Example sentences of "and their [noun] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | DP staff were seen as experts , and their function carried a valuable mystique . |
| 2 | The hens were relaxed and contented , and their eggs won a Ministry of Agriculture quality award . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , many publications omit reference to this , so it is no wonder social workers and their managers have a limited view of their duties , as well as those of local authorities . |
| 4 | They flew just above the surface of the water and their wings made a loud wubbering noise like canvas flapping in the wind . |
| 5 | The advantages of using microbes for the early stages of such studies were well known and their biochemistry provided a convenient starting point for several investigators , especially in America . |
| 6 | Certain villages were strongholds of cattle thieves and their residents derived a significant portion of their incomes from the cattle trade . |
| 7 | The assessment of practical subjects and their funding remains a problem , but the negative attitudes towards Agriculture , which I remember so clearly in the years just preceding and just after independence in the countries where I worked and travelled , seems virtually dead . |
| 8 | The oceans and their biota play a central role in the carbon and nutrient cycles ; global ocean circulation is also critical to the global carbon budget . |
| 9 | At noon , in a wide green meadow on the lush tableland that was the top of the impossibly-balanced Wyrmberg , the dragons and their riders formed a wide circle . |
| 10 | I am self employed and rely heavily on the telephone , I think BT and their engineers do a marvellous job most of the time . |
| 11 | They linked the Empire 's far-flung mineral resources with each other and with the centres of population ; they enormously increased the volume of both domestic and foreign trade ; and their construction generated a massive new demand for coal , steel , iron and manufactures . |
| 12 | Her findings were that both the writers themselves and their families had a substantially raised incidence of mental illness , but especially of affective psychosis , including depression and forms of the disorder characterised by severe mood swings . |
| 13 | The children and their families need a great deal of support during this time — support which it is not possible to provide from the Health Service . |
| 14 | There appears to be broad consensus that mentally handicapped people and their families need a range or structure of help if they are to be supported in the community . |
| 15 | Again , although they and their families enjoy a standard of living comparable to that of many white-collar families , their social worlds are still to a large extent separate from those of the latter , except where linkages of kinship , or to a lesser degree of neighbourhood , can span the social distance between them . |
| 16 | Spend a Saturday lunch time in any town in Britain and you are bound to come across several fast food outlets crowded with teenagers , young children and their parents spending a great deal of money . |
| 17 | Under the auspices of the Pre-school Group for Parents and Children , the children and their parents enjoy a variety of activities one afternoon a week at Liphook Infant School . |
| 18 | In fact , because of the inadequacy of their quality control in production of condoms , and their inability to produce a contraceptive pill , abortion soon became the only normal form of birth-control . |
| 19 | His confidence was justified and in mid June he is home at 61 Shelgate Road and their correspondence becomes a thin trickle of notes and letter-cards as they make arrangements to meet when Helen was free from her work . |
| 20 | In such a mood it is inevitable that the Government 's attempts to bring about change through legislation and increased prescription will be generally felt to be yet another attack on autonomy and yet another indication of a lack of trust in teachers ' judgement and their ability to do a good job . |
| 21 | Constant training and familiarisation give everyone more confidence in their equipment and their ability to survive a chemical attack in war . |
| 22 | It has also been observed that although these patients continue to experience chest pain , the knowledge that the oesophagus is the source of this reduces their perception of the disability and their requests to see a physician . |
| 23 | Secondly I did write to all the members of the Council about the issue of the British National Corpus and their desire to have a record of English as she is spoke and their is a gentleman from here today , if you would care to stand up to identify yourself please . |
| 24 | In some ways they are even better than our own , for a squid can distinguish polarised light which we can not do and their retinas have a finer structure which means , almost certainly , that they can distinguish finer detail than we can . |
| 25 | The fishermen and their children have a habit of holding fish between their teeth to prevent their escape while searching for another . |
| 26 | I assumed the Maggot was delivering or picking up a customer , but it was none of my business , so I stripped down to my shorts and began work as Thessy , his brother Philemon and their father took a battered wooden skiff across the lagoon . |
| 27 | Barr and Barnes and their colleagues favour a scheme based on bank loans repayable through an additional national insurance contribution . |
| 28 | A few years ago Dr Palcic , Dr Lam and their colleagues started a company called Xillix to build machines to do just that . |
| 29 | Although none of the other Blaxhall competitions is connected with horse-gear , they are included as examples of the way farm-workers and their wives enjoyed a frolic . |
| 30 | ‘ Would you believe it 's no less than some of the company directors and their wives paying a visit to Family Day ? ’ |