Example sentences of "[det] [subord] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although his two sons had hated each other , they would not have dared move openly against one another while their powerful father was still alive . |
| 2 | Judges themselves claim this as their great virtue and only occasionally is it seen to be departed from . |
| 3 | There were substantial differences between men and women , with four in ten of the former giving this as their principal reason and only 16 per cent claiming they did not want a permanent job . |
| 4 | Four University , four College , and three Polytechnic courses in this category were described , involving 26 staff , only three of whom were not doing this as their main concern , and all of whom had appropriate degree qualifications . |
| 5 | To be successful , future education for headship will need to pay greater attention to the prime importance of the development and growth of heads as persons ; it must therefore embrace consideration of their values and assumptions , their feelings and their intentions , and their relationships with others as much as their professional knowledge and teaching skills . |
| 6 | For the common people , as much as their political representatives , it was also the ultimate affirmation of the rightness of the American way , of the moral ascendancy of the United States . |
| 7 | Newspapers are peculiar products in as much as their first copy costs — the cost of producing the issue irrespective of the size of the print run — are so high . |
| 8 | They 're part of a European team working on a nuclear fusion project , but claim they 're paid only half as much as their continental colleagues . |
| 9 | But they 're paid half as much as their continental colleagues for doing exactly the same job . |
| 10 | Members appeared to value their role as representatives of the community at large , just as much as their narrower role as parent or staff representative , or as a co-opted member serving a limited group of interests . |
| 11 | It is this as much as their stubborn stupidity and iron-hard muscle which makes Trolls very hard to fight . |
| 12 | If the Spanish youngsters enjoy the adventure playground as much as their English counterparts , there should be no problem . |
| 13 | To summarize , for a well flagged group of patients , with small solitary non-invasive transition cell carcinomas at d at diagnosis , and negative three month cystoscopy , we found eighty percent of our patients would certainly have come to no harm at all if their second cystoscopy had been one year from diagnosis . |
| 14 | There might have been twenty or thirty figures in there , but it was too dark to distinguish anything more than their vague shapes . |
| 15 | The emphasis rhythm , inflection , tone of voice and above all the natural pauses convey more than their factual meaning . |
| 16 | Hormonal secretions here reach a maximum , and her breasts , already made firmer by the growing excitement , now reach anything up to 25 per cent more than their normal size . |
| 17 | Sailors were not expected to undertake more than their normal duties on board ship ; should they , however , be injured as a consequence of " warlike operations " , they would be entitled to a pension or gratuity , and should they lose their lives , dependent relatives would be granted compensation . |
| 18 | Sunderland , at least , earned their place in the final with a conventional semi-final win , which is more than their victorious rivals could say . |
| 19 | Arguments then ensued as to who allowed other speakers to continue for more than their allotted time . |
| 20 | Thus Norway sent two-thirds of its population increase to the United States , surpassed only by the unfortunate Irish who sent more than their entire increase abroad : the country lost population consistently in every decade after the Great Famine of 1846–7 . |
| 21 | The risk for the vendor of assets is the possibility of balancing charges if the assets are sold for more than their written-down value . |
| 22 | Leaders of the military establishment do not , any more than their civilian colleagues , define their economy by its defects . |
| 23 | His early defence of Shelley and Milton against T. S. Eliot 's attacks had been a paradoxical defence of their classicism of style ; his influential essay on metre a defence of using classical terms to describe English poetry ; and his finest work of literary history , awkwardly entitled ( as part of a series ) English Literature in the Sixteenth Century excluding Drama ( 1954 ) , extolled the ‘ golden ’ voice of Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser , as opposed to ‘ drab ’ , in a critical climate in which Metaphysicals like Donne and Herbert counted for more than their courtly forerunners among the Elizabethans . |
| 24 | And that something is nothing more than their inward consciousness , heavily hemmed in by their subtle and instinctive mental processes . |
| 25 | In the process earlier holistic concepts of healing associated with women healers were eclipsed by an atomistic approach which reduced patients to no more than their dysfunctioning parts . |
| 26 | They are paid fifteen percent more than their British collegues working at nearby laboratiies . |
| 27 | German managers ‘ talk products ’ and manufacturing more than their British colleagues do , and this applies to German managers generally , not just those associated with design and product development . |
| 28 | But were creatures nothing more than their physical overcoats , why should they not be docile vegetarians in one stage and voracious prey-catchers in another ? |
| 29 | As they sat at breakfast , eating a meal hearty even by North Country standards , both of them chewed over more than their fried goodies . |
| 30 | European directives on acquired rights and the transfer of undertakings regulations have given public service shop stewards their first glimmer of light over C C T which they fought for a decade with little more than their own bluff and courage . |