Example sentences of "they be [adj] [verb] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are free to move around ; they can plan their own work schedules ; and they are free to use their own initiative . |
| 2 | Kovalenko cast doubts on the ASEAN proposal for a neutral zone since he imagined it ‘ wrong to think that the ASEAN countries have already managed fully to break away from the influence of the imperialist powers and that they are free to pursue their own foreign policy ’ . |
| 3 | The procedure of egg donation , or of proembryo donation , could help some women to bear a child even though they are unable to produce their own eggs , or are bearers of a genetically transmissible disease . |
| 4 | If you think that there is a good chance of a daily newspaper using one of your pictures but do n't feel that they are likely to send their own staff photographers , a phone call to the picture editor could arrange the delivery of exposed film immediately after the event . |
| 5 | The research also demonstrated that older workers could maximize their efficiency if they were able to control their own work pace . |
| 6 | In such circumstances , they were reluctant to abandon their own positions for a possibly lesser place in a new party in which Ian Paisley would play a major part . |
| 7 | Even if they were willing to see their own power reduced , radical reform is a jump into the unknown . |
| 8 | When they could not get gold for their dollars after 1971 ( the US gold stock fell by only $2½ billion over the whole period ) , they only acquired these dollars because they were prepared to sell their own currencies in order to prevent them rising further . |
| 9 | The control regime was liberalized for computer , machine tool and telecommunications technology ( microcomputer exports having been permitted since August 1989 ) ; companies seeking exceptions to remaining restrictions would have to wait only eight weeks for permission , rather than 12 weeks as hitherto ; and countries such as Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland , if they were prepared to introduce their own controls on use and re-export , might expect more favourable treatment . |