Example sentences of "their [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , in addition , they could hire for private patients the very expensive facilities in the way of X-ray machines , operating theatres and the like , to be found within the National Health Service , this too made their lives very much easier and in many cases made their private practice a possibility . |
| 2 | In adjusting the Polytechnic 's staffing establishment to account for their central contribution a formula is used which balances the contribution of numbers of staff from each department ( 0.3 ) — i.e. the ‘ payment ’ — against the central service each department receives ( in terms of students admitted and counselled in Stage I ) — the ‘ bill ’ . |
| 3 | Many civilised countries now include in their domestic legislation a battery of measures intended to prevent the accumulation of money in tax havens , but with the reduction in exchange controls worldwide this is rarely successful . |
| 4 | Essex aim to give most of their 17-man squad a game in one of the two 55-over matches before selecting a side to play England A at Lord 's on Monday . |
| 5 | ‘ The other is for Rachel , Flo 's wife in South Africa , because I knew he would n't get round to doing it himself and I thought she 'd like to be able to show their little daughter a picture of her father doing something responsible and public-spirited for a change . ’ |
| 6 | From then on , many changed banks , with the sole purpose of giving their previous firm a run for its money . |
| 7 | Deep in the QP forest , the animals met for their regular tete a tete . |
| 8 | Lt Col Stewart 's DSO was awarded for his inspired command of the Cheshires during their hazardous tour a position which often placed his own life in danger . |
| 9 | They covered that without difficulty before dark , their only delay a meeting-up with their late fellow-invaders , the Armstrongs , whom they came across at the Kershopefoot crossing of Liddel Water , driving an even larger drove of cattle from Gilsland than the main body had collected , and taking a more northerly course home . |
| 10 | Before leaving we cemented our friendship with the local schoolteacher 's family by giving their small daughter a birthday joyride round the bay in our dory . |
| 11 | Compound nouns in which the second element denotes an agent or an action may have for their first element a noun denoting the object of the action : housekeeper , housekeeping . |
| 12 | If , as is all too common , Scots lawyers have to apply in their own system a document imperfectly adapted to their own familiar terms , such as is the RICS scale in this particular , it may be of some advantage to know what ‘ rent reserved ’ means , at least in the country in which it originated . |
| 13 | Erm I 'm half and half I I I go along with Angela in the main that the the kids in , generally speaking the kids that I 've talked to do n't want to put their own input a lot of them do n't want to because , as Angela says , they can not find the appropriate words and some of the others just write some some stuff that I would look at |
| 14 | For their best treatment a place with grounds for walking in , and space to develop occupational therapy , away from the atmosphere prevailing in a well-run general hospital , was probably necessary . |
| 15 | Leaving the deep hearth for whatever reason , hunger , duty , sexual imperatives , you trot along the lightless , complicated corridors of the buried labyrinth , their ambient odour a composite of you and all your kin . |