Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind them , she envisaged the faces of the Committee for the Preservation of Morals , as she had last seen them , glistening with almost sadistic anticipation of the crushing of the young author and of giving Mr Pascall and the cigar-store merchants their proper comeuppances . |
| 2 | In this low undergrowth their disorganized progress and uneven , differing rhythms of movement delayed them still more than in the wood . |
| 3 | Steve and his wife , Angela , have chosen to make one of the attractive four-bedroom , Farndale-style detached houses their future home . |
| 4 | They decided to make piezonuclear fusion their primary aim with detection of gamma rays ( by a sodium iodide detector ) and neutrons both on the menu . |
| 5 | The book 's 14 chapters certainly cover the ground thoroughly , giving sacred vocal , secular vocal and instrumental genres their due weight , but the connecting threads are rather tenuous . |
| 6 | The reactions of an educated élite , the study of whose reading matter has so often given social and cultural historians their main access to the past , no longer remains the only documentation by which we can get at the culture of ‘ the common man ’ . |
| 7 | Such companies , and to a lesser extent their Western competitors , are now treating workers not as units of labour power but as people with distinct personal and social needs . |
| 8 | Proteins also give different cells their special character . |
| 9 | The point is that so much economic growth in Latin America , from the enclave economy to contemporary multinationals , has been brought about by foreign concerns , which has denied the local entrepreneurial groups their historic role in leading , organising and financing this process . |
| 10 | JULIAN O'NEILL 's 62nd minute try denied Trinity their first victory at Naughton Park for 16 years . |
| 11 | By Victorian standards their worst vices were almost certainly gluttony rather than lust , and the sentimental taste of so many dons for young men — almost certainly ( the very term is revealing ) ‘ platonic ’ — among the natural crotchets of inveterate bachelors . |
| 12 | I must revive in the listening public their own sense of moving about in worlds unrealized … . |
| 13 | Parents strive to ensure that their children are placed in the best possible schools , follow with avid interest their educational attainments , often placing the children under great pressure if they are relatively unsuccessful . |
| 14 | The Liberal Democrats won Kincardine and Deeside with an 11.4 per cent swing from the Conservatives ; this gave the Liberal Democrats their 10th seat in Scotland , overtaking the Conservatives ( nine ) . |
| 15 | In the case of a bridal couple the ideology is that during the initiatory phase of their marriage the groom and his bride are playing out the roles of a god and a goddess ; when they resume their life as ordinary mortals their dangerous divinity must be removed . ) |
| 16 | So why not give the obvious candidates their big chance , asks WAYNE SHELFORD . |
| 17 | For much of the nineteenth century this strategy was attractive to local government because it enabled localities to maintain to a large degree their prized autonomy . |
| 18 | All the other Minpin families wanted to show Little Billy their own rooms . |
| 19 | K-Swiss use their five strip lacing system for constant lateral support , combined with a D-ring cinch system to hold the laces firmly in place and so stabilise the foot . |
| 20 | Fine Print their latest release is for all those knitters with standard gauge machines who bought Ebony and Ivory and liked the patterns . |
| 21 | ‘ Under my economic programme , we will build an America where even the most privileged pay their fair share , not because we want to soak the rich , but because we want to stop soaking the middle class and ask everybody to bear their fair share , ’ he said . |
| 22 | They uttered unfamiliar words , exchanging for their long-held tenderness their new-found passion . |
| 23 | The Times made the suggested link their front-page headline — Porn videos turned ‘ Fox ’ into rapist — while the Daily Mail used this theme in their editorial of the day , as part of their continuing campaign against porn videos . |
| 24 | Contemporarily the state , through administrative and financial controls , has lessened that autonomy while allowing the universities to reshape with comparative ease their governing statutes . |
| 25 | He was aware of the accusation frequently levelled at doctors of his sort , that they are charming to their private patients who pay them , while treating like so many malfunctioning machines their National Health patients who merely pay the state . |
| 26 | It took just five days for ‘ Meat Is Murder ’ to give Rough Trade their first number one album . |
| 27 | One of the restaurants they visited was Don Leone 's — a stone 's throw from the marina in Puerto Banus where the rich and famous moor their luxury yachts . |
| 28 | Since FIFA accepted South Africa back on to the international stage their top players have become available for transfer at cheap prices . |
| 29 | It is really this last concern that has given feminist objections to sexist language their public visibility , since feminists have demanded concrete changes in speech and writing . |
| 30 | If the long and complex passage of Athenaeus 6 ( 273a–275b ) , which Felix Jacoby gives as fragment 59 , can be considered a trustworthy summary of Posidonius ' views about Roman civilization , two features emerge : ( a ) the Romans preserved for a long time their extreme simplicity of life ; ( b ) in that long period they learnt many techniques from various foreigners ( Greeks , Etruscans , Samnites and Iberians ) and their constitutional principles from the Spartans . |