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

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1 COUNCILS have been accused of refusing to come to the rescue of hard-pressed small firms struggling to meet their Uniform Business Rate demands .
2 Adults are usually able to meet their own safety needs .
3 In the second week of the festival Radio 's 1,2,3,4 and 5 and BBC Radio Ulster will be inviting listeners to meet their favourite radio personalities , participate in programmes and be members of the audience during live shows from the ELMWOOD HALL and various other festival venues .
4 For FT-SE 100 futures , clearing house members can choose to meet their initial margin obligations by depositing UK Treasury bills or bank guarantees with the clearing house ( Bassett , 1987 ) .
5 NORWEGIAN international Tore Dahlum could be just the first addition to Manchester United 's staff as manager Alex Ferguson seeks a goalscoring hero to revive their Premier League title prospects .
6 THE US secretary of state , Warren Christopher , on his first foreign mission , arrived in the Middle East yesterday aiming to push Arabs and Israelis to revive their stalled peace talks .
7 MAKING money has suddenly become much more profitable as recently-created countries wanting to establish their newly-won independence start issuing their own currency .
8 The strength and breadth of these definitions and emphases were to prove encouraging to many institutions , and people in institutions , struggling to establish their own research policies and activities .
9 Prior to the meeting , the purchaser and MAS will need to establish their further information requirements distinguishing between that which will need to be investigated before more precise deal terms can be negotiated and that which will need to be seen before a deal can be completed .
10 Under the new captaincy of Ken Mentle , the club decided not to go all out for the title but simply to consolidate their Premier Division status .
11 In addition to securing Commonwealth support for their position , the British sought to consolidate their own aviation policy into some definable form , something which had eluded them for several years .
12 Again , few long-standing customers will surely want to compromise their future bargaining position by revealing to the court the true weight which they gave to the various considerations before them prior to the placing of interim contracts with the employer .
13 That way , people can really get to know their local police officers ;
14 The impression of IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and their ilk lining up like lambs to the slaughter may seem hard to credit for customers that have been driven to accept very hard bargains , but that is what appears to be happening with this Gadarene rush by the major manufacturers to get into the facilities management business in the US : we understand that many of the savings and loans , banks and securities houses that have gratefully accepted offers by the majors to run their data processing operations for them has little to do with saving money over the term of the contract , much to do with their urgent need for cash upfront to repair their ravaged balance sheets — the key attraction of the deals being the money paid at the start of the contract for the data processing facilities ; if the customers are in that much need of cash , chances are that many of them wo n't be around in five or seven years ' time , so that having spent good money for computers they do n't need , the facilities managers will be left with idle installations and contracts with no residual value .
15 This would surely encourage golfers to repair their own pitch marks and those left by others .
16 Both Arsenal and Forest would struggle to match even half the wages he is earning in Italy and would be reluctant to smash their rigid pay structures .
17 Sleight apologised for this state of affairs at the Congress in Dublin in 1895 : " It must be remembered that it is exceedingly difficult for the executive committee to meet together often , for every time they do so they have to bear their own travelling expenses , and sometimes hotel expenses ; and to whatever centre they are summoned , it only means that some members of the committee have to travel a considerable distance .
18 Dried fruit , such as sultanas , and finely grated hard cheese can save these birds at a time when they are unable to find their usual insect food .
19 Because er , inevitably man has got ta leave their home , even if they 've had a father erm who 's been a if they 've had no father at all , they 're gon na leave and they 're gon na face a world where they have to be a man and they 're gon na have to find their own male morals , and I think the , the responsibility , basically , has got ta come to men to change not for us to change them .
20 The papers received their photo of the band with Best but also scurried to their files to find their own action shots .
21 It was decided in 1983 that students would in future be required to provide their own bed linen and towels .
22 Such contracts enable the latter to adjust their seasonal labour force downwards to cope with any less busy periods within the summer season and , more important , to run their labour forces down gradually as the season draws to an end and the number of guests tails off .
23 Purchasers of health care have tried to adjust their expected intervention rates to allow for activity in the private sector , but the calculations have been extremely crude because local data have not been available .
24 Since 1976 , in Britain at least , anyone of eighteen or over has been allowed by law to go to the General Register Office , the local Social Services or the appropriate adoption agency to obtain their original birth certificate .
25 Alexander McKay had a satisfactory year in a more difficult market and continued to work hard to increase their offshore market penetration .
26 But with electricity prices expected to increase 50 per cent by 2010 , the extra cost of power should , in itself , lead consumers to increase their own energy efficiency .
27 An obvious starting point is to increase their wafer-thin capital requirements .
28 Within such a discourse national intellectuals need not see themselves as attempting to impose their own culture orientations upon a majority population .
29 There were a couple of invoices for fabric , a request from a boutique in Bridgetown to stage a fashion show at the hotel , and an invitation from Martin Ward and his business partner , Bobby Stoute , to a cocktail party to launch their new sports superstore in Christchurch .
30 If it wins , other non-banks , such as General Motors ' finance arm and the Bell telephone companies , are likely to launch their own Visa cards .
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