Example sentences of "their [noun] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They moved towards the left-hand urn , sliding through the crowd of their superiors as smoothly as serpents in the garden . |
| 2 | If anybody is successful in bringing in new work into the office , clearly that reflects in their achievements and their objectives , merely that reflects in their assessment so far as er their managers and are concerned and clearly that will will be reflected in their pay , so that will be the way that er we would normally tackle and that would be the way I I was prepared to tackle it . |
| 3 | The initial allocations of Partnership spending in the late 1970s were often the result of the large , better-prepared and more politically-aware departments putting forward their cases more persuasively than the others . |
| 4 | The purpose was to prevent crowding of BES issues at the end of the tax year , but the ceiling limit meant that investors putting up the full 140,000 still made most of their investments as near as they could to 5th April . |
| 5 | In that year the Cohen Committee succinctly explained how this state of affairs had come about : ‘ [ t ] he illusory nature of the control theoretically exercised by the shareholders over directors has been accentuated by the dispersion of capital among an increasing number of small shareholders who pay little attention to their investments so long as satisfactory dividends are forthcoming , who lack sufficient time , money and experience to make full use of their rights as occasion arises and who are , in many cases , too numerous and too widely dispersed to be able to organise themselves ’ . |
| 6 | The classic response to this situation is to take from the rich and to give to the poor on the grounds that the poor spend their money much faster than the rich . |
| 7 | Of course , for family companies , such tax planning may have to be balanced against the shareholders ' natural desire to have their money as soon as possible ! |
| 8 | This form of destabilizing speculation took place in the hyper-inflation of Germany in the 1920s , as people spent their money as quickly as possible . ) |
| 9 | They want to be able to lend without having to search for a suitable borrower , and to get their money back quickly if their own need for liquidity changes . |
| 10 | The chairman of the Guardian and Manchester Evening News announced in his 1986 annual report that ‘ The Times now has a cost structure much lower than our own … we must get our own costs down to their level as soon as possible ’ . |
| 11 | Publishers , for all their short term concerns and justifiable scepticisms about gimmicks and gadgetry , need to consider their futures very carefully while they still have some options . |
| 12 | They take the stranger to their heart less easily than the familiar friend . |
| 13 | In any event , if great prominence came to be given to APR , many people could be misled about the comparative value of competing credit arrangements ; partly because our calculations show that small and sometimes insignificant differences in what the buyer actually has to pay for credit can make for huge and therefore misleadingly imposing differences in APR ; partly because it will tend to make longer-term borrowing look more attractive than shorter-term borrowing even when ( given that the great majority of people prefer to pay off their debts as quickly as possible ) this may not be best for people . |
| 14 | But he said it was a temporary blip arising from greater throughput of cases in the civil courts ; increased efficiency at the Scottish Legal Aid Board and solicitors submitting their accounts more speedily because of the recession . |
| 15 | They could save their pennies as far as this one is concerned . |
| 16 | ‘ We hope they will reach their decision as soon as possible , because it is not the sort of thing we like to have hanging over us . ’ |
| 17 | Their duty under the rules is to make their decision as soon as practicable . |
| 18 | The Government are currently considering the findings of the recent review of meat hygiene enforcement and will announce their decision as soon as possible . |
| 19 | First , it is to assist people to resolve their disputes as easily as possible and , secondly , it should enable the making or declaring of law that applies in those disputes . |
| 20 | By the summer of 1943 the Americans were getting into their stride so far as the war in the Pacific was concerned . |
| 21 | For men wash , clean out and check over their cars more frequently than women , according to a report . |
| 22 | For wisecrackers have been pulling their legs unmercifully ever since the sex and sangria saga hit the airwaves . |
| 23 | ‘ All of us have to do more in order to get the deportees back to their homes as soon as possible , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Most formal carers want to allow old people to remain in their homes as long as possible . |
| 25 | She enjoyed their company , although she did not read their books as closely as they might have wished , for she had a strong and idiosyncratic sense of history , particularly of the Stuart period ( like my grandfather , she was a descendant of Charles II , in her case from Nell Gwyn , in his from Lucy Walter ) . |
| 26 | For example there are supposed to be many wives who would have left their husbands long ago if they had been able to work out how to tell him they were going . |
| 27 | As you know , they dug in their heels here longer than practically anywhere else , but in the end they caved in . |
| 28 | While publishing Dawson on ‘ Religion and the Totalitarian State ’ , he selected for notice in the 1934 Criterion a book highlighting persecution of European Jews ; he wrote to Pound speaking of his offence at Pound 's antisemitic remarks ; with regard to the Vichy government in 1941 he wrote in The Christian News-Letter of his ‘ greatest anxiety ’ at news ‘ that ‘ Jews have been given a special status , based on the laws of Nuremberg , which makes their condition little better than that of bondsmen . ’ |
| 29 | Experience had taught them that nothing alienated support within their districts more swiftly than bombs which killed or injured Roman Catholics and that nothing reduced the inflow of money from Irish American sympathisers more drastically . |
| 30 | Individualised programmes , alternative activities and simplified worksheets , when they are directed at certain children can cut them off from their peers as effectively as if they had been withdrawn . |