Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITAIN 'S big banks stirred up a storm last night after threatening to charge customers for using their own money . |
| 2 | girls are presented with a dilemma between maintaining their feminine identities or becoming closely identified with the study of physics . |
| 3 | Similarly , restaurant management have wider responsibilities for building their own branch 's business than would the managers of most branded operations . |
| 4 | Generally speaking , people in this room are sitting around relaxing ; they are n't bustling about generating their own heat so the atmosphere around them needs to be kept at a comfortable temperature . |
| 5 | When they behave illegally , they could be required to pay for publicizing their own failures , negligence , indifference , apathy , and greed , and also the names , photographs , and misdeeds of each corporate offender . |
| 6 | Although she enjoys the aesthetic value of wild flowers , her reason for encouraging their widespread growth is principally scientific . |
| 7 | If his taxes did deter hard work , the economy would wilt , jobs would be lost and he and his colleagues would run short of the tax revenue for financing their favourite causes . |
| 8 | President Elizabeth Diggory told the GSA 's annual conference in Bristol : ‘ Some schools are seriously thinking about using their own tests instead . ’ |
| 9 | They are normally responsible for purchasing their own uniform and music , and often their own instrument too . |
| 10 | A major obstacle to accurate prediction was the preference of many MPs for keeping their own counsel . |
| 11 | Champion McEnroe , 33 , practising with the Davis Cup team at Fort Worth , Texas , issued a statement this week confirming that he and Tatum , who won an Oscar as child star of Paper Moon , have seen lawyers about ending their six-year marriage . |
| 12 | In this section it will be argued that , since industrial relations form part of the overall texture of state enterprise activity , the logic of public enterprises provides a starting point for understanding their industrial relations . |
| 13 | After eluding their English pursuers for some days they encamped in Stanhope Park in Weardale on 20 July . |
| 14 | The majority of farmers were probably sceptical and decided not to invest in the system , because the Scientific Farming Machinery Co appears to have ceased trading a year or so after announcing their new gas injection equipment . |
| 15 | Although Crewe are reluctant to sell , Hignett now seems certain to follow in the footsteps of Platt , Rob Jones and Geoff Thomas , who all moved on to win international honours after launching their first team careers at Gresty Road . |
| 16 | Dowty Aerospace Propellers are flying high , after clinching their biggest contract . |
| 17 | After confiscating their musical instruments , the police allowed them to proceed and they went on to parade — much more quietly than they would have liked . |
| 18 | Already 2-0 down in the three-match series , England will go into today 's clash with just two frontline seamers after axing their fastest bowler , Devon Malcolm . |
| 19 | Members of the 69th Doncaster Pack relax after holding their first Coffee Evening . |
| 20 | Two weeks after quitting their civic home of more than 60 years to move into new offices in the town hall , Loftus town councillors now have to look again as looming charge capping of the district council could mean the closure of the uneconomical hall . |
| 21 | After suffering their worst defeat in any general election since 1968 , the Socialists yesterday repeated their call , to disillusioned left-wing voters and those who had abstained to turn out in force on Sunday , to block too sweeping a right-wing victory . |
| 22 | Cross Keys face a two-week playing ban after having their fifth player sent off this season . |
| 23 | After examining their specific areas , the working groups will help prepare initial discussion papers for wider public consultation , will consider the results of this and develop where necessary more specific proposals on which the DTI will issue a further consultation paper . |
| 24 | Visitors paid two shillings per week each to walk several circuits of these paths after taking their curative waters . |
| 25 | After reviewing their economic performance , their commitment to developing countries , the situation in Eastern Europe and the global dimension of environmental problems , the ministers discussed agricultural reform . |
| 26 | Nesting for the first time in the delta since the 16th century , the flamingos had flown up the coast from the southern province of Malaga after finding their traditional nesting ground in the Fuente de Piedra lake had dried up after a prolonged drought . |
| 27 | Only six weeks after making their solemn covenant-pledge with God the people are clamouring for a replica of the old gods of Egypt . |
| 28 | Jean-Paul at first resisted ; eventually , when Edouard pressed him , and after changing their proposed schedule three times , he agreed to a week in the autumn of 1950 , when he would be on leave . |
| 29 | Rivals Tennis World Middlesbrough move up into second position — one above Ilkley — after earning their first win of the season against Topspin Darlington . |
| 30 | Indeed , both were able to devote more attention to the presidency after leaving their chief executiveships , and given the pressure on heads of houses nowadays , the appointment as president of an about-to-retire chief executive may well become a more common — even preferred — solution . |