Example sentences of "in their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individual cars differ only in their serial numbers . |
| 2 | Rattles shaped like pigs and owls with dried seeds in their hollow bellies . |
| 3 | Simon Thelwell scored a hat-trick for Hollywood Rivacre in their 6-0 win over Bull Wanderers and in division three , Halfway House TTS had a three-goal star in Graeme Leadbetter when they drew 4-4 with The Gunners . |
| 4 | The Dons cranked up the ghetto-blaster and happily rubbed United 's noses in their demoralising defeat with an impromptu dressing room bash , capped by the bizarre sight of naked backsides wiggling in the sombre Old Trafford corridors . |
| 5 | The school was having trouble with leaks in their stainless steel hydrotherapy pool which resulted in the children being unable to use it for a number of weeks . |
| 6 | Ranges of imagery such as that of the plough may be symbolic , but are only so in a particular type of fabliau symbolism : disgraceful or phallic in their symbolic reference in a manner that is the very antitype of Christian moralization . |
| 7 | Papal abandonment subsequently merely confirmed Englishmen in their righteous indignation , and when Boniface and Clement V began to assist Edward in eluding his earlier commitments to the barons , the English reputation of the papacy sank lower still . |
| 8 | Perhaps , more cynically , some clinicians are uneasy about information on their activities and costs being readily available fearing that RMI will ultimately be a means of control or reduction in their allocated budgets . |
| 9 | The Walton school scored 68 , thanks to excellent batting by Stuart Ferguson and Kevin Smith , then restricted Blue Coat to 65 in their allocated overs . |
| 10 | The aircraft , in their allocated categories , were required to have their climb performance before and after an engine failure demonstrated and measured . |
| 11 | In their rural isolation Belorussian peasants were at first little affected by anti-religious campaigns and actions emanating from the towns , even if priests disappeared and churches were commandeered . |
| 12 | But the villagers say they 're happy in their rural backwater . |
| 13 | Rows of neatly terraced redbrick cottages , built in 1896 to house the railway men , seem strange now in their rural setting . |
| 14 | It stated that the private houses , which formed the Foreign and Colonial Offices , were ‘ inadequate to the present extent of public business , in parts unsafe , and generally in such a state of dilapidation as to render it inexpedient to expend any large sum in their substantial repair ’ . |
| 15 | When the systems of government in Britain , the United States , most of Western Europe and much of the Commonwealth are claimed to be democratic , that rests upon a view that a form of representation of the people prevails in their governmental systems . |
| 16 | Chroniclers and poets in their embittered criticism of papal initiatives for peace were scarcely less vehement than the lords and commons in parliament , and when at last , in 1378 , an Italian pope was elected , an Englishman at Rome rejoiced because ‘ Previous popes and their cardinals had been greater enemies of the kingdom of England than the king of France himself . ’ |
| 17 | Most terns resemble graceful small gulls , with longer wings , deeply forked tail , and thinner , more pointed bills , often carried almost vertically downwards in their buoyant flight , as they hover and plunge into the water after their small fish prey . |
| 18 | An earlier investigation showed that 18 to 42 month old children playing together in pairs chose gender-appropriate toys in their action based play with toys , but that only girls of 37 to 42 months used girls ' toys more in their pretend play . |
| 19 | In addition , the gender of the partner affected toy choice ; there was more cross-gender toy choice in the action play of mixed pairs , but the oldest girls used boys ' toys less in their pretend play when in the company of a boy . |
| 20 | Defence experts say the services in their perennial pursuit of hi-tech gadgetry have once again dug a hole for themselves . |
| 21 | They looked well satisfied : another crop safely transformed and delivered ; Zacco more firmly enthroned and in their perennial debt ; their share in bringing Nicholas and his army to Cyprus fully justified , despite the small delay in completing the contract . |
| 22 | The rule protected States from intervention by other States in their external affairs and maintained the inherent bilateralism of international law . |
| 23 | Other reasons are less obvious , for firms have not merely reacted to change in their external environments ; many have actively sought to create new , internal sources of advantage . |
| 24 | He was deeply immersed in their ancient cultures as the considerable library in his cabin bore testimony . |
| 25 | As his sailing trips became longer , so his management team took over running the business , and it is now left in their capable hands , recently spawning a sibling company — Wild Rover , Graham is survived by his wife Maude and their three sons , Donald , Rory and Christopher . |
| 26 | It will be in their capable hands and ( need I add ? ) |
| 27 | Small in scale , we thought , but in their capable hands individual movements take on seemingly larger architectural proportions , thanks to their pacing and articulation . |
| 28 | While Collier and Rosaldo have relatively successfully characterized one type of ‘ brideservice economy ’ , they are too sweeping in their wider generalization ; for brideservice economies are not always associated with the cultural values these authors stipulate . |
| 29 | Basically there is everything to say , for most roads are not understood at all , at least in their wider context . |
| 30 | Armed police staked out the luxury home in their 11-day hunt for gang boss Jean Louis Camerini and his hostage , six-year-old Melodie Nash . |