Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [prep] their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nearest we can get to a guarantee of success in our moral choices is the cogency of the arguments that we bring to bear in their support coupled with the recognition that what we are almost invariably doing , as MacIver points out and thinkers like Sartre have laboured to establish , is continually deciding between possible alternatives . |
| 2 | Because that 's not something we want to go through their Conference Office for if we only want to do a meeting , |
| 3 | They do this by means of a beautiful display in which they appear to float across their territory showing off their enormous tails . |
| 4 | The ratchet is invariably geared to the rate of return which the investors expect to receive on their equity and that usually depends on the expected market capitalisation of the company . |
| 5 | If you want to participate in their fun a vintage bus service operates from Cholsey Station on the main line to Wallingford where steam Santa Specials are operating . |
| 6 | The advantage , however , of first letting them improvise more freely in small groups is that with careful monitoring you can see what 's interesting them , what they want to explore in their drama . |
| 7 | The sheer fact that they want to have a go , they want to improve ; they want to look at their work is a very good thing . |
| 8 | Labour-controlled Middlesbrough and Langbaurgh Councils expect to hear of their fate later this week . |
| 9 | If they want to cash in their plan , any units they 've got allocated to their fund , they get the bid price . |
| 10 | So if we 've er if we 've explored the needs satisfactorily there may be more than one need there may be a need for life insurance , pension planning , some form of PHI , maybe they want to save for their future or |
| 11 | Tail whisking is one of the movements which has taken on expressive value , becoming emancipated from its original function of removing flies : horses whisk their tails at anything they want to remove from their vicinity , such as other horses , inept grooms or riders , or even irritating conditions such as being confined or tied up . |
| 12 | The children decide what they want to achieve in their work . |
| 13 | At the moment they are prepared to work with the political parties in keeping up the momentum December generated , but it 's clear they intend to progress with their agenda whether or not the formal politicians continue to drag their feet . |
| 14 | They are the daily fare of our news bulletins , but we rarely stop to think about their relevance for our own state . |
| 15 | Players who slice the ball tend to win with their shoulders and players who hook the ball tend to win with their clubhead . |
| 16 | Several of the closed files on the BF seem to refer to their activity in Italy through their links with the International Centre of Fascist Studies , and the Foreign Office was aware that a British resident called Captain Strina was attempting to form a legion of the organization amongst expatriates in that country . |
| 17 | Airports attract hotels and businesses ; they employ large numbers of well-paid staff who like to live near their work . |
| 18 | Near the cities of New Zealand 's Mainland ( as the proud inhabitants of South Island like to refer to their part of the country ) you can enjoy your flying at Christchurch Airport with the Canterbury Aero Club , or not too far away at Ashburton , perhaps , piloting the Pipers of the Mid-Canterbury Aero Club . |
| 19 | Cunningly , the museum has narrowed the range of exhibits down to examples of design that are either quirky , avant-garde , or bourgeois pickings from the delightful realms of popular culture : all the things that the liberal design establishment like to have around their personage . |
| 20 | ‘ You can appreciate , Brother , how the sheep like to gossip about their shepherd . ’ |
| 21 | Moreover , doctors tend to practise in their home area or in the area of the medical school where they trained . |
| 22 | They are of more recent origin in statutory planning and , apart from a few basic considerations , tend to vary in their incidence in different districts . |
| 23 | Travellers back from Japan say that profound things are happening over there and that despite the buffeting the Japanese companies are taking from the recession they continue to invest in their Unix operations . |
| 24 | Dr John Apps and 18-year-old student Nick Scott are to spend 13 hours in temperatures of minus 23 degrees Centigrade to prepare for their trip in three weeks time . |
| 25 | If they start to fall beneath their percentile band then they are not growing or gaining weight at the expected rate and it is important to try to determine why this is happening . |
| 26 | However , structuralist Marxists fail to carry through their qualification of economic determinism . |
| 27 | ‘ My scenario is that falling house prices will drive up bad debts further , causing lenders to try and cut their costs as provisions start to eat into their capital bases , ’ says one former chief executive of a large mortgage lender . |
| 28 | The number of staff who choose to relocate with their firm depends , to a great extent , on how they are informed of the move and provided with information on the new location . |
| 29 | The Bishop thanked everyone for travelling all the way from St Columba 's on Walney Island , St Wilfrid 's , Preston and many other parishes on such an inhospitable day and reminded the packed Cathedral that ‘ They choose to throw in their lot with us , it 's as simple as that . |
| 30 | To the younger officers , Maxim 's presence proved that tomorrow would be The Day and — by reverse logic — that he must be a spy from Allied Command Europe come to report on their morale and even sobriety . |