Example sentences of "the [noun sg] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This depends on the judges ' views of the merits of the case before them or ( I would add ) the direction their political inclinations lead them — what I call below their ‘ view of the public interest ’ . |
| 2 | When they gave the measure their final approval , ministers arbitrarily changed the legal basis of the legislation in such a way that unanimous voting would have been required for any further tightening of pollution standards . |
| 3 | The Jarvis family had all come down in the world , considering the money their Victorian grandfather , a manufacturer of bathroom fittings , had made for them , Ernest with the dwindling Cambridge School , Evelina nutty as a squirrel 's cage and with her first sojourn in a nursing home behind her , Cecilia married to a Customs officer . |
| 4 | Palestinian negotiators asserted that the Israelis were at last beginning to appreciate the damage their punitive measures had done to popular support for the peace talks in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip . |
| 5 | Expressive tools give children opportunity to express on the computer their own ideas about reality , so that they can learn through representing , exploring and reflecting on the consequences of their own models . |
| 6 | The second would be that arts teachers would not benefit from the experience their fellow teachers were gaining in curriculum building and which would be useful to practices in the arts . |
| 7 | .. were of a violet grey colour , and seemingly very dense , for although endowed with an almost inconceivably powerful ascensive force , they retained to the zenith their rounded summits . |
| 8 | Hardly thrilling , but 27 times funkier than the crap their former manageress does today . |
| 9 | The Blackpool Civic Trust made the restoration of the car their special project for the Borough Centenary in 1976 , and accordingly the car returned in 1975 and was displayed on the Promenade opposite the Foxhall . |
| 10 | As when a swarme of Gnats at euentide Out of the fennes of Allan do arise , Their murmuring small trompets sounden wide , Whiles in the aire their clustring army flies , That as a cloud doth seeme to dim the skies ; Ne man nor beast may rest or take repast For their sharpe wounds , and noyous iniuries , |
| 11 | Like the band constantly fighting to retain independent artistic control on a major label , the Oxbridge fops can never erase or taint the effect their original shows had on comedy and the world at large , no matter how much rich men 's folly ( children 's books , crap US film cameos , endless cash-in-books and records , the SDP ) they involve themselves in now . |
| 12 | Once he had withdrawn from the scene their natural antipathy to landlords re-asserted itself . |
| 13 | From being 10-6 down at the interval their pure brand of running rugby thrilled the crowd as the Souter backs blazed over for four thrilling tries and for a victory that appeared well beyond their reach at the half-way stage . |
| 14 | Later in the evening their horrified executioners had reported encountering them again , in serious disrepair , shambling in single file back through the forest towards their Rante . |
| 15 | A further deep Atlantic low gave the bulk of the population their wettest day of the month on the 23rd but , from the 25th to the 30th , the depressions became noticeably less intense . |
| 16 | They were n't used , but one eventually blossomed into the TV hit series Widows , about four women who commit the robbery their late husbands had planned . |
| 17 | Throughout the match their numerous lbw and caught-behind appeals had been frenzied and desperate , their reactions to the refusal of all bar five of them being melodramatic in the extreme . |
| 18 | Each child provides a stimulus to the others , and gains from the place their own contributions play in the joint explanation . |
| 19 | I wonder how much JTR and his fellow Brother Brushes knew or understood of the genocide their land-owning peers were guilty of ? |
| 20 | April 9 , 1944 , brought the crew their tenth mission , on what Dan described as a ‘ Long haul ’ to the FW 190 plant at Marienburg , in East Prussia . |
| 21 | Given that industrial democracy , defined as the ultimate right and duty of the men and women working in an industrial enterprise to call management to account for its performance , and , if that performance does not satisfy them , to replace management , is desirable in principle and as a means of making the efficient conduct of the enterprise their natural concern ; recognising that the rights of use attaching to ownership , whether in the private or public sector , are inalienable ; recognising the value in general of competition as a means of keeping production and provision sensitive to public needs and tastes , and as a means of relating the distribution of resources to them ; to consider ( i ) in what sort of industrial organisation would industrial democracy be feasible ; ( ii ) how far and in what circumstances would the adoption of such a form of organisation be feasible ; ( iii ) by what means should its adoption be promoted and how long would it take to establish it as a characteristic feature in the industrial scene ; ( iv ) what part should trade unions play in its promotion and adoption and what changes would that part require in their functions as they are commonly understood ; and ( v ) where in the case of a particular industry , or organisation , the general interest requires that accountability should be to the public at large , considered for example as consumers or users of goods produced or beneficiaries from services provided , what compensatory measures should be introduced so as to make good as far as possible the permanent denial to employees of a right which is in principle generally desirable ? |
| 22 | On the ground their scudding shadows dappled the hills , hills that tumbled down to the ragged but level line , where the uplands ended and the deep gorge-like valleys began . |
| 23 | Earlier in the week their Paddling Challenge , the oldest canoe race in the world , had seen several of the overseas competitors joining in without stopping even to unload their vehicles when they arrived and being joined by a number of prominent paddlers from the past . |
| 24 | Shortly the screens will give the surgeon their only view of the patient 's abdomen . |
| 25 | Despite the discomfort their shared accommodation caused , the arrangement lasted in all six years . |
| 26 | People are generally sensitive to many dangers , when drivers approach a sharp bend in the road their natural reaction is to slow down . |
| 27 | The defenders fought so hard , ignoring the many wounds upon their bodies , that by the end of the attack their white Reikland uniforms were drenched in blood . |
| 28 | Though many commentators drew attention to the job-displacing tendencies of microelectronics technology it is likely that the reason their gloomy forecasts were paid so much attention was because unemployment had been rising fairly fast in most industrialised countries following the two oil price hikes in the 1970s and the consequent world economic recession . |
| 29 | This is the situation their digestive system has evolved to cope with , and we should try to approximate this in the aquarium if possible . |
| 30 | But in the end their greatest impact was the way in which they helped to change most people 's way of lite and in so doing changed much of the landscape . |