Example sentences of "[art] [noun] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This depends on the judges ' views of the merits of the case before them or ( I would add ) the direction their political inclinations lead them — what I call below their ‘ view of the public interest ’ . |
| 2 | When they gave the measure their final approval , ministers arbitrarily changed the legal basis of the legislation in such a way that unanimous voting would have been required for any further tightening of pollution standards . |
| 3 | The Jarvis family had all come down in the world , considering the money their Victorian grandfather , a manufacturer of bathroom fittings , had made for them , Ernest with the dwindling Cambridge School , Evelina nutty as a squirrel 's cage and with her first sojourn in a nursing home behind her , Cecilia married to a Customs officer . |
| 4 | Palestinian negotiators asserted that the Israelis were at last beginning to appreciate the damage their punitive measures had done to popular support for the peace talks in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip . |
| 5 | Expressive tools give children opportunity to express on the computer their own ideas about reality , so that they can learn through representing , exploring and reflecting on the consequences of their own models . |
| 6 | The Scarlet Ibis comes from forested wetlands of Central America , where it feeds on invertebrate animals containing the pigment carotene , which gives the birds their gorgeous plumage colour . |
| 7 | The second would be that arts teachers would not benefit from the experience their fellow teachers were gaining in curriculum building and which would be useful to practices in the arts . |
| 8 | .. were of a violet grey colour , and seemingly very dense , for although endowed with an almost inconceivably powerful ascensive force , they retained to the zenith their rounded summits . |
| 9 | Aberdeen2 Motherwell0 ABERDEEN 's revival is firmly on course but their £400,000 signing of Finland international striker Mixu Paatelainen has yet to produce the goals their cultured football deserves . |
| 10 | Hardly thrilling , but 27 times funkier than the crap their former manageress does today . |
| 11 | Mounted centrally on the roof was a tall tower supporting a neat diamond pantograph collector , which gave the cars their popular name . |
| 12 | The Blackpool Civic Trust made the restoration of the car their special project for the Borough Centenary in 1976 , and accordingly the car returned in 1975 and was displayed on the Promenade opposite the Foxhall . |
| 13 | The minutiae of naval , political and social life are introduced with the utmost literary tact so that the reader can enjoy the piquancy of surprise and can sense the author 's secret enjoyment of allusions which give the books their total authenticity . |
| 14 | As when a swarme of Gnats at euentide Out of the fennes of Allan do arise , Their murmuring small trompets sounden wide , Whiles in the aire their clustring army flies , That as a cloud doth seeme to dim the skies ; Ne man nor beast may rest or take repast For their sharpe wounds , and noyous iniuries , |
| 15 | Like the band constantly fighting to retain independent artistic control on a major label , the Oxbridge fops can never erase or taint the effect their original shows had on comedy and the world at large , no matter how much rich men 's folly ( children 's books , crap US film cameos , endless cash-in-books and records , the SDP ) they involve themselves in now . |
| 16 | Wherever they are now , black people are descended from Africans , but over the centuries their genetic heritage has become diversified and complicated by various permutations of mating . |
| 17 | They are included in the Balance Sheet at their cost and market value of £368 million [ 1991 £368 million ] and in the opinion of the directors their realisable value is not less than this amount . |
| 18 | The teachers have given the parents their full backing . |
| 19 | Once he had withdrawn from the scene their natural antipathy to landlords re-asserted itself . |
| 20 | Fourth , they argued , Muslim and Croat forces would have moved into the areas their own forces had vacated . |
| 21 | Every day , she went to the Casa Guidi and collected any letters for the Brownings to redirect them to Rome but she no longer envied the recipients their voluminous correspondence . |
| 22 | Over the span of the years their young faces ( most of them were in their very early twenties ) , alert and clean-shaven in sharp contrast to the beards of the poilus and the fierce , straggly mustachios of their officers , seem to us like the faces of the future . |
| 23 | From being 10-6 down at the interval their pure brand of running rugby thrilled the crowd as the Souter backs blazed over for four thrilling tries and for a victory that appeared well beyond their reach at the half-way stage . |
| 24 | Later in the evening their horrified executioners had reported encountering them again , in serious disrepair , shambling in single file back through the forest towards their Rante . |
| 25 | A further deep Atlantic low gave the bulk of the population their wettest day of the month on the 23rd but , from the 25th to the 30th , the depressions became noticeably less intense . |
| 26 | There is no white balance setting which will resolve this colour conflict , and an alternative lighting solution has to be found to give the colours their proper values . |
| 27 | They were n't used , but one eventually blossomed into the TV hit series Widows , about four women who commit the robbery their late husbands had planned . |
| 28 | Throughout the match their numerous lbw and caught-behind appeals had been frenzied and desperate , their reactions to the refusal of all bar five of them being melodramatic in the extreme . |
| 29 | Each child provides a stimulus to the others , and gains from the place their own contributions play in the joint explanation . |
| 30 | In the long run the Nazis made the Danzigers their willing victims . |