Example sentences of "[conj] their [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can see case by case judgments arising based on the precise nature of the services or their scale as a whole , but those are judgments on the facts rather than the framework for general rule-making . |
| 2 | Sociologists who lend their names or their work to a particular social policy are engaging in a political act ; they can not escape by saying that the use of their work to justify a particular social policy ( even if they did not advocate that policy ) is not their concern . |
| 3 | Money was short in the party by 1921 because there had been no proper revival since the war ; members were constantly described as apathetic , and were in no mood to give their time or their money to a party that did not know where it was going . |
| 4 | A recent approach towards the elimination of surface-induced thrombosis has been the preadsorption of anti-thrombotic moieties , such as heparin ( an anticoagulant produced in liver cells ) , or their inclusion in a copolymer lattice . |
| 5 | Carr used these three foundation stones to construct an attack on the utopians , contending that their faith in a timeless moral code merely reflected the specific interests of one set of satisfied powers after the First World War . |
| 6 | However , others may be unhappy that their relationship with a now notorious ‘ sex monster ’ should be so flagrantly exposed . |
| 7 | ‘ Bomber ’ Smith ( who joined the Authority 's staff from the Ministry in September 1949 ) had his own doubts about the engineers , feeling that their desire for a good technical liaison with the manufacturers , and particularly the boiler-makers , tended to paralyse the BEA 's capacity to exercise commercial pressure on them . |
| 8 | The doctors tell us that elderly pilots and pilots who smoke should be aware that their tolerance to a shortage of oxygen is lower than younger people 's or that of non-smokers . |
| 9 | He maintains that their image as a bunch of violent thugs is a misleading byproduct of a sustained media campaign . |
| 10 | George : ‘ And they 'd never call women that , so their argument about a man must be wrong . |
| 11 | Table 3.23 below shows that the unskilled and the semi-skilled manual workers made up a higher proportion of those receiving sickness or invalidity benefit than their size as a population group warranted ; the opposite was the case for the non-manual workers ; while the skilled manual workers ’ position as beneficiaries reflected their size as a group among the general population . |
| 12 | The study of the visible marks used in writing from the point of view of their shape and size rather than their use in a particular system , which is covered by graphology ; this distinction parallels that of phonetics and phonology . |
| 13 | But it was evident that an argument was taking place between the adults , possibly as to whether their need of a refrigerator was greater than their desire for a mammoth room heater . |
| 14 | One may well agree with their rejection of positivistic historical scholarship , and their insistence on a combination of interpretation and evaluation in the study of literary texts . |
| 15 | And not just in the context of G.W. Fashions and their suitability for a mass market , but in a simple design sense . |
| 16 | Some would argue that , by virtue of the manner of their compilation and their utilization as a means of furthering the adversary relationship between the parties , manifestos add to those problems rather than offering solutions . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The entire collection will be shown in chronological order over a period of five years and each display will involve the restoration of the objects involved and their addition to a technical catalogue covering every object . |
| 19 | Unlike the people of the other Islamic groups , the Hui look Chinese : they are racially Chinese rather than Turkic and their classification as a ‘ national minority ’ is almost entirely on religious grounds . |
| 20 | The BDDA expressed their pride in the President and their gratitude with a medal of honour in 1968 . |
| 21 | A third technique is devolution — the separation , except for the ultimate and overriding authority of Parliament , of functions from central government entirely and their vesting in a subordinate authority . |
| 22 | In part it involved differences in perceptions about the boundaries of people 's work and what they contributed : in general , professionals and parents tended to see themselves as concerned with the young person and their life as a whole , but they saw others as being restricted in their work and concerned only with limited aspects of the young person . |
| 23 | Channel 4 , the sponsors of the £20,000 prize , will repeat its live television coverage of that event and preview the artists and their work in a documentary being transmitted on 3 November ( 9.00–10.00pm ) . |
| 24 | I AM one of the thousands of parents who have worn out their shoe leather and their patience in a vain search for the Thunderbirds toys made by Matchbox . |
| 25 | They have an effect on their departments and their university as a whole , because comparisons which affect funding levels are now drawn with other institutions . |
| 26 | The CRG set about trying to define a series of integrative levels upon which it would be possible to base the main classes and their order for a new general classification scheme . |
| 27 | the subordinates — ie. their individual and collective personalities , and their preference for a style of leadership ; |
| 28 | The second general assembly found the stage set for a show discussion , a darkened hall with the five speakers and their chairman in a blaze of lights . |
| 29 | Before the Somme campaign , the spirit of patriotic young Britons was epitomised by the poetry of Rupert Brooke — a belief in the justice of their cause and their hope for a better world . |
| 30 | The most important element in Free Church worship has traditionally been the reading of long passages of Holy Scripture and their exposition by a learned minister . |