Example sentences of "[conj] of their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand , only three per cent of credit buyers said that there had been any difficulty getting the sort of terms they wanted — more or less regardless of what type-of credit they actually used , or of their socio-economic background . |
| 2 | Applicants who are uncertain as to the validity of their qualifications or of their present course of study , or who wish further information on any aspect of their application , are advised to write at the earliest opportunity to the Associate Dean for Admissions , Faculty of Arts Office , David Hume Tower , George Square , Edinburgh EH8 9JX . |
| 3 | Health matters will usually come first , and then talk either of family news or of their past lives . |
| 4 | Many people are not aware of the existence of some of them or of their own eligibility to make a claim , so are not taking them up ; and you may find that you are one of them . |
| 5 | Trumpets wailed , acrobats somersaulted , torn beasts died ; some bejewelled ladies blew kisses , perhaps only so as to kindle the jealousy of rival ladies or of their own lords . |
| 6 | Most people have a far better idea of the value of their house than of their annual income tax . |
| 7 | Wölflinn was naturally not ignorant of artists , but the famous phrase indicated an interest in the sequence of art seen as forms which develop as if of their own volition . |
| 8 | Regarding American policy , if in fact one exists , towards South Korea , I can only say we know little , and of their future intentions even less . |
| 9 | An examination of the wide range of people involved , of the many different roles they play and of their varying involvement in or distance from the policy-making process will help to stress the importance of giving attention to implementation and to introduce the more theoretical discussion that is to follow . |
| 10 | As we all know , the nuclear households of married children may continue to be linked by effective bonds of kinship both with the residual households of their parents and of their married siblings ; but such continuing linkage is optional and , in practice , very variable . |
| 11 | Learn about its famous students and of their astonishing discoveries . |
| 12 | I hope that all hon. Members accept that adult education is an amazing vehicle through which people can have more fulfilled lives in respect both of leisure and of their professional careers . |
| 13 | Similarly , parallel questions will be asked of the participants , for the clients also bring expectations and stereotypes ( of the workers , administration , etc. and of their fellow clients ) to participation , as well as a wide gamut of often conflicting ideologies . |
| 14 | They are , as I have emphasized , highly organized political formations , which tend to develop a life of their own , to some extent independent of the social interests that originally gave rise to them and of their changing environment , and may acquire the character ( or at least the appearance ) of permanent elements in the political system . |
| 15 | Tamils felt deprived of access to government and of their traditional route to advancement , jobs in the civil service . |
| 16 | It was extremely difficult to draw such lines with clarity in practice , yet , at another level , the distinction was an important one given the existence of two powerful corporations ( the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Physicians ) and of their vested interests . |
| 17 | This group of pronouns has weak forms pronounced with weaker vowels than the and of their strong forms . |
| 18 | This section 7(3) required the LTE so to perform their functions as to ensure so far as practicable that at the end of each accounting period the aggregate of the net balance of the consolidated revenue account of the LTE and of their general reserve was such as might be approved by the GLC ; and that if , at the end of any accounting period , the aggregate showed a deficit , the amount properly available to meet changes to revenue account in the next following accounting period should exceed those charges by at least the amount of that deficit . |
| 19 | In each case the successful disambiguation of the deictic reference requires that hearers identify the relevant context on the basis of the content of the utterance and of their general knowledge of the world . |
| 20 | But there followed the downfall and deaths of the Despensers and of their royal master . |
| 21 | undertakings and of their subsequent discharge ? |
| 22 | This has the advantage over the previous two strategies of allowing people to leave relatively undistorted their awareness of the complexity of the situation and of their own fallibility , but at the expense of construing themselves as partially or completely powerless . |
| 23 | They are fiercely secretive and of their own choice inhabit a dim world of ambiguity and half-truths . |
| 24 | The community involvement will provide the opportunity for students to develop awareness of the needs of others and of their own skills , aptitudes and interests in relation to work within the community . |
| 25 | Trying an idea out on somebody is a very good way of exposing flaws in your argument , and in fact if we look at the present energy debate , so much of it is concerned with interpretation which one would have thought , taking a simple view of science , were just factual matters that we realize that this discussion of science is perhaps more difficult than people would imagine , so there is opportunity in the course to try and help students to become more fluent in scientific discussion , discussion of scientific ideas between themselves , and of their own ideas about science . |
| 26 | His desire for her was instantaneous and of their own volition his hands began to search and caress her body . |
| 27 | Like children , they require a sense of security , of belonging , and of their own importance to others , yet as young people they need also a sense of growing independence , of self-assertion , of occupational skill and of responsibility . |
| 28 | Hawks and pigeons share 99.99 per cent identical components of their cells and of their genetic orders , but the way in which these components are assembled separates the two groups into individual and antagonistic needs and behaviours . |
| 29 | 2 A habitual collocation of two or more words whose combined meaning is not deducible from a knowledge of its component parts and of their grammatical relations to each other : He 's a real pain in the neck , and I 'm fed up to the teeth with the mess he 's landed us in . |
| 30 | The trends I have identified here clearly occupied a central place in the political thought of Max Weber , of Marxist thinkers such as Bauer and Hilferding , of Schumpeter , and of their numerous followers and successors . |