Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I was , there 's nothing to say they 've got to all stick together they can all do their own thing ca n't they ? |
| 2 | They need only mind their own businesses , exercise tight financial controls , keep debt levels right down , cherish their customers , develop their people , innovate in both products and processes , and stay fully alert to changes on the marketplace and in technology . |
| 3 | Usually the suggestors get the job of managing the news groups and would only impose their own standards of control . |
| 4 | well in the sense that they can all adopt their own way of joining words together |
| 5 | Nevertheless , these apparently simple arrangements belie more complex interrelationships ( Fig. 85 ) : not all places had access to sufficient wood stocks , and owners of well-wooded land would not only supply their own estates but also sell wood to less-wooded estates . |
| 6 | They wanted to stay in Croatia , but they felt that continued conflict would only threaten their own personal security and future . |
| 7 | The duty of external non-intervention prohibits States from interfering with the valid performance of treaties that do not affect their own rights and obligations . |
| 8 | Julia said drily that she thought that free Capitalism with an adequate system of social welfare for all those who could not make their own success in it was probably the fairest workable system , and then laughed as she saw David 's expression . |
| 9 | Parents who own a cassette player can easily make their own tape — just record the vacuum cleaner or hair dryer for about five minutes . |
| 10 | It is possible , though , that some self referrals and patients who did not consult their own doctor during the course of their attack may not have been notified to participating practitioners and thus were excluded from the study . |
| 11 | Australia and New Zealand should not build their own incinerator to dispose of toxic waste , but should instead develop a range of technologies , including portable systems , tailored to the particular properties of the waste . |
| 12 | The government certainly had no money to spare to help the colonies , and this introduced the general rule that English colonies had to cover their own costs , both in the sense that the government of a colony had to raise enough revenue to pay its own bills and in the sense that there were no subsidies to encourage people to stay in a colony where they could not earn their own living . |
| 13 | Mothers or fathers on their own who can not earn their own living , or who decide ( as they are fully entitled to ) that they would prefer to care for their children instead , must get paid for the important work they do . |
| 14 | The first is from outside concerning the State and the second from inside , in that the inhabitants can not adapt their own technologies fast or radically enough to maintain an increase in their incomes , nor can they find a solution elsewhere by migration and a secure source of income outside the region altogether . |
| 15 | The listeners tuned in to the German wavelengths because they found Joyce amusing unintentionally or for his anecdotes , or else because they wished to hear both sides of the argument , or even because they did not trust their own authorities to tell them the whole truth . |
| 16 | The national gallery told the Minister 's predecessor , the right hon. Member for Shoreham — no doubt the arguments were repeated to the Minister personally by many of the trustees and directors of the museums — that they did not want powers of disposal — not because they did not trust their own intellectual judgment , but , following the line set down in the Museums and Galleries Commission 's 1988 report on the national gallery , because those powers should not be forced on the galleries . |
| 17 | They also indicate that , despite this , the courts will often just substitute their own opinion . |
| 18 | Some composers feel that the use of obvious metres does not suit their own aesthetic , that metre is an impediment they can well do without . |
| 19 | In times of crisis and extreme demand it is easy to overlook the willing horses some of whom may not know their own limitations . |
| 20 | In addition few people believed that FDP officers could easily relinquish their former role . |
| 21 | At the same time , however , the Tigers can not antagonise their own supporters by abandoning the concept of a homeland called Tamil Eelam . |
| 22 | They do not generate their own body heat like mammals and birds , but are largely dependent on the temperatures in their immediate environment . |
| 23 | Five thousand ambulance drivers can not do their own negotiating — they need representatives to do it for them . |
| 24 | Another woman , in a different firm , who had been twenty years in the trade ( so must have been one of the original beginners ) reported in similar terms : " in the regular bookwork , the girls do the same work as the men , but they do not lift their own " formes " and " chases " . |
| 25 | In such cases , even if inheritance implicitly is involved , people do not present their own motivations for providing support as part of some bargain in which their own interests are a legitimate concern . |
| 26 | Denial : As with the primary illness , family members can not see their own addictive disease and may be exceedingly indignant if it is pointed out to them . |
| 27 | Consequently they restricted their output to a level they regarded as reasonable , one that did not undermine their own pay and job security , and that the slower members could keep up with . |
| 28 | Young women may be reluctant to join long-established organizations which are patronized chiefly by older women , because they fear it will somehow drown their own up-to-date and dynamic image . |
| 29 | It is too easy to assume that older patients can not inject their own insulin and thus need to involve relatives or the district nurse . |
| 30 | It was not a through-road for Saxon or medieval traffic ; it did not come into existence as a boundary ; it was not originally a drove-road , for cattle-drovers took over existing tracks and lanes and did not create their own except in special circumstances . |