Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] with their own [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has fertility changed mostly because successive cohorts each grow up with their own characteristic attitude to childbearing ( ‘ cohort ’ effects ) , or do families respond in a more opportunistic way to the economic and social opportunities or problems of the moment ( ‘ period ’ effects ) ? |
| 2 | European manufacturers are afraid of getting left behind if the emerging handheld personal communicators generate a sudden rush of consumer excitement , and rather than wait for their labs to come up with their own local products , are weighing putting their names on one of the American products and manufacturing it locally . |
| 3 | As we take apart the fight story , more and more men seem to be pushing in with their own excited commentaries . |
| 4 | Is it any wonder that I now plead with my right hon. and learned Friend to intervene on behalf of pupils and parents who wish to move their children over the border to Staffordshire because they are fed up with their own high-spending council and they want that council to take responsibility ? |
| 5 | Tanzanians were brought up with their own musical , dance and oral traditions but at school or college were taught the language , culture and even the history of the colonial power . |
| 6 | Rivals in Britain , Japan and Finland are now coming out with their own similar designs . |
| 7 | What a lovely sight the ships make , decked out with their own coloured light bulbs , the tugs and cargo boats as well as the eight or nine cruise liners . |
| 8 | Moreover , other territories were taken up with their own internal problems . |
| 9 | The nations of Europe , increasingly taken up with their own military and economic problems , responded by increasingly withdrawing from any attempt to exact further concessions . |