Example sentences of "[to-vb] their [noun] of the " in BNC.

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1 Despite the fact that the museums in the former USSR were unable to meet their share of the costs after August 1991 , the exhibition has gone ahead with the support of the Kunsthaus in Zurich , in particular its director Felix Baumann , and with most of the financial risk underwritten by George Ortiz himself .
2 A few months later , in January 1988 , David Marquand wrote in a newspaper article that ‘ An active state needs active citizens , willing to accept their share of the obligations its activities imply …
3 We want to know their opinion of the band so that if we sign the group , we hope everyone in the company will like the artist 's work and try to promote it as well as possible .
4 The SJP lads had to rely on a topsy-turvy 6–21 , 21–8 , 22–20 victory for league stalwart John Wickers over Peter Hance to secure their share of the points from the last game of the evening .
5 TEENAGERS are having to bear their share of the slump through pocket-money cuts .
6 It can be seen straight away that the Faculty has an enormous task merely trying to help members keep up-to-date with all these changes , to help them interpret some of the more obscure elements and , wherever possible , to pool their combined knowledge to match the tax authorities ' ability to pool their knowledge of the activities of taxpayers and their advisers .
7 This general principle finds its natural realization in the fascinating diversity of adaptations by which the males of different species seek to increase their share of the mating .
8 Speaking at a meeting of Northern Conservative candidates at the weekend , the Schools minister said Tories should also hope to increase their share of the vote in Durham City , Hartlepool and Bishop Auckland .
9 Human minds , they say , have a long-term aim : to increase their knowledge of the world .
10 To enable pupils to identify with situations , beliefs and experiences of people in the past and to increase their awareness of the influences which have shaped attitudes in the past .
11 This is designed for students who have experience of employment in the fields of social and public policy and wish to increase their understanding of the policy process .
12 Perhaps few of the inhabitants went quite so far as the parents of Fly-Fornication Richardson of Waldron or Small-hope Biggs of Rye in their statements of religious principle , but a dominant number of the eastern rural and urban elite found their religious and political sympathies increasingly divorced from the fumbling attempts of the Stuarts to impose their image of the monarchy .
13 To signify their renunciation of the world and all its vanities .
14 Thereafter the Ragusans began to lose their control of the carrying trade to British , French and Dutch merchantmen .
15 The institutions are required to monitor their use of the access funds and the Secretary of State for Education and Science has undertaken to review the operation of the funds in due course .
16 The Communists , in contrast , are likely to see their share of the vote fall from the 11 per cent they won in the last general election to around 8-9 per cent .
17 It is often the case that the plaintiff will have made a complaint or comment which may serve to corroborate their version of the accident later .
18 Such awareness of writing in any form can help pupils to understand some of the functions of written language and should be used to promote their understanding of the functions of the English writing system . ( iv ) Pupils should see adults writing .
19 Ensuring to all an equal ability to realize their conception of the good is more likely to require acting in a non-neutral way , acting to improve the ability of some at the expense of others .
20 Discrimination between individuals consists in making it easier for some than for others to realize their ideals of the good .
21 If any of the present owners wish to sell their share of the converted building , the remaining directors must approve the new purchaser , but otherwise the dwellings can be sold in the normal way .
22 Furthermore , the above analysis may be justifiably criticised on the grounds that it compares two surveys which employed different agencies to reach their estimates of the prevalence of known opioid use .
23 They based their studies on the coal mines where , owing to increased mechanisation , the miners were merged into larger and larger groups , found it difficult to identify their share of the work within the enlarged groups and suffered low morale : productivity was falling .
24 Those handling the interviews did not have the chance to discuss their observations of the candidates till later that day .
25 In the autumn of 1985 a fierce battle emerged between United Kingdom holiday firms in an effort to enhance their share of the 1986 summer holiday market .
26 TODAY sent HELEN RENSHAW to hear their side of the story .
27 The SY course gives pupils the opportunity to broaden their experience of the subject both with regard to chemical theory and practical expertise .
28 The agreement will also result in employers working more closely than before with students and teachers in schools and colleges , to broaden their understanding of the world of work .
29 The agreement will also result in employers working more closely than before with students and teachers in schools and colleges , to broaden their understanding of the world of work .
30 The agreement will also result in employers working more closely than before with students and teachers in schools and colleges , to broaden their understanding of the world of work .
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