Example sentences of "their [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But granted the credit for historical reliability which accrues to the evangelists through their reserve about the Spirit , that still does not help us with the problem of why there is practically nothing in the Gospels about men and women being filled with the Holy Spirit now that he was clearly in business again . |
| 2 | We 've also included in there , on item twelve , a net bill item , but does need to be recognized as an addition to your total spending , and that is , you 've been involved for many years with the health authority in arranging for the discharge of people from long-stay hospitals , and their absorption into the community , and each of these are a provider of many services , and daycare services to those particular individuals . |
| 3 | With their absorption of the vicomté of Béarn through marriage and inheritance in 1290 , the counts of Foix became the single most powerful house in the south-west . |
| 4 | Not only does alcohol displace essential nutrients from the diet , but it blocks their absorption by the body . |
| 5 | The fact that radicals both inside and outside parliament were often divided among themselves and had no uniform political views or remedies was emphasized by their ineffectiveness in the Economic Advisory Committee in the 1930s . |
| 6 | Cities spend an enormous amount of money on building stadiums and bidding competitively for sports franchises ; they predicate their enthusiasm on the assumption ( for which there is no empirical basis ) that a professional sports team enhances a local economy . |
| 7 | Their enthusiasm for the research increased after the policemen and women in Easton had reassured themselves about the field-worker 's religion , sensitivity towards which was initially intensified by the common-sense view among some ordinary constables that Queen 's University is a Republican stronghold . |
| 8 | The Scots were , in fact , an amazing success story ; and that success came from their pride , and their enthusiasm for the world outside . |
| 9 | They are also likely to include members who have a high profile in the community and their enthusiasm for the school , or lack of it , may be very influential on others . |
| 10 | Shabba Ranks and his enigmatic manager ‘ The Specialist ’ seem to be in a minority with their enthusiasm for the record . |
| 11 | Many of us will remember their enthusiasm for the work of the Lord and the joy that they had in the fact that God should use them in such a way . |
| 12 | Some thought that far too many opulent and now half-empty movie palaces had been built for the elusive fashionable trade whilst others detected a more general dulling of the palate as the masses lost their enthusiasm for the old stories and seemed all too ready for something new . |
| 13 | Their enthusiasm for the gangster film was in part a hope that it would be a transitional form and not an atrophied and unchanging product . |
| 14 | admit as much in a note to their text to the effect that : ‘ There was not , however , a corresponding reduction in the space devoted to public affairs due to the Daily Mirror 's increased size . ’ |
| 15 | More frequently they try to manipulate the media to their advantage by the selective release of carefully timed and adjusted information and by threatening , punishing , and intimidating media staff . |
| 16 | Largeness , whether as an un-eliminated pituitary defect or as a self-coded dna attempt at prolonging the dinosaurian bloodline , may not have worked to their advantage in the end . |
| 17 | The difference between American and British approaches to obscenity law lies in the harms they seek to curtail and in their comprehension of the processes by which those harms are inflicted . |
| 18 | In ordinary language , this ordered pair can be rendered as follows : the satisfaction of readers is dependent on their judgement of the processing effort required to derive a reading as well as on the perceived effort put into the writing of the text ; the reader 's judgement of the author 's satisfaction is similarly dependent on the perceived costs to the writer as well as the notion of the writer gaining satisfaction from the reader 's effort and enjoyment of the text . |
| 19 | It later became clear that the two ministers had consulted the Roman catholic archbishop of Dublin before delivering their judgement on the matter . |
| 20 | In these circumstances , whenever , we need independent opinion , we look for confirmation of our confidence in the credibility of the credibility of the people concerned : we then back their judgement on the likelihood of success , for they will be staking part of their careers and reputations on the outcome . |
| 21 | It seems all part of life 's colourful plan that deer-watchers , like every other group of people pursuing a common goal , secure their elitism by the use of jargon . |
| 22 | The children performed these tasks either silently or while engaging in a task designed to suppress their vocalisation of the word names . |
| 23 | In the United Kingdom the Roman Catholic and Republican minority of Northern Ireland took to the streets in protest against the injustices meted out to their kind by the Provincial Government and condoned in Whitehall ( see Cameron Report 1969 Cmd 532 ) . |
| 24 | Both programmes are the largest of their kind in the country . ’ |
| 25 | To reduce these figures , two major national screening programmes have been introduced — the first of their kind in the European Community . |
| 26 | Now , in the space of four days , two key ministers have given bleak warnings over the state of affairs in both the oil and coal industries , the largest of their kind in the world . |
| 27 | To reduce these figures , two major national screening programmes have been introduced — the first of their kind in the European Community . |
| 28 | The wall paintings , discovered in 1952 , were the only ones of their kind in the Aveyron region . |
| 29 | The authorities in California are conducting investigations into the skiing and rafting accidents which are believed to be the first of their kind in the state . |
| 30 | They took her in their arms and lifted her gently so that she could feel their support along the length of her body . |