Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their titles invoke the Situationists ' rhetorical use of long and rhapsodic titles . |
| 2 | The National Children 's Bureau 's parent education and support project identified a number of trends affecting parents in the 1980s ; for example , the pressure on parents as a result of our increasing knowledge of child development and society 's high expectations of the parental role ; the tendency for professionals to undermine parents ' self-confidence with their expertise ; the isolation felt by many parents with young children ; the need for information and knowledge , for social and practice skills , and for self-awareness and understanding of how their values affect the way in which they bring up their children ( Pugh and De'Ath , 1984 ) . |
| 3 | There was no term in their contracts entitling the employer to require that the employees move . |
| 4 | The Defence Ministry on Oct. 3 , 1989 , issued instructions requiring all those exporting military " intelligence " from Israel , including instruction and training , to provide proof that their operations had the approval of the government . |
| 5 | Their possessions dominated the roads leading north from Limoges to Poitou and Berry . |
| 6 | While their chauffeurs kept the engines running , the stunned bicheiros were handcuffed and paraded away in their silk suits to jail . |
| 7 | Yellow pages it might once have been , but no-one would let their fingers do the walking when it comes to mucking out , that 's still done at arms length . |
| 8 | Although all firms that go into IVAs are automatically referred to the Institute 's Investigation Committee , the Committee 's policy is that it will adjourn consideration of their cases to give the arrangements time to work , unless there is evidence of fraud , falsehood or gross recklessness . |
| 9 | Their discussions included the merger of the Falange and the Traditionalist movement and they went so far as to commission a draft document outlining the project . |
| 10 | Their sketches show the castle fully formed , with seven towers and high battlements , the stone appearing slightly worn and aged . |
| 11 | Most professionals , however , did not have the market value nor did their clubs have the resources to behave like this . |
| 12 | Yet there is evidence ( for example in the numerous letters written to women 's magazines on educational matters ) that they believe themselves to have spent their school-days sitting at their desks reciting the multiplication tables and learning how to parse sentences in the English language . |
| 13 | Evidently , when data is processed by the current system , candidate words must also be replaced by their indices to unify the representations . |
| 14 | Beginning to think about how their reactions affect the child can be an important step . |
| 15 | They went through , moving slowly , cautiously , side by side , using their lamps to light the way ahead of them . |
| 16 | Threats by angry complainants and their solicitors to stop the presses with eleventh-hour injunctions are largely bluff . |
| 17 | Here the ghyll valleys with their woods reach the cliff edge . |
| 18 | Each and every June , the world 's top amateur cyclists get on their bikes to pedal the roads , lanes , hills and mountains of Britain . |
| 19 | COUNCIL employees in Middlesbrough have got on their bikes to prove the authority 's Green credentials . |
| 20 | The embalmers had used all their skills to repair the body . |
| 21 | Stonemason , Oliver Webb is one of the team using their skills to renew the building . |
| 22 | Som would kill the unborn child or children of women and som ript open their bellys to take the child as offering . |
| 23 | For the same reason , civil servants above a certain level can not take an overt or active part in politics in case it could be said that their opinions influenced the minister . |
| 24 | When the first giraffes began to stretch their necks to reach the leaves of trees , they were choosing a new habit that would guide the future development of their species over a vast period of time . |
| 25 | Representatives of the Darlington Farmers Auction Mart have met the borough council to finalise conditions on their plans to move the market from Clifton Road to Holdforth Grange in Hurworth . |
| 26 | However , perhaps Dowling and his NZRFU men were taking a sensible step when the included Mains in their plans to improve the media relations of the All Blacks , something which hit bottom during the recent World Cup — and they had not been exactly healthy before that . |
| 27 | DARLINGTON health officials have drawn up a smart new logo as part of their plans to revamp the service 's image . |
| 28 | He claimed that their plans to dump the roubles back into the Soviet money supply had been forestalled , a matter of hours before it was due to begin , only by his quick decision to order the immediate withdrawal of the high-denomination rouble notes . |
| 29 | Latterly , he had advised the Trust on their plans to alter the valve events , with revised profiles for the exhaust cams . |
| 30 | Whoever wins , their plans to boost the economy will face political obstacles and will not have an instant effect . |