Example sentences of "their [noun sg] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They took an early lead , held on to their advantage right to the end and , despite a keenly fought contest , had a comfortable win . |
| 2 | Some species of surface-living fish , in danger of being out-paced by the hunters , have turned their pectoral fins to a special purpose . |
| 3 | Mr and Mrs Simon Murison-Bowie thank Sir Keith and Lady Thomas for their kind invitation to drinks in the garden of Corpus Christi College on 18 July at 6.00 pm , and are happy to accept . |
| 4 | When user information is requested for transfer , details of every user in LIFESPAN and their user relationships to each other are transferred along with details of all charge codes . |
| 5 | Erm because we 've got a printing system for the school th they 're , they 're now letting out their printing services to others in the community . |
| 6 | There are also signs that in the new era of competitiveness between them , institutions are becoming reluctant to open their course offerings to the critical gaze of panel members drawn from institutions competing for contracts with the funding bodies . |
| 7 | Dun expects at least 20% of its 14,000 customers worldwide to downsize their computer operations to Unix systems . |
| 8 | According to Bernstein , the very conditions of their upbringing lead to their being linguistically crippled . |
| 9 | Chris Roberts in Melody Maker suggested they needed ‘ more width down the wings ’ while Martin Aston in Q compared their guitar style to Best 's deft footwork . |
| 10 | A survey by Spectrum Communication Group showed that 70 per cent of the companies questioned intended to increase their budget allocation to conferences for 1985/86 , whereas only 19 per cent estimated that their budgets would be decreased . |
| 11 | On 2 March the Singapore Trade Development Board devoted part of their budget statement to the burgeoning art trade in the region . |
| 12 | Since Mr Balladur took office , French banks have trimmed their base rates to 9% . |
| 13 | If a band delayed signing a publishing contract until the singles from their album had obtained some success , it was because they believed , not unreasonably , that they could negotiate a better contract by demonstrating their chart success to a publisher . |
| 14 | Make them feel that their response matters to you , which is what they need . |
| 15 | Greater access for walkers to forest areas is beneficial not detrimental claimed the Forestry Commission ( FC ) at the launch of a booklet intended to persuade owners and managers to open up their woodland areas to the public . |
| 16 | It 's prompted council officers in Oxfordshire to put their contingency plans to the test . |
| 17 | Lawrence and Lorsch ( 1967 ) , as we saw earlier , developed this tension in their contingency approach to organisations . |
| 18 | I know that thousands of others have gained their freedom thanks to you . |
| 19 | non-CASE students were twice as likely as their CASE peers to be working in education ; |
| 20 | British Channel Island Ferries are extending their minicruise excursions to September 12 . |
| 21 | Asian children performed just as well as other children in the six local education authorities but their admission rate to university was almost half of the corresponding figure for school leavers in all the state schools in England . |
| 22 | Cajolings then give way to threats and threats to the big stick until , undernourished and overloaded , their faith sinks to the ground and expires . |
| 23 | In the words of Mr McKiernan , ‘ subscribers can now match their search requirement to the risk potential of the enquiry subject ’ . |
| 24 | In doing so they adapt their search requirement to the system in the hope of matching the system 's language . |
| 25 | People arrested on suspicion of drunk driving in the UK are allowed to send half their blood sample to a private certification agency to corroborate the results of the police analysis . |
| 26 | The cimetidine treated xenografts were identical in all respects to the xenografts from the other groups apart from having less necrotic areas , possibly because thy had not outgrown their blood supply to the same extent as the other tumours . |
| 27 | ‘ Our affluent workers remain , in spite of their affluence , men who live by selling their labour power to their employers in return for wages ; and , in all probability they will still be so at the end of their working days . |
| 28 | Despite the increased strength of labour , as reflected in welfare provisions and moves towards ‘ industrial democracy ’ , workers were still obliged to sell their labour power to employers whose freedom of action they might be able to limit , but certainly not control . |
| 29 | Most operators have therefore reduced their labour force to a core of general port operatives who are required to perform a wide variety of tasks , supplemented as and when needed by a periphery of temporary , casual or contract labour . |
| 30 | Perceiving more clearly than most the dangers inherent in the darkening American situation , the Barclay brothers first gave up their commission merchant business and then gradually reduced their export trade to North America . |