Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shafts of piercing sunlight slowly push their curious fingers through the dusty waters as far down as they will go . |
| 2 | Alresford 's recently formed rugby club , who have successfully completed their inaugural season using facilities at Perin 's School , have asked the parish council to consider creating a rugby pitch at Arlebury Park . |
| 3 | ‘ The middle , ’ Reyce continues , ‘ although enjoying much meddow and pasture , yett far more tillage doe from thence raise their cheifest maintenance . ’ |
| 4 | Throughout 1990 and the first half of 1991 the SLORC had imposed a series of legal restrictions on the NLD and other opponents which effectively frustrated their political ambitions . |
| 5 | To date almost 100 graduates have participated in the GEP and the majority have gone on to successfully launch their own businesses . |
| 6 | This rather cooled their high spirits , because Missenden 's failure to do what was required of him about some case of ecclesiastical preferment was criticized . |
| 7 | With reduction in costs as a key objective for Banks , they hope that staff loyalty to customers will allow them to widely market their new hours without properly managing these issues . |
| 8 | Indeed , HyperCard has created such interest that IBM swiftly produced their own HyperCard lookalike which they call LinkWay . |
| 9 | The subscribers merely asked their local operator ( no dials in those days ) to connect them to Electrophone . |
| 10 | Ellis , all placed their central emphasis on the quality of staff , and the higher the grade , the more the quality counted . |
| 11 | I do welcome those who have travelled from York and Hull , perhaps seeing their new Cathedral for the first time . |
| 12 | The object model more naturally represents their real world ( the relational model proves particularly suitable for data processing and accounting applications ) . |
| 13 | The criminals now embraced and encouraged their women , many of whom were patiently weeping their daily tearfall . |
| 14 | Additionally , all manufactured foods — that is , foods which go through a factory process and end up in a packet , tin or bottle — not only lose their vital vitamins , minerals and trace elements in the manufacturing process but also lose much of their colour , flavour and texture . |
| 15 | XI ) between those countries that developed formally rational judicial systems under the influence of Roman and ecclesiastical law , in which the demand for predictability encouraged measures to control judicial discretion ; and countries such as England , in which a historically powerful cadre of lawyers successfully resisted such demands and jealously guarded their traditional independence . |
| 16 | Fishes ' ’ songs ' , one should note , do not seem to be nearly so complex as those of birds , perhaps reflecting their lower position on the scale of consciousness and intelligence . |
| 17 | And , while not necessarily eclipsing their own songs , the rash of covers — chosen for maximum heartbreak potential — offer pointers into their mindset . |
| 18 | The Soviet , Italian and German governments naturally justified their own infringement of non-intervention , to which they officially subscribed , by reference to the conduct of the other side . |
| 19 | See dockers are only protected , when they say they go on strike , they 're only protecting their own jobs in my opinion . |
| 20 | Newry , for whom the next step in their evolution is to make an impression on the park as well as off it , proudly and quite rightly tout their immaculate facility as one of the major sporting successes in the district . |
| 21 | In the sphere of aesthetics , Lessing , Herder , and , a generation later , Friedrich Schlegel not only base their diverse theories on material or formulations put into currency by Winckelmann , but might be said to owe to him , as Schlegel put it , " the very idea of a history of art " , conceived as the development of a series of individual works towards a perfect beauty . |
| 22 | The earlier unicellular species were by now well adapted to their environment , and only changed their biochemical functions because of the genetic ‘ errors ’ , the mutations , that periodically occurred . |
| 23 | The less fortunate among them , like Nicholson and Robert Towne , Charles Eastman , the writers , and Monte Hellman , the director , got together in a play group and literally built their own theatre , stealing timber from building sites for their scenery ; they ripped a toilet from a petrol station and lighting and electronics were similarly acquired . |
| 24 | The peasants farm co-operatively and are together rebuilding their bombed-out village . |
| 25 | German agents were allowed to act freely in what the British had hitherto considered their own area of influence . |
| 26 | Political edge groups like The Redskins , Billy Bragg and The Three Johns held the music press to ransom , peddling their polemics while feverishly climbing their own ladders to success . |
| 27 | Um it 's also the case that um particularly round about that time there was an an idea that children were not competent enough to know what had happened to them , not competent enough to know their own minds . |
| 28 | These are important questions for people who want to monitor the amount of alcohol they consume on a regular basis and perhaps replace their standard consumption with products that are reduced in alcohol . |
| 29 | It seems that adults who provide optimal conversational support for language learning are those who are sensitive to the child 's conversational needs and are able constantly to adjust their own contributions to match those of the child ( Wells 1981 ; Wood 1988 ) . |
| 30 | Their activities ranged throughout the day and night and reached a peak of basically making a noise nuisance of themselves , there were other troubles which I will mention later , in which they would be playing two or three different sound systems , and at its worst , a full drum set in the early hours of the morning , obviously keeping their near neighbours not only awake but in a state of some anxiety . |