Example sentences of "their [noun] [verb] [coord] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For his part , Hitler needed their support to gain and consolidate power . |
| 2 | Millimetres in size , perhaps interstitial in sediments , their inability to fossilize or leave obvious traces could explain their absence from Proterozoic rocks . |
| 3 | Their inability to see or echolocate over longer distances undoubtedly contributes to their frequency of net entanglement . |
| 4 | Their inability to concentrate or order their thoughts means that they generally do not learn much at school , even though they may be quite intelligent . |
| 5 | How often have teachers been frustrated by their inability to introduce and implement change in their schools on returning from a course ? |
| 6 | A major difference between brachiopods and bivalves is that the latter are capable of moving freely , using their foot to crawl or dig . |
| 7 | A few took pride in their resort to stick and fist . |
| 8 | They have to widen their skills to sell and market their produce . |
| 9 | Juniors come to recognize that the local , situation-specific knowledge they are expected to acquire is important , that it will be called upon , and that it is their responsibility to develop and communicate it , to be sure it gets into the decision process . |
| 10 | It is a product of organised human life , and it is primarily their responsibility to start and watch over the process . |
| 11 | Also , if the government is serious about developing decent employment opportunities for women , the training and educational agencies will have to look to broadening their remits to include and promote non-traditional areas of work for women . |
| 12 | The Arbitrators shall have power by their award to annul and/or amend the decision of the Disciplinary Committee or to do so subject to the performance of any conditions which they may think fit to impose . |
| 13 | The law will limit their opportunity to incinerate or dump waste , thereby , it is hoped , encouraging manufacturers to build recyclability into product design . |
| 14 | Parents , too , particularly when their freedom to choose and change their children 's school is a central tenet of the organization of post-1980 education , will feel less difficulty in understanding a school which is an effective competitor but which nevertheless co-operates with others for the sake of ensuring a wider curriculum . |
| 15 | After breakfast it is parade and the men stand in the lines while the warders , who are backed by the fire power of the guards , come with their lists to count and recount . |
| 16 | Traditional options are contracts written by stock exchange market makers entitling their clients to buy or sell quoted shares in some stock in the future at a price fixed at the time the option contract is purchased . |
| 17 | The objectives were to help organisations assess their readiness to purchase and deliver services , individually and jointly ; to plot relationships between agencies ; and to set benchmarks for measuring progress ; and to agree priorities for action . |
| 18 | The troublesome lamps flank the couch , where constituents sit and watch their congressman appear and disappear ; and the only thing that saved Orton from rushing to the floor to cast phantom votes when his clock buzzer went off was the fall-back alarm system , a personal bleeper . |
| 19 | The time constraints for decisions to be made are tight , as operators are required to give only six weeks ' notice of their intention to withdraw or change a service . |
| 20 | Under the plan , L&H 's 629 former partners are being asked to pay back over $40m over the next 10 years , with some partners ' personal assessments totalling as much as $400,000. 475 partners are thought to have approved the plan , but the remainder have either expressed their intention to appeal or have declared themselves personally bankrupt . |
| 21 | Under these circumstances , children are able to use all their skill to develop and share their thinking . |
| 22 | The Indians were buried with as much wealth as possible , and so they strove with the utmost diligence throughout their lives to acquire and amass all the gold they could , which they took from their own land and were buried with it … |
| 23 | You want to make their lives secure and warm and loving . |
| 24 | Or a human parent will take delight in teaching their child to walk and talk and do so many things . |
| 25 | In Sudbrook the lessors had refused to appoint their valuer to discuss and seek to agree the value of the reversions with a valuer appointed by the lessees ; under the lease the valuers appointed were to refer the matter to an umpire . |
| 26 | Both Frank and Mary Mah were leaders in the Vancouver Chinese community and used their influence to establish and cement friendly relations between East and West . |
| 27 | Time and again local politicians and those with business interests have used their influence to overturn or ignore court decrees to evacuate the 45,000 garimpeiros once and for all . |
| 28 | Both sides affirm their determination to continue and intensify their co-operation in the field of environmental protection on the basis of their agreement of Oct. 25 , 1988 . |
| 29 | In private , some of Labour 's medicine men and some MPs were furious the leadership had n't gone tooth and claw for the Conservatives ; that in their determination to look and play the part of responsible government , they neglected to hammer the real Government responsible for real problems . |
| 30 | Whilst physical infirmity may make physical care of great significance to the old person and mental infirmity may limit their capacity to give and receive other kinds of care , the efforts we make to relate to the whole person are critical if we are to avoid the stigmatising and depersonalising processes which insult the integrity of the old person . |