Example sentences of "[noun] in [verb] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four hospitals in the central south area are to carry out a pilot study in running their own affairs , a first step towards opting out of the National Health Service . |
| 2 | They had a personal stake in improving their own incomes ( and they were aided in this by the growth of white-collar and public-sector trade unions ) , and they had a professional commitment to improve the lot of the clients of their services . |
| 3 | Most enjoyed the luxury of employing a cleaner to do their housework but a few took a puritanical delight in doing their own . |
| 4 | As well as advising on death duties and acting as executor of wills , this division will provide for those who need help in managing their own affairs , arrange retirement benefits and advise on tax reduction . |
| 5 | Staff will need help in understanding their own reactions to the patient 's behaviour . |
| 6 | The new system will provide more consistent information on Group benefits while giving US companies flexibility in managing their own payroll and human resources functions . |
| 7 | The aim of any professional involvement must always be to advise and assist parents in solving their own problems . |
| 8 | We must ensure that those people can play their part with local government , national government , the private sector and the voluntary organisations in creating their own future . |
| 9 | Self-directed learning is a core feature of Project 2000 courses , and could be enhanced by encouraging students to take the initiative in identifying their own learning needs in association with the teacher/ practitioner . |
| 10 | It 's here that Impey , in his book , sees a particular role for the internal auditor in acting as tutor and guide to all line managers in assessing their own systems and controls , and identifying areas for improvement , as part of their annual operational review . |
| 11 | This increase has clear policy implications since these elderly people tend to live in the worst accommodation , and owners often have difficulties in undertaking their own , or paying for , maintenance . |
| 12 | General practitioners are in a position to plan because they have survived many changes , and to fail to reappoint them on the basis of a local health policy ‘ whim ’ conflicts with individual patients ' rights in choosing their own general practitioner . |
| 13 | The authors show restraint in referencing their own work to support their conclusions but provide an extensive literature review with detailed recommendations for a wide range of surgical specialties . |
| 14 | ‘ They have no expertise in managing their own staff , ’ he says . |
| 15 | ‘ They have no expertise in managing their own sales staff , ’ he comments . |
| 16 | Shop stewards in the UK enjoy greater freedom in pursuing their own domestic negotiating relationships with their managements , especially since there is no alternative workplace structure to provide a competing focus of authority or regulation . |
| 17 | They should play an active part in assessing their own progress through discussion with those who read their writing — their peers , teachers or other adults . |
| 18 | UDCs must take account of such plans in formulating their own development proposals but are not bound by them . |
| 19 | Where this is overlooked , it is not unknown for the continuing partners to have difficulty in persuading their former colleague that it is in his own interest that changes need to be made . |
| 20 | Managers often have difficulty in identifying their own goals let alone the goals of others . |
| 21 | AT&T complains that US carriers wanting to enter the UK market not only have to invest substantial time and money in building their own networks , but also have no alternative but to negotiate with British Telecom for local access to customers . |
| 22 | Rather than striving for an impossible , and ultimately sterile , objectivity , scholars will increasingly need to follow Mary Louise Pratt 's example in admitting their own ideological commitments in order to promote the development of research . |
| 23 | If she tends to dominate children of her own age and push them round , try to arrange for her to play with older children who will have no trouble in holding their own . |
| 24 | This change can not take place without the involvement of the people themselves and , therefore , they must be moved from their traditional passivity towards an active role in shaping their own lives . |
| 25 | Involvement of the teachers : In successful schools , the teachers were involved in curriculum planning and played a major role in developing their own curriculum guidelines . |
| 26 | As pointed out earlier , some schools did visit project schools in order to gain insights of use in planning their own proposals , and some were subsequently visited by yet other schools . |
| 27 | If such people are to receive advice in making their own choices , social workers are likely to have to continue their involvement with all these parts of the welfare economy . |
| 28 | Most criticisms of trade unions will reflect upon individual officers , who will usually be financially supported by their union in vindicating their own reputations . |
| 29 | Emerging in the late sixties it took several forms : informal consciousness-raising groups were set up ; women 's campaigns were run in support of abortion , battered women , women in employment , and of oppressed women in different parts of the world ; and women found their own voice in establishing their own magazines and publishing houses . |
| 30 | The accession to power of nationalist movements and parties — the taking of political power by indigenous Africans previously denied a voice in running their own countries — brought about a dramatic transformation in Africa 's media . |