Example sentences of "their [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , the symptoms were at their worst during the hot , dry summers of the early Eighties and started to improve in subsequent wet summers . |
| 2 | He attached exteme , extreme importance to their visiting in the first few years . |
| 3 | Brian Clough 's men earned their second trip to Wembley this season and their sixth in the last four years thanks to Irishman Roy Keane 's stunning extra-time header on an afternoon of high drama at rain-soaked White Hart Lane . |
| 4 | Mansell is 39 — but top drivers carry on into their 50's in the 16-race Indy series that , oddly , kicks off in Surfer 's Paradise , Australia . |
| 5 | Tiny particles of uranium oxide , containing radioactive isotopes of caesium , strontium and plutonium , had been scattered in their millions over the surrounding countryside . |
| 6 | Understandably , these fires — which at thirty shillings were cheap to buy and easy to install — were widely sold in their millions in the postwar years . |
| 7 | By that time , the French had already built an extensive network in North Africa , the Uganda Railway was under construction , the Germans had begun their railways in both Tanganyika and South West Africa , and the British had driven their railway through the Sudan as part of their reconquest of the upper Nile . |
| 8 | The song , ‘ Keep The Faith ’ , is the title track from Bon Jovi 's forthcoming new LP , their first since the multi-platinum ‘ New Jersey ’ album in 1989 . |
| 9 | Table 4.2 shows that both the total number of moves as well as the proportion of moves to development areas were at their highest during the two most pro-regional policy periods discussed above . |
| 10 | It is , however , correct that these percentages were at their highest in the 1970s when the number of strikers was also at its highest . |
| 11 | To the snobbish traveller coach tours are a subject of derision , but since the inter-war period when coach touring really took off , thousands of people who could not normally afford to travel have seen countries other than their own through the comparative cheapness of coach travel . |
| 12 | Tim Rodber had a much better game that at Murrayfield and won his share of the ball at the tail of the line-outs , but it remained an area where Ireland did hold their own through the excellent play of Neil Francis and Brian Robinson . |
| 13 | The local newspapers in Ulster printed our press statements , but did not follow up the Black story on their own despite the clear indications of sinister and dramatic happenings . |
| 14 | Computerised composition and the previous generation of photo-typesetters , which came into their own during the 1970s , described characters in this way , known as ‘ bit-mapping ’ . |
| 15 | Young people striking out on their own for the first time frequently do not have transport and colleges or universities are not always situated in city centres . |
| 16 | Although they 're among the poorest people in the community , many feel better off than they 've ever been — they 've got money , time and friends of their own for the first time . |
| 17 | Corbett had heard that the Scots were a crude race but their cooks could have held their own with the best in Europe . |
| 18 | ‘ I have 12 or 13 players who can hold their own with the best in the League but injuries would leave me struggling and I know it . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ This place right now is like Chicago in the 1930s , ’ says publisher Vladimir Grigoriev , one of a new breed of Russian businessmen capable of holding their own with the best in the world . |
| 20 | But many Special Hospital patients could move straight into independent living in hostels or flats of their own with the right professional support from local services . |
| 21 | Similarly a grant is paid to staff who move from a rented unfurnished house or flat to a similar property at the new base or who buy a house of their own at the new location . |
| 22 | Married students are therefore advised to come to Edinburgh on their own in the first instance and to send for their families only when they have secured suitable accommodation . |
| 23 | As can be seen , the Dutch do more than hold their own in the strong German classes , even at this level . |
| 24 | The full effects of the theological liberalism which had been at work since the nineteenth century came into their own in the English-speaking world after the publication of Honest to God ( Robinson 1963 ) . |
| 25 | The magnificence of crinoline and the billowing hoop-skirt were certainly exciting an interest of their own in the mid-1850s , as something symptomatic of the extravagant optimism of the period . |
| 26 | At all centres we complete your logbooks at the end of the holiday , and most beginners are happily sailing on their own by the second week . |
| 27 | Yet these and other highly original mathematical developments did not come into their own until the new revolutionary age of physics which began at the end of the century . |
| 28 | ‘ People like me , who were in their 20s in the 1960s , want to look good , but are n't obsessed by fashion and certainly do n't want to be made uncomfortable by it . ’ |
| 29 | Everyone pushes out the boat to look their best on the Big Day — so imagine what it must be like if money 's no object . |
| 30 | Before departing , they recorded a final album that , in their typically quirky style , proves to be their best since the early days of Crumbling The Antiseptic Beauty , even if there are moments when Lawrence comes close to outclassing Morrissey in the annals of wimp rock . |