Example sentences of "their [noun sg] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the rare occasions when French and Vietminh met and when local concessions might have helped at least to improve the atmosphere — for example the release of hostages taken by Vietminh — the Vietminh for their part denied all knowledge that any had been taken while violent incidents were either attributed to the forces outwith their control , which may well have been true , or else to the anger of the people which , again , may have been true but did not improve matters . |
| 2 | They have therefore been active in trying to use their experience to influence social policy , and in 1986 they made recommendations to the Health Advisory Service on administering patients ' money ( the hospital bank system ) and on the hospital complaints procedure . |
| 3 | Weeks of legal bickering by Pakistan lawyers have left the International Cricket Council fuming about their inability to take firm action over the damaging saga . |
| 4 | Often , withdrawal is a straightforward but tragic response of older people to their inability to finance social integration . |
| 5 | An acid clearance test was not possible in five patients because of their inability to tolerate nasal passage of the pH probe while the manometry catheter was still in situ . |
| 6 | An LGB circular of 1871 proclaimed that out-door relief should not be given to single women unless they proved their inability to find other employment by performing a daily labour task , officially termed a ‘ labour test ’ , such as cleaning , in the workhouse , returning home at night . |
| 7 | This leads to a final consideration , namely whether politicians behave in the way Niskanen and others assume they do , either in their sensitivity to the costs and benefits of public expenditure or in their inability to obtain adequate information for the monitoring job they are required to do . |
| 8 | Rod Wallace put Leeds ahead early in the second half but their inability to strike any kind of attacking rhythm obliged them , and the Elland Road faithful , to live on their nerves until Lee Chapman and Eric Cantona both scored in the final three minutes . |
| 9 | Does their feeding have any effect on the stem or leaf ? |
| 10 | This kind of interpretation , not surprisingly , is the predominant type in civil-law institutions , because their formality offers little scope for construction . |
| 11 | But the Colonel and John-William were both Justices of the Peace , often serving on the same Bench together , and although she had so far shirked inviting them to dine — the prospect of being alone with the Colonel 's lady frankly terrifying her — she was delighted to see them here today , feeling that their presence lent great distinction . |
| 12 | Substantial though both these minorities were , their presence had little impact on the way the majority of Japanese conducted their lives . |
| 13 | Their presence gives extra clout to the opening song ‘ Sting Me ’ , the current 45 ‘ Remedy ’ and especially the band 's acoustic cover of Bob Marley 's ‘ Time Will Tell ’ . |
| 14 | They are human , and are acknowledged to be , they can think but they are not to be acknowledged as authoritative , and if their presence demands such acknowledgement , they are bad women who should have been taught to hide or repress such demands . |
| 15 | First Floss and Tibbs retired to their tent to dispel this foretaste of the middle-aged grossness that awaited them in the exercise of their healthy young bodies . |
| 16 | On the other hand , the marriage does not itself have support from wider society : ‘ There is less pressure for a couple to stay together because their break-up has little impact outside the domestic sphere and causes fewer ripples than it would in a society where kinship is more central to the wider social organization ’ ( Allan , 1985 , p. 104 ) . |
| 17 | POSTSCRIPT : As I write I have just been handed a newspaper and I see that at the Court of Appeal in London on April 30th , the following transpired ‘ Trade Unions scored a notable victory in their fight to maintain collective bargaining yesterday when the Court of Appeal said employers had no right to discriminate against workers who refused to sign personal contracts ’ . |
| 18 | Three years later the TUC attitude to black workers , and more specifically black women workers , was shown by its lack of action on such simple and bland recommendations ( from the Camden Council for Community Relations ) as that the trade union movement should press for compulsory language training at work ( ie. in the employer 's time , not after hours ) or co-operate ‘ more positively ’ in agreeing to English classes where the management has taken the initiative , or that there should be ‘ more positive participation in supporting any industrial action taken by minority group workers in their fight to achieve equal opportunity ’ . |
| 19 | States remain important global actors but their struggle to retain independent status precludes solutions to global problems . |
| 20 | that a delegation of ACTS officers and Staff Council reps meet with Michael Taylor and Alastair Hanton to convey the anger and disappointment of their members and their willingness to continue further action if necessary in order to reverse the decision . |
| 21 | For some teachers , then , the presence of examinations seems to constrain them in their approach to classroom teaching ; it limits innovation and inhibits their willingness to explore new teaching strategies . |
| 22 | It is important to recognise their willingness to consider residential school in this context . |
| 23 | Moreover , the distance was exaggerated by the educational character of their proposal , which employers recognized would restrict their freedom to use juvenile labour at their own discretion ; and , given employers ' traditional suspicion of further education , they regarded the whole idea as unnecessary , potentially expensive and disruptive of production schedules . |
| 24 | Turner 's view that migrants move into the city slums and then out to the shanty towns , is not so much the case now since the large number of spontaneous housing settlements and the widespread knowledge of their existence make this sort of housing immediately available . |
| 25 | Their purchase encouraged another courtier , of an unusual type , to ask for a grant of land . |
| 26 | President Vaclav Havel played a prominent role in the campaign , touring the country extensively and urging citizens to use their vote to achieve democratic change . |
| 27 | The two studies can not be compared , however , because Orchard and Bickerstaff did not define the type of gastritis because the patients in their study had ulcerative disease that affected the stomach and not the duodenum . |
| 28 | Yet even in these cases the situation could be an awkward one : senior partners needed both credibility and backing from the head ; they also needed tact and skill in the development enterprise , and such attributes are not an automatic concomitant of experience ; and client teachers needed to be able to accept that their practice needed such attention . |
| 29 | The US — and to a lesser extent the USSR — will probably wish to maintain their capability to exert military force worldwide , to influence , and if necessary intervene in the affairs of other countries . |
| 30 | Before 1914 , when European socialist parties had little prospect of power , the contradiction between their ambition to establish democratic control over economic life , and their sympathy for a liberal internationalism rooted in the principles of the free market , remained largely unacknowledged . |