Example sentences of "their [noun sg] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two days later , the parents told their story at a public meeting in the village hall in St Margaret 's Hope , a little fishing village on the edge of Scapa Flow . |
| 2 | Michael Hickey , his cousin Vincent Hickey and James Robinson were jailed in 1979 for the murder of 13-year-old Carl as he disturbed their burglary at a remote farmhouse in Stourbridge , West Midlands in September , 1978 . |
| 3 | Even in the 1930s the anti-Semitism of literary figures like Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton co-existed uneasily with their revulsion at the racial policies of the new Germany . |
| 4 | A high cost of capital is a signal that investors do not trust banks to earn a reasonable return on their money at a reasonable risk . |
| 5 | Under the proposals , they will be liable to tax on the value of the dividend plus a notional , non-payable tax credit of 20% which will be set off against their liability at the single flat rate of 35%. 28 Income which discretionary trustees use to meet trust management expenses will not be liable to tax at the single flat rate of 35% but at the lower rate of 20% ( if the income is dividends ) or at the basic rate of 25% ( if it is other income ) . |
| 6 | But that very evening , back in their suite at the Grand , holding her arm roughly , he ordered her to undress . |
| 7 | They were intended to provide a rapid procedure under which objectors would have no right to state their case at a public inquiry , and the commission was not required to disclose the purpose for which the land was needed . |
| 8 | He attacked the couple as they cuddled in their car at a remote beauty spot . |
| 9 | Detectives spoke of their disgust at the brutal attack . |
| 10 | Teams from the whole of Europe concentrate their work at a single lab in southern England where a huge torus of magnets containing gas at 100 million degrees tries to reproduce the Sun 's power . |
| 11 | Some of the world 's finest quilt-makers are displaying their work at an annual show . |
| 12 | To be anti-suffrage was not necessarily to be anti-feminist ; many opponents of the suffrage , men and women , campaigned for better educational opportunities for women and supported their work at the local level . |
| 13 | Those four years left a black cloud over everything with the ever-recurring casualties among our friends and relatives and the suffocating misery I remember when our parents could no longer hide their anxiety at the big German push in the spring of 1918 when it seemed their advance towards Paris would never stop . |
| 14 | The polytechnic plans to build a hostel on the Morrell-Pollock site in North Oxford , and tonight , local residents will have the chance to talk about their proposal at a public meeting . |
| 15 | The first and major thrust of the Act is the clause enabling council tenants to purchase their dwelling at a huge discount — not a new trend of either Labour or Conservative housing policy , but certainly it represent a greater encouragement to owner-occupation than ever before . |
| 16 | They had four children and not much income and in those days believed like the rest of the middle class that they could only find a good education for their boy at an independent fee-paying school . |
| 17 | As we review the way teachers are feeling about their job at the present time , many of the experiences will be common enough . |
| 18 | The band were forced to cancel their appearance at the recent MTV awards ceremony due to Gallup 's ill health . |
| 19 | This was a good example , Dexter thought , of Blanche being unwilling to exclude someone from their investigation at an early stage so that they could concentrate their efforts . |
| 20 | The Home Office wants to prevent any repetition of last week 's incident when two Kurds facing deportation from Heathrow Airport set fire to their room at the nearby Harmondsworth Detention Centre . |
| 21 | Unipork AC , Cookstown enjoyed their day at the Straid Fishery with Sam Newell taking seven trout and Tom Taylor six . |
| 22 | At that time , sons of the nobility often started their education at the local school alongside boys whose parents were lower on the social scale and David attended Irvine Grammar School . |
| 23 | All those attending the lobby have expressed their outrage at the deepening crisis in housing , and many MPs were surprised by the level of concern and involvement of Church groups . |
| 24 | Niall Cooper , CNHC 's national organiser said that ‘ all those attending the lobby have expressed their outrage at the deepening crisis in housing and many MPs were surprised by the level of concern and involvement of church groups . ’ |
| 25 | The Type II disease occurs in yearlings , usually in late winter or spring following their first grazing season and results from the maturation of larvae ingested during the previous autumn and subsequently arrested in their development at the early fourth larval stage . |
| 26 | The entire white watch crew at Wallasey fire station received a prestigious award in recognition of their bravery at the triple rescue . |
| 27 | Ekelund and Tollison ( 1986 ) and Lewin ( 1988 ) note that the Austrian school ( associated in particular with Hayek ) see the macro consequences as being the result of microeconomic-motivated actions and some macro actions finding their impact at the micro level ; for example , industrial , regional and other policies often adopt subsidies to maintain an output and employment target ( see chapter 5 ) in a particular industry . |
| 28 | In the Commons , Labour MPs unleashed their anger at the Liberal Democrats for promising to back the Government . |
| 29 | British officials hid their anger at the new ‘ snub ’ . |
| 30 | The shadow social security secretary , Donald Dewar , and Labour 's Scottish affairs spokesman , Henry McLeish , described their anger at the worsening situation when unveiling a rolling campaign aimed at highlighting the rising level of poverty across Scotland . |