Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The debate has continued ever since on whether the main emphasis should be on their economic or their social role . |
| 2 | In any case they were quite clear where their own priorities lay : |
| 3 | The collection of historical data on natural hazards is important since it is clear that their spatial pattern varies through time . |
| 4 | The US president , Bill Clinton , hailed the Russian leader as the leader of ‘ the historic movement towards democracy and free markets in Russia ’ and made it clear that their planned summit meeting in Vancouver on 3 and 4 April would go ahead . |
| 5 | To would-be revolutionaries it was becoming abundantly clear that their central problem was lack of contact with the masses . |
| 6 | While the Danzig Poles were thought to be docile and largely invisible , it is clear that their slumbering sense of identity had been roused by anti-Polish policies . |
| 7 | By the late 1880s it was clear that their only hope lay in mass revolt . |
| 8 | Though it is mistaken to suppose that the British made no effort to leave the Masai better than they found them , it is clear that their potential emergence from the colonial period much as they had entered it was something their administrators could in the end accept with equanimity . |
| 9 | Volkswagen 's Vario I and Vario II were much more interesting than their wacky bodywork would suggest . |
| 10 | Such stronger forms are available , as we shall see , and they are always more interesting than their weaker counterparts . |
| 11 | Thus , the richer States of the north and west should be more generous than their poorer contemporaries of the South , a conclusion that has been sustained empirically , e.g. Magull ( 1978 ) , Fenton and Chamberlayne ( 1969 ) . |
| 12 | On the Continent , station architects tended to be more restrained than their English-speaking colleagues , more prone to arches than towers , but they were not unaffected by the new aesthetic and clung to it longer . |
| 13 | This does n't contradict Galileo 's famous observations on the speeds of falling bodies ; the pumice fragments are so light that their aerodynamic properties rather than their weight control their rate of fall . |
| 14 | A third of the Membership claimed to be unemployed and their reduced subscriptions of £6 did not cover even mailing costs . |
| 15 | Aware of the history of that awful bloody confrontation throughout the 1969–70 tour , the new-era Springboks are determined to keep their heads high and their political profile low . |
| 16 | But three of the supermarkets involved insist that their hygiene standards are high and their own tests found no evidence of bacteria . |
| 17 | On another level policies are not irrational and their disjointed character is not seen as a bad thing by the apologists of incrementalism . |
| 18 | But male elephants only mature at around 30 years old and their many deaths have disrupted patterns of reproduction . |
| 19 | Many Irish catholic nationalists also consider the British and their Orange allies to have established tyrannical government in a part of Ireland . |
| 20 | These singularities , however , are distribution-valued and their physical significance requires further investigation . |
| 21 | The same process has been documented in other situations where a people have been conquered , colonised and their cultural beliefs assaulted . |
| 22 | All are different but their common denominator is one of predictability and a tedious , limitless consistency . |
| 23 | By 1982 a Toronto Board of Education survey found 37 per cent of first-year high-school students were born outside Canada and that nearly half of them spoke a language other than English or French as their first language . |
| 24 | That , coupled with an estimated 50 million working days a year lost to smoking-related illness , means companies now list smoking as their main health concern for male employees and second most important , after VDU and computer worries , for women . |
| 25 | At least two-thirds of Americans have never had any reason to think of the British as their Anglo-Saxon cousins ; the East European émigrés who ran the studios were no more likely than their successors to look upon British producers as partners , and nobody would queue to see a film just because it was British . |
| 26 | " Basil and Rosemary " — their names were as inseparable as their professional endeavours . |
| 27 | Indeed , the probability is ( one survey shows that 41 per cent of people name speaking in public as their greatest fear ) that just under half of them do not enjoy presenting . |
| 28 | It is n't their height but their shapely form that attracts discerning hillgoers , and since many of the tops are not included in tick lists — some of the Scottish ones do n't even get Corbett status — they tend not to be as popular as their loftier neighbours . |
| 29 | MIDDLESBROUGH , who have appointed former England fly half Alan Old as their first team coach for next season , introduce Scot Duncan McNaughton for their final game at Wharfedale on Saturday . |
| 30 | The enormous table around which the politburo was supposed to meet would have required the members to shout at each other across oak as old as their collective age . |