Example sentences of "of their [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Encircled by British , French and Italian territories , they were intensely proud of their age-old independence and very conscious that their forefathers had been among the earliest converts to Christianity . |
| 2 | There had been other collapses , there were little ones all the time , and big ones too like the ‘ Tim and Teddy ’ shops ' rapid demise ( which had been simply because of their slovenly accounting ) , but Rose had a special place . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , police who had been guarding the BSP headquarters were accused of dereliction of duty because of their minimal resistance to the demonstrators . |
| 4 | In Britain , the government has yet to place its safer-sex advertising aimed at ‘ men who have sex with men ’ in non-gay publications , thus by-passing those men who do not identify as gay and so are least likely to be well-informed because of their minimal contact with the gay scene . |
| 5 | Their organization into topic-comment structures must add to the complexity of their thematic analysis and to the difficulty of identifying signals of thematic status . |
| 6 | This way they reckoned that no news of their dastardly cruelty and cowardice would reach the outside world . |
| 7 | Another curious trick of horseshoe bats concerns movements of their outer ear flaps . |
| 8 | A Coventry school-dinner lady in her late fifties , like many women of her generation , carries with her part of their collective memory of poor old times . |
| 9 | Indeed , the average current-account balance ( ignoring whether the balance is a surplus or deficit ) of the big seven industrial economies is forecast to fall to only 0.6% of their collective GNP this year , down from a peak of 3.0% in 1986 . |
| 10 | What Schumpeter called the ‘ classical doctrine ’ of democracy differs in several respects from the theories I have just outlined , one of the crucial differences being that it conceives democracy as a historical movement which aims constantly to extend the area within which the members of a society can govern themselves by participating fully and freely in the regulation of their collective life . |
| 11 | They decided to forget all current trends ( such young band paranoia , the decision to trend hop , often leads to directionless confusion anyway ) and concentrate on keeping their music within the reach of their collective ability . |
| 12 | Thus , a study ( Korpi , 1978 , p. 332 ) of the unions and politics in Sweden concluded that , with the strengthening of their collective power base the levels of aspiration of wage-earners are likely to increase ( in a political sense ) , ‘ extending to issues of control over work and production ’ ; while another study ( Gallie , 1978 , p. 299 ) brought out important differences between British and French workers in their attitudes to the present system of industrial production , with the latter taking a much more political view : |
| 13 | The company said that the potential disposals will realise ‘ well in excess of their collective book value and represent full value to shareholders ’ . |
| 14 | It was then that they disagreed for the first time about the terms of their verbal agreement and a serious rift developed between them . |
| 15 | This is because of their legitimate keenness to stress the presence of a communal principle in the history of mankind . |
| 16 | Aristocratic families in Europe defended the purity of their descent ( the basis of their legitimate right to rule ) , and now , by an heroic leap of imagination , racial purity comes to be attached to whole peoples for certain political purposes . |
| 17 | Some countries like Malaysia have , however , managed to hang on to the advantages of being early recipients of such investments by virtue of their installed base of experienced workers who could help attract later entrants . |
| 18 | As the sound of their giggling chatter reached him on the wind , his amusement faded and gave way to loathing . |
| 19 | While I do not want to detract from the bilinguals ' versatility or the value of their multicultural experience , I will argue in this chapter that in fact monolinguals have broadly the same range of linguistic " powers " as bilinguals have , though sometimes these are manifested in other ways . |
| 20 | In some of these shops I observed one or more females , stript of their upper garment , and not overcharged with the latter , wielding the hammer with all the grace of the sex … struck with this novelty , I enquired , " whether the ladies of this locality shod horses ? " but was answered , with a smile , " they are nailers " . |
| 21 | In some of these shops I observed one , or more females , stript of their upper garment , and not overcharged with their lower , wielding the hammer with all the grace of the sex … |
| 22 | Their underside is soft and hairy but the whole of their upper surface is covered in strong , thick spines . |
| 23 | All the children had physiology of their upper tract involvement clarified by antroduodenal motility studies and in some cases by full thickness surgical biopsies . |
| 24 | Remarks were made by the local rivals , not about dancing standards as the Mites were inevitably highly experienced and could not be faulted , but more was made of their apparent roughness : |
| 25 | Because of their apparent lack of transcriptional activity , we expected Max+Max dimers to antagonize transactivation by Myc+Max through competition for the same DNA target site . |
| 26 | In spite of their apparent self-sufficiency , biological varieties of psychological theory are imbued with the uncertainties which accompany any ‘ scientific ’ theory of subjectivity . |
| 27 | Because of their apparent similarity to banks and their rapid expansion of recent years , there has been much discussion about their impact on banks , as competitors , and upon the money supply . |
| 28 | There is every reason why it should continue to be pleasurable and satisfying for both husband and wife for the rest of their married life . |
| 29 | Because of Paul 's job , the early years of their married life were spent in America , then in London . |
| 30 | In the first years of their married life , Diana made several suicide bids and numerous threats . |