Example sentences of "with [verb] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is expected some of the Manual will be suitable to be offered to the Contracts and Purchasing Working Group charged with producing their own procedures document for BS5750 . |
| 2 | In the last chapter we described how Bob and Joan Halton had been drawn together — had ‘ chosen ’ each other — by an unconscious preoccupation with handling their emotional greed . |
| 3 | Many of the great fortunes in this country are still in the hands of the landed aristocracy who tend to be preoccupied with maintaining their great estates and country houses , no doubt feeling that opening them to the public is in itself a form of patronage . |
| 4 | It would , however , be too simple to portray antislavery after the late 1830s as purely a scene of contending sects more concerned with maintaining their own kinds of purity than achieving anything practical . |
| 5 | ‘ Pineapple pyramids : I always felt that the Jews made them to mourn all the slaves before them that the Egyptians had broken with building their mighty pyramids . ’ |
| 6 | But Stanislavskian actors are nevertheless concerned in rehearsal and other preparation time with tapping their own reservoirs of emotional memories to find within themselves a sophistication , subtlety or depth of emotional engagement so that in concentrating on the character 's actions , a wider , deeper range of emotions may be released . |
| 7 | Thus the primary motivation of professionals is public service rather than personal gain : doctors are concerned primarily with the health of their patients rather than with lining their own pockets . |
| 8 | During the 1960s and 1970s , three explanations in particular gained credence : conservatism ( men innovate , women stick more closely to traditional forms ) ; status consciousness ( women are more sensitive than men to the social meaning of speech and more concerned with elevating their own status through speaking ‘ properly ’ ) ; and feminine identity ( women are expected to talk like ‘ ladies ’ , that is , like middle-class speakers . |
| 9 | Those local education authorities which have begun seriously to seek a place in the curriculum of their schools for locally-used languages have in many cases to be content with providing their own in-service training on a relatively ad hoc basis . |
| 10 | As a reform candidate Reagan had made clear his low view of legislators , presenting them as the tools of special interests , primarily concerned with feathering their own nests . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The cops got coffee and cigarettes and sandwiches , but I had to make do with inhaling their used smoke . |
| 14 | Most scientists do n't either , they just become familiar with manipulating their own abstract language as a useful way of organizing information . |
| 15 | It is normal for a transfer price to be imposed and then to let the divisions get on with making their own decisions . |
| 16 | People are not concerned with discussing their emotional states ; emotionality in most instances is negatively valued . |
| 17 | The people have the spirit to overthrow oppression , but their imagination ca n't yet cope with overturning their stifling bureaucracy . |
| 18 | While the ladies who lunch get on with planning their next murders , it seems that the reputation of dorothy L.Sayers is alive and well , and safe in their hands . |
| 19 | All with ensuring their daily risks . |