Example sentences of "[vb past] their [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Court dismissed their appeal at first instance but they appealed ( see MS Fashions Ltd and Others v Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA [ 1992 ] , The Times , 23 June ) . |
| 2 | Periodic evaluations of their physical and mental health , personalities , and intellectual achievements showed that they maintained their superiority in all of these domains , including a relative freedom from insanity and other indications of psychological maladjustment . |
| 3 | As late as the end of the nineteenth century in some Western European states local politics retained their dominance over central concerns , until markets , jobs , and communications like the railways became part of a national whole . |
| 4 | So we tried to look deeper , particularly for a way of applying our money where its unique lack of strings could help add most the eminent scientists on the Venture Research Advisory Council — the Chairman Sir James Menter , Sir Rex Richards , Sir Hans Kornberg and Professor John Cadogan — contributed their expertise to this slow painstaking process as did my colleagues in the Unit . |
| 5 | In one discussion staff described their use of three word processors , two spreadsheets , one database and no less than four graphics packages . |
| 6 | This book has concentrated on the political and social values of Africa today , and traced their evolution over more than a century . |
| 7 | Mr Pozsgay 's contribution was his support for ‘ populist ’ writers who drew their inspiration from rural Hungary and championed ‘ national values ’ . |
| 8 | The JIT approach developed by the Japanese also reinforced their concept of total quality control . |
| 9 | Once inside the hospital , prostitutes were subjected to a programme of physical and moral disciplining , which reinforced their distance from respectable women . |
| 10 | Tranmere Rovers .... 3 Leyton Orient ...... 0 TRANMERE ROVERS , who in recent years have survived a threat of extinction as well as only just preserving League membership , reinforced their position as Third Division leaders by overcoming Leyton Orient , thereby stretching the margin to four points . |
| 11 | J. C. D. Clark has asserted that government at St James 's and Westminster was conducted " in terms which usually owed relatively little to a sense of popular pressure or wide accountability " , and although he can not deny that the electorate was growing in the period c. 1680 – 1715 , he attributes this to the attempts by the party leaders to manipulate the potential electorate for their own purposes : " The parties , in other words , created their electorate in these years ( rather than vice versa ) " . |
| 12 | Coleridge and Sara fixed their wedding for early October , and in the meantime began looking for a home . |
| 13 | They eventually narrowed their focus to three subjects : submerged aquatic vegetation , such toxic substances as chemicals and herbicides , and the bay 's ever-fluctuating supply of nutrients , nitrogen and phosphorus in particular . |
| 14 | It is hardly surprising , therefore , that substantial vestiges of Nazarean thought found their way to this coast . |
| 15 | What I suggest to you is far more officers than the three you gave evidence of perhaps five or even the full six at some stage found their way into that master bedroom . |
| 16 | Unix extensions from Berkeley quickly found their way into mainstream Unix . |
| 17 | They found their way into all parts of Europe and all were trumpets of power . |
| 18 | Corporate approaches had their origins in business thinking in the United States of America , were implemented in large multinational corporations in the 1950s , and eventually found their way into public sector thinking in Britain in the late 1960s . |
| 19 | Alan included a high proportion of Innocent 's rulings ( 345 chapters out of 484 ) and 314 of his chapters found their way into later collections , being seen as important and useful . |
| 20 | People found their way round such systems by linking issues to file series based on subject , organisational provenance , or function — the Ministry of X 's file series about Y , the registered files of the Ministry of X 's Y Branch , or the Ministry of X 's files on its discharge of Act of Parliament Y. Since paper records were designed to fit into such registry systems , they carried pointers to their position within them ; file covers , file numbers , cross references to other files in the same series or related file series , and so on . |
| 21 | The diaries , memoirs , and letters that have survived from the post-Reformation period reveal that many Protestants found their trust in divine providence to be a source of great comfort and solace during times of public or private affliction . |
| 22 | Swindon finally found their touch after 70 minutes . |
| 23 | In fact , nearly half found their dependence on skilled labour had actually increased , suggesting that the ‘ deskilling ’ effect of new technology may have been exaggerated . |
| 24 | Sociologists concentrated their attention on complex industrial societies , and anthropologists continued to study simple societies . |
| 25 | Also , in terms of their aims and philosophy most US unions concentrated their attention on practical ‘ business unionism ’ improvements in the terms and conditions of employment which |
| 26 | Given the strong emphasis on children with special educational needs during the early days of PNP it was not surprising that many collaborations concentrated their attention on these children . |
| 27 | In 1893 they changed their name from Royal Arsenal to Woolwich Arsenal , adopted professional status and were elected to the Second Division . |
| 28 | But that single question , reminding them of who he was and what he represented , chilled the room and changed their mood from fascinated and horrified interest to a slightly embarrassed unease . |
| 29 | On 11 April both brothers changed their home to 336 , Stocksfield Road , Walthamstow , London , E.17 which was let to Webster by the plaintiffs . |
| 30 | The emphasis with the old , as with any other age-group , should be on prevention before the need for cure arises , and some elderly people suffer quite unnecessarily from the ‘ silent ’ types of illness which show no dramatic symptoms in their early stages ( such as anaemia ) , and which might well be diagnosed if they visited their doctor at six-monthly intervals when feeling at all ‘ off colour ’ . |