Example sentences of "and their [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This discovery precipitated the Red Lake Gold Rush , and their find became the Howey Gold Mine , the first in the Red Lake district , resulting in Burnt Bay being renamed as Howey Bay , the name that it retains to this day . |
| 2 | This is a vivid and funny production and their expertise makes the intricate puppetry go like a dream . |
| 3 | The proembryoes can be frozen and stored , and their availability improves the chance of success of in vitro fertilizations as well as allowing a woman to have another child a year or two after the first . |
| 4 | At the root of Orwell 's socialism was a belief in the decency of ordinary working people and their capacity to prevent the necessary centralization of a socialist economy from degenerating into totalitarianism . |
| 5 | And their resilience changed the tone of my whole project . |
| 6 | This may be more explicit within the public sector because of the fact of government organisations being led by politicians and their work involving the implementation of a political party 's policies . |
| 7 | Jonathan Ruthertord finds something strangely relevant for cultural politics in Britain in the 1990s in the cross-racial identifications of Lawrence of Arabia some seventy years before : ‘ His identification with the Arabs and their culture displaced the centered position of his identity as a white man . |
| 8 | They rolled up and down perfectly and their presence obviated the need for curtains . |
| 9 | However , where ant presence promotes food-body production , certain ( Phyllobaenus ) beetle larvae prey on the ants ; such can be found inhabiting plants even in the absence of the ants and their presence causes the food bodies to grow , while herbivore damage seems to increase . |
| 10 | They met in 1921 , became lovers , had three children , and their relationship survived the vicissitudes of his work , travels , other relationships and the understandable but violent jealousy of his long-suffering wife . |
| 11 | Seeing their Lord defeated and their standard smashed the Dark Elves fell into despair . |
| 12 | It was at three am on August the eigth nineteen sixty three that Ronnie Biggs , Buster Edwards and their gang fixed the signals to stop the night train at Sears Crossing in Buckinghamshire . |
| 13 | The psychological well being of the victims and their ability to put the crime behind them is a very important part of their needs . |
| 14 | Considerations on which they seem to draw include : how they construe their role as members of the police , which is itself informed by their interpretation of the organizational mandate of the force , by informal organizational requirements and occupational culture , and by local community expectations ; their knowledge of locale ; whether constables are able to resolve the momentary demands of the situation ; and their ability to handle the complex mix of law enforcement , local expectations , and the need for good public relations . |
| 15 | A sample of bats is released into a darkened room containing obstacles and their ability to avoid the obstacles measured in some way . |
| 16 | To keep juries for all crown court trials including fraud — the Commission 's own research has shown a high level of satisfaction with the jury system and their ability to understand the evidence . |
| 17 | Obviously they blamed the poor performance of students for the 15% and their ability to get the best out of the students for the 47% . |
| 18 | This was assessed by two independent investigators by observing ( a ) the cell appearance and their ability to attach the plate in the first 24 hours and ( b ) the length of time the culture required to reach confluency from the same starting number of cells per well . |
| 19 | Because of high potential reproductive success and their effort to earn the parental care for seeking additional mates . |
| 20 | Until these underlying images of individual and society are recognized , and their study given the explicit attention it deserves , the significance of geographical knowledge for social practice will not be realized , nor the constraints it currently imposes overcome . |
| 21 | Held : The defendants owed to the plaintiff , as a guest , a duty to take all reasonable care to see that the premises were safe , and their failure to light the passage in a London hotel at 11.20 p.m. , when guests might reasonably be expected to be using the passage was a breach of that duty which had resulted in injury to the plaintiff . |
| 22 | Last autumn , Dr Klinowska , Mr Goodson and their team put the theories into practice . |
| 23 | Doctors feared that their own functions would ultimately be supplanted or controlled by local authority health services and their opposition slowed the development of the inspection and treatment of schoolchildren . |
| 24 | The general had had to order this unit and their leader to attack the village . |
| 25 | On Easter Monday we went with ‘ the children ’ and their party to see the panegyri at Arachova , near Delphi . |
| 26 | Other witnesses , some of whom had themselves been imprisoned , spoke feelingly of the dread of the Combination Laws in the east Midlands and their use to cower the knitters into defeat , at a time when wages had sunk to 7s ( 35p ) a week . |
| 27 | Their technique held out better than Cambridge 's and their power won the day . |
| 28 | Spectators at club matches in New Zealand have vented their feelings in no uncertain fashion , jeering every time the action stops and their side loses the ball . |
| 29 | And their father became the happiest man in the whole kingdom . |
| 30 | For that reason , conservatives who reject the idea of change , who cling to past ideas and ideologies , while we may not agree with them , are entitled to be understood and their reluctance to face the pain of change respected . |