Example sentences of "[conj] their [noun] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More and more Conservatives , in and out of the House , are coming to believe that their chances at the election would be stronger under a different leader . |
| 2 | For very form 's sake , and because , after all , Stair was his brother , he had stayed with the party through one act of a musical comedy at the Gaiety Theatre where they had made so much noise that their departure at the first interval must have pleased the audience which they had left behind , had gone to Quaggers — Quaglino 's — to dine — which meant drink — in a private room , and were now on their way to crown their evening 's pleasure by ‘ Pushing the boat out for Havvie ’ , Stair 's witticism . |
| 3 | Members now believe that their success at the polls depends , ultimately , almost entirely on their own efforts . |
| 4 | More sensitive than their counterparts at the beginning of the decade had been to the technical qualities of Hollywood films , the critics of the time constantly drew attention to the gap between the aspirations and the achievements of British films . |
| 5 | The aim of this book , however , is to look beneath this superstructure , and to describe computers and their variation at a basic hardware level , below the operating system but above the detailed electronics ; we discuss further the nature of this level in § 1.3 . |
| 6 | This bookings chart covers one calendar month with dates clearly marked at the top and the room numbers and their descriptions at the side . |
| 7 | But they feel torn between their loathing for General Noriega 's drug-based regime , and their alarm at the cavalier flouting of the OAS principle of non-intervention . |
| 8 | Our partnership has never been aimed at a resourcing of the school in a material sense , but has focused on the educational experiences of students and their provision at the highest quality possible . |
| 9 | At present there are just informal guidelines ( found at the back of your telephone directory ) which say , among other things , that sales people should state their names and their company at the beginning of the call . |
| 10 | Almost 17 million of South Africa 's 28 million blacks live in the homelands and their support at the ballot box is crucial whenever they are finally given the vote . |
| 11 | Many dolphins and porpoises are particularly vulnerable to these poisons , because of both their coastal habitat and their position at the top of the food chain . |
| 12 | The answer is Yes , for three reasons above all others : their cost , the speed of innovation , and their significance at the edges of life . |
| 13 | The national brewers , whose attitude to staff and tenants would bring a blush to the face of the average Victorian mill owner , object to new legislation that would deprive them of the right to evict tenants and their families at a moment 's notice . |
| 14 | They 're going overland by motorbike ; it 's all in aid of SNAP the charity that stands for Support for the Sick Newborn and their Parents at the John Radcliffe Hospital . |
| 15 | They did n't even glance at each other when greeted by traditional musicians dressed in 14th-Century attire , and their suite at the Seoul Hyatt Hotel has two bedrooms . |
| 16 | A reception will be held for the runners and their supporters at the English Wine Centre . |
| 17 | It was now criticized as anachronistic , and the German government had signalled for some time its concern over rising costs and their justifiability at a time when German unification put great strains on the public finances [ see also pp. 37212 ; 38508 ] . |
| 18 | These were ‘ the integration of different segments of the labour process by a system of conveyors and handling devices ensuring the movement of the materials to be transformed and their arrival at the appropriate machine tools ’ . |
| 19 | The other difficulty I have is with some of these criteria and their use at a strategic level . |
| 20 | More people own shares but , as a percentage of the number of shares held , the individual shareholding has fallen from thirty percent in 1979 to eighteen percent today , and if all these shareholders c turned up to exercise their right and their power at the annual meeting of British Telecom or British Gas , or any other , to say , we think it 's outrageous the sort of money that you are now paying your chairs and your directors , what would happen ? |
| 21 | The underlying premise of Papert , Servan-Schreiber and their colleagues at the Centre Mondial is that children and adults , lawyers and journalists , the rulers and the ruled , can all assimilate compute culture without either losing their own , or surrendering to some centrally imposed scheme of , knowledge . |
| 22 | If Branko Palcic , Stephen Lam and their colleagues at the Cancer Research Centre in Vancouver have their way , the deadliest cancer of the 20th century may be about to share the fate of its 19th century predecessor . |
| 23 | With internal savings , including voluntary redundancies , the Broughton men , and their colleagues at the Filton factory near Bristol , have managed to keep the work ‘ in house ’ . |
| 24 | There is no doubt that the great majority of senior staff in polytechnics would prefer much greater freedom from their local authorities , hence their support of Model B in the 1981 Green Paper and their disappointment at the form which the National Advisory Body has taken . |
| 25 | And their testament at the end was Yes ! |
| 26 | The more seasoned tasters , I saw , were rolling the wine round their tongues and their eyes at the ceiling , after which they spat out the wines in the receptacles provided . |
| 27 | The inevitable result was that the Dumbarton element in the Rutherglen Council prevailed and their representative at the district meeting was for Dixon , although the Council was split . |
| 28 | A part-time chairman of governors was assisted by other part-timers ( Table 4.1 lists the chairmen , the directors-general and the number of governors , and their counterparts at the IBA , for the years 1945 — 89 ) . |
| 29 | In his youth CD wrote a number of doggerel verses , usually of a satirical nature , for the amusement of friends , such as ‘ The Bill of Fare ’ ( 1831 ) describing the Beadnells and their guests at a family dinner-party , and four poems contributed to Maria Beadnell 's album . |
| 30 | A full turnout of altar servers assisted , young children brought up gifts and their drawing at the offertory , all the Special Ministers came first to receive Holy Communion , and after Mass people gathered to greet the Bishop and share wine and refreshments in the parish house . |