Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The organisers of the pools believe that huge jackpots are their best weapon in fighting the threat posed by a national lottery . |
| 2 | This led them into feeling that airlines and motor car manufacturers were their main competitors since they took passengers away . |
| 3 | Should it become necessary , to meet EEC requirements on medicines legislation , to run tests with homoeopathic remedies using double-blind models , the great advantage of research with the remedies is their gentle action and lack of the harmful side-effects which unfortunately result from many orthodox drugs . |
| 4 | ONE of the main complaints of many diesel car drivers is their unfair treatment at the hands of insurance companies . |
| 5 | ‘ But the biggest thing going for our lads is their professional pride . |
| 6 | H. J. Eysenck proposed that a fundamental difference between introverts and extraverts is their chronic levels of arousal , introverts having generally higher levels of arousal than extraverts . |
| 7 | A well documented feature of computer use in UK primary schools is their frequent use for collaborative activities . |
| 8 | This personal quality of books was their greatest worth . |
| 9 | ‘ They are growing up missing half their heritage , and I really began to be concerned when they said fish and chips were their favourite food . |
| 10 | The only common interest of these ‘ southern ’ countries is their general view that they are being more or less exploited by the rich countries of the ‘ north ’ . |
| 11 | Cohabitation with reform-minded Communists is their only chance of breaking out of their lonely weakness . |
| 12 | Since what distinguished communities was their legal customs , anomalies could be reduced by greater legal uniformity within a whole castellany or , better still , a whole province . |
| 13 | Most people continued to go to the cinema occasionally , and about two-fifths of C2 and DE audiences in 1986 claimed feature films were their favourite TV programmes . |
| 14 | One important aspect of the new sub-committees is their trans-binary nature , having members both from the university and public sector higher education . |
| 15 | One criticism which is often levelled at record reviewers is their frequent inability to reach even a mild degree of consensus regarding ‘ best ’ versions . |
| 16 | The main drawback to specialist reviews is their late appearance , often six months to a year after publication of the book to which they refer . |
| 17 | A COMMON criticism levelled by Tory propagandists at the Wilson and Callaghan Labour governments was their regular borrowing from the IMF . |
| 18 | The essential feature of the community of Jerusalem Christians was their total other-worldliness , i.e. the three-key decision ( a ) between work and leisure ; ( b ) between consumption , saving and giving ; and ( c ) between accumulating and selling assets was not to be influenced by personal consumption and gain . |
| 19 | My actions are their own justification . |
| 20 | Well at the moment they 've got free fitting on all carpets is their latest offer |
| 21 | Sale of the eggs is their only source of income , and they are confident they can prove there is no risk to public health . |
| 22 | It has been seen that the modern justification for conferring broad discretionary power upon both corporate managers and administrative agencies is their special expertise . |
| 23 | To a tenth-century man or woman ( and Karl Leyser has shown the great importance of nunneries in the aristocratic social order of tenth-century Saxony ) , as to a modern monk or nun , the raison d'être of monasteries was their communal worship , their liturgy . |
| 24 | Birthdays are their only nights out , remembered as they repay the debt incurred and relish the memory of being full up . |
| 25 | Duomo and baptistry are monuments to the wealth of the city and of many Pisans from 1063 till the mid and late thirteenth century , the age of the sculptors Nicola and Giovanni Pisano , whose pulpits are their supreme adornments . |
| 26 | Because Ballantyne is one of the characters it somewhat restricts his actions and makes the character more adult whereas in ‘ Lord of the Flies ’ the characters are their own people with their own personalities . |
| 27 | ‘ Big ’ government is anathema to them , and bureaucrats are their natural enemies . |
| 28 | The problem with photocells is their low efficiency . |
| 29 | A principal characteristic of the Highlands and Islands is their sparse population . |
| 30 | The great advantage which officers of East Indiamen possessed over their counterparts in less favoured ships was their customary right to own a certain proportion of the cargo carried , and to sell that share at the end of the voyage for their own profit . |