Example sentences of "their [noun pl] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The journeymen wool sorters of Exeter did this in 1787 before striking at the time when their employers had large wool stocks on hand . |
| 2 | We married them to make a strong peace ; their brothers had some women from us . ’ |
| 3 | Their responses had short-lived effectiveness in that they grabbed hold of him and tugged him back to his ‘ work ’ while scolding him loudly . |
| 4 | The teenage mothers like their parents had little ambition and worse prospects for anything except further childbearing ( Cartwright 1978 ) . |
| 5 | Foster parents can often claim fostering allowances of 2–3 times the Supplementary Benefit that the natural parent would have received for looking after the same child … which is peculiarly ironic when one considers that some children might not be in foster-care at all if their parents had adequate incomes in the first place ( Fairbairns , 1976 ) . |
| 6 | While they were subject to important central pressures , the Area Chairmen and their Boards had considerable authority and status at the local level , which they sought to develop by rooting their Boards firmly in the local community . |
| 7 | The nationals did not cover the country evenly either , and their contents had distinct biases . |
| 8 | In determining the level of planned capacity five years ahead , separate estimates had been made by the BEA commercial department ( taking into account national economic trends ) , the engineers ( using simple arithmetical extrapolation of past growth ) , and the Area Boards ( using their local knowledge ) , Their forecasts had one thing in common : they all under-estimated the growth ( the commercial department 's forecasts being least , and the Area Boards ' most , accurate ) . |
| 9 | The confidential document asked soldiers to state whether they or members of their families had any links with a wide range of illegal and political organisations . |
| 10 | This work was in some ways inferior to that done in America , where engineers had developed a disc-cutter with better frequency-range and lower distortion , and their pressings had lower surface-noise as well . |
| 11 | Studies in Glasgow showed that mothers with higher than normal levels of lead in their bodies had more stillbirths , and babies born small . |
| 12 | None of their patients had cystic duct stones . |
| 13 | Democracy was still an idea in the minds of China 's students but their leaders had other priorities . |
| 14 | In Pit-Men , Preachers and Politics ( 1974 ) Professor Robert Moore has noted that in the Deerness Valley east of Durham City many old mining families recall the time when their ancestors had rural occupations . |
| 15 | Trousers , she now realised , were so designed not because their wearers had funny legs but because men were constantly worried that an essential part of themselves might have gone missing . |
| 16 | Because they saw no way out of the situation for themselves , they held to the belief that if their children had better opportunities , particularly education , it would enable their children to have far better working lives . |
| 17 | The local cadres recognised their protest as legal and an investigation team was sent to the college to see if their complaints had any substance . |
| 18 | It is true that high-level Bolshevik theorists in Moscow and Petrograd tended to select , filter , and interpret evidence from the localities in the light of their prevailing general beliefs , so that their conclusions had little foundation in hard evidence . |
| 19 | The close involvement of religious leaders with the civil affairs of their followers had fateful consequences during the nineteenth century when the declining Ottoman empire faced the rising tide of Slav nationalism . |