Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is fat chance of that for as long as the Government allows the banks to carry on with their grasping one-way policy . |
| 2 | ‘ The whole set up is there and yet the other parties want to carry on with their wasteful plans . ’ |
| 3 | Governors should recognise their power to co-opt on to their working groups , in a non-voting capacity , any member of the local community who could offer specific expertise and skills which they may be lacking . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not my intention to stay cooped up in here , waiting for them to go on with their little games . ’ |
| 5 | They had been briefed to report in on their mobile telephone at certain checkpoints en route , and to inform the Ops Room of any suspicious incidents , but their main task was to stop and talk to locals , in order to make their presence known in as friendly a way as possible . |
| 6 | In one group of eight , half chose to go in for their first farrowing ; the second time they farrowed , all eight went in . |
| 7 | It has been designed to be of value and interest to all grades of nurses who may wish to work through for their own interest and professional development . |
| 8 | But it would be an even bigger surprise if Bulls were to slip up in their final game against Dunfermline Barr Electrics . |
| 9 | ‘ The clothes were fit to stand up on their own , they were that stiff with dust and grease . |
| 10 | Women can form a communal bond quickly , but may be reluctant to stand up for their personal views . |
| 11 | At least education has given people confidence to stand up for their own rights ’ . |
| 12 | Every social worker has a responsibility to stand up for their own profession , to accept criticism humbly when it is due , and to explain why things are done in certain ways . |
| 13 | At the age of 20 , Gedge was willing to placate his parents by taking on such a squalid job , but just a few years later , he was more than prepared to stand up to their well-intentioned pressure . |
| 14 | Our large corporate donors are unable to come up with their usual contributions . |
| 15 | It may happen when parents have indoctrinated their children , that is , laid down a set of beliefs without allowing the children freedom to think for themselves and to come up with their own reactions . |
| 16 | European manufacturers are afraid of getting left behind if the emerging handheld personal communicators generate a sudden rush of consumer excitement , and rather than wait for their labs to come up with their own local products , are weighing putting their names on one of the American products and manufacturing it locally . |
| 17 | DEC says it has no plans to licence its SVR4 work to other OSF/1 probables like Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp , fully expecting them to come up with their own solutions in this area . |
| 18 | The suggestion was made that there should be community discussions with LEDU , that West Belfast people , in the absence of ideas from the IDB , are going to have to come up with their own ideas and develop them in conjunction with the universities , industrialists , and so on . |
| 19 | Most of the third-year students had been back for a month already , desperately trying to catch up with their second-year work . |
| 20 | But so few local breeds had undergone any kind of specialized breeding to improve the stock , and the Western animals had to attempt to catch up with their long-established and highly pampered Oriental counterparts . |
| 21 | Worst of all , they liked to swell back to their original dimensions in water and this swelling was generally unpredictable and irreversible . |
| 22 | A statement such as ‘ That makes me feel very angry/unhappy/sad/upset when you do that ’ rather than immediately shouting at the child enables parents to stand back from their immediate emotional reactions and also teach the child awareness of other people 's feelings . |
| 23 | ‘ Few human geographers seem willing to come out of their national shells and take the wider view which would enable them to understand what is going on within their own countries ’ ( Thrift , 1986 , 62 ) . |
| 24 | In the modern industrial world , more and more people are feeling a need to find out about their immediate and distant past , and this is likely to increase in the future . |
| 25 | However , they agreed to come back for their next session , in which Tom said , ‘ We have thought about what you said last week , and neither of us likes the idea of having ‘ tartiness ’ in our relationship , as you put it . |
| 26 | Unemployment may mean that people have more leisure time available but lack of money restricts the kind of activities they are able to participate in during their spare time . |
| 27 | Lizards have a similar opening , between the nostrils and the eyes , for a gland that apparently helps get rid of excess salts which they tend to pick up from their dry and salty environments . |
| 28 | Training : Tax relief will be given to employers helping employees leaving their company to set up on their own . |
| 29 | The fourth phase of the development of headhunting may be identified as the splintering of individual consultants from existing firms , to set up on their own , such as Haley from Ward Howell and Egon Zehnder from Spencer Stuart , both in 1964 . |
| 30 | Ligachev argued that collective and state farms were still the backbone of the system and that most peasants did not want to leave them to set up on their own . |