Example sentences of "their [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It later became clear that the two ministers had consulted the Roman catholic archbishop of Dublin before delivering their judgement on the matter . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He also consulted protestant church leaders on the religious elements of the new constitution , a step unprecedented in catholic Ireland of his day , and gained their support on the basis of the recognition of their churches the constitution was to give . |
| 5 | Indeed , we might even be inclined to suggest that third parties that are buoyant in the opinion polls , and have a diffuse appeal beyond specific regions , are only able to sustain their support on the basis of an attractive ambiguity about their main policy objectives that precludes the presentation of crisp programmes and , therefore , the possibility of programmatic support . |
| 6 | The two friends discussed their experience on the way home . |
| 7 | Typically organisations require employees to obtain two or three estimates and base their payment on the lowest one . |
| 8 | The evaluation will consist of : — baseline criteria for the effectiveness of a computer based course — a description of critical aspects of course implementation — an analysis of the reciprocal interactions between teachers ' views of mathematics , mathematics teaching and computers and their progress on the course . |
| 9 | ‘ We are committed to the development of rugby league in Wales and will be monitoring their progress on the international scene during their home fixtures with New Zealand and France next season . ’ |
| 10 | She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor . |
| 11 | They are , therefore , dependent for their livelihood on the capitalists and the wages they offer . |
| 12 | I am fundamentally lazy and decided that we would inevitably be scrambled so it was less effort to remain in my aircraft and wait for it , helmet on and listening to the R T. The next thing I saw was people running — I still could not hear anything due to my helmet — and on looking round saw the 109s starting their dive on the field . |
| 13 | As Tumbleweed , their rise on the Sydney pub circuit has been meteoric . |
| 14 | It may seem odd to fret about this while economies are still sluggish , but in past recoveries governments have often kept their foot on the accelerator too long . |
| 15 | In 1980 , Virgin 's expansion ground to a sudden halt , as their bank , Coutts , put their foot on the brake , signalling what would develop , in the coming years , into a major crisis over banking . |
| 16 | I like to see men stamping all of their foot on the ground — Morris dancers and Russians and Greeks — and jumping , like people who are resigned to mere jumping , without any pretence at flight . |
| 17 | Ivy had her hands full with the driving , and although Zen soon gave up trying to follow their route on the maps he had brought with him , which proved to bear only a partial and rather disturbing resemblance to the landscape , like a mild hallucination , he kept up a show of poring over them to try and assuage his guilt at being a mere passenger , unable to share her burden . |
| 18 | While these findings are plausible enough they depend upon very small subsamples of our panel , since we have to categorize voters by their choice of paper and their reliance on the press rather than television while discarding the large numbers who relied equally on both television and the press . |
| 19 | For most of the time the plaintiffs seemed to miss out on the need to prove their reliance on the accounts and had they addressed this early enough , the case might never have come to court . |
| 20 | This second volume of drawings vindicates their reliance on the individuals to whom they have entrusted the expansion of this area of their collections . |
| 21 | Their reliance on the wind for the distribution of their reproductive cells was always haphazard and expensive in biological terms . |
| 22 | Their presence on the island once again poses the question : to which side of the Wallace Line does Sulawesi really belong ? |
| 23 | Sensing their presence on the threshold of the door , it twisted its head up towards them with a atrocious snarl . |
| 24 | The Liberal Democrats may have wasted their money on the personality cult of Paddy Ashdown , but he is certainly not a negative factor as far as the forgiving women of Richmond are concerned . |
| 25 | ‘ They have enabled us to add a very valuable player to our squad because they are putting their money on the table . ’ |
| 26 | In fact they expected to meet with USL chairman Bob Kavner and lay their money on the table the week before Christmas , only to be caught off guard by the Novell announcement . |
| 27 | ‘ The people here want to spend their money on the more expensive imported brands , ’ say Eugen , 24 , who works for the Soros Foundation in Timisoara . |
| 28 | He had told his wife that morning over breakfast in their bungalow on the edge of Barashevo and within faint sight of the outer wooden fence of Zone I , that he stood to gain a great prize … not tomorrow , not next week , but he had time , he had months of time to break this bastard . |
| 29 | The local trade unionists were quick to give their verdict on the SDLP and the document drawn up after the meeting stated : |
| 30 | Any moment now , Judi would be turning them into a Jury , appealing for their verdict on the Nielsen family . |