Example sentences of "their [noun] that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no easy solution to the problem this creates for treaty parties : it is to their advantage that a treaty be widely recognised as normative , and they can not deny the application of customary law to a single State . |
| 2 | The meeting with the Grant Assessment Panel of the Sports Council took place in February and Pauline explained how well the new plan had been received by the panel who had expressed their hope that the rise in membership numbers would be maintained . |
| 3 | Commercial organisations like the Co-operative Retail Society , the Co-operative Wholesale Society , Marks & Spencer and Iceland have expressed their horror that the Government should so abdicate their responsibility as to say , ’ We shall do nothing if you break the law , ’ and weakly add the unconvincing refrain , as the Home Office Minister did , ’ But we 'd rather like it if you did n't . ’ |
| 4 | He should also realise that tax is levied on people 's own money : it does not belong to the Government ; it is their money that the Government compulsorily take away from them in taxation . |
| 5 | " Officers had instructions from their employers that no English need apply and that the best chance a man could have to get employment would be that he could not speak the English language ; then he was sure to get a situation " . |
| 6 | If a customer asks a broker to deal on an exchange it is usually an implied term of their contract that the broker will do so in accordance with the usages of that exchange . |
| 7 | For example , the employees who reject their manager 's ultimatum and vote for industrial action have withdrawn their concession that the manager can control their behaviour . |
| 8 | In the meantime , the banks which lent the money to the dealers to enable them to pay the vast prices of the boom period are being very patient in waiting for their money , as it was partly their fault that a bubble economy was created in Japan . |
| 9 | People will wonder if it is their fault that the person who died in the road traffic accident perhaps was not looking where they were going because of being preoccupied with what was happening just before they left home . |
| 10 | A director would instruct dealers to tell their clients that an announcement was pending " in order to persuade them to buy more or to hold on to stock they wished to sell . |
| 11 | Academic researchers working in higher education have to convince the relevant committees in their institution that the work is important enough for scarce resources to be devoted to it . |
| 12 | Some chapters in this book will support the strength of the Committee 's criticism and their recommendation that the Department of Health ( then DHSS ) should , in consultation with outside interests , re-establish fuller collection of relevant statistical information ( Recommendation 73 ) . |
| 13 | It was only as time , the weather , bad management , neglect and poverty took their toll that the dream turned sour . |
| 14 | Somehow they had got it into their heads that the specimen was at least fifteen thousand years old . |
| 15 | For most of the leaders among the Owenites the distinction only showed itself in their recognition that the Bill had done nothing for working people ; that since the prime need , as they saw it , was to act directly to remove the evils of a system which grievously oppressed the lives of working people , the Bill had been at best an irrelevance , at worst a distraction . |
| 16 | The Turks made little secret of their pleasure that the majority of the Central Asian delegations spoke in Turkish at the summit . |
| 17 | A few — Shales , certainly , and Charlotte Feaver — did n't attempt to disguise their pleasure that the Society 's most ebullient and unrepentant member was here finally called to heel . |
| 18 | ( However , on May 1 ministers did approve a " solemn declaration " to be attached to the Treaty saying that " it was and is their intention that the protocol shall not limit freedom either to travel between member states or … to obtain or make available in Ireland , information relating to services lawfully available in member states " . ) |
| 19 | They also tell their readers that the dish itself must be cleaned repeatedly to avoid any infection or contamination . |
| 20 | All the music papers were quick to inform their readers that The Wedding Present had not gone soft after signing with RCA . |
| 21 | They want to tell the Ambassador they are unhappy about the trial , the fact that the jury found there was no premeditation , and their fear that the court could have been influenced because their daughter was not of French nationality . |
| 22 | He said afterwards that he and his colleagues impressed on Mr Patten their fear that the tax could be a ‘ poisoned chalice ’ if it was not made attractive to voters . |
| 23 | It is obviously to their benefit that the specification reflects the strengths and capabilities of their products rather than competition . |
| 24 | When he was in a room with people , unless he was following a definite thought , he was so open to their influence that the identity of everyone pressed on him and annihilated him : … |
| 25 | It 's implicit from their staging that the band knows they 're nothing to look at , and they were smart enough to create a slide show that transfixes the audience . |
| 26 | They had endured an embarrassing fund-raising dinner , for which rich Americans had paid 5,000 dollars a ticket , only to discover on their return that the Confederation of British Industry had done nothing to follow it up with any kind of sales drive . |
| 27 | These develop into tiny animals so unlike their parents that the connection between adults and offspring was not recognised until the last century . |
| 28 | Even so , Alison winced slightly , confirming their suspicion that the uterus was tender and contracted . |
| 29 | They might not , however , follow Marx and Engels in their conclusion that the system on which their own society is based will therefore also be overthrown , but it is difficult to seen how such a conclusion can be avoided . |
| 30 | Most startling was their conclusion that the death rates from accidents and violence ( of which suicide is a major component ) were more than twice those of employed men . |