Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pron] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This was , in fact , the key to Franco 's foreign policy throughout the Second World War : he viewed it primarily in terms of an opportunity to realize his own expansionist aims in Morocco . |
| 3 | Management does not have the freedom to optimise its own performance in pursuit of a single objective , or even in pursuit of a number of stable and compatible ones … |
| 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 | It was normal for large houses to carry their own petrol pumps and fire appliances . |
| 8 | The scope for member states to promote their own culture through funds and subsidies remains . |
| 9 | She should be given the opportunity to provide her own solution . |
| 10 | Joachim eventually broke away from the Cistercians and retired to a lonely spot in Calabria where disciples gathered around him and he was given papal permission to found his own congregation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Ultimately the universe in its totality is in some sense perfect , as also are its elements understood as required by the overall nature of that totality , but from the point of view of us who struggle within it things are called good or bad ( or by some such words ) according as to whether they promote our particular struggle to actualise our own nature . |
| 13 | He had been at his wits ' end , with no reply to Bigwig 's scornful impatience except his readiness to risk his own life in company with Fiver and Pipkin . |
| 14 | Eventually however the ARC conditionally agreed to consider funding the Task Force to conduct its own study , though a string of bureaucratic obstacles were also raised for the Alliance to overcome , including the phased release of funding , requirement of approval from each stage governor , and the development of a ‘ mutually acceptable framework of analysis . ’ |
| 15 | The Church of Ireland rejoined in 1860 , because it lacked funds to continue its own system . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | an end to exchange controls and allowing the pound to find its own level ; |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Until then I had succeeded in holding the impinging world at bay as well as in the desperate attempt to establish my own identity , but it was only at a bitter cost to myself . |
| 20 | The spectacle is intended for her too as part of the audience , but she can not become a pair of eyes to view her own humiliation . |
| 21 | He redeveloped Luxor , formerly Thebes , raising one of history 's most renowned temples , and erecting the Colossi of Memnon to guard his own mortuary temple on the Nile . |
| 22 | As was his custom , Sukarno adapted Nehru 's actual words to reflect his own hostility to the Dutch and his growing admiration for Japan . |
| 23 | I recall , in my confusion , being inanely impressed by a pop star with enough upstairs to remember his own name . |
| 24 | Among the best were those which posed questions and encouraged individual schools to evaluate their own practice , eg |
| 25 | Now that Japan has the world 's largest market for chips , it will be increasingly difficult for the US industry to regain its former leadership . |
| 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 | In a separate Commons debate on the Disability ( Grants ) Bill , which brings in the two new independent living funds , Scott was asked whether local authorities could provide cash for clients to buy their own care . |
| 30 | tutors to do their own thing ? |