Example sentences of "of their [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All morning the world 's top cyclists will have been reconnoitring the course , selecting their gear ratios and the most suitable of their many bikes , looking at the route for the best way through corners , testing the strength and direction of the wind — looking for anything that will give them that little extra in this first trial of strength , which will be clocked in tenths and hundredths of a second . |
| 2 | But that wedding evidently did not take place , and in December 1753 it was Ann Bowden whom he rushed to the altar in Exeter , his bride being already heavily pregnant with the first of their many offspring . |
| 3 | When Aubrey had accepted one of their many invitations to come on a lengthy visit , it did cross Harry 's mind that his resemblance to his sister might bring back painful memories , but although Aubrey had now been here over a week , he , Harry , had felt no desire to wish himself free of his engagement . |
| 4 | The majority of hotels now use the printed registration forms ( Fig. 3.8 ) because of their many advantages : |
| 5 | These monkeys produce alarm calls when one of their many predators approaches — thereby alerting other members of the group . |
| 6 | In the course of their many arguments , Amanda once asked him to consider the domestic condition of the Fergusson family , who lived together with strong bonds of affection , and declare whether they too were the consequence of chaos , hazard and malice . |
| 7 | Finally , the thoughts of the two poets tended towards a volume of another kind , which would reflect the poetic concerns of their many conversations since the beginning of the Alfoxden year . |
| 8 | Turns out — and I learned this not through Miguel but our second guide who has n't said much most of the trip — that thkarni is the Indians ' name — well , one of their many names , to be precise — for you-know-what . |
| 9 | Tethlis 's heart was filled with a terrible cold hatred for the children of Naggaroth , for they had slain his family in one of their many raids . |
| 10 | When many modes are involved , this phenomenon results in very short pulses — typically picoseconds — which have grabbed most of the attention because of their many applications . |
| 11 | After the first men were made , it relates , the noise of their many children was so great that the god of the earth could not sleep . |
| 12 | Now , ghosts are regarded as being greedy for meat and as possessive of their former spouses , both forms of behaviour condemned as anti-social among the living . |
| 13 | The Condemned had thrown out everything of their former existence — their hair , clothes , music . |
| 14 | But even these lack something of their former abandon , and any extra refinement is insufficient to compensate . |
| 15 | He could see from the number of bells beside each door that they 'd nearly all been turned into flats now , or dentists ' surgeries , and some were in urgent need of renovation , but they still retained some of their former grandeur , or was it pretension ? |
| 16 | Built 200 years before as legal chambers , they still bore traces of their former grandeur : beams , joists , and bearing timbers of sound oak ; wainscoting and lofty rooms . |
| 17 | And , now , crumbling in decay , over laden with a desolate burden of humanity , the houses had the look of queuing for a great knacker 's yard , of eagerly embracing the extinction of their former grandeur , of offering themselves to ruin with an abandonment almost luxurious . |
| 18 | Their coffers have been boosted by the £100,000 sale of their former England Rugby Union three-quarter John Bentley and international loose forward Gary Divorty to Halifax . |
| 19 | If they 'd been wise and told their government that this tax should not happen , as indeed many of their former ministers , like Michael Heseltine said , they 'd said it was incredibly complicated although seemed sounding easy , and would in fact bring higher levels of taxation to the lowest income people , then er if the local tories had actually acted on that and put pressure on their central party , perhaps their government would n't be in such a mess about this issue now . |
| 20 | OLD ASIA hands still talk nostalgically about the Good Old Days in many of the region 's cities and ports , which have since had much of their former life and glamour squeezed out of them by oppressive regimes , overcrowding or economic decline . |
| 21 | Yet , whilst the Burmese retain a grudging respect for the British , they exact a characteristic vengeance upon the sanctified edifice of their former masters . |
| 22 | Using reported experiences , we aimed to draw together good practice and make recommendations to the organisations on how best to manage secondments so as to help secondees adapt more rapidly to their new jobs and , in due course , to the return of their former posts . |
| 23 | His collections in Bohemia and those of succeeding Habsburgs are now mere shadows of their former glory . |
| 24 | Furthermore the British , despite the Cold War , were still determined to recover as much as possible of their former independence and influence in the world . |
| 25 | It 's a job which men take on when they are at the height of their powers but all too often they have been reduced to a sickly shadow of their former self . |
| 26 | They have only to look south of the border at some of the experiences of their former workmates within public sector bus operations to see what the alternative propositions might be . |
| 27 | By 1941 , when Reza Shah abdicated , the Mullahs had lost much of their former influence . |
| 28 | The inhabitants made it clear that their commons had been reduced to between half and a third of their former size . |
| 29 | Today , many of the broads are just a fraction of their former size . |
| 30 | Its report , Time for Pine : A future for Caledonian pinewoods , calls for concerted action to ensure better management of the pinewoods , which cover less than 1 per cent of their former range . |