Example sentences of "[to-vb] in their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Additional allowances that can be paid include a constant attendance allowance , exceptionally severe disablement allowance , and reduced earnings supplement , which is paid to those who are unable to work in their normal occupation as a result of industrial accident or disease , and can be claimed either in addition to or separate from disablement benefit , payable where appropriate . |
| 2 | Most of the uniforms and CID from all over the county are offering to work in their spare time . ’ |
| 3 | Popularly , it is attributed to social philanthropy , and to successful campaigns to relieve people from the need to work in their old age . |
| 4 | The programs are designed to enable students to work in their own time and at their own pace . |
| 5 | It was over 150 years ago that he saw the need for working men to have somewhere to meet in their spare time , to talk and relax . |
| 6 | I am pleased to see the porpoise , because they too have been affected by the general shortage of food recently , and have not been easy to find in their usual haunts . |
| 7 | If the Israeli ‘ extremists ’ are allowed to persist in their grand design , their Palestinian counterparts will eventually succeed in re-imposing their own , with the ‘ moderates ’ , including Arafat himself , reverting to the belief that Zionism remains the all-or-nothing , demoniac creed they used to say it was . |
| 8 | It has also produced very comprehensive guidelines about to appear in their third edition . |
| 9 | Goff and Reasons , after analysing the period 1952–72 , came to the same conclusion : ‘ the Combines Branch has centred its attentions upon the investigations , prosecutions , and conviction of small-medium-sized companies and corporations , leaving the very largest corporations free to engage in their monopolistic practices ’ ( 1978 : 86 ) . |
| 10 | Whereas in hierarchically structured societies consumption of the most sought after goods was restricted to a relatively small class , in more democratic ones the mass of the population , no longer confined to the vicarious enjoyment of precious substances , was free to engage in their active consumption , unimpeded by sumptuary regulation , social disapproval or economic disability . |
| 11 | This is what philosophers of religion have attempted to explore in their complex analyses of existence . |
| 12 | Law can not tell people how to behave in their own homes ; they will not obey ; such rules are unenforceable because the necessary information is unobtainable , unless you put ‘ a spy under the bed ’ . |
| 13 | The London Stock Exchange should require all UK registrants , as a continuing obligation of listing , to state in their annual report whether they comply with the code , and give reasons for any areas of non-compliance . |
| 14 | to serve in their local churches more effectively |
| 15 | We pride ourselves in being able to offer anyone and everyone the OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE in their chosen sport or leisure pursuit . |
| 16 | I believe that there are ways of getting local people to participate in their own ceasefire with some help from outside , but it should not need mass troop movements to do it . |
| 17 | Patients are therefore not able to participate in their own diagnosis and treatment , and a valuable source of information about their condition is lost . |
| 18 | U2 's Achtung Baby album won five trophies but they stayed home — preferring to celebrate in their favourite Dublin pub instead . |
| 19 | It is precisely because of this view that we discover the highest purpose of PATTERN PRACTICE : TO REDUCE TO HABIT WHAT RIGHTFULLY BELONGS TO HABIT IN THE NEW LANGUAGE , so that the mind and personality may be freed to dwell in their proper realm , that is on the meaning of the communication rather than the mechanics of grammar . |
| 20 | Marksmanship was relatively unaffected when the soldiers were allowed to shoot in their own time at a target , but when shooting was combined with a vigilance task ( with the target appearing briefly at unpredictable times ) , the number of hits was dramatically reduced . |
| 21 | Mankind ( me ) , he thought , mashing up the rest of the mattress because he was n't going to spend the night braced for a lot of bedsprings to bust in their own time , is idyllic in his intentions , tragic in his fate , and farcical in his functions . |
| 22 | Among the nine member countries in 1985 the British pension came second to last in what it enabled older people to buy in their own countries . |
| 23 | They ought to look in their own back yard first ! ! ! ! ! |
| 24 | I heaped much obscene verbal abuse on various owners to the extent that several begin to leash in their ugly mutts when they saw me coming . |
| 25 | If , as is all too common , Scots lawyers have to apply in their own system a document imperfectly adapted to their own familiar terms , such as is the RICS scale in this particular , it may be of some advantage to know what ‘ rent reserved ’ means , at least in the country in which it originated . |
| 26 | I am sure London Scottish and Irish will say they can not afford to play in their national competitions , but that should not make it England 's problem . |
| 27 | Most importantly , they fail to acknowledge the genuine lessons of Marx 's work , as , for example , reflected in Bourdieu 's Outline of a Theory of Practice ( 1977 ) , in which the significance of artefacts is seen to consist in their simultaneous operation in both the material and cognitive worlds , thereby exposing the artificiality of a dichotomous approach . |
| 28 | Objectives for Care outlines practical applications for nurses to use in their everyday working lives . |
| 29 | Perhaps my principal contribution was to have suggested the creation of rent officers and to have advised a formula for ‘ fair rents ’ which rent officers would be able to use in their day-to-day dealings with landlords and tenants . |
| 30 | The second course ( to be held in the second term ) will require students to present for discussion and peer criticism the theoretical , methodological and empirical bases which they intend to use in their chosen field of enquiry . |