Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Papworth , for example , remarks that their genuine adornments are neatness and cleanliness , for these suggest industry and cheerfulness , whereas ‘ the broken casement , the patched wall , the sunken roof , the hatch unhinged , the withered shrub , are corresponding testimonies of the husbandman 's relaxed energies and broken spirit ’ . |
| 2 | Kermode recalls the seminars as occasions of good humour and tolerance , despite sharp intellectual disagreements , and he laments that their humane spirit did not survive later events . |
| 3 | Making the characteristic impedances of the constant-k and m-derived filter sections identical also ensures that their critical frequencies are the same . |
| 4 | Scattered experts will contribute to complex team interfaces , but only if frequent pruning ensures that their scarce time is n't wasted on needless meetings . |
| 5 | Talking to them one often finds that their main priority is the adults in their lives . |
| 6 | Having listened to Government spokesmen , it appears that their political objections are twofold . |
| 7 | In spite of many attempts to extend the use of hormones to the treatment of other cancers , it appears that their important effects are on the organs which they normally control . |
| 8 | Dissident Tory MPs ’ hopes that their 57-60 votes against the Prime Minister in Tuesday 's leadership election would prompt her to trim her Euro-sails are unlikely to materialise quickly , if at all . |
| 9 | What is more disturbing for small firms is the propensity of large companies to increase the length of credit notes when their own liquidity is tight , thereby transferring part of their financial burden onto suppliers . |
| 10 | One survey indicates that their average age was over 55 ; they had a strong leisure orientation , and had few plans to expand their businesses ( Perry 1982 ) . |
| 11 | Even within state bodies , the development of internal markets , as in the National Health Service , means that their various sections seek to sell services to each other . |
| 12 | This means that their own consent is not required , thus making their involuntary sterilisation perfectly legal in South Africa . |
| 13 | A company statement that these might shut down plants implies that their polluting operations would otherwise continue . |
| 14 | Moreover , the success of these pre-Hispanic cultures implies that their food-producing systems were effective . |
| 15 | This implies that their organizational strategy commences by considering the needs and wants of the customers . |
| 16 | The little blue handbook given to newly-appointed lieutenants explains that their prime responsibility is to ‘ uphold the dignity of the Crown ’ . |
| 17 | Implicitly , they have accepted many of the criticisms made for more than a decade by Labour councils and civil libertarians : that a force which has dug itself in behind ramparts of elitist isolationism must begin to respond to demands of the public it serves and their political representatives . |
| 18 | When other meat is scarce they are not above eating carrion in an advanced state of decomposition , which suggests that their olfactory system is not particularly sensitive . |
| 19 | He could say that when explicit convention runs out , people have a moral right to what law as integrity claims as their legal rights . |