Example sentences of "at their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many candidates all down the line think of headhunters as privileged individuals able to hand out plum jobs willy-nilly to those in their favour ; at the same time — somewhat contradictorily — they regard them as dodgy , cowboy characters who have arrived at their coveted positions in life after having failed at everything else they have attempted . |
| 2 | If we really wanted to find out whether the unwesternised Wolof were capable of expressing different points of view , we could do worse than to look for instance at their political activities and see whether , in factional disputes , the lobbying that takes place indicates such an awareness . |
| 3 | First , the studies looked at local councillors themselves - at their attitudes and perceptions , at their organization and relationship with their political party , and at their political activity . |
| 4 | Most parents look at their young child and wonder what he 'll be like when he grows up . |
| 5 | Right next to him , Mr Doran was grinning maniacally as he handed out squishy tomatoes for the parishioners to throw at their young vicar , trapped in the ‘ stocks ’ . |
| 6 | Some form of wood-pigeon scarer is usually called for after planting out , as they are particularly partial to all brassicas at their young stage . |
| 7 | At a stage when both endogenous stripes would be present and at their highest level , the treated embryos express the gene only in r5 ( h , h' ) . |
| 8 | At their highest level the internal politics of the European States were the politics of monarchy . |
| 9 | If the right hon. Gentleman would study recent CBI surveys he would see that domestic and export orders are rising , that export orders are at their highest level for over a year and that there is confirmation that business conditions are beginning to improve in line with confidence . |
| 10 | Vacancies at November are now at their highest level for some time . |
| 11 | BUSINESS failures are expected to rise by over a third this year according to figures produced by the credit insurer Trade Indemnity , and are now running at their highest rate since 1985 , writes Jason Nisse . |
| 12 | 94 extended articles on specific aspects of British and American life and institutions , ranging from ‘ architecture ’ , ‘ clothes ’ , ‘ advertising ’ and ‘ newspapers ’ , to ‘ television ’ , ‘ the police ’ , ‘ the royal family ’ and ‘ humour ’ ( conveniently located at their alphabetical position in the text ) . |
| 13 | In fact we 've had a couple of meetings recently Kevin with , with erm the employment office looking at , at their changing role |
| 14 | The Windsors will look at the last four monarchs and their families and take a detailed look at their changing fortunes up to the present day . |
| 15 | The trouble started when around a hundred and fifty travellers arrived back at their illegal camp after a wedding . |
| 16 | Eventually , the bloody turf wars ceased , and for a long time the authorities either winked at their illegal trade or even helped themselves to the till . |
| 17 | Most of them refrain from spitting at their one-party state — so long , that is , as President Yoweri Museveni stays in charge . |
| 18 | Gloucestershire County Council maintains that the children are getting a proper education at their existing school : |
| 19 | The industry received a subsidy , optimistically calculated at £10 million , but in fact costing £23 million , to keep wages and profits at their existing level . |
| 20 | In all four schools , participation in the project had made a range of departments and a number of individual teachers look closely at their existing library resources for the purposes of stock editing and selection . |
| 21 | Frequently couples at their golden wedding celebration will say something to the effect of ‘ we made it a point never to go to bed angry ’ . |
| 22 | If , in addition , we had a similar frequency count of another property , say level of income , and looked at their mutual distribution , their covariation in a word , we can see how strongly the two properties , the two variables , are related . |
| 23 | Social workers must first diagnose the problems and then help with such practical aids as they have at their immediate disposal . |
| 24 | She loved sitting up with the children until long past bedtime , playing silly games or just holding them in her arms and carrying on a conversation at their absurd level . |
| 25 | as if , in part , to fight back at their crushing fate , the Welsh families in those industrial valleys bred and grew and savoured their own with biblical fruitfulness and devotion . |
| 26 | At their final session on Nov. 21 , summit leaders formally inaugurated a " new era of democracy , peace and unity in Europe " by signing the Charter of Paris for a New Europe . |
| 27 | Charlton are desperate for play-off points and Newcastle will have 10,000 screaming Geordie fans at their final game . ’ |
| 28 | More specifically , how did the small mammals , what ever they are , come to arrive at their final resting place in the cave , what processes can be recognized as having brought this about , and how have these processes affected the types of animal represented . |
| 29 | If Japanese women were to continue having children for the rest of this century at their 1989 fertility rate of 1.57 , Japan 's population would inch up from today 's 123m to 126m in 2005 . |
| 30 | Ian Stewart warned them not to overload , in his speech as chairman at their 1989 Conference . |