Example sentences of "of their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where better than this great vault of abandoned statuary and skeletons , to avail themselves of their Catalepsean Nodes for a couple of hours ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Navaho had respected Rope Thrower as a warrior , but could never forgive the destruction of their prized orchards . |
| 4 | Each of their slovenly scrawls was greeted with gasps of admiration from the kindly tutor , whose dress and hair grew paler by the minute as they showered her with dust . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , police who had been guarding the BSP headquarters were accused of dereliction of duty because of their minimal resistance to the demonstrators . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In addition , the 1989 MMC Report , conceived as an attack in the public interest on the monopoly power of the major brewers and requiring the ‘ untying ’ of large chunks of their tied estates , may have devastating consequences for traditional pubs . |
| 9 | At the end of the 80s the famous Manchester firm of Boddingtons sold its brewing operation to Whitbread ; yet during 1988 alone , Claire Hunt has noted , Boddingtons undertook the refurbishment of 50 of their tied houses . |
| 10 | National brewing giants such as Allied or Whitbread , though , are not the only villains ; small independent firms can be just as insensitive in their treatment of their tied houses . |
| 11 | I said that , as brewers never sell beer at a loss , why did not the brewers knock £30 or £40 off the price of a barrel to the tenants of their tied houses in the first place ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This way they reckoned that no news of their dastardly cruelty and cowardice would reach the outside world . |
| 14 | Lastly , if tails become forked ( when closed ) through elongation of their outer feathers , lift initially increases more rapidly than drag ( as the spread tail tends toward the optimum triangular shape ) , so that aerodynamic costs are lower for long shallow forks than for simple tails . |
| 15 | The vital ingredient that serum provides to a medium is lipid , which cells need to maintain the integrity of their outer membranes . |
| 16 | Another curious trick of horseshoe bats concerns movements of their outer ear flaps . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If they seriously believe that in the context of the present constitutional crisis between Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom they can introduce what are crude and dangerous league tables into Scottish education — and do so by means of a single clause tacked on at the end of an English and Welsh Bill which is otherwise wholly irrelevant to Scotland — they have taken leave of their collective senses . |
| 21 | [ Hence ] the loyalty of the masses to a nation which had become the instrument of their collective interests and ambitions … . |
| 22 | Second , the bourgeoisie faces a prisoner 's dilemma situation if all capital owners pursue their own individual interests at the expense of their collective interests as a class . |
| 23 | They impel people to join trade unions and radical parties , to take strike action and stage protests in which awareness of their collective interests , and of their opposition to the interests of capitalists and controllers of labour , can be dramatically strengthened ( Hyman 1971 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 : |
| 26 | Shortly after the abolition of the CPRS , Professor George Jones noted : ‘ While she has been strengthening her own personal staff resources , she has weakened those at the disposal of her Cabinet colleagues for the performances of their collective deliberations by abolishing the CPRS . |
| 27 | The company said that the potential disposals will realise ‘ well in excess of their collective book value and represent full value to shareholders ’ . |
| 28 | Indeed , so popular were indulgences that during 1498 and 1499 an estimated 2000 English priests were obliged to request plenary indulgences from the pope on behalf of their lay parishioners . |
| 29 | By custom they sat in private and not in court , and they were referred to as a domestic tribunal whatever part of their visitorial functions they were performing . |
| 30 | Afterwards Churchill is supposed to have sent a note to the Marshal , thanking him for his hospitality and reminding him of the details of their verbal agreements of the night before the morning after . |