Example sentences of "[adv] to their [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gossels admits tensions rise because people resist change , especially to their own work . |
| 2 | After the Lateran Council all men over fifteen and women over twelve were to confess annually to their own priest ( permission was needed for confession to another ) and were to take communion each Easter . |
| 3 | Meanwhile I continued the strategy I had been following for the previous two terms : feigning compliance with the authorities and responding co-operatively to their apparent concern , while continuing to eat minimally and to purge in secret . |
| 4 | Using local sources in this way the history teacher was able to relate the particular history topic to the pupils ' own locality and so to their own experience . |
| 5 | The basic similarity between cells refers not only to their general plan but also to their genetic endowment . |
| 6 | To take an obvious example , if banks lend only to their current account customers , then non-customers ( tending to be demographically distinct from customers in various ways ) will have to use other credit sources . |
| 7 | If the citizens of Sheffield needed to go to Walsall , I am sure that they would do so , but they need look only to their own trust to see the remarkable progress already made . |
| 8 | Why should those who come to the Park for enjoyment and healthy exercise — walking , cycling , jogging etc — have to put up with the danger , the noise , and the pollution created by those who are looking only to their own convenience ? |
| 9 | How many had been beggared while the war between the royal cousins had swept across their fields or through their towns , while the barons who should have protected them looked only to their own gain , shifting loyalties so often that the ordinary common man found himself constantly besieged and attacked by both sides ? |
| 10 | Dedicated souls have , in the last few years , congregated at the Mile End wall in east London — a trip that takes your correspondent half an hour ; a length of time that sees most Sheffielders halfway to their first route at Stanage . |
| 11 | Victory , perhaps to their own surprise , now seemed almost within the invaders ' grasp but at a Council of War , held at the prince 's headquarters in Exeter House , Derby , on the morning of Thursday 5 December , Lord George Murray , whose tactics so far had been masterly , astounded his fellow-commanders by remarking that ‘ the first thing to be spoken of was how far it was prudent to advance further ’ . |
| 12 | She then said that when there was a lot of Polish people in the school , they never practised any of their culture here , they went away to their own community . |
| 13 | Run by the owner , Signor Scalambrin , and his wife this hotel sees its guests return year after year thanks largely to their warm welcome and efficient staff . |
| 14 | Sally 's pictures have this effect on many people , due largely to their refreshing quality . |
| 15 | Osborne ( 1977 ) considered the development of an elongated shell form in N. lapillus enclaves close to their southern limit in Massachusetts as an adaptation to resist desiccation . |
| 16 | In addition , they experienced a school atmosphere close to their expressed ideal . |
| 17 | Some children will be reading about something close to their own experience , close to their own emotional world . |
| 18 | Larsen licked dry lips and nodded , his eyes returning quickly to their constant sweep of the outer darkness and the encircling black treeline , searching for movement … for sign of the dogs . |
| 19 | This will include a workable appeal system for applicants under which those with manifestly unfounded claims will be returned quickly to their own country or to the country they came from . |
| 20 | Affected troops are swept up upon a heaving bridge of ice and carried rapidly to their new location . |
| 21 | Expectations of the price level will fall only gradually to their new equilibrium level , and while they do so output will remain below its natural level . |
| 22 | CANADA 'S ruling Conservatives said goodbye yesterday to their outgoing leader Prime Minister Brian Mulroney with a glitzy , Hollywood-style tribute in an ice hockey arena . |
| 23 | In reaction to his family , and possibly to their Jewish background , he sought an escape into social life and literary interests , his sensitivity to his first Christian name leading him later to displace it into Alroy , the name of a character in a novel by Benjamin Disraeli . |
| 24 | Got to get home to their old man , I daresay . |
| 25 | A glance at the careers of nine of the ten Muftis who held the office between 988/1580 and 1031/1622 and whose teaching careers fall in the latter half of the sixteenth century , after the building of the Suleymaniye medreses , will give an idea of the teaching background apparently considered essential to give one a chance of eventual appointment to what had by then become the highest learned office : all nine men taught at the Sahn and subsequently at one of the 60-akce medreses built prior to the building of the Suleymaniye medreses , for example , the Sehzade medrese ; two of the nine then went directly to their first mevleviyet ( early on in the period , in 1566 and 1573 ) , while six taught at one of the Suleymaniye medreses and one at the medrese of the mother of Murad III in Uskudar ( the Atik Valide medrese ) , newer than Suleyman 's medreses , before being appointed to their first mevleviyet . |
| 26 | She was devoted to her husband , and also to their young son , Robert , a boy of six years . |
| 27 | The basic similarity between cells refers not only to their general plan but also to their genetic endowment . |
| 28 | These phonemic transcriptions were then converted automatically to their corresponding mid-class representations . |
| 29 | Prior to that date , however , some of the greater landowners , as lords of regality , maintained private courts which gave them opportunities to attract lawyer-freeholders to their service and hence to their political interest . |
| 30 | Their efficacy is due partly to their inhibitory effect on cutaneous propionibacteria — the micro-organisms implicated in the pathogenesis of the disease . |