Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , while the growth of the international financial system would seem to imply the need for increasingly centralised decision-making , individual countries were unlikely to be willing to relinquish the freedom to conduct their own economic affairs for the sake of the greater international good . |
| 2 | Legislators and civil servants in the US enjoy a degree of independence and freedom to go their own way that is unheard of in the UK . |
| 3 | Our view is that we should let local authorities make their own decisions about their priorities . |
| 4 | Prague , Budapest and Berlin Various combinations by air or coach with special arrangements in all the countries concerned for student or older groups to plan their own programmes ( min 10 ) . |
| 5 | They had no great love for Conservatism , but , given the tenor of Liberal politics , saw the Conservative party as the last hope in a struggle to preserve their own brand of Liberalism . |
| 6 | The reduction was intended not only to save central government expenditure but also to put pressure on local authorities to curb their own spending by increasing the local cost thus making the expenditure more ‘ visible ’ to both councillors and the electorate . |
| 7 | ( Stewart Island is roughly twice the size of the Isle of Wight , but has a population of less than 500 souls ) Much more exciting though , is to rent a Cessna from Invercargill 's Douthland Aero Club , get CFI Chris Thompson to come along as safety pilot , and to show you which of the beaches he recommends as landing grounds , since Southern Air a little jealous of other operators using their own airfield in competition to their service . |
| 8 | Many institutions make their own audio recordings of dialogues . |
| 9 | So local authorities make their own policies , which sometimes leads to conflict with central government and always to diversity of provision . |
| 10 | Clearly , a large and growing majority of occupiers owned their own home . |
| 11 | those institutions develop their own rationality and specific conformations and have definite resources and limitations . |
| 12 | In many ways , as the technology and its altering social relations became more general , new forms and new areas of experience made their own way into print . |
| 13 | Others would use this capitalization to acquire their own house . |
| 14 | 1.32 Patients now have an entitlement to see their own medical records under the Access to Health Records Act 1990 which came into force on 1 November 1991 and applies to records created after that date . |
| 15 | It was normal for large houses to carry their own petrol pumps and fire appliances . |
| 16 | The scope for member states to promote their own culture through funds and subsidies remains . |
| 17 | Housewife has their own definition . |
| 18 | Distrusting the accuracy of the commercially available products , those in ideological groups build their own machinery for picturing the world . |
| 19 | The Brundtland Commission may have made sustainable development the end-of-century watchword , defining it as ‘ development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs ’ , but even Tolba has wondered aloud whether it amounts to much more than a shibboleth . |
| 20 | A basic principle of sustainability is that the needs of the present generation should be met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs . |
| 21 | A basic principle of sustainability is that the needs of the present generation should be met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs . |
| 22 | Surrealist theory may have set great store by sexual experience with women , but it made virtually no provision for the female experience per see , and so it was up to women artists to reinvent their own forms of femininity . |
| 23 | But interest in the work is running high , and Russian and Chinese teams have established contact with the Greeks and are drawing up plans to establish their own networks . |
| 24 | The lowly ‘ polis ’ , with little or no power in the system , deplores this situation and complains of its escalation , while the detectives moan about the incompetence of the uniform ‘ wollies ’ who never get close enough to their prisoners to extract their own ‘ coughs ’ or admissions and who fail to understand that the system largely depends on the ability of the department to manipulate a statistical norm in detected crimes . |
| 25 | For Sultan Galiev , the picture was dominated by the need of the Islamic peoples of the Russias to secure their own liberation , not by the self-emancipation of the industrial working class of Europe . |
| 26 | At Cambridge research will take place on how individuals make judgements of risk and at reading on how drivers perceive their own ability and accident likelihood . |
| 27 | The absence of policy and the paucity of central support and initiatives meant that the majority of schools devised their own home-school policies , strategies and roles . |
| 28 | Again using improvisation as its ethos , the album once more finds Talk Talk sailing blissfully off into the unknown , each musician using their own initiative , steering the music through freeform jazz and contemporary classical music , Hollis occasionally adding a few lines of comfort and despair in his fragile and tender voice . |
| 29 | Some such animals make their own poisons ; others take them from sources in their environment . |
| 30 | It was not , however , until the battle of Carham in 1016 on Northumbrian territory that the Scots made their own effective inroads and claimed Lothian for themselves . |