Example sentences of "their [noun] [vb -s] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , damages for future loss bear no interest ; on the contrary , their assessment involves a discount for the early receipt of a lump sum representing successive future losses . |
| 2 | On paper their bowling looks a trifle thin , particularly with regard to the demands of the Britannic Assurance County Championship , even allowing for the wit and wisdom of Messrs Hughes and Botham . |
| 3 | According to Marsh and his colleagues ( 1978 ) police intervention is often welcomed by the hooligans in so far as their presence provides a safety valve and prevents the aggro from going too far . |
| 4 | The assessment of practical subjects and their funding remains a problem , but the negative attitudes towards Agriculture , which I remember so clearly in the years just preceding and just after independence in the countries where I worked and travelled , seems virtually dead . |
| 5 | Many people swear that their horse has a sense of humour , especially when it likes tipping them off ; but it is possible of course that these people actually have a considerable sense of humour themselves to put up with the vagaries of their horse ! |
| 6 | They are a vital tourist attraction , their foraging creates a mosaic of habitats which benefits a wide range of species , and their habitats range from forest to savanna to semi-desert . |
| 7 | Importantly their chapter offers a defence of the role of educational studies in addressing fundamental educational problems and issues , and of the need to sustain independent enquiry at a time when official pressure concentrates on the technical and utilitarian aspects of schooling . |
| 8 | It can be said of these strong-minded and independently gifted accomplices that their work shows a dimension of reciprocity and replication , of the production unit , which stands at an appreciable remove from parody and plagiarism , and from the mimicry of other people 's voices which is comprehended in the term ‘ ventriloquism ’ , which Amis goes in for in private , among friends , and which is also a pleasure of the novels he writes . |
| 9 | The upper half of their beak has a hook in it with which they latch on to a flower . |
| 10 | Their move follows a judge 's protest this week that he could not imprison a 13-year-old torturer who carved his initials on a boy 's back . |
| 11 | Ooh my doctor told me er these guys are n't they , if their wife has a baby . |
| 12 | Their advice follows a decision by John MacGregor , Secretary of State for Education , to delay proposals for a national appraisal scheme , run by local authorities under strict guidelines . |
| 13 | The urban poor , who burn kerosene to cook , for example , suffer as the end users if their government puts a levy on imports of petroleum . |
| 14 | Banks outside America do not need to keep in their NOSTRO accounts a sum equal to their deposits . |
| 15 | The variety of their occupations gives a sense of the remarkably diverse bases for economic independence still open at the beginning of this century . |
| 16 | He also seems to have donated his belt and hose , as a twelfth-century account of their treasures lists a girdle made from the one and an alb decorated with gold thread from the other . |
| 17 | The attempt by the English Crown Prosecution Service to obtain the confiscation of the benefits obtained by Randle and Pottle from the publication of their book raises a number of important questions about the nature , scope and purpose of the legislation which permits such actions . |
| 18 | If teachers are to merit the title of ‘ professional ’ , using the word not in the narrow context outlined above but in the sense of somebody who in their employment performs a task well , teachers will need to regain the confidence of the public . |
| 19 | They insist , nevertheless , on the distinctiveness and importance of holism , and , as I shall argue , their account suggests a way to resolve the dispute between holists and individualists . |
| 20 | Although their lawn looks a bit |
| 21 | Their line-up features a host of stars — from the Cuttitta brothers to the gifted Italo-Argentine Diego Dominguez . |
| 22 | But Mr Kohl 's lack of forthrightness in acting against racist attacks and his reluctance to take up the cause of their victims suggests a chancellor , if not a country , who has yet to come fully to terms with the past . |