Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this low undergrowth their disorganized progress and uneven , differing rhythms of movement delayed them still more than in the wood . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | JULIAN O'NEILL 's 62nd minute try denied Trinity their first victory at Naughton Park for 16 years . |
| 5 | I must revive in the listening public their own sense of moving about in worlds unrealized … . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Fine Print their latest release is for all those knitters with standard gauge machines who bought Ebony and Ivory and liked the patterns . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | They uttered unfamiliar words , exchanging for their long-held tenderness their new-found passion . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Contemporarily the state , through administrative and financial controls , has lessened that autonomy while allowing the universities to reshape with comparative ease their governing statutes . |
| 14 | It took just five days for ‘ Meat Is Murder ’ to give Rough Trade their first number one album . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Since FIFA accepted South Africa back on to the international stage their top players have become available for transfer at cheap prices . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Another problem is trying to ensure that as many disabled people as possible claim their rightful reductions . |
| 20 | In the fourth division , Hereford United play their first home league match of the New Year . |
| 21 | United play their next League match on Thursday next week , against Southampton , and Mr Ferguson will be hoping for a less frenzied atmosphere than the one in which Manchester City 's Neil Pointon was sent off on Tuesday . |
| 22 | Apron on , sleeves rolled up , she and the children are busy baking their own decorations for the Christmas tree . |
| 23 | They have been busy recording their second demo recently . |
| 24 | The others stood and smoked , or twitched or shrugged , or blinked , or nodded , or performed whatever other small compulsion their nervous systems required of them these days . |
| 25 | The only attribute their regrown tail lacks totally is the capacity to be discarded again . |
| 26 | Later , under Roman occupation , they maintained with unbreakable courage their strict monotheism ; so much so that the Roman governor did not even dare to bring his standards into Jerusalem lest the medallions on them depicting the emperor should be thought to infringe the Second Commandment . |
| 27 | But she came close on a corner as he turned and humped his body to avoid a rope , and under the colourless many-coloured water their naked legs brushed weightlessly . |
| 28 | In the dragonfly Sympetrum striolatum the scarlet male contains ommatins and the yellow female their reduced equivalents . |
| 29 | In both classical and positivist criminology , it is the particular way their basic assumptions are interpreted and developed that establishes their political and ideological positions . |
| 30 | In a real way , the mass media give political systems their contemporary form and operational concepts within the political system their contemporary flavour . |