Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] 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 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Others would use this capitalization to acquire their own house . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was normal for large houses to carry their own petrol pumps and fire appliances . |
| 9 | The scope for member states to promote their own culture through funds and subsidies remains . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The exclusion of wills and conveyancing originated in a recommendation of the Legal Aid Scrutiny that public money should be directed towards the enforcement or defence of rights and not simply to enable clients to arrange their own affairs . |
| 18 | It was Peter Ustinov , who shared a number of key scenes with Laughton , who persuaded Douglas to allow him and Laughton to rewrite their own scenes , thus placating the larger-than-life Laughton . |
| 19 | When they were feeling particularly spiteful , they would blindfold the ‘ two sisters ’ as they were known and , as darkness fell , leave them in some unknown part of the neighbourhood to find their own way home . |
| 20 | Computer-based services : Most banks now use computers to process their own transactions . |
| 21 | In addition , any company intent on controlling expenditure should be examining how much it should be laying off risk in this way when , as Drew Hardie , divisional director of Willis Corroon in Edinburgh , points out , ‘ insurance is a cost-plus product with a substantial proportion of premiums — say , 30 per cent or 40 per cent — used by insurers to meet their own overheads ’ . |
| 22 | Heirs grew over-ambitious : both Baldwin V of Flanders and Geoffrey Martel the Younger rebelled against their fathers in an attempt to establish their own dominion ahead of time ; more problematically , princes had the headache of finding adequate endowments for their younger sons without infringing on the patrimony . |
| 23 | By reading good examples of descriptions , explanation , opinions , etc and by being given purposeful opportunities to write their own , they should be helped to plan and produce these more demanding types of writing . |
| 24 | When the marriage is good , a husband may be able to encourage his wife to see the many compensations in store , including the opportunities to explore their own interests and reinforce their commitment to each other . |
| 25 | Among the best were those which posed questions and encouraged individual schools to evaluate their own practice , eg |
| 26 | It would have been impossible to predict the way events developed after October 1917 , and the policy of the Party seemed on numerous grounds to be the most sensible , the only one which went some way to reconciling the need for large economic units ( which , rightly or wrongly , was assumed to be decisive for material progress ) and for democracy , understood as the right of peoples to choose their own State . |
| 27 | Pupils will appreciate the distinctive elements of period music , if they are given opportunities to create their own music using elements/themes , rhythms from earlier music . |
| 28 | Since almost all those on death row come from impoverished backgrounds they lack the funds to hire their own attorney and will be appointed counsel by the Court . |
| 29 | They did not start campaigning against smoking ; instead they set out , with popperian zeal , to do more research to challenge their own findings . |
| 30 | Opposition Members are cutting off their noses to spite their own faces by encouraging Mr. Millan to withhold our money . |