Example sentences of "their [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that radicals both inside and outside parliament were often divided among themselves and had no uniform political views or remedies was emphasized by their ineffectiveness in the Economic Advisory Committee in the 1930s . |
| 2 | Some thought that far too many opulent and now half-empty movie palaces had been built for the elusive fashionable trade whilst others detected a more general dulling of the palate as the masses lost their enthusiasm for the old stories and seemed all too ready for something new . |
| 3 | This states that other non-monetary effects on aggregate demand ( such as private investment expenditure ) are determined by their values in the previous period plus a random or surprise term . |
| 4 | More frequently they try to manipulate the media to their advantage by the selective release of carefully timed and adjusted information and by threatening , punishing , and intimidating media staff . |
| 5 | Fran Bennett 's article on ‘ The State , Welfare and Women 's Dependence ’ ( Bennett , 1983 ) gives an excellent account of the different strands within the contemporary women 's movement and their views about the appropriate source of an income for women . |
| 6 | He is especially critical of their views about the historical primacy of group marriage and the gens ( see below ) , because they were all three in different ways followers of Morgan 's rival , McLennan . |
| 7 | A Steamship Owners ' Mutual Protection and Indemnity Association had been formed as early as 1874 which later became part of a North of England Protecting and Indemnity Association , and as early as 1878 shipowners of the north-east were complaining of the " tyrannical " attempts of a " dictatorial body of unionists " ' to impose demands on the industry , establishing in 1885 a Central Association of Shipowners of Sunderland , Glasgow and Newcastle to put their views to the Royal Commission of 1886 on Chamberlain 's proposed Shipping Bill . |
| 8 | Nowadays a large number of the population listened to foreign radio stations and read foreign newspapers : once the Government had the power to conceal the truth within Tanzania , would it also be necessary to try to stop people sending their views to the foreign media ? |
| 9 | Rawls often writes of individuals ' conceptions of the good as if they are their views of the good life for themselves . |
| 10 | Naturally , people who choose to ignore these phenomena will have no need for the idea ( just as those who choose to ignore societal phenomena have no need for an idea of society ) but in both cases this leads to a dramatic impoverishment of their views of the real world . |
| 11 | Letters to ministers have been most frequently used by Sub-Committee E , to draw to the Government 's attention their views of the correct legal base for a Commission proposal . |
| 12 | Mr Ramsay said they " take advantage of their official position and avail themselves of a report on a school in order to publish their views of the sanitary state of the village in which the school is established , and to offer an opinion regarding the management of an estate of which that village forms a part . " |
| 13 | Victorian scholars were divided in their views of the precise nature and order of the stages of man 's evolutionary progress . |
| 14 | Although historians have differed somewhat less in their interpretations of the religious history of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods than in their views on the turbulent years between 1530 and 1560 , there have , none the less , been a number of notable areas of dispute . |
| 15 | This is an opportunity for anyone with an interest in film and television for young people to express their views on the current programmes and films available . |
| 16 | From their views on the intentional and affective fallacies ( Brooks seems to have agreed entirely with Wimsatt and Beardsley about these ) it follows that this reconciliation of opposites must be seen not as an event in the mind of the author or reader , but as an objective fact about the text 's meaning or structure . |
| 17 | It would be helpful to the planning committee if Q.T. could let us know their views on the last year 's programme . |
| 18 | The four wrote to enquire how they could best put forward their views inside the Labour Party . |
| 19 | In order of importance in discriminating between them and the respondents , they differed in their views in the following ways : |
| 20 | Credit reference agencies from Scandinavia , Austria and the EC have formed an association to represent their views in the single market . |
| 21 | If any of the three MP 's mentioned in this article would like to dispute the truth of the comments , we will gladly print their views in the next Ulster Dawn . |
| 22 | This gave warning to the outside interests and to members and gave them time to gather their thoughts and explain their views before the first reading , which was purely formal but provided for the printing of the bill . |
| 23 | The local authorities would , on the other hand , be able to take increasing advantage in their contracts of the competitive prices established in the private sector of house-building . |
| 24 | And when Ross , impaling some pieces of chicken on the end of long sticks , promised to show them how to barbecue the joints they were thrilled , after the meat was cooked , to sink their teeth into the hot , if slightly charred , meat . |
| 25 | Sutton and Packford both cut their teeth on the old hot-metal newspaper production process . |
| 26 | And with the advent of television , the cinema chains virtually abandoned the B-movies overnight ; it was shattering for the younger actors and writers who cut their teeth on the second-string movies churned out by the studios . |
| 27 | Two more of the creatures hovered around the craft , walking over the wings and flashing their teeth at the hysterical passengers . |
| 28 | How the more distinguished men must have gnashed their teeth at the trivial basis upon which great decisions are made — but how delighted they must be today not to be branded with the title of court architect ! |
| 29 | In 1937 the Congregationalist Albert Peel reflected on the late Victorian and Edwardian periods : ‘ Ministers who began their pastorates in the twenty years before the war look back in amazement at sermons they then preached , with their acceptance of the inevitability of progress . ’ |
| 30 | Long ago , these great creatures made their lairs under the smouldering peaks of the Dragon Spine mountains . |