Example sentences of "their [noun pl] ' [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Declaration , participants challenged their continents ' churches and governments to take urgent steps to put democracy and respect for human rights at the forefront of their agenda . |
| 2 | However , the employees also have responsibilities and are required both to exercise reasonable care , and to cooperate with their employers ' health and safety policies . |
| 3 | There are also specific duties on employees to use equipment in accordance with training they have received and to report dangerous situations and any shortcomings in their employers ' health and safety arrangements . |
| 4 | Citizens ' Advice Bureaux can also put compulsive spenders in touch with debt counsellors , who are able to assess their clients ' finances and thus establish an escape from what can feel like a financial swamp . |
| 5 | There will be a written test of the representatives ' knowledge of law and procedure and ability to think through a problem and formulate advice and a practical assessment of the representatives ' ability to argue their clients ' case and intervene appropriately and assertively during interview . |
| 6 | This helps them to respond sensitively to their clients ' suggestions and to furnish a diagnosis and accusation of guilt which is highly acceptable to the victim . |
| 7 | As professionals , committed to securing solutions to their clients ' briefs and aware of their social and environmental responsibilities , landscape architects can not be caricatured as a collection of irresponsible businessmen , intent on driving up clients ' budgets to serve their own greedy ends . |
| 8 | Married women observe vratas to keep their husbands safe and healthy till they themselves die , to increase their husbands ' fortune and to preserve their husbands ' affection . |
| 9 | From 1948 when the National Insurance Scheme started , married women were given the option to pay the full-rate contribution for a pension in their own right or to be dependent on their husbands ' contributions and to pay a very reduced rate contribution — called the small stamp . |
| 10 | Until May 1978 , all married women and widows had the right to rely on their husbands ' contributions and forgo claims to short-term benefits ( sickness , unemployment and maternity ) as well as claims to pensions in their own right . |
| 11 | But in fact married women remained totally dependent on their husbands ' contributions and the benefits husbands received on their behalf . |
| 12 | For those who like to make comparisons between their pets ' ages and their own , bearing in mind that the figures are only a rough guide , the following table may be of interest . |
| 13 | The opt-out schools will just increase the gap between the places where people have money to spend on their kids ' education and those where they have n't . |
| 14 | The more senior staff also say they feel more competent to conduct the review , have contributed to more of the report directly , found the LEA guidelines more useful , report that outsiders were more involved in their schools ' review and consider their reports to be more judgmental . |
| 15 | In the early afternoon , Allied reserve divisions and tanks passed through their comrades ' lines and by about 15.10 the ridge in its entirety was securely held and all objectives taken . |
| 16 | It has also been spurred on by the growing tendency for young adults to seek accommodation away from their parents ' home and , particularly in the 1980s , by the increase in the numbers of young adults resulting from the baby boom . |
| 17 | They picked up scores of children who should have been in class , and found that many stay away from school with their parents ' knowledge and consent . |
| 18 | People belonged to their parents ' jati and automatically followed the occupation of the jati into which they were born . |
| 19 | It is a much debated question whether those who voted for these resolutions were truly representative of their countries ' educators and whether the debate preceding them was fairly conducted . |
| 20 | Thomas Eisner from Cornell and Dan Janzen from Pennsylvania University suggested to a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science that pharmaceutical companies should train local " parataxonomists " to make inventories of their countries ' flora and explore potential markets for its use . |
| 21 | Not only does the 24-hour delivery time achieved week in week out put most publishers to shame , but if it were not for their buyers ' notes and regular representative visits , we as a small bookshop all too often ignored by publishers — The Bookseller apart , whose efforts are also appreciated — would not be made aware of new titles and promotions . |
| 22 | In societies close to subsistence levels , there may be relatively little outside the ‘ world of work ’ , which occupies most of their individuals ' time and energy . |
| 23 | So , many leading-edge manufacturers are searching for ways to enhance their workers ' capabilities and improve labour relations , even as they look to the new technology to cut labour costs as well . ’ |
| 24 | In another ten years they can come and visit me to their hearts ' content and I wo n't object . |
| 25 | He and Stapleton can associate to their hearts ' content and that 's something to bring a smile to his face . |
| 26 | Sales-forces organized on a customer basis have the advantage of a thorough knowledge of their customers ' needs and sales records . |
| 27 | The dogs would have chips coded with their owners ' names and addresses implanted below the fur . |
| 28 | They must , therefore , ensure that the choreographic lines in their design flow through and round the centre of their dancers ' bodies and that limbs and heads move in true coordination . |
| 29 | They stood up to be counted , to save their men 's jobs , their community and their families ' futures and I salute their courage and wish them well in their pit vigil . |
| 30 | Data of this kind , to enable media planners to assess their schedules ' reach and frequency , are held by AGB , who run the BARB service . |