Example sentences of "[vb base] to their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | This means that salad crops are excellent subjects for catch cropping in space that will later be taken up as the autumn and winter crops grow to their mature sizes . |
2 | Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland have their own HMIs , whose chief inspectors report to their respective education departments . |
3 | As the Doctor , Susan , Ian and Barbara emerge and enter the clearing the other three cameras shift to their second shooting spots . |
4 | I have contacted several franchised dealers with no luck , being told that Land Rover only supply to their own service personnel . |
5 | Polar communities of plants and animals testify to their own hardiness and adaptability , but also to positive advantages of polar living that ecologists from warmer climates tend to forget . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Why does not the Prime Minister arrange to meet pensioners ' representatives at No. 10 Downing street and listen to their powerful case on the matter ? |
8 | The session starts around 2pm when the old faithfuls sit back and wallow in nostalgia as they listen to their favourite bands and singers Chick Henderson is always high on the list of course or dance to the records , spinning at 78rpm . |
9 | Thus development communicators must become much more sensitive to women 's problems and listen to their own ideas of how to solve them . |
10 | Dr Kumar said : ‘ The Government 's health ministers should stop their knee jerk denials to criticism of their handling of the NHS and listen to their own health professionals . |
11 | To him , good families were not important , and young men never listen to their older brothers . |
12 | For ordinary people in undernourished Bucharest to regard the trinkets of capitalism as the symbols of liberty as well as the rewards of prosperity is understandable , but to have the wealth of twenty-three million Romanians to squander at one 's will and to choose to watch Kojak or to sit on the sort of lumpish gilt furniture that Western department stores export to their Arab allies would not have suited Caligula . |
13 | Royalists look to their exiled King Michael in Switzerland . |
14 | As individual cities look to their own government the mercantile Burgomeisters gain in power . |
15 | This exemplary piece of Roman military engineering , built over 1,800 years ago , still has many sections that stand to their original height . |
16 | The poor Christian settlers in the mountains view the Buid as standing in the same relationship to them as they stand to their own patrons . |
17 | While Graham Taylor 's loadsamoney outfit add to their lucrative market value by pulling on England shirts , half-a-dozen of the mountain men 's reward for tackling their Everest will be to actually find themselves out of pocket . |
18 | The proportion of metabolites of chenodeoxycholic acid and cholate was however higher in the cancer group , as reflected by lower ratios of chenodeoxycholic acid and cholate to their total derivatives ( Table IV ) . |
19 | Burton never — to my knowledge — spoke of the early mass of films he had seen with any of that significant affection other actors give to their earliest influences . |
20 | As we saw when considering the interactionist critique of positivism , there are two particularly important reasons for this : first , the processes of definition and application produce the data specifying the nature of , and the trends in , crime , and the characteristics of criminals that are subsequently used by criminologists to construct their theories and explanations ; second , these processes of definition and application have consequences for the meanings , implications and justifications that those ‘ labelled ’ by them give to their own actions . |
21 | Many businesses print or refer to their standard terms of trading on their invoices which are normally sent out after the contract has been performed — for instance by delivery of goods . |
22 | People like handsome Major David Waterhouse , newsagent chain heiress Kate Menzies and the Earl of Arundel cheerfully refer to their old friend as ‘ Duch ’ — a nickname from her pre-royal days . |
23 | That is the way of fools and failures who plunge to their own destruction because a part of them has despaired and wishes to die . |
24 | ( It should be mentioned that the use of certain creatures in the treatment of mentally disturbed patients bears witness to their therapeutic effectiveness . |
25 | Officials and administrators can not divest themselves of all ideological clothing in the advice which they tender to their political masters , or in the independent decisions which they are in a position to take . |
26 | Hospital administration can refuse patients access to their own money and this can cause immense damage to the patients ' dignity and self esteem . |
27 | But they were glad of the tyres on one stretch where four-wheeled vehicles had left tracks unconducive to their three wheels , leaving them travelling ‘ broadside but in control , ’ he insisted . |
28 | I have know such gloriously gentle Rotties , especially bitches , and your wonderful story proves that when they are in the right family , they blossom to their full potential . |
29 | Studies on floor disinfection have in any event shown that within hours and sometimes minutes , of disinfection , numbers of micro-organisms revert to their pre-treatment levels . |
30 | After the emotional upset of the church scene , with Claudio 's mistaken denunciation of Hero , and her apparent death , it does not surprise us that when Beatrice and Benedick are alone they revert to their natural medium of prose . |