Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for their own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been designed to be of value and interest to all grades of nurses who may wish to work through for their own interest and professional development . |
| 2 | At least education has given people confidence to stand up for their own rights ’ . |
| 3 | Every social worker has a responsibility to stand up for their own profession , to accept criticism humbly when it is due , and to explain why things are done in certain ways . |
| 4 | Libraries in general have an image of unparticularized worthiness and sobriety , and many young librarians have an admirable messianic zeal about them , a firm belief that what their library has is good for people and that membership lists and issue figures must be pushed up for their own sake . |
| 5 | What finance officers will not know until much later is how these broad intentions will work out for their own authority , given the complex and changing allocations formula in the revenue support grant . |
| 6 | She also thinks that men tend to choose women who make up for their own shortcomings . |
| 7 | The band themselves , whoever , were apparently none to impressed by Mellor , to the point that they did n't even bother showing up for their own party ! |
| 8 | The second , uncompleted part of Bouvard et Pécuchet was to consist mainly of ‘ La Copie ’ , an enormous dossier of oddities , idiocies and self-condemning quotations , which the two clerks were solemnly to copy out for their own edification , and which Flaubert would reproduce with a more sardonic intent . |