Example sentences of "their [noun sg] on the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are , therefore , dependent for their livelihood on the capitalists and the wages they offer . |
| 2 | Ivy had her hands full with the driving , and although Zen soon gave up trying to follow their route on the maps he had brought with him , which proved to bear only a partial and rather disturbing resemblance to the landscape , like a mild hallucination , he kept up a show of poring over them to try and assuage his guilt at being a mere passenger , unable to share her burden . |
| 3 | For most of the time the plaintiffs seemed to miss out on the need to prove their reliance on the accounts and had they addressed this early enough , the case might never have come to court . |
| 4 | This second volume of drawings vindicates their reliance on the individuals to whom they have entrusted the expansion of this area of their collections . |
| 5 | Lawyers will continue to base their defence on the grounds that the shootings were lawful . |
| 6 | An outcry from dentists around the country this week forced the Government to postpone their decision on the payments until May 1 . |
| 7 | This means that a management policy that is injurious to employee interests can be attacked only on the grounds that the directors lacked good faith , meaning that the directors did not honestly believe that the policy constitutes an appropriate balancing of interests , or that they have altogether disregarded the impact of their decision on the employees . |
| 8 | Surely if the judges did come to their decision on the grounds of relative merit , they should be prepared to defend it ? |
| 9 | In Colombo policemen often took advantage of municipal health , safety and traffic regulations in order to ‘ tax ’ carters , rickshaw drivers and others who made their living on the streets of the capital , and in the twentieth century bus drivers regularly bribed the police . |
| 10 | In the light of what was to follow , it could be argued that Scapula was panicked into rash measures , excusable only as military necessities , but their effect on the Britons was to be as deplorable for them as for Rome . |
| 11 | Christine Brooke-Rose 's growing interest in structuralist linguistics is evident in her novels of the 1960s in the use of creative juxtaposition and other devices which depend for their effect on the relations between elements rather than on the elements ‘ as such ’ . |
| 12 | But while injury and age have taken their toll on the others , Kapil , at 33 , is still among the world 's most effective paceman . |
| 13 | Unguarded pto shafts , clearing machinery while it is still running , failing to switch off engines , and removing fallen and hung-up trees still exact their toll on the lives of our workforce . |
| 14 | The cold , rainy conditions took their toll on the competitors at the Longfield Road Stadium and three race leaders were forced to throw in the towel . |
| 15 | Although they eschewed the large houses and endowments of the monks , they frequently attracted considerable wealth because of lay support for their fiery preaching and their concentration on the towns . |
| 16 | A poor middle aged peasant couple of Cum Sien in Honan province were dependent for their subsistence on the wages of their only son who worked in a coal mine . |
| 17 | The mountains can be a dangerous place — weather changes rapidly leaving climbers and walkers ‘ blind ’ while hands and feet can easily lose their grip on the slopes covered with neve or tightly packed snow . |
| 18 | After setting up and completing their work on the beaches , on 10 July , No 6 Beach Group was dissolved . |
| 19 | Under the old DHSS cohabitation ruling , beleaguered by years of criticism from welfare workers and the women 's movement , women who had male friends , family or lovers around ran the risk of losing their benefit on the grounds that these men were or should be maintaining them . |
| 20 | Any assessment of the impact of labour unions requires us to consider not only their influence on the wages and conditions of their members but also how this affects non-members in the same firm and labour in general . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ I urge all those who are in a position to do so to use their influence on the men of violence from both sides of the community to end their murderous activities , and to create the only basis on which an enduring peace can be established . ’ |
| 22 | Pat O'Brien addressed the Divorce Action Group in Galway on 27 May , supporting their campaign on the grounds of religious freedom for minorities ( Irish Times , 29 May 1986 ) . |
| 23 | In addition to their orthodoxy on the issues , this is what makes them an asset to the DUP and this is what accounts for their displacing of some of the stalwarts . |
| 24 | On 18 August 1991 Antonio Palacios Urrea , three of his children and his son-in-law were shot dead by soldiers in their home on the outskirts of Fusagasugá , Cundinamarca department . |
| 25 | From locality to Christendom : that was the range of vision of leading Scotsmen , kings , churchmen and nobles — transmitted , we may assume , to all those who sat in St Machar 's , their attention on the clergy at the altar distracted by what soared above them . |
| 26 | Coetzee , describing the leagues as part of a Conservative effort to get to grips with mass politics and the ‘ new religion ’ of socialism , explains the timing of their appearance on the grounds that prior to the 1890s ‘ the Conservatives had no need of recourse to such pressure groups because they already possessed access to institutions adequate for the defence of their interests within the existing sociopolitical framework ’ . |
| 27 | Their choices follow : Lunn Poly 's marketing director Peter Rothwell observed that as a rule the staff in their 505 shops base their selling on the answers given by the customer in a questionnaire , to prevent mismatches between customers and the holidays they took , but he nevertheless felt safe in saying that two young couples , a bit adventurous , would do well if they invested in an ILG Drive Europe holiday along the west coast of France to Biarritz , good countryside and a nice old town , accommodation at the Mer et Golf apartments , two weeks in all with ferry and accommodation included for £255 each . |
| 28 | In September 1915 , the UDC refused to accept their affiliation on the grounds that the UDC had less to gain from any activity the Fellowship might undertake on its behalf than it had to lose from being associated with the doctrine of non-resistance . |
| 29 | But their record on the rights of ordinary people proves to me they are nothing but fascists . ’ |
| 30 | When they are supposed to be arguing about the rider or scrawling their name on the walls , they sit quietly down and start replying to fan letters , or in Solowka 's case , it 's off with the flat-cap and out with the calculator . |