Example sentences of "in their [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ARSENAL 'S rent-a-crowd will assist the team in their battle for the first Premier League title . |
| 2 | The Conservatives remained dissatisfied with these arrangements and returned to the matter in their manifesto for the 1987 General Election . |
| 3 | This work was financed by the laity — both patrons of livings and parishioners , large numbers of whom made contributions during their lifetimes and left bequests in their wills for the refurbishing of their local churches . |
| 4 | The majority of the newspapers had become woefully compromised in their support for the government and good investigative journalism was one of the casualties . |
| 5 | Loyalist intransigence was bolstered not only by the new IRA campaign but also by the actions of three leading Fianna Fáil politicians in the South who were open and vocal in their support for the IRA . |
| 6 | And when Parliament eventually turned back the tide of opposition to Eyre and voted financial support to the former Governor , it was poetically appropriate that those who had been most vocal in their support for the Garotter 's Act — such as Mr Adderley and the rampant Colonel North — should be in the thick of it again , shouting their praise for Eyre 's loyalty to the Crown and his firm action that had saved a colony . |
| 7 | But they were not in Great Britain in 1984 , and adjacent areas with similar relatively isolated mining communities ( notably Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire ) differed very substantially not only in their support for the strike call but also in their level of industrial militancy over a substantial period of time . |
| 8 | Players are said to be equally solid in their support for the union 's current case . |
| 9 | The work may differ , but they are united in their admiration for the skill of the human hand and the imagination which drives them . |
| 10 | In their publicity for the film , Warner Bros boasted of the way in which the story had grown out of an actual incident and of Judge Musmanno 's involvement in the subsequent litigation , and also of how ex-miners had been brought in to ensure authentic mining scenes . |
| 11 | Linfield hope to have Raymond Campbell in their squad for the game ; the winger 's transfer from Glentoran is expected to be finalised early next week . |
| 12 | After the punchline had been delivered and the ensuing laughter had died away , the blonde swayed away from the bar and looked in their direction for the first time . |
| 13 | Several prominent political and religious leaders spoke at the service and were united in their calls for the government to take firm and speedy action against those responsible for the deaths . |
| 14 | He had acquired a strong influence over his brother John in their work for the Company and in saving him from bankruptcy . |
| 15 | The only thing to be said to that was said eight years ago by Michael Kinsley , a Washington journalist , when the Democrats had the same plank in their platform for the American elections . |
| 16 | Each of the major political parties included detailed commitments in their manifestos for the general election held in Britain on 9 April . |
| 17 | It is a policy profoundly opposed by the national Football Supporters Association ( FSA ) which recruits its members on a regional rather than a club basis and which aims to unite its fans in their love for the game rather than in their narrower club devotions . |
| 18 | In their proposals for the conventional industries , officials at the commission have earmarked a list of technologies . |
| 19 | Perfectionism : Family members try desperately to get everything exactly right in their plans for the primary sufferer but still blame themselves when the smallest things go wrong . |
| 20 | The authors are united in their concern for the quality of these children 's early experiences , although they disagree markedly in the solutions they offer . |
| 21 | They depicted British cinema as indifferent to art , lacking drive and sense of direction and , in their distaste for the commercial orientation of the system , failed to suggest any ways to reform it . |
| 22 | By 0930 they were all in their coaches for the long journey back to Brighton , for that evening they all became civilians again and had to be ready for their ordinary jobs on Monday . |
| 23 | The nine republics gave qualified support in their pact for the anti-crisis programme which Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov had presented to the USSR Supreme Soviet on April 22 . |
| 24 | The organisation said it was ‘ astonishing ’ that it was still regarded as a slur for a person to be described as gay , and delivered a letter to Mr Donovan calling for his support in their campaign for the ‘ enactment of legislation for lesbian and gay equality ’ . |
| 25 | delivered a letter to Mr Donovan calling for his support in their campaign for the ‘ enactment of legislation for lesbian and gay equality ’ . |
| 26 | Disapproval turned to horror when both boys set off in their Mirages for the Falklands . |
| 27 | At the same time we can relish the days more and more , and search in their interstices for the hidden treasures and thus our lives may become the supreme adventure and treasure hunt of the transcendent . |
| 28 | Well as as they include it in their prospectus for the year , |
| 29 | The audience were in their seats for the first of the two evening performances . |
| 30 | But the truce does not seem to have aroused general opposition in England ; perhaps more serious in their implications for the regime were the disorders at Pontefract in the summer of 1323 , when a mob killed two officials guarding Lancaster 's tomb to prevent offerings being made there . |