Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The actin cable provides a novel way for epidermal cells to coordinate their activities so as to close gaps , fulfilling their function as a self-repairing barrier layer . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , for the scientists running the rehabilitation centres it is still a question of persuading the owners to surrender their captives rather than ordering them to do so . |
| 3 | They hold their heads tight when coughing because of the splitting headache . |
| 4 | Buyers will bargain hard to cut the cost of the house they want , but dig in their heels rather than reduce their own asking price . |
| 5 | The experience then was that floating did not appear to be very successful since individual countries depreciated their currencies so as to gain a competitive advantage over their trading rivals . |
| 6 | How many people have done their , at my age , done their feet in because wearing them I do n't know . |
| 7 | Local villagers are prepared to sacrifice their lives rather than move to the inadequate , drought-prone resettlement areas ; many who moved to the resettlement areas in past years are now returning to their threatened villages . |
| 8 | But before Musicians Against The War had the guts to get off their arses rather than supporting the kicking of other people 's , where the hell WAS the rebellion ? |
| 9 | Users specify their needs rather than having to construct the procedures to retrieve the required data . |
| 10 | Much anxiety may be avoided for your elderly parents if you can organise yourself and other members of the family to help them regularly with the jobs they can not cope with — anticipating their needs rather than waiting to be asked . |
| 11 | After all , one alternative upon discovering from an activity-based costing system that many products are unprofitable is to focus on reducing their costs rather than close down their production lines . |
| 12 | If they recovered and were friends she was delighted , and would flirt with them , and assume an easy physicality with them , and sleep with them again maybe , and break their hearts again if given half a chance . |
| 13 | They will obviously arrange their affairs so as to ensure a steady stream of maturing loans . |
| 14 | Apart from the very great difficulty of establishing how a couple manage their finances ( in effect one would have to take their word for it ) and the strong incentive they would have to arrange their affairs so as to safeguard the woman 's claim to benefit , the fact that she is receiving benefit may itself make it unnecessary for the man to give her more than is required for his own keep . |
| 15 | University stress counsellors say students often arrive with their problems rather than have them created at College . |
| 16 | ‘ People saw politics as adding to their problems rather than solving them . |
| 17 | That so far the outlaws had left them alone and kept out of sight troubled them all , this was so unexpected that it increased their fears rather than diminished them . |
| 18 | Heating is usually irreversible , because foods change their textures irreversibly when heated . |
| 19 | The management usually have a ruling that receptionists do not socialise with the guests on a personal basis ; therefore staff should not make dates with guests or visit their rooms even if invited to do so . |
| 20 | They were also not curling their toes under as has been suggested by jack Stem and Randall Susman from the State University of New York at Stony Brook . |
| 21 | First , marriage as a legal institution developed , I submit , as an essential legal first step towards amassing wealth and power by uniting partners with these attributes and endowing with legitimacy their heirs so as to guarantee inheritance according to articulated and certain principles . |
| 22 | Agreement is more likely if both parties explore their interests rather than state their positions . |
| 23 | Linked with this latter point , it was also reported that when it came to an evaluation of training courses " higher education providers revealed that their concern was very largely with improving the quality of their courses rather than assessing their effectiveness upon participants ' management practice in school " ( Wallace and Hall 1989:172 ) . |
| 24 | The vast majority who remained in work found their wages more than kept pace with inflation . |
| 25 | Any farm worker could easily anticipate the consequences of ‘ going against ’ the local farmers , so for the most part they resigned themselves to this situation , bit their tongues rather than spoke out and developed what is by now their notorious taciturnity and ability to ‘ keep themselves to themselves ’ . |
| 26 | The road down to the bridge was packed so they decided to leave their horses rather than ride . |
| 27 | In 1859 , when the Origin of Species had come out , the evidence from fossils was suggestive but very incomplete : geologists had sought to characterize strata by their fossils rather than to follow family trees through from early times to the present . |
| 28 | Other breeds have colour-pointed varieties such as the White Galloway and White Welsh , but these are colour varieties within their breeds rather than separate breeds and quite often their non-standard colour can be traced back to crossings with White Park or British White in the past . |
| 29 | This means that farmers in these dales may opt to be paid a certain amount per hectare by the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food to manage their lands so as to ensure the traditional landscape features of stone buildings , field walls and flower-rich meadows for the enjoyment of the public . |
| 30 | Nor need the doctor adopt palliative measures , if ‘ palliation ’ is taken to mean the use of measures aimed at modifying pathological processes or their consequences so as to delay or prevent the otherwise inevitable effects of such processes or their consequences . |