Example sentences of "their [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cosmetic companies are building on their foundations for black skin this spring : |
| 2 | If institutions are out of phase with social formation , the most powerful institution will be that which is most useful in regulating the conflict between interests which have their foundations in different modes of production — the bureaucracy . |
| 3 | Constance remembered the many times she had seen her mother and him alone together either in the village street or at home ; she had been uneasily aware of their absorption in each other . |
| 4 | The arrival of Islam and the Arabic language was to mark another of the great turning points in the history of Egypt , and their absorption by Egyptian society went on over a long period , being generally a peaceful and incremental process . |
| 5 | Trafalgar moved out of the press again when they sold their titles to United Newspapers in 1985 . |
| 6 | Publishers are invited to send review copies and information on their titles for this preview to Jennifer Taylor . |
| 7 | Publishers are invited to send review copies and information on their titles for this preview to Jennifer Taylor , . |
| 8 | Their enthusiasm for such work is likely to have played an important part in the results . |
| 9 | Its directors have expressed their enthusiasm for European integration and have established a network of contacts and agreements with other countries , setting up new types of collaboration and programmes for joint and travelling exhibitions . |
| 10 | The traditional complaint of consumers — who in Belfast supermarkets this week demonstrated their enthusiasm for cheaper beef — is that they pay twice for the beef mountain . |
| 11 | ‘ Boy labour ’ in all spheres was a transient period of employment , and even in the more essential areas of work boys would lose their jobs — whether as ‘ nippers ’ or ‘ handy lads ’ in factories , or as van boys and messenger boys — when they reached early maturity and lost their enthusiasm for boyish wages . |
| 12 | Cliff Paul and Barry Sheppard began taking in paying guests as an extension of their enthusiasm for entertaining friends . |
| 13 | Well , not too radical actually , since trades unionists are not noted for their enthusiasm for rapid change . |
| 14 | Unfortunately both Marx and Engels , in their enthusiasm for this confirmation of their theory , also took over from Morgan 's work on the gens several totally unsupportable assumptions which are in fact quite unnecessary for what they were trying to argue . |
| 15 | Most dogs are keen to travel in a car , but a bad experience can dent their enthusiasm in this respect . |
| 16 | On Sept 6 it was reported that soldiers had refused access to their prisoners by International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) personnel , and that those arrested included a former minister , Khamed Abdoulaye , an aide of Prime Minister Cheiffou Amadou , and several other prominent personalities . |
| 17 | ‘ A snap of their slogan in national newspapers would be worth tens of thousands of pounds to them and our costs are peanuts next to that , ’ said Andrew . |
| 18 | Through their press and journals , through such political organizations as Renovaciòn Españiola , founded in early 1933 , through their nurturing of Spanish fascism and subversion of the officer corps , the Alfonsists played an important part in undermining Spanish democracy and creating the ideological foundations of the Franco regime that emerged out of the Civil War . |
| 19 | Despite differences in method and in the number of the patients studied , their values for phospholipid composition ( % ) in patients with duodenal ulcer are very similar to ours . |
| 20 | The figures are nt ( necessarily ) a reflection on the players ' respective real life values … just on their values to this system — hence irwin being 3.1 million … in a good defence , and he scores free kicks quite regularly . |
| 21 | Using the subscript zero to denote their values in free space , they come |
| 22 | England then pulled away over the last three ends to increase their advantage to 113-106 . |
| 23 | Widespread dissatisfaction over the quality of justice might eventually be to the king 's loss , although rulers may often have been able to manipulate the legal system to their advantage with relative impunity . |
| 24 | However , arguments along the lines of ‘ the Russians ’ real objective was less their alleged anxiety to protect Cuba than to alter the whole balance of global strategy to their advantage by one bold stroke' ( Clissold : 1970 , p. 49 ) would seem to raise something of a false dilemma . |
| 25 | What made things particularly difficult was that I felt I was n't Black enough for my Black colleagues and that white workers picking up on the division used this to their advantage by divide-and-rule tactics . |
| 26 | These are useful if they have been constructed flexibly enough to allow for complex unusual facilities to be used if required , and thus do not negate their advantage by imposing restrictions on the designers and programmers , Structure should be built in from the beginning . |
| 27 | By the close , Surrey had stretched their advantage by another 39 with all second winnings wickets intact . |
| 28 | But it could also be used to their advantage in that how that erm absolute egalitarianism would speed up the process of land reform and eliminate feudalism whereas a moderate policy would just take ages for this to happen , so |
| 29 | One of the lesser members of the Wildbad group , Konstantin Kavelin , was credited by a contemporary with " primacy in establishing the principle of the landed rather than the landless emancipation of the peasants " , but neither he nor his friend Nikolai Miliutin had secured the adoption of their views as official policy . |
| 30 | I have to date raised my idea with one of Scotland 's leading corporate lawyers ( a CBI SCOTLAND Council Member ) , a senior cleric involved with the Life & Nation' Committee of the Church of Scotland and the chairman of a major company , seeking their views as potential speakers . |