Example sentences of "their [noun pl] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRAZIL teased and tantalised Holland 's irregulars in Rotterdam last night without feeling the need to reveal the full range of their talents for the benefit of prying eyes from Scotland and England . |
| 2 | Or students may write their names on pieces of paper and place them on their desks for the teacher to see . |
| 3 | Clerical staff at Oxford Polytechnic vacated their desks for the picket line . |
| 4 | By 0930 they were all in their coaches for the long journey back to Brighton , for that evening they all became civilians again and had to be ready for their ordinary jobs on Monday . |
| 5 | They 'd almost had to turn her down because all their openings for the summer had already been filled . |
| 6 | The small ‘ democratic ’ parties at the NPC were invited to speak freely and offer their opinions for the party to consider . |
| 7 | The FADS ' criminally disappointing first album , ‘ Pigeonhole ’ , hung , albatross-like , around their necks for the whole of last year , marking them out as no-marks , never-rans , couldn't-have-beens . |
| 8 | The numerous victims of their rapacity and greed had no reason to risk their necks for the king and his favourites ; nobles such as the king 's half-brother the Earl of Norfolk , who might have expected to enjoy some influence at court , hated the Despensers for their monopoly of the king 's presence ; and the heirs of the victims of 1322 had everything to gain from the overthrow of Edward 's regime . |
| 9 | Puzzled looking blokes strain their necks for the dartboard , wide-eyed girls search in vain for the stage . |
| 10 | ‘ Most men I know would hang a title round their necks for the whole world to see ! ’ |
| 11 | Puzzled looking blokes strain their necks for the dartboard , wide-eyed girls search in vain for the stage . |
| 12 | But there were others who , despite their disaffection to Hanover , had little desire to risk their necks for the positive alternative the Pretender represented . |
| 13 | He was short and deeply unpopular with everyone because he had cheated them out of their money when he collected their taxes for the Roman army . |
| 14 | FOR Captain Marvel read Captain Miracle : Bryan Robson , whom England had sadly written out of their plans for the World Cup qualifying match against Poland a week tomorrow , may be fit to play in Chorzow after all . |
| 15 | Mrs Postance 's opposite number at the Haywards primary school at the other end of town , Mike Palmer , talks of ‘ tooling up ’ for the undertaking : ‘ I 've had to use a large slice of my in-service training budget to release staff during the school day for quite substantial periods to match up their plans for the following year . |
| 16 | He also feared that many businesses had already built redundancies into their plans for the coming year . |
| 17 | Often a councillor will serve as a governor of a number of primary schools and , given the slightest encouragement , be more than willing to discuss how the other schools are tackling specific problems and their plans for the future . |
| 18 | MINISTERS also published their plans for the ‘ cabling of Britain ’ last week . |
| 19 | But in August , as the selectors were putting together their plans for the winter , I started saying to Gatt : ‘ Why the bloody hell has he got that end , I want it . ’ |
| 20 | A review of SSAP 13 by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in January 1992 expressed the view that : ‘ SSAP 13 ( Revised ) was a relatively small step towards requiring companies to disclose more information about their plans for the future . |
| 21 | At this meeting the divisions review their performance in the current year and present and answer questions on their plans for the following year . |
| 22 | ROYAL BERKSHIRE AVIATION Society and the Herald Society have recently announced a major sponsorship deal which will help their plans for the establishment of the Museum of Berkshire Aviation . |
| 23 | Commodore have been quieter than an Orc in a dog-food factory regarding their plans for the C64 . |
| 24 | I spent some time every day looking after her , and the rest of the time with my cousins , listening to their plans for the future . |
| 25 | Sometimes an extremely simple technique is sufficient — for example Coveney ( 1986 ) reports that he obtained enough data to allow him to study quantitatively different ways of expressing future time in the French verb , simply by asking speakers about their plans for the future . |
| 26 | There is no reason why schools should not include within their plans for the 1990s the full range of managerial and support roles which emerged from PNP during the 1980s . |
| 27 | Perfectionism : Family members try desperately to get everything exactly right in their plans for the primary sufferer but still blame themselves when the smallest things go wrong . |
| 28 | Those authorities which are classed here as adapting to the care programme approach either spend some of their Mental Illness Specific Grant to satisfy its requirements or present the elements of the approach ( assessment , key working and review ) as an integral part of their plans for the year in question . |
| 29 | Her present life was Glyn and their plans for the future . |
| 30 | Bearing in mind the Opposition 's unalloyed joy at the thought of an increase in national insurance contributions for people who earn more than that , is it time that the Opposition came clean on their plans for the self-employed , who are the engine of the power house for this country ? |