Example sentences of "their [det] [noun pl] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BSAD hopes national governing bodies will organise their own championships for disabled people and Darlington could be on the list of venues . |
| 2 | And there would certainly be no commercial benefits if Anglo-Welsh were to substitute their own products for those of Palatine . |
| 3 | There is also a ‘ Stop and Check ’ revision section in the Workbook after every third unit to allow students to review what they have been doing in class and to decide their own priorities for future self-study . |
| 4 | The children responded by making up their own problems for each other . |
| 5 | Generics and conceptual anaphora ( Gernsbacher 1986 ) , and subsets resulting from quantification ( Moxey & Sanford 1987 ) may be included in this group , although they present their own problems for anaphoric interpretations . |
| 6 | The danger , witnessed sometimes in practice , is that certain children ( notably the most able , the oldest , the best-behaved , and girls ) are tacitly deemed ‘ undemanding ’ and may be left to their own devices for long periods , denied the kinds of challenging interaction which they , like all children , need . |
| 7 | Major areas of application of consumer multimedia include music , games , home education and self-improvement , popular reference , ‘ how to ’ applications such as DIY , car maintenance etc , and child-minding software designed to keep children quiet and entertained while adults get on with their own lives for short but blissful periods of time . |
| 8 | Another measure which the Tories may consider is increased influence over their own affairs for Scottish MPs through the committee structure at Westminster . |
| 9 | Faye as Prefect-Apostolic of Ziguinchor , Senegal , brings Africa into line with India , China and Japan , who have each been able to boast their own bishops for some years . |
| 10 | An uneasy tension seemed to have fallen between them again , as if the hot , searing flash of passion inside the cave had been a product of their environment , and not of their own feelings for each other . |
| 11 | What Kunz did n't figure on were two competitors with their own plans for Kunsthalle-style exhibition spaces . |
| 12 | But the measure seems certain to be killed off later in its parliamentary passage as ministers are planning to publish their own proposals for greater openness in government this summer . |
| 13 | Now they may have their own reasons for that and it may be difficult for them to send someone at this precise moment , but I do n't think that they 're necessarily geared up to dealing with the sorts of things that you want them to deal with . |
| 14 | there is a long history of decentralised management in the field of housing where local offices on council estates have their own budgets for minor repairs . |
| 15 | Many elderly people live in their own homes for many years following the death of a husband or a wife . |
| 16 | In 1943 , the annual conference carried a motion suggesting all local branches put forward their own candidates for municipal elections . |
| 17 | Gail Vines and Michael Barnes refer in their article ‘ Hypnosis on trial ’ ( 6 January , p 12 ) to an experiment by J. Stalnaker and E. Riddle in the 1930s in which hypnotised subjects could blithely recite the Longfellow poem The Village Smith , confidently inserting their own words for forgotten lines or verses . |
| 18 | Many companies delay payment as long as they can while maintaining an accounts section charged with chasing their own debtors for early settlement of accounts . |
| 19 | Many companies delay payment as long as they can while maintaining an accounts section charged with chasing their own debtors for early settlement of accounts . |
| 20 | Have you heard the one about the EastEnders stars who are forced to provide their own fags for smoking scenes ? |
| 21 | The corporation has developed , at its Martlesham research laboratory , communications hardware that it hopes companies will install in their own offices for such conferences . |
| 22 | Individual MNPs with offices outside England and Wales have to make their own arrangements for appropriate insurance cover . |
| 23 | Across the country thousands of teenage boys regularly retire to the privacy of their own bedrooms for some much-needed adolescent relief . |