Example sentences of "in their [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ARSENAL 'S rent-a-crowd will assist the team in their battle for the first Premier League title . |
| 2 | The Conservatives remained dissatisfied with these arrangements and returned to the matter in their manifesto for the 1987 General Election . |
| 3 | The majority of the newspapers had become woefully compromised in their support for the government and good investigative journalism was one of the casualties . |
| 4 | Loyalist intransigence was bolstered not only by the new IRA campaign but also by the actions of three leading Fianna Fáil politicians in the South who were open and vocal in their support for the IRA . |
| 5 | And when Parliament eventually turned back the tide of opposition to Eyre and voted financial support to the former Governor , it was poetically appropriate that those who had been most vocal in their support for the Garotter 's Act — such as Mr Adderley and the rampant Colonel North — should be in the thick of it again , shouting their praise for Eyre 's loyalty to the Crown and his firm action that had saved a colony . |
| 6 | But they were not in Great Britain in 1984 , and adjacent areas with similar relatively isolated mining communities ( notably Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire ) differed very substantially not only in their support for the strike call but also in their level of industrial militancy over a substantial period of time . |
| 7 | Players are said to be equally solid in their support for the union 's current case . |
| 8 | The work may differ , but they are united in their admiration for the skill of the human hand and the imagination which drives them . |
| 9 | In their publicity for the film , Warner Bros boasted of the way in which the story had grown out of an actual incident and of Judge Musmanno 's involvement in the subsequent litigation , and also of how ex-miners had been brought in to ensure authentic mining scenes . |
| 10 | Linfield hope to have Raymond Campbell in their squad for the game ; the winger 's transfer from Glentoran is expected to be finalised early next week . |
| 11 | After the punchline had been delivered and the ensuing laughter had died away , the blonde swayed away from the bar and looked in their direction for the first time . |
| 12 | He had acquired a strong influence over his brother John in their work for the Company and in saving him from bankruptcy . |
| 13 | The only thing to be said to that was said eight years ago by Michael Kinsley , a Washington journalist , when the Democrats had the same plank in their platform for the American elections . |
| 14 | It is a policy profoundly opposed by the national Football Supporters Association ( FSA ) which recruits its members on a regional rather than a club basis and which aims to unite its fans in their love for the game rather than in their narrower club devotions . |
| 15 | The authors are united in their concern for the quality of these children 's early experiences , although they disagree markedly in the solutions they offer . |
| 16 | They depicted British cinema as indifferent to art , lacking drive and sense of direction and , in their distaste for the commercial orientation of the system , failed to suggest any ways to reform it . |
| 17 | The nine republics gave qualified support in their pact for the anti-crisis programme which Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov had presented to the USSR Supreme Soviet on April 22 . |
| 18 | The organisation said it was ‘ astonishing ’ that it was still regarded as a slur for a person to be described as gay , and delivered a letter to Mr Donovan calling for his support in their campaign for the ‘ enactment of legislation for lesbian and gay equality ’ . |
| 19 | delivered a letter to Mr Donovan calling for his support in their campaign for the ‘ enactment of legislation for lesbian and gay equality ’ . |
| 20 | Well as as they include it in their prospectus for the year , |
| 21 | Meanwhile Leinster have named a strong panel in their bid for the senior inter-provincials being staged in Dublin next weekend . |
| 22 | The British Journal of Photography were lavish in their praise for the quality of his work , which had been undertaken in difficult circumstances . |
| 23 | SCOTLAND 's international selectors have taken the unusual step of leaving a vacancy in their team for the World Championships in Gothenburg in May , until after the Scottish national championships and the Top 12 tournament next month . |
| 24 | In their search for the key ingredients of the Japanese model , the Americans concluded that empowerment is an important aspect of achieving greater productivity from their workforce . |
| 25 | FEDERAL officials yesterday made one arrest in their search for the bombers of the World Trade Centre in New York and authorities said they were looking for other suspects . |
| 26 | Despite certain important differences between the experimental findings and interpretations of the Aplysia and Hermissenda research schools , both have contributed to this framing , sharing a common theoretical perspective which leads to an explicit but , I believe , ultimately flawed reductive philosophy and strategy in their search for the mechanisms of memory . |
| 27 | Rejecting the inherent conservatism of the traditional portrait , many artists have today tried to extend the definition of portraiture to embrace a level of experimentation sought necessary in their search for the true identity . |
| 28 | This year her team at the Institute of Molecular Medicine , John Radcliffe Hospital and colleagues at Columbia University , New York have made significant progress in their search for the exact location of the gene for causing spinal muscular atrophy , a muscle-withering disease which is the leading inherited cause of infant death . |
| 29 | Mounted police have combed a National Trust estate at nearby Christmas Common , but have still drawn a blank in their search for the murder weapon or any bloodstained clothing . |
| 30 | As the schoolchildren learnt there would no school for a week , the police were calling for help in their search for the aronsists . |