Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A cold wind blew and the rain fell in torrents as the Spanish launched their first IACC boat . |
| 2 | An austere Maronite Christian who commanded the loyalty of both Christian and Muslim brigades in the US-trained and equipped Lebanese Army , Aoun had many friends in the Pentagon but none in the State Department , which saw his ambition to let the Lebanese choose their own government without foreign interference as a threat to America 's interests . |
| 3 | Wales halved 7–7 with Scotland yesterday and need to beat the English to record their first ever home international win . |
| 4 | The argument , however , forced the English to justify their national identity , and the arguments employed give some idea of how men thought at the time . |
| 5 | It was with this kind of experience of rapidly changing war behind them that the English began their long conflict against France . |
| 6 | Thereafter , as the British recognised their predominant position in the world , antislavery laid claim to putting moral fibre into the exercise of international power and in doing so promised to help sustain that predominance by prescribing as fundamental features of other societies forms of commerce and labour in accord with British values . |
| 7 | In Europe , the British mounted their first opposed raid against Vaagsö Island ( central Norway ) that December . |
| 8 | The French had their own name for it — chaudepisse . |
| 9 | The French make their main rotors turn clockwise when viewed from above . |
| 10 | To this the French contributed their own mistakes which soon lost them any advantage they may have enjoyed . |
| 11 | Captain R.R. ( Bill ) Baldwin 's platoon had a patrol out under Corporal Palmer when the Japanese launched their first attack ( see map p. 77 ) and the platoons withdrew through enemy patrolled country , laying ambushes in the scrub . |
| 12 | The Japanese have their own version of English . |
| 13 | December that year , they were able to launch a counter attack , the very day chosen by the Japanese to launch their infamous aerial attack on the United States of American naval forces at Pearl Harbour . |
| 14 | Fifty years ago , the Japanese undertook their devastating attack on Pearl Harbor and World War Two took on a new dimension . |
| 15 | The only computers in many villages are those owned by the teenage boys of the affluent to play their wham-bam games . |
| 16 | IT 'S well over a decade since the B-52s played their only Scottish show at Tiffany 's discotheque , Edinburgh . |
| 17 | The Athlete 's Diary is one of a growing number of products available to assist the former group and encourage the latter to mend their lackadaisical ways . |
| 18 | Such contracts enable the latter to adjust their seasonal labour force downwards to cope with any less busy periods within the summer season and , more important , to run their labour forces down gradually as the season draws to an end and the number of guests tails off . |
| 19 | THE New Zealand Rugby League tourists must envy the amount of publicity — and the financial rewards — currently being enjoyed by their countrymen from the unsullied ‘ amateur ’ world of Rugby Union as the latter grind their remorseless way around Wales and Ireland . |
| 20 | A refinement of the design of the Cambridge bridge over the original was the incorporation of wrought-iron latticework in the unglazed windows to prevent the lovelorn emulating their Latin counterparts by leaping to their deaths in the river . |
| 21 | There was some criticism among Burmans about the appointment of a missionary as DPR , but after a press conference or two and visits to key people , the criticism died down , and in a public lunch given by the Chinese to welcome their new Consul-General , I was asked to speak . |
| 22 | When the Chinese made their first attempt , in preparation for the invasion of Indo-China , to bring the various Vietnamese factions together and create a Vietnamese Revolutionary League ( abbreviated to Dong Minh Hoi ) members of the ICP were specifically excluded . |
| 23 | Yet unquestionably the Chinese drew their main supplies of ivory from the south . |
| 24 | Yet Robert Reiner ( 1989 ) , writing on the collective culture of chief constables , is the first to explore their extraordinary place in modern society , simply because as an élite among the powerful in society they have had little need to reveal how they operate , link together , or reveal what structures of significance guide their actions . |
| 25 | They are among the first to acknowledge their relative inexperience in the shortened version of the game , pointing out that sevens has not captured the imagination of Southern Africa and that Hong Kong was Namibia 's first international sevens appearance . |
| 26 | WHEN Newry 's Errol Lutton makes his Ulster senior debut in the inter-provincials next weekend in Dublin he can thank his lucky stars that his club were the first to complete their Senior One fixtures this season … otherwise he would have missed his big chance . |
| 27 | Was this because the first consolidated their own view of the world ? |
| 28 | The winning team is the first to have their first player back at the front of the line . |
| 29 | At last , in 1962 the Dutch abandoned their costly and useless possession . |
| 30 | Grandparents introduce grandchildren to the simple pleasures of ‘ feeding the ducks ’ ; photographers and artists appreciate views of birds in close up ; the visually handicapped can follow a braille trail ; the disabled have their own boardwalk and comfortable hide ; the Tropical House offers an impression , in miniature , of a tropical rain forest where brilliant humming birds hover at hibiscus flowers . |