Example sentences of "their [noun pl] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The 1920 Treaty of Sèvres , part of the array of accords reached by the Allies at Versailles after the First World War , encouraged the Kurds like the Armenians to hope that their aspirations for some form of statehood might be fulfilled when the Ottoman empire was dismembered . |
| 3 | The ambivalences generated for many white youth by the attractions of Afro-Caribbean , Afro-American and African musical forms , and their admirations for some aggressive forms of Afro-Caribbean masculinity , have resulted in alliances in particular schools and neighbourhoods between white and Afro Caribbean youth against Asian youth , while in some schools where black white conflicts remain submerged the dominant form of racist insult occurs between different ethnic minority groups , for instance Asian and Afro-Caribbean or Cypriot and Vietnamese ( Cohen , 1987 ) . |
| 4 | This time , thanks to the more ‘ open government ’ of the council chairman , David Webster , all the sports have known their allocations for some time and make their own judgment on merit without interference from the council . |
| 5 | The Government has had to stop indexing their pensions for some years now . |
| 6 | Helping a Third World child had been in the back of their minds for some time , but it was an ActionAid advertisement in their Sunday paper that spurred them into action . |
| 7 | Even four successive nights seemed an almost too generous slice of happiness , and on that fourth night , with the waning moonlight glittering on the sea and the crickets noisy in the hayfield on the other side of the wall , she gazed sadly up at him and asked the question that had been uppermost in their minds for some time . |
| 8 | It should be possible for clergy and teachers to ensure both that churches include some of the school 's repertoire in their own , and that schools make room in their assemblies for some traditional hymns . |