Example sentences of "[noun] from [verb] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was a time when the boy and his mother , who lived in a little cottage just outside the town , had to earn their living from growing their own vegetables and doing what they could to help other people in order to make a living . |
| 2 | Furthermore , highlighting parental responsibility for ensuring regular attendance may deflect schools from examining their own practice , and asking why some pupils find schools unattractive places to be . |
| 3 | While the government may decide how much it wishes to spend on health care and it may seek to discourage employers from spending by changing tax incentives , the report said , the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from ‘ barring individuals from using their own funds or their own insurance coverage to obtain appropriate medical care ’ . |
| 4 | Broadly speaking , we can identify four sets of pressures which serve to disable the media from meeting their own criteria of objectivity and balance in the coverage of public disorder . |
| 5 | On the requirement to spend 85 per cent of the DSS transfer money on the independent sector , the committee expresses concern that it will discourage SSDs from using their own residential care . |
| 6 | The failure of the GIS language to operate efficiently as an on-line database enquiry facility initially precluded local site personnel departments from producing their own information . |
| 7 | Classroom talk , despite the apparent conversational liveliness of many classrooms , could be shown on closer examination to be somewhat impoverished and unchallenging , with a general tendency to discourage children from asking their own questions and thinking things out for themselves , and a lack of informative feedback . |