Example sentences of "of their [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | As with the other two scales of population redistribution surveyed above , the distinction between the inner and outer parts of individual cities and towns in terms of their inhabitants ' relative prosperity is not new , nor is it unique in Britain ( Herbert , 1972 ) . |
| 2 | He is best known today for his early friendships with the Impressionist elite of Renoir , Fantin-Latour , Manet , Cézanne and Monet ( with whom he shared a studio for a time and discussed the possibility of organising an exhibition of their friends ' works by the official salon ) . |
| 3 | Because of their players ' League commitments in England , the Republic of Ireland have cancelled their friendly international against Yugoslavia on 14 December . |
| 4 | But they did , with a fervour that would have amazed the feminists of their grandmothers ' generation . |
| 5 | Hibernators can be recognised by frequent , short illnesses ; by regular hold-ups on their morning train ; and by the frequency of their grandmothers ' funerals . |
| 6 | It seems from the work of earlier historians that at some time around 1200 the influence of the great magnates underwent a challenge : in part this was because the king was intruding more and more into what had been the magnates ' private preserve , the distribution of justice to their feudal tenants ; in part also because rising inflation damaged their incomes ; and because the individual ambitions of certain of the men who had been the tenants of their knights ' fees led them to seek their advancement outside their natural lords ' followings . |
| 7 | In addition , they decide the quantity of the initial pressing of their artists ' recordings ( for a new artist 's first single this would be around 5,000 ) ; they liaise with the manufacturing plant to ensure further stock is available if it is needed ; and they avoid producing stock which would probably never be sold . |
| 8 | Along with the press and promotion staff , the marketing department has to ensure that every potential record-buyer is aware of their artists ' work . |
| 9 | The boys talked nostalgically about the way fighting had been a part of their fathers ' world ; ‘ about the time old man MacIlroy , half-pissed , had taken on ali the men folk of his very extended family , at his sister 's wedding , and stili had time to call for more beer . |
| 10 | AT THAT difficult and defiant age of 19 , it is perhaps quite extraordinary that The Prayer Boat have chosen to study so closely the catalogues of The Waterboys and Van Morrison — old men , of their fathers ' generation . |
| 11 | The speech of Lord Lowry , with which the other members of their Lordships ' House agreed , is a salutary reminder that the protection from action in the ordinary courts which is conferred on local authorities and others by the rule in O'Reilly v. Mackman must not be carried too far . |
| 12 | But the only speech delivered did not consider this second point and the summary treatment of the appellant 's argument is reflected in the opinion expressed , at p. 633 , that the point certified and argued was scarcely worthy of their Lordships ' attention . |
| 13 | The basis of their Lordships ' decisions was that the minister could give a valid direction only if he was satisfied that no reasonable local authority could have decided as the Conservative majority did ; and that he could not have been so satisfied . |
| 14 | Rock ‘ n ’ rail Some months before the troubles developed in East Germany , one of the world 's more arcane organisations , the Ireland-German Democratic Friendship Society , announced plans to celebrate in Dublin the 40th birthday of their comrades ' dictatorship in the East . |
| 15 | Contrary to popular assumptions , German banks are preferred by criminals for money-laundering purposes because of their notoriously cavalier attitude towards the origins of their customers ' finances . |
| 16 | Normally this will be within six weeks of the end of the calendar quarter , but smaller businesses whose sales to other EC countries in a year do not exceed £10,500 out of a total turnover of £59,500 , need only submit a list of their customers ' registration numbers on an annual basis . |
| 17 | Sales-forces organized on a customer basis have the advantage of a thorough knowledge of their customers ' needs and sales records . |
| 18 | However , parties should consider at the outset the payment of their advisers ' fees in the event that the transaction aborts . |
| 19 | The Canine Crisis Council ( sponsored by Hugo Summerson MP , Baroness Phillips and Lord Ross of Newport ) has called for all dogs to be muzzled in public places and for large dogs to be kept muzzled even in the privacy of their owners ' garden . |
| 20 | On a fine mid-morning , the water at Sconser is glowingly clear , a kind of northern coral sea , and with boats bobbing on moorings near the back-gardens of their owners ' cottages ; a few lobster pots , a net drying in the light sunshine . |
| 21 | They picked their way carefully over the leads of numerous labradors , terriers and springers anchored with more or less acquiescence , to bits of their owners ' persons . |
| 22 | IT IS sometimes difficult to remember that company directors are merely the custodians of their shareholders ' money , rather than the owners of the business free to do with it what they will . |
| 23 | They are still trying to persuade you that Palatine really needs Anglo-Welsh , and they are evidently prepared to spend vast amounts of their shareholders ' money on national advertising to impress you . |
| 24 | THE distraught parents of soldiers killed in Northern Ireland last night bitterly condemned the exclusion of their sons ' names from local cenotaphs . |
| 25 | When he got back to London , he could perhaps pretend that he had been spending a few weeks in Hawthornden Castle on one of their writers ' scholarships . |
| 26 | Again , study our leading riders to see how they keep hold of their horses ' heads and remain balanced themselves . |
| 27 | They moved on again with the river coursing slowly in the growing light beside them and the birds darting out in front of their horses ' knees . |
| 28 | Readers of right-wing papers were well aware of their papers ' pro-Conservative and anti-Labour bias though less unanimous about their papers ' anti-Alliance bias . |
| 29 | In the tense climate of postwar eastern Europe , the new powers expediently circumnavigated the full truth of their citizens ' wartime collaboration and atrocities in order to consolidate power as quickly as possible . |
| 30 | The GPB consequently arranged for her to receive instruction from a number of their members ' clients , and during her two-week stay , she travelled across the country visiting — among others — a teddy bear factory , saddlery , hospital craft store , and a babies ' clothes shop . |