Example sentences of "[to-vb] their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is repeatedly being copied and recopied as the generations go by , like the Hebrew scriptures which were ritually copied by scribes every 80 years to forestall their wearing-out . |
| 2 | How long had she and Jezrael observed their parents to forestall their anger ? |
| 3 | There were no sudden changes in direction even though employers and government began to modify their attitudes towards trade unions in such a way as to encourage negotiations at the highest level . |
| 4 | They should aim to enable individuals to use their personal emotional and intellectual resources to modify their attitudes and behaviour and to learn new social skills so as to achieve a stable way of life with diminished or no use of alcohol . |
| 5 | The jurors , having appeared before the king , were induced , probably by threats of amercement and imprisonment , to acknowledge their error and to modify their perambulations ; they then received the king 's pardon . |
| 6 | Emphasis must be put on the task , individuals must accept the need to modify their views for its sake , and group effort must be seen to be superior to individual effort . |
| 7 | Organizers of schemes interviewed during the initial review indicated their reluctance to modify their schemes substantially in view of the time and expense required . |
| 8 | Up and down the country people ring me up and say they 'd like to modify their glider . |
| 9 | ( I doubt that men are reading magazines which counsel them to modify their style in order ‘ to communicate better with all the women in your life ’ ! ) |
| 10 | There are certain things that they need to do , to learn to modify their behaviour . |
| 11 | That type of thing , or they were A types and they learned to modify their behaviour , and survived or the A types are dead before they get to the top . |
| 12 | B , the m , they learn to modify their behaviour . |
| 13 | Although both men were forced to modify their opinions later in life , initially they held the extreme ‘ nominalist ’ and ‘ essentialist ’ positions . |
| 14 | you can do much to help other people , whether they be your superiors , associates , colleagues or subordinates , to modify their feelings and behaviour for better . |
| 15 | However , some councils have had to modify their policies in this respect in view of the management problems on these estates . |
| 16 | Subjects affected by such apprehension will tend to modify their responses in a way they think the experimenter considers them to be healthy . |
| 17 | Speakers of Hiberno-English ( one variety of English used in Ireland ) are under increasing pressure to modify their language in the direction of Standard English , which is the prestige norm in Ireland . |
| 18 | In each case a number of issues arose , some of which were resolved , as they attempted to modify their classroom practice . |
| 19 | Pupils have many different views as to the nature of learning and the role of teachers , and part of the work with a new class is in some cases to get them to modify their perspective . |
| 20 | As one would expect , the composition of precious metal artefacts has always been heavily influenced by economic factors and it became common practice to modify their value by alloying them with baser metals . |
| 21 | The situation began to change quite rapidly after the Viennese Exhibition of 1873 , the first major public exhibition of oriental rugs , and by the turn of this century the interest aroused in Europe and America was such that Persian and Anatolian weavers were prompted to increase production and , in some cases , to modify their designs . |
| 22 | Those who have accepted ideas about their worthlessness , their impotence or their badness will not usually be able to help themselves unless and until they are able to modify their self-image . |
| 23 | The aim of everyone , irrespective of weight , should be to modify their eating very slightly to maximize health benefits . |
| 24 | The subject-matter may be of a discretionary or regulatory nature and while these elements should not exclude proscriptions against bias they are likely to modify their application . |
| 25 | The area underlain by marble was accurately delineated by means of closely spaced specially drilled deep boreholes , and the resulting maps have allowed the town planning authorities to modify their layouts . |
| 26 | Where the home environment seems to be unsupportive in as much as it is highly arousing , strategies to increase the social distance in key relationships , or to modify their ways of interacting , would be helpful . |
| 27 | We saw in Sweden they tried to modify their game to fit in with the Continental style and it did n't work . |
| 28 | The Faculty has established its own computer network and provides facilities for students to wordprocess their work . |
| 29 | Parents have the means of satisfying and frustrating the child 's wishes , of gradually checking a tendency to monopolize their lives and of encouraging steps towards self-reliance . |
| 30 | Parents should not try to monopolize their teenagers , with however good a motive . |