theirs

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: Make the company theirs and loyalty is no longer an issue it's a fait accompli.

Modifies a noun

• yours: Theirs, yours, their wives, everyone they've ever met.
• today: You owe it to yourself and your kids to incorporate Time-Out into your life and theirs today.
• one: Why should I accept your claims over theirs identical ones?

Modifying Another Word

• rightfully: Now the rest of Roll Deep are to claim what is rightfully theirs.
• rightly: Its raison d'etre undertaken by the public sector.' Voluntary and community groups need to take control of civil renewal because it is rightly theirs.
• uniquely: The exhibition is uniquely theirs and is not just another children's exhibition created by adults.
• entirely: Teachers allowed students to manage the board, but the context was entirely theirs and they retained control over the content and the questions.
• not: The ultimate standard is still ours, not theirs.
• then: First " thine own " , and then theirs!

Infinitive complement

• make: The Apprentice Boys felt this decision was not theirs to make and was a matter for the RUC.
• take: The owners of these properties think it is easy money and rightfully theirs to take.
• enjoy: By thus ensuring that additional savings are theirs to enjoy, the state can set new rules for personal saving and employer contributions.
• sell: Can they show you receipts or past valuations to prove it is theirs to sell?

Used with adjective complement

• have: The children from the other chapels had theirs during the summer.
• consider: The latter provide the excavation equipment in return for which all the finds are considered theirs by right.

Preposition: for

• taking: The rich market for Sea Bass is theirs for the taking.

Preposition: by

• right: These men have made Iraq theirs by right of conquest, not law.