Example sentences of "their [noun pl] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As the ambulance left the scene , neighbours , who had been kept shut in their houses for two days , began to emerge into the sunshine . |
| 32 | The man had not been deliberately cruel or corrupt , like so many non-medical people who licensed their houses for this purpose , but he had stuck to the principle that the violent needed continual restraint , and his daughter still feared more progressive methods . |
| 33 | Their proposals for further education will transfer elected local authority control over further education to control by seven or eight appointed regional boards . |
| 34 | Qualified Teachers are invited to send in their requests for next year 's programme by 20th July either to Jean Parmiter or the Office . |
| 35 | The Department of Transport 's Vehicle Certification Agency ( VCA ) has appointed a team of engineering inspectors , based at MIRA in Warwickshire , to ensure that companies entering their cars for Low Volume Type Approval meet a whole raft of regulations which , and we quote , ‘ demonstrate that the vehicle is constructed from parts which conform to international standards ’ . |
| 36 | About one third of drivers said they used their cars for unnecessary journeys . |
| 37 | AA research shows that 64 per cent of motorists use their cars for this purpose -among them , semi-skilled and unskilled workers for whom the car is an absolute necessity . |
| 38 | Headless Periplaneta and Schistocerca can be trained to flex their legs for long periods in order to avoid an electric shock . |
| 39 | The citizens were literally waiting to seize the disembarking troops and bear them off to their homes for lavish entertainment , while singing on the quayside was the ample figure of Perla Siedle Gibson , ‘ The Lady in White ’ . |
| 40 | We pray for those who are confined to their homes for long periods . |
| 41 | They discovered sweatshops and people working in their homes for long hours trying to erm patch together a very very poor living . |
| 42 | ‘ Invitations to their homes for formal and informal lunches , dinners and parties became notably scarce , ’ he says . |
| 43 | THOUSANDS of people were ordered to stay in their homes for three hours yesterday when toxic smoke was released in a chemical plant fire . |
| 44 | So you 've got the you 've got the three things the the the financial speaker is really coming here in a commercial way but with no hard sell in the hope that you will become er one of their clients for individual investment advice but you need n't do so . |
| 45 | Policy makers and social investigators assumed that all married women would be dependent on their husbands for financial support . |
| 46 | The second characteristic of the post-war national insurance scheme , which will perpetuate the treatment of women as dependants on their husbands for some time to come , is the married woman 's option . |
| 47 | A lot of people have said to us that our gigs remind them of when they 're in the bathroom , miming with a tennis racket , pouring water over their heads for that sweat experience . ’ |
| 48 | A lot of people have said to us that our gigs remind them of when they 're in the bathroom , miming with a tennis racket , pouring water over their heads for that sweat experience . ’ |
| 49 | Then the government must offer the French-speaking Quebeckers an alternative to their demands for political sovereignty , which have grown in volume ( if not in clarity ) during the past winter . |
| 50 | Eight detainees at Oukacha prison in Casablanca , on hunger strike since Nov. 26 , were on Dec. 25 granted their demands for political prisoner status , the right to family visits and the right to read newspapers ; their families had been fasting in support at the offices of the Moroccan Union of Labour . |
| 51 | Similarly , the use of contractors is sometimes the only way in which certain organisations can meet their demands for key computing skills . |
| 52 | Indeed , it is just the space between these contradictions that subordinate groups fill with their demands for legal change . |
| 53 | In a society where the uniqueness of Japan 's past weighs heavily , employers are able to justify their demands for personal loyalty and sacrifice in terms of longstanding cultural practices . |
| 54 | In return , the chairmen will want the PFA to drop their demands for 10 per cent of the TV revenue . |
| 55 | However , the increased productivity of labour may help many firms to cut costs , enabling them to reduce prices and to expand their levels of output , thereby increasing their demands for all factor inputs , including labour . |
| 56 | Indeed MEPs in Strasbourg would be well advised , as they prepare their demands for greater powers under EMU , to strike a united front with their national colleagues . |
| 57 | The rally , scheduled to take place on Aug. 30 , had been organized by church leaders from several denominations to support their demands for greater political freedom and a national referendum on political reform . |
| 58 | Few could have met their demands for additional labour internally , and not because they were hampered by rigid job demarcation system or lacked a workforce with adaptable skills . |
| 59 | Farmers in one of the most important regions are threatening a strike unless Mr Gorbachov meets their demands for higher prices . |
| 60 | They have slightly relaxed their demands for absolute obedience to the rules and do not think they are demeaning themselves by giving reasons for their ‘ do 's ’ and ‘ don'ts ’ . |