Example sentences of "[coord] [det] [prep] their [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The most obvious definition for labouring poets is that it includes all those whose support normally depended on manual work , either their own or that of their families .
2 Or that of their families , their communities , and their friends ?
3 However , when it comes to the central problem faced by the Secretary of State and his colleagues — that of being re-elected — their only solution is to throw money at it , providing that it is not their money or that of their supporters but taxpayers ' money .
4 There is a lunatic fringe of schools that will do almost anything to gain publicity — the head in the stocks and throw the wet sponge for 10p brigade do little to enhance their personal status or that of their schools .
5 Sheila Kitzinger , anthropologist and authority on methods of natural childbirth , found on a field trip to the Caribbean that if she questioned women too strongly about the reasons why they did this or that with their babies , their easy confidence would suddenly start to crumble .
6 Have got today ( Monday 17th ) off ( yippee ! ) but have n't done much — slightly hungover from last night , I went to see Tex Mex with Ruth & Euan & some of their friends , the food was great , & so today had a long lie in then went to a few shops … which were n't open because it 's an Edinburgh holiday …
7 I had in mind the possibility of a UK registered Concorde crashing into the sea just outside the three mile limit of some State while making an approach to land there and possibly the Russians or some of their friends commencing to salvage it before we could do anything about it .
8 Is he aware that , due to his culpable negligence in sitting for 19 months on regulations under the Social Security Act 1990 , which would have protected pensioners in the event of a company wind-up , thousands of pensioners now stand to lose most or all of their pensions for which they have contributed for up to 35 years ?
9 Mothers on out-door relief were to be encouraged or forced by the threat of withdrawal of relief to send some or all of their children into the workhouse , so that the mothers could support themselves by work .
10 They vary in their estimates of how many patients might trace some or all of their symptoms to food , but most come up with a figure of 20–30 per cent .
11 ( 9 ) The directors of an offeror company and the target company must , in advising their respective shareholders , act in the interests of shareholders taken as a whole and the interests of employees and creditors and not have regard to their own interests or those of their families .
12 The worst affected trees were in the UK , where 57 per cent of trees had lost 25 per cent or more of their leaves , partly as a result of a series of dry summers ; the healthiest were in France and Spain , where only 10 per cent of trees suffered substantial leaf loss .
13 Their sportsmen like Johnny Miller or Billy Casper give 20 per cent or more of their earnings to the church .
14 Only 49 per cent of companies surveyed were paid by 75 per cent or more of their customers within the agreed credit period and 20 per cent said that half their customer were failing to pay on time .
15 However , 78 per cent of companies with turnovers of more than £500M are paid by 75 per cent or more of their customers within the agreed credit period .
16 The counsellor of older people may be bringing together several of these open family systems ; the system formed by the older person , and the systems formed by one or more of their children .
17 In the mid-1970s , only eight oil companies shared 30 per cent of the market , seven copper companies shared 25 per cent , six bauxite companies shared 58 per cent , seven iron ore companies shared 50 per cent , and a few tea , coffee , banana and tobacco companies shared 60 per cent or more of their markets ( see Dunning , 1981 , ch.1 ) .
18 However , in June , the majority of schools had 6% or more of their pupils as unauthorised absentees .
19 Once the offer period has commenced , dealings by the offeror or the target ( or any of their associates ) in the target 's securities and ( in the case of a securities exchange offer only ) the offeror 's securities must generally be disclosed by 12 noon on the business day following the dealing ; details of the prices paid for the securities must also be disclosed ( Rule 8 ) .
20 If at any time you should decide not to pursue your interest in [ name ] or upon request by [ selling agent ] or any one of the shareholders you will return promptly all material ( including any copies thereof ) received from [ selling agent ] or the shareholders , or any of their representatives .
21 Fewer than half of the undergraduates reported receiving reading lists from all or most of their lecturers .
22 Many animals , usually small animals , live all or most of their lives in one microhabitat .
23 Neither the Secretary of State , nor his minister of state , nor any of their officials , have the judges ' unique expertise in this respect .
24 None of their children , nor any of their ancestors , nor any parts of themselves , shall be hidden from them . ’
25 The teenager 's own responsibleness — and that of their friends — will have a bearing on your decision .
26 Under their stewardship and that of their descendants , development of the lead-bearing fields expanded until by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the pattern of lead-mining in the Dales had become established .
27 Whether these bourgeois tried to ape the life style of the aristocracy or , like class-conscious Krupp and his fellow-magnates of the Ruhr , built themselves castles and industrial-feudal empires parallel to and more impressive than those of the Junkers whose titles they refused , they had to spend , and in a manner which inevitably brought their life style closer to that of the unpuritan aristocracy , and that of their womenfolk even more so .
28 It is the occult theory that physical objects are imprinted with their own history , and that of their owners .
29 Certainly Freud thought , and I think most analysts also think , that there is no correlation necessarily between the severity of a person 's superego and that of their parents .
30 ‘ The Labour Party must produce policies which convince voters that their own prosperity depends on a government which takes active responsibility to promote a strong economy and that their own security — and that of their families — is best advanced by a government which works for the welfare of the whole community . ’
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