Example sentences of "[subord] their [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The person or the animal is just not there any more , although their tissues for the time being may not be biochemically different . |
| 2 | The insensitivity of the Benthamites , who promoted the Act , lay in their refusal to see how bitterly the poor would resent becoming the designated victims of the Act , as if their love for the dead were in some way inferior to that of ‘ their betters ’ . |
| 3 | Moreover , they will have to depend on a national institutional environment if their strategy for the organization is to succeed . |
| 4 | They had threatened to blow up the plane unless their demands for the release of political prisoners were met , but the deadline of 6pm passed without incident . |
| 5 | They renounced the women as sexual objects , even though their desires for the women had been the original motive for killing the father . |
| 6 | The former defence procurement minister , Alan Clark , 64 , has confirmed that Newbury conservatives have rejected him as their candidate for the forthcoming by-election caused by the sudden death last month of the sitting MP , Judith Chaplin . |
| 7 | The race is also being used by Poland , Mexico , Norway and Denmark as their trials for the Olympic Games and though the field is not so strong at the front , it looks to be a proving ground for the visitors , in an effort to beat times already set by their countrymen to enable them to go to Barcelona . |
| 8 | As their fascination for the appalling , arbitrary and marred has got more religious , so their sound has begun its ascent into the cosmos . |
| 9 | For James , the game was the invention of ‘ the whole body of the people ’ who , following the disappearance of Carnival from Europe , wanted organised sports because these were ‘ … institutions that they helped to found and continue , as surely as their working-class struggles led to the formation of trade unions , as their struggles for the right to vote had also led to the founding of modern mass-political parties , to the grounding of the concept of democracy ’ . |
| 10 | They were as keen as their backbenchers for the nationalized industries to be efficient and cost effective . |