Example sentences of "[v-ing] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is n't it high time the NCCL thought of protecting their rights ? |
| 2 | The skua colony turned out to be impressive , with few eggs but a host of great and Arctic skuas all intent on protecting their chosen nest site at all costs . |
| 3 | He described how the Japanese used a laser beam strategy within a poorly drafted law to penetrate the European market while protecting their own domestic market behind a dynastic organisational structure which only permitted import access when the dynasty deemed it politically expedient to do so . |
| 4 | Rahier told Chemistry in Britain that the SAGB has adopted the position that everything should be patentable , including transgenic plants , so that companies could be sure of protecting their investment . |
| 5 | The concept of parental rights in education could be said to be concerned with the ability of parents to extend the control they are able to exert within the family to their child 's formal education , thus protecting their ‘ interest ’ in the child . |
| 6 | It is to the reptiles themselves one must turn to find the greatest display of armoured scales that are all-enveloping , protecting their wearers over the whole surface of the body . |
| 7 | Many fish have ingenious ways of protecting their eggs from predators , — mostly other fish . |
| 8 | Every computer user should seriously consider protecting their system with an uninterrupted power supply . |
| 9 | Scandals like these have prompted other firms to provide services aimed at protecting their performers . |
| 10 | Elderly people with mental impairment who can no longer manage their own affairs may need assistance from a social worker in protecting their finances by consultation with the Court of Protection , under the Mental Health Act 1983 . |
| 11 | Partly this is a matter of protecting their expertise : any fool can claim generic he is sexist , but only the linguist can explain it is really ‘ unmarked ’ . |
| 12 | Campaign badges and honour markings , yes , those of course , on the greaves protecting their right shanks — in many cases quartered and augmented with extra honours . |
| 13 | These models suggest that women 's and men 's subjectivities stem from female and male animals , universally different interests , in protecting their genetic investments and spreading their genes widely , respectively . |
| 14 | The experience of working for a number of American executives , who were too busy protecting their jobs and the inflated salaries that went with them to pass on any responsibilities to me , made a move imperative after about a year . |
| 15 | The company believes the new interface helps users to take advantage of new technologies at their own pace , while protecting their investments in applications , data and training . |
| 16 | No wonder the goalies wear those protective face-masks ( they also come in useful for protecting their identities when they go around hacking people up on Summer camps ) . |
| 17 | It is a production bogged down by a Brussels-like bureaucracy , from the union dominated actions of the orchestra ( whose buzzing watch-alarms alert them to a coffee break mid- aria ) to the backstabbing officials protecting their patch with petty politics . |
| 18 | social — caring for , providing opportunities and protecting their child . |
| 19 | Even in the United States where farmers have the most sophisticated means of protecting their crops , insects claim over ten per cent of them . |
| 20 | Computer manufacturers have a continuing problem of protecting their investment in programming and yet persuading their customers to transfer to new computers . |
| 21 | He points to the growth of unionism among junior doctors as evidence of their need to move beyond professionalism as a market strategy for protecting their interests . |
| 22 | Thus alerted , a sub-committee of the North of England Protecting and Indemnity Association met on the following morning and resolved that the danger could only be met by " a central organization of owners for the purpose of protecting their interests against the unreasonable demands and actions of trade unions or combinations affecting such interests " . |
| 23 | This too failed , on the basis that in unlawful means conspiracy , as in conspiracy to injure , there must be an intent to injure the plaintiff , and conspiracy should not be extended ‘ beyond acts done in execution of an agreement entered into by two or more persons for the purpose not of protecting their own interests but of injuring the interests of the plaintiff . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ They are protecting their miserable skins while Ireland falls further into my grasp . ’ |
| 25 | It is alarming that one quarter of women in this country still lie in the sun without protecting their skin . |
| 26 | See dockers are only protected , when they say they go on strike , they 're only protecting their own jobs in my opinion . |
| 27 | They 're protecting their own jobs . |
| 28 | The chemists encouraged people to have fun in the sun while protecting their skin from the harsh rays which can prove dangerous . |
| 29 | The much vaunted privatization of state companies , scheduled to begin in July , was repeatedly postponed due to legal and technical difficulties , and the promised cut of 360,000 civil service posts failed to materialize due to the constitutional safeguards protecting their employment . |
| 30 | Significantly , 81 per cent gave protecting their own provider units a low ranking , a marked change from the previous year and in line with the case study findings . |