Example sentences of "their [noun] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It would be helpful to the planning committee if Q.T. could let us know their views on the last year 's programme . |
| 5 | Sutton and Packford both cut their teeth on the old hot-metal newspaper production process . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ( ‘ Omnicorp ’ ) on the one hand and the respondents and their associates on the other hand . |
| 8 | She heard their hissing breaths , and the hard , sharp noise of their hooves on the polished floorboards . |
| 9 | Typically organisations require employees to obtain two or three estimates and base their payment on the lowest one . |
| 10 | The Chorley Machine Knitting Club hold their meetings on the second Tuesday of every month , 7.30pm to 9.30pm at the Astley Village Community Centre , Nr Chorley . |
| 11 | The Ivel Machine Knitters Club hold their meetings on the second Thursday of every month from 7.30pm to 9.30pm at The Labour Hall , . |
| 12 | A third Free Presbyterian minister said : ‘ Perhaps the main reason [ for leaving the Orange Order ] was that in 1969 I was saved by the grace of God and therefore felt that I could not sit and be associated with members of the Orange and Black while they consumed alcohol in their meetings on the 12th and 13th mornings each July . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We are committed to the development of rugby league in Wales and will be monitoring their progress on the international scene during their home fixtures with New Zealand and France next season . ’ |
| 14 | She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor . |
| 15 | On the fifth night they were dog-tired , having had little relaxing sleep in the cramped quarters of the submarine and spending several hours each day writing up their notes on the previous night 's recce . |
| 16 | The monitors , who meet to discuss their audits on the first Friday of every month , are : . |
| 17 | Then that night , just before the offensive was due to start , they would slip down and place their bombs on the parked enemy aircraft . |
| 18 | They simply wandered around in the dark , placing their bombs on the parked aircraft until they ran out of them . |
| 19 | Traders displaced from their pitches on the High Street will set up their stalls in adjoining Dovecot Street . |
| 20 | It was as though he held his breath , his whole being concentrated on that chunk of gleaming piezo quartz centred , as he had told Jezrael , above one of the underground cables laid between Spiderglass Southern and their base on the populated equator . |
| 21 | In recent months , members of the Centre have been consulted , quoted , and courted for their opinions on the momentous events in the Soviet Union . |
| 22 | My colleagues may offer their opinions on the latter ; I can only assert that the first accusation is nonsense and if the allegation is true then I would love to know more about it but , regrettably , my request for further information has been met with silence . |
| 23 | And naturally they gave their opinions on the new Mrs Arbuthnot . |
| 24 | Other delays can arise if a country is experiencing a foreign currency shortage ( insufficient export revenues ) and some form of currency rationing exists which prevents importers from settling their debts on the due dates . |
| 25 | Stalemate prevailed on the Italian Front and all their offensives on the Western Front had been frustrated with heavy loss — at Neuve Chapelle ( March ) , at Ypres ( April ) and in Champagne and at Loos ( September ) . |
| 26 | Traders and craftsmen , who provided goods for the troops and the King 's Court , built their houses on the sloping tail of rock which had been protected from erosion when slowly passing ice sheets had scraped at the valley floor . |
| 27 | Tragedy struck two settlers , a Lieutenant Lowe and his nephew , who were among those grazing their sheep on the Namoi plains . |
| 28 | The others went off to have a bite to eat before beginning their checks on the Sardinian shepherds they had picked out . |
| 29 | Greig was gracious in defeat , saying that their play on the first day deserved every credit . |
| 30 | There these Semites imposed their language , their customs and their institutions on the indigenous Hamitic population , with whom they interbred to produce the ancestors of modern Tigreans and Amhara . |