Example sentences of "they [vb base] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my experience , even at this early stage when the process has hardly begun , the family trying to make sense of what is happening around them focus their general distress on what they see as the church 's preoccupation with making money , rather than offering help . |
| 2 | They sell their foreign stocks first . |
| 3 | Relocation policies may include provision to protect or cushion employees against financial loss when they sell their old properties and buy elsewhere . |
| 4 | It is a very interesting , if noisy , place in which to view the wide variety of produce available and to observe the fishermen as they sell their daily catch of espada and tunny . |
| 5 | Behind the image of pride they hide their desperate need of acceptance , which they seek in everything they do , though they would never admit to it . |
| 6 | When approached by a possible killer they hide their real heads and raise up the tips of their tails . |
| 7 | The Business and Technician Education Council is such a company and you should ask your course tutor to see one of their communications to see how they display their limited liability status . |
| 8 | Anorexics , who will use all manner of subterfuge to avoid eating , often become so thin that they lose their monthly periods and consequently have difficulty becoming pregnant . |
| 9 | Once the forms are in , then they lose their amateur status and probationary members are on trial to make sure their play is up to standard . |
| 10 | The withdrawal of earlier death has been so marked that today most English people will have no direct experience of the grief of bereavement until they lose their own parents , when they are themselves well into middle age . |
| 11 | H R T contains es oestrogen , which is highly beneficial to older women at the change when they lose their natural supply . |
| 12 | The justification is that it is undesirable for domestic firms to compete against each other in overseas markets : national welfare is enhanced if they maximize their joint rents . |
| 13 | He wants OSF to move to the position most companies adopt when bringing new products to market : at the same moment they back their latest technology releases with endorsements and supportive product announcements from across the industry . |
| 14 | But when older people form groups with the intention of becoming involved , or rather re-involved , in the wider social context , they raise their own self-image and the status of older people generally by showing society that they are full citizens who have to be reckoned with . |
| 15 | There are places where they eat their own children . |
| 16 | But they disprove their own argument with every thought , every word , every point of logic that they use . |
| 17 | The combination of greater mobility of critical factors of production , notably technology and finance , creates tensions and uncertainties for firms as they develop their global strategies . |
| 18 | Indeed , the key choice many managers now seem to be making is whether they develop their own system or buy one ‘ off the shelf ’ from several management consultants in the field . |
| 19 | Thereafter , managers are usually on their own and , inevitably , they develop their own theories to explain people 's behaviour . |
| 20 | They deny their own law , denying my right , and the precedent is there to stead them in the next encroachment . |
| 21 | They change their public roles to suit their changing appearance . |
| 22 | He also wants to push farmers to take land out of production and to pay them grants if they tend their non-productive land in an environmentally-friendly way or use less chemical fertilisers and pesticides on their crops . |
| 23 | Poles have so far accepted yet more economic misery because they trust their Solidarity-led government . |
| 24 | They mostly excel in their industry — the skill with which they irrigate their terraced hillsides with tiny runnels of water shows a considerable advancement in agriculture . |
| 25 | The aim of this study is to trace the emergence and development of the political ideology of Ulster Unionism as a basis for understanding both how they perceive their national identity and position within the United Kingdom and also their reaction to the Anglo-Irish Agreement . |
| 26 | Users are likely to be able to lead the process of innovation whenever they perceive their own needs more clearly than other firms do , and whenever they can appropriate most of the benefits from innovation . |
| 27 | The Ministry of Defence maintains a policy of not confirming whether weapons transporters are loaded with warheads when they make their regular trips through Glasgow . |
| 28 | ‘ The habits are blessed when they make their final vows , ’ I said . |
| 29 | The dolphins , engrossed in feeding on an anchovy school , fall to detect the vessels as they make their stealthy approach . |
| 30 | Actually , er , as a point , if you find a client who goes hand-gliding , who goes stock car racing , do n't always assume that they 're going to be rated , you just submit it to the underwriters , and they make their own decision . |