Example sentences of "[adv prt] of their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1990s there was only the hope that her fires , so vigorously stoked up by the dispossessed , would begin to burn down of their own accord . |
| 2 | The fire brigade declined to shed light on the matter , however , claiming that moggies always came down of their own accord . |
| 3 | The rabbits mostly came in of their own accord . |
| 4 | The arrival of a female at the lek drives the males into a frenzy of display , with much showing off of their remarkable crests . |
| 5 | Er , I agree with them that the elderly do have a bad deal , but if e , if somebody 's got to take money off well surely sho , the government should be taking a cut ten to twenty percent off of their damned wages ! |
| 6 | And the birds turned up of their own volition ? |
| 7 | A notorious critic of Hollywood , he justified taking the job by declaring he would break the stranglehold of the agents , who tied the studios up with pre-wrapped packages made up of their own clients : stars , writers and directors . |
| 8 | But the Gunners could be out of their first competition by tomorrow . |
| 9 | A new hospital ward for children opens tomorrow which it 's hoped will help take the fear and pain out of their first hospital experience . |
| 10 | The H3 building had been put up hastily in the early 1950s to get the scientists out of their first accommodation that had been little more than Nissen huts . |
| 11 | Perhaps they knew , as Thorfinn did , that the Pope was learning Greek , there in his imprisonment in Benevento , so that he could the better engage the help of the Eastern Emperor to throw the Normans out of their new lands in Italy . |
| 12 | Women from along the street came out of their front doors too . |
| 13 | There are no cars in Venice — you 'll often see the locals coming out of their front doors and leaping into the boats tied up outside — and everything must be delivered by water . |
| 14 | He predicts that intense X-rays will destroy hazardous organic wastes without ever having to take them out of their 55 gallon drums — a much safer and cleaner operation than most clean-up techniques . |
| 15 | The Parkins had migrated from Dublin when Bernard was eight , young enough to take advantage of an educational system which allowed bright children to climb up and out of their allotted place in society . |
| 16 | And if all else failed it would probably be an effective , if unsubtle way of letting his wife know that something rather more serious than Marriage Guidance was required to get them out of their marital difficulties . |
| 17 | Such clusters will provide support for teachers and for pupils and will create economies of scale which will allow schools to provide extra resources which they would find it difficult to fund out of their individual budget . |
| 18 | Having survived the opening 20 minutes , ‘ Mill began to break out of their defensive shell and find space behind the Hammer defence . |
| 19 | Leeds broke out of their defensive cocoon midway through the first half for Jones to win the match by meeting Mike Whitlow 's centre from the left at the near post and flicking it across Phil Parkes into the opposite corner . |
| 20 | Taken out of their non-violent society and ordered to kill , they seem to have been swept up in a sort of insanity which they call ‘ blood drunkenness ’ … |
| 21 | In contrast , in the European-style cities of east and central Africa such as Nairobi , Lusaka and Harare , the informals have frequently been hounded out of their preferred locations . |
| 22 | Italian and other styles were ripped out of their European context when , during the 1980s , it became permissible for young people in Britain , and most significantly young men , to be interested in fashion on a scale undreamed of in the 60s and the 70s . |
| 23 | A high powered Sierra was careering down a steep hill in Wotton under Edge.When the driver reached the bottom he lost control and ploughed into the women who 'd just got out of their parked cars . |
| 24 | It seems ironic that where , in the eighteenth century , novelists and architects alike look out of their elegant windows on to the cottages of the poor as pleasing little features in the landscape , the Victorians , for whom the dwellings of the middle class tended increasingly to set the standard , should view the great house itself from that perspective — from the outside , as the focus for a landscape , much as the eighteenth-century painters had done ( Fig. 24 ) . |
| 25 | In the year 1990–91 , Innovation 's Franklin business was worth £1.2 million out of their total turnover of £4 million and since taking on the distributorship in 1987 they claim to have sold close to 300,000 units of Franklin product . |
| 26 | The practice of providing secondments to education and business is unique in education business liaison because it requires participants to transcend the barriers of classroom or workplace to break out of their normal work pattern behaviour and to learn by direct experience from others ' work settings . |
| 27 | The aim is to gather material on everyday activities ( at home , in churches and graveyards ) but also on the more exceptional activities which take women out of their normal routines and maybe away from their communities ( ie pilgrimages and forms of the religious life ) . |
| 28 | These remained the concerns of Belorussian peasants in the 1920s , but unlike French peasants there were no small-scale politics for them to latch on to in order to climb slowly out of their deep provincialism . |
| 29 | Common sense had already told her they had to get out of their sodden clothes , but , for an unexpected instant , the sight of fitzAlan half naked , the firelight burnishing tanned skin over strong muscle and bone , had made her suddenly , acutely , aware of the differences between them . |
| 30 | The adults have only two hours to complete their life cycle , and the males actually help the females out of their pupal cases to speed up mating . |