Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] their [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pelagic habit and a delicate , gelatinous body account for their poor fossil record . |
| 2 | Since , women 's break in labour-market experience constitutes only a small part of their life-spans , other factors must help account for their disadvantaged position . |
| 3 | The changes in the ways in which these national economies are regulated account for their historical development . |
| 4 | Multiple residential schemes work well only when they involve a total plan for the grounds and setting of a house , and provide for their continued upkeep . |
| 5 | He also accuses Munroists of having a ‘ blinkered attitude ’ to their surroundings as they head for their chosen objective . |
| 6 | New patients ' NHS notes are essential for general practitioners : they contain specific details of past treatment and confirm what the patients say about their current treatment . |
| 7 | As they grow into their compact form , their beautifully regular , heart-shaped leaves hang down from a tangle of branches to give glorious dappled shade from the hottest summer sun . |
| 8 | AS THE political parties ' election campaigns grind into their final week , many peoples ' thoughts are turning to Easter holidays and plans to get away from it all-assuming they can still afford it , that is . |
| 9 | Contemporary computer graphics and virtual environments ( such as the NASA mask-and-glove system ) disappoint with their slavish maintenance of monocular perspective . |
| 10 | Bell noted : ‘ We faced the same quandary clubs rapidly going through divisions encounter with their XV-a-side fixture list . |
| 11 | This ensures that issue numbers appear in their correct order when listed numerically . |
| 12 | The names which appear in their combined working lives range from Vince Hill and Kenneth McKellar to Bo Diddley and Gary Glitter . |
| 13 | The laws of Hlothhere and Eadric appear in their extant version as a single code issued jointly by Hlothhere and Eadric as kings of Kent , but they may represent a conflation of two originally separate sets of laws or even a confirmation by Eadric of the dooms of his uncle . |
| 14 | What commentators often forget in their Romantic imagery of ‘ traditional ’ society is the very heavy burden of strong personal and specific obligations . |
| 15 | Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland have their own HMIs , whose chief inspectors report to their respective education departments . |
| 16 | Work has also been done with English and communications skills staff who have been offered separate introductory courses which build on their existing expertise in language analysis . |
| 17 | May I just say that the majority of people will care for their animals but it is those people who buy , we have s er cases where erm people will turn up on Christmas day and say to their elderly relative , We bought you a puppy . |
| 18 | No matter how much they eat of their current food , they just ca n't get enough energy from it . |
| 19 | The attitudes that children develop towards their primary school last a lifetime . |
| 20 | Competing for the record are and , who have also chosen anti-fouling from International 's VC Systems range for their UK-based catamaran Enza . |
| 21 | Wait for their inner voice and know that you will meet again someday . |
| 22 | The elderly people in my constituency worry about their financial predicament . |
| 23 | The fact that some sufferers die of their addictive disease regardless of their awareness of the Anonymous Fellowships is not an argument in favour of the use of other methods of treatment which were manifestly of no help to those who did recover and which can be observed to be of no help to those who still suffer . |
| 24 | I have never experienced an aggressive or bullying rasbora of any species , and they mix well in the peaceful community aquarium , swimming alongside companions from the other side of the world as easily as they integrate with their natural South East Asian cohabitants . |
| 25 | Outside the venue , the Inspirals climb into their cramped tour van and head back to the hotel exuding quiet satisfaction . |
| 26 | So how do buyers ensure that they will not , as they walk into their new home , be saddled with an unwanted bedfellow ( to mix a couple of metaphors ) ? |
| 27 | Beside the chuffing narrow gauge train , travel-weary ‘ Gumpets ’ wait with their titchy acorn prams and seed-case luggage . |
| 28 | People who are members of religious communities who do not have any income of their own , and who depend upon their religious community for their livelihood . |
| 29 | And because they , too , are prisoners they detest the convicts , and their children ape their elders and shout ‘ Fascists ! ’ as the zeks walk in their guarded column between the Zone and the Factory . |
| 30 | This net income represents the profits , fees and commissions that UK-based banks , finance houses , insurance companies and related activities receive from their international business . |