Example sentences of "their [noun] [vb -s] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , although these five writers belonged to a minority group in their society , and although they say that their experience derives from a source greater than human reason can comprehend , they are fired with a certainty that it is intimately related to the deepest needs and purposes of human being , and has about it the simple inevitability of fulfilment . |
| 2 | You should have shown your readers that there is n't a Prince Charming , so they wo n't feel disappointed and cheated if their prince turns into a frog , like mine did . |
| 3 | But much of their case rests on a proposed strategy of selecting new entrants to the profession more carefully and providing better initial and in-service training in classroom skills . |
| 4 | ‘ There are a significant number who think their vote goes into a national pool and do not appreciate how voting by constituencies works . |
| 5 | Utilities were among the more buoyant sectors , helped by the search by pensions funds for higher-income investments to compensate for the five-point drop in their investment returns as a result of the Budget changes . |
| 6 | As already stated , well beyond cut-off their attenuation increases at a rate of 20n dB per decade of frequency . |
| 7 | Though the facilities exist for the storage of reports in digital form for access using text retrieval software , the numerous departments throughout the authority have never succeeded in handing in their committee reports in a satisfactory form . |
| 8 | They are extremely special , are produced at great cost , and it is doubtful that the mere pleasure their harmony gives to a selected happy few is worth such large public expenditure . |
| 9 | But then this leads to the idea that perhaps a number of women do not enjoy being part of a couple and that a single woman in their midst acts like a demented lighthouse : enticing hapless travellers , by its safe and steady beam , on to the rocks below . |
| 10 | Ministers said last night they expected market pressures would force Ford to scrap their price rises within a few months , or they could be forced to discount their prices very heavily . |
| 11 | As Packer ( 1968 ) has pointed out , the criminality of their enterprise acts as a kind of ‘ tariff ’ that protects them from the competition of ‘ legitimate ’ entrepreneurs unwilling to take the risks of illegal enterprise , and provides them with customers who have no legal redress against the most excessive forms of exploitation . |
| 12 | Their secret is soon discovered , however , when the local nuclear waste storage facility where their father works as a physicist records mysterious disappearances of radioactive materials . |
| 13 | Their paper returns to a theme raised , as we have seen , by parsons , namely the similarity between professions and businesses as economic enterprises and the place of altruistic and self-interested motives . |
| 14 | For short periods of stress in an amorphous elastomer , the entanglement and intertwining of chains with their neighbours acts as a physical restraint to excessive chain movement and the elastomer regains its original length when the stress is removed . |
| 15 | Their argument depends on a notion of society as a system which is dominated by particular forms of social and economic organization . |
| 16 | Their argument begins from a position very similar to that of the restructuring school : that the loss of manufacturing jobs in urban areas is in part the resuIt of national shifts , from manufacturing to services , and towards higher unemployment . |
| 17 | Many common passerine species must also have increased their downland ranges as a result of the slow advance of scrub and woodland over the remaining grass , and probably the downland avifauna is more varied today than in 1939 despite losing its characteristic and most interesting specialities . |
| 18 | Their society has in a word been bowdlerised . |
| 19 | He preferred to count what rugby had given him , as he remarked to his squad when the tourists handed out their thank-you presents at a private party the morning after the Second Test . |
| 20 | Woodvale eased their relegation fears with a thumping 10 wickets win over Instonians , but Lurgan lost by 15 runs to Downpatrick . |
| 21 | Digestion is suspended and their food lies like a load in the stomach ; fullness and distress come on immediately after eating . |
| 22 | Other signs of possible trouble are when Koi ‘ flick ’ or ‘ flash ’ against objects in the pond exposing their lighter underparts with a characteristic glint ; or when they repeatedly leap clear of the water . |
| 23 | People will be told that their property comes within a certain band which ranges , say , from £52,000 to £68,000 . |
| 24 | However , it can lead to difficult questions in deciding when the goods delivered are so different in kind that their delivery amounts to a breach of fundamental term : for instance , in Geo Mitchell ( Chesterhall ) Ltd v Finney Lock Seeds Ltd [ 1983 ] 2 AC 803 the contract was for sale of " winter white cabbage seed " . |
| 25 | In expanding on this point they do develop some important arguments concerning the constraints which would face a socialist government attempting to advance an AES ( for instance , the problems of ‘ forcing ’ investment referred to above , and the potential conflicts between such a government and the trade unions , given the need to raise labour productivity in order to develop a tenable trading position for the national economy ) yet ultimately their position tends to a form of defeatism . |
| 26 | Such patterns of stress may be so much more damaging than the sum of their separate effects because their co-existence leads to a different attribution of meaning to them on the part of the child . |
| 27 | ( David and Margot Wizansky have no financial interests in the properties , but their company acts as a consultancy and can provide a management service . ) |
| 28 | All three represent fundamental shake-ups and policy shifts , and as their implementation coincides with a ruthless financial squeeze on local government , the council tax and community care may look like empty statements of ideology rather than meaningful new policies . |
| 29 | Their effectiveness depends on a number of factors , including personality , sensitivity , their parental and other models of marriage ( good and poor ) , and their understanding and level of commitment to each other . |
| 30 | The current edition breaks down expected road expenditure and the tax-take from road users for the current financial year and shows , as previous editions have done , that road users cover their track costs by a factor of 2.4 to 1 . |