Example sentences of "their [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost 17 million of South Africa 's 28 million blacks live in the homelands and their support at the ballot box is crucial whenever they are finally given the vote . |
| 2 | Writers and actors have been pledging their support at the start of National Library Week . |
| 3 | Students are not eligible under this scheme if they : have not been ordinarily resident within the European Community for the three years preceding the start of their course at the University ; or are on an exchange programme where fees are waived ; or have attended a course normally lasting more than two years and have received a UK statutory award for this study . |
| 4 | Yeah sometimes when Rosemary was here , we did n't have any bother or anything but now and again somebody , she did their hair at the time |
| 5 | The inhabitants of Thrush Green were able to gaze their fill at the stranger on the first Sunday after his arrival , as he attended morning service in a dove-grey suit which was far better cut , everyone agreed , than those of the other males in the congregation . |
| 6 | Nearly all felt their experience at the hospitals , to which they were initially referred , to be stigmatizing and degrading . |
| 7 | It was a clockwork existence for the children , but the rapturous applause more than compensated for their tiredness at the end of the day . |
| 8 | Our partnership has never been aimed at a resourcing of the school in a material sense , but has focused on the educational experiences of students and their provision at the highest quality possible . |
| 9 | Even in the 1930s the anti-Semitism of literary figures like Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton co-existed uneasily with their revulsion at the racial policies of the new Germany . |
| 10 | Villagers yesterday expressed their horror at the murder . |
| 11 | Their presence at the hearing had been dispensed with at a meeting of the Panel four days previously . |
| 12 | Foreign Ministers of the European Communities ( EC ) , meeting in Brussels on Jan. 10 , had emphasised their presence at the conference as the EC , whereas the US had invited all 12 countries individually . |
| 13 | Then a couple of women will clatter sweatily through a series of numbers , as close to the punters in the pub as their mum at the kitchen table . |
| 14 | I watched the cars stopping to pay their money at the toll-house and wondered if any of the drivers were tempted to put their foot down on the accelerator and go Zoom-Crash ! down to the bottom of the gorge . |
| 15 | Older people like other members of the population may consult their GP at the surgery or request a home visit . |
| 16 | Before they reached this happy state , however , they were to carry through several operations and long hours of dangerous training from their base at the Hayling Island Sailing Club on an isolated spit of land called Sandy Point on Hayling Island ( near Portsmouth , Hampshire ) . |
| 17 | Under the proposals , they will be liable to tax on the value of the dividend plus a notional , non-payable tax credit of 20% which will be set off against their liability at the single flat rate of 35%. 28 Income which discretionary trustees use to meet trust management expenses will not be liable to tax at the single flat rate of 35% but at the lower rate of 20% ( if the income is dividends ) or at the basic rate of 25% ( if it is other income ) . |
| 18 | They did n't even glance at each other when greeted by traditional musicians dressed in 14th-Century attire , and their suite at the Seoul Hyatt Hotel has two bedrooms . |
| 19 | But that very evening , back in their suite at the Grand , holding her arm roughly , he ordered her to undress . |
| 20 | Anna and Peta were presented with their award at the Savoy Hotel on April 14 . |
| 21 | WALES , the Soviet Union and West Germany are three new nations making their debut at the 15th Hong Kong Sevens , to be staged from 31 March to 1 April next year . |
| 22 | Designed by Carlo Chiti , later to build some explosively temperamental F1 engines for Alfa Romeo , the ATS cars made their debut at the 1963 Belgian Grand Prix . |
| 23 | All of them had been trained by the School from the age of eight or nine , eight having made their debut at the Winter Gardens at Blackpool . |
| 24 | In the eight years since UB40 made their debut at the Ulster Hall the Campbell brothers and the rest of them have grown in stature . |
| 25 | His big chance comes on Thursday , September 23 , when Stagestruck , the province 's newest musical group , make their debut at the Bedford Street venue . |
| 26 | Scores of curious seals , disturbed in their play at the foot of the cliffs , swum out to investigate . |
| 27 | They record him burning with anger against those who practised their faith at the expense of others . |
| 28 | Visitors can see Barnaby 's bazaar of teddy bear souvenirs or try their luck at the tombola , where they could win one of the teddies donated by a celebrity . |
| 29 | They are Alexander the Great ; the Silver Shields ( a Macedonian corps d'élite of the early hellenistic period ) ; and the Spartans up to the date of their defeat at the hands of the Thebans at Leuktra in 371 . |
| 30 | Following their defeat at the Wiltshire election of 1713 , the Whig candidates petitioned the House of Commons , complaining that the under-sheriff , in collusion with the two Tory candidates , had delayed opening the poll until the afternoon , " when many freeholders , who would have voted for the petitioners , were necessitated , by reason of the harvest , to go away without voting " , and also that he had " refused those who voted for the petitioners , and had a right ; and polled others amongst them , who had no right " . |