola ) and Morag Stewart ( cello ) , formed the Adelphi Quartet in 1985 and their busy recital schedule throughout the Province has evoked increasing enthusiasm . |
| 13 | The same process has been documented in other situations where a people have been conquered , colonised and their cultural beliefs assaulted . |
| 14 | Normally senior staff have become separated from this but their own experience in the ranks ( if they had any ) leaves them fully aware of the emotional dynamics between landing staff and prisoners . |
| 15 | A full overview of the new rules is not included in Chapter 12 but their salient provisions are noted here . |
| 16 | All are different but their common denominator is one of predictability and a tedious , limitless consistency . |
| 17 | Jesus is also pictured as consorting with women tabooed because of their sinful or their gentile status or the combination of the two , such as the healing of the daughter of the Syrophoenician woman ( Matt. |
| 18 | To the bee 's eyes , unable to detect red , their colours appear very similar and their ultraviolet markings are identical . |
| 19 | But some of the protests were unrelated and their coincidental timing indicates shared feelings of frustration and resentment among the student population , who were extremely sensitive to official party moves . |
| 20 | As the fortunes of the mine declined we discover him during 1877 paid as " John Latham and boys " with his account as low as £31 for a month ; a far cry from the 1840's-1860's when the dressing staff of old men , women , boys and girls averaged 100 and their total wages ranged from £142 to £241 . |
| 21 | I 'd like to think the Power was working then , but I suspect it was coincidence ; high performance jets crash so often it was no real surprise my symbolic and their real destruction came within a fortnight of each other . |
| 22 | While the social products of human externalization have a character sui generis as against both their organismic and their environmental context , it is important to stress that externalization as such is an anthropological necessity . |
| 23 | As the presenter of Channel 4 's first youth programme Whatever You Want , the stocky Llanelli-born Allen had the ideal vehicle for his anarchic polemics , the best thing about a scrappy programme that featured The Undertones one moment and an abortion debate the next , planting the seeds for The Tube , Network 7 and their many-headed progeny . |
| 24 | Effective power rests , for Mills , in all elite comprised of corporate chieftains ( the corporate rich and their chief executives ) ; war lords . |
| 25 | In ewes the prevalence of infection is lower and their larval output smaller . |
| 26 | Whilst execution of a particular process is not complicated , it is a matter of integrated management of the very large number of processes that are possible and their complex inter-relationships . |
| 27 | The party line adopted by both companies maintains that USL will be free-standing and their two product lines kept distinct for the foreseeable future . |
| 28 | Although it is difficult to reach firm conclusions from the small number of patients who underwent balloon counterpulsation , those few who have survived in the long term underwent such a procedure while their renal function was still normal or nearly normal and their renal state remained stable until transplantation . |
| 29 | To equip this fish for its incredible journey across thousands of kilometres of ocean to its spawning grounds in the Sargasso Sea , the eel 's eyes grow larger and their red pigments are replaced by a second type of blue pigments . |
| 30 | As companies grew larger and their clerical workforce expanded , clerical work was reorganized so that each worker specialized in particular tasks . |