Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Publishers interested in having their titles included in the catalogue should contact Planning and Environmental Books , , ( ) . |
| 2 | Other party leaders , such as the former Communist Herbert Wehner , agreed change was needed , and in November 1959 their views triumphed in the Bad Godesberg programme , drawn up at a special party meeting . |
| 3 | Thus , for example , in the National Health Service groups such as the consultants , junior doctors , administrators , nursing staff , GPs and so on , will all be striving to influence the organisation and to get their views accepted by the organisation . |
| 4 | Therefore it would also seem possible to learn a functional sign language without a positive desire to become deaf on the part of the hearing learner ; nevertheless , it has been the case in the past that those who have learned sign language have often been cast in the integrative mould and have had their views devalued by the hearing community because of it . |
| 5 | It should be thrown out and the electorate should make their views known at a general election so that the Government can come back with a better Bill at a later stage . ’ |
| 6 | They 've made their views known to the pastor , who 's also chairman of the playgroup . |
| 7 | ‘ I appeal to the people of Darlington to make their views known to the council , ’ he added . |
| 8 | Perhaps they do not conclude this ; if so , why do n't they make their views known to the Secretary of State for Scotland before he approves this scheme ? |
| 9 | More than anything , though , the May 1990 elections provided voters with an opportunity to make their views known in the relative calm of the ballot box , and it was an opportunity they took in unprecedented numbers . |
| 10 | 350 car workers have had their contracts extended by a further six months to cope with the demand for the Maestro and Montego cars . |
| 11 | Gorbachev declared that around 150 Soviet advisers remained in Iraq , but that they were leaving as their contracts came to an end . |
| 12 | An exporter would approach the UK bank concerned for details and then apply to have their contracts financed through the line of credit . |
| 13 | Tuna are sometimes landed when they try to swim through holes in fishing nets and get their teeth caught in the mesh ; once trapped in this way , they can be dragged on to the beach with the net . |
| 14 | Where their profits were associated with service to the Empire , their operations reverted to the nineteenth century ‘ tradition ’ of patriotic capitalism . |
| 15 | Their operations began on a modest scale , using a small steam engine to drive two pairs of stones and some ancillary equipment , but so successful were their efforts that they installed two new larger engines and built their own warehouse . |
| 16 | There have always been small groups of people who have predicted the end of the world on some seemingly significant date ( like the year 1000 ) and sold their possessions to sit on a mountain top . |
| 17 | The buyout team have mortgaged their possessions to pay for the company . |
| 18 | They had come back as a fleet , their sails bellying out under the south-westerly gale , the men shouting to each other across the water to compare catches , and their womenfolk waiting on the beach to help with the unloading and to make a start on the gutting and salting and packing . |
| 19 | For a gentle corrective one could do worse than go back to H.L. Mencken who opined that Alexander Graham Bell — the progenitor of the institution in which Penzias holds sway — and Thomas Alva Edison had done more than any of their contemporaries to add to the sum of life 's damned nuisances . |
| 20 | There were fish lying damply in old wooden crates , their scales gleaming with the sickly colours of an oil stain , then rows of chickens with their throats cut , feathers clinging to the legs , and the sawdust was stained with blood and flies , and she began to run , frantic to reach the air outside and breathe . |
| 21 | Yet the women worked non-stop , their fingers flying in a blur . |
| 22 | The effect of this , quite naturally , is for even the most conscientious of organisations not to bring out modifications or amendments and to keep their fingers crossed in the hope that their suspicions of a failure or shortcoming will prove to be unsubstantiated . |
| 23 | Then the hands of the stocking-masked men were on her , their fingers digging into the tender flesh of her arms . |
| 24 | However , the concerts may not be as thick on the ground as in previous years because the province 's main promoters have had their fingers burnt on a few occasions during festival season and they are not taking any big risks for the remainder of the year . |
| 25 | ‘ Once they get their fingers burned over an affair they want proper legal guidelines , ’ she says . |
| 26 | Fear of unemployment is probably doing more than anything to hold back consumers from increasing their spending , and that is compounded by their desire to pay down debt after getting their fingers burned in the late 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s . |
| 27 | Their fingers skim on the silk |
| 28 | ‘ Tasso keeps them apart , though their fingers meet on the pillows of his pastoral . |
| 29 | It was as if they were really desperate and they knickers round their ankles running into the toilet ! |
| 30 | Corporal punishment was abolished in state schools in the United Kingdom in 1987 after two Scottish mothers , Grace Campbell and Jane Cossans , had their cases upheld by the court . |