Example sentences of "their [noun pl] with [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This involves combined action by hospital providers , who have fulfilled their contracts with a quarter of the year remaining , and general practitioners , who as a consequence are unable to obtain hospital treatment for their patients , to put pressure on health authorities to increase the resources available to acute services . |
| 2 | These would entitle the customers or suppliers to terminate their contracts with the company if some or all of the shares in the company are sold and may therefore deprive the purchaser of the company 's main assets . |
| 3 | What little the labourers often had they sought to preserve , supported frequently by local tradesmen and small farmers who feared the end of their contracts with the parish overseers . |
| 4 | ‘ Obviously we were thrilled that 12 of the Ulster team that beat the Saltires last month first cut their teeth with the development side . |
| 5 | They are also concerned with the parents ' attitude to the school and the teachers , their ideas about the causes of educational achievement , and their contacts with the school . |
| 6 | She made up for the difficulty by striking their fingers with a ruler when they erred , especially when learning the piano . |
| 7 | When a miraculously re-vamped Hawn returns to claim her long-lost beau , the duo file their claws with a vengeance . |
| 8 | You know , young , homeless people we pick up on this bus and er , we have , we we 've sort of ended up pursuing their cases with the housing department and getting temporary accommodation . |
| 9 | For me however , the biggest eye opener was when I joined the fundholder group in Grampian and their meetings with the provider units . |
| 10 | The crossing took almost a week and those team members who were not seasick practised hitting shots on board , timing their swings with the roll of the ship . |
| 11 | Other family-run firms have remained dynamic ( e.g. Marks & Spencer ) but wealthy individuals today are more likely to spread their investments with the aid of financial institutions . |
| 12 | Their parallels with the case of Finland are unconvincing since Soviet policies towards Afghanistan and Finland have operated in quite dissimilar political and strategic environments . |
| 13 | The boys had been out on their bikes with a friend when they saw two men shooting into the brook . |
| 14 | They explore one side of their personality and develop one aspect of their skills with a single-mindedness which has obvious disadvantages . |
| 15 | However in all fairness to the Halling unit a number of those older men who fought in the first war wore medals for gallantry , and were to show us youngsters that they had lost none of their skills with a rifle . |
| 16 | So , Thames police are sharing their skills with the public . |
| 17 | He saw the storm-troopers practising karate , crowd control , baton practice and their skills with the knife and knuckleduster . |
| 18 | CNC machine tool manufacturers have often promoted their products with the claim that they can be operated by unskilled operators , and it was widely believed for some time that engineering companies were taking the opportunity given by the introduction of CNC machine tools to replace skilled craft workers by unskilled or semi-skilled operators on the shop-floor , and putting white-collared technicians in the programming office . |
| 19 | What is more , many naturally-occurring chemicals are highly toxic : the natural foods we eat are stiff with potentially damaging chemicals — plants , in particular , spike their products with an armoury of defensive substances ( see p 15 ) , fungi on the plants contribute their own toxins , and the bacteria in our gut add to the number we absorb . |
| 20 | Thus , the girl in Geneva who continually mixed ‘ Laura Ashley ’ clothes with her own , and the girl in Paris who agreed to wear a ‘ Laura Ashley ’ shirt , but left off her bra , must have known that their futures with the company were blighted . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , so long as they did not organise — and sometimes even when they did — the workers themselves provided their employers with a solution to the problem of labour management : by and large they liked to work , and their expectations were remarkably modest . |
| 22 | The mind at work is part of the person at work and that same person has many other activities in the past and the future and in parallel which have their interactions with the work . |
| 23 | Honeybees show a remarkable ability to synchronise their activities with the opening times of flowers . |
| 24 | Did he have any reason to link their activities with the murder of Garland 's son ? |
| 25 | Overall , I would thoroughly recommend our itinerary to other pilots of light aircraft — particularly if they want to broaden their horizons with a change of scenery and culture as well as flying conditions different to those in most of the UK or France . |
| 26 | One of the many misconceptions about housing finance is that home-owners are self-reliant , buying their houses with no resort to the state , while public sector tenants are the recipients of huge hand-outs . |
| 27 | U-boat alley was the gap in mid-Atlantic where they did n't have air cover from Britain or Canada , but Preston always imagined it a bit like the alley at the back of their houses with a U-boat at each end firing torpedoes at Grandad as he hopped and scuttled down it on his way to the Turk 's Head . |
| 28 | ' However eager sceptical Victorians might be to replace the superstitious world of their forefathers with a structure that seemed to them more solid and more rational , the alternative , namely that they lived in a meaningless world of chance , was repellent to many of them . |
| 29 | Edward I , as duke of Aquitaine , was particularly sought after by Gascon nobles as a patron of knighthood , prepared to gird them and their sons with the sword which was the symbol of their order . |
| 30 | Three species , the satin , spotted and regent bowerbirds , also ‘ paint ’ their bowers with a mixture of charcoal , fruit and mud . |