Example sentences of "[verb] in [verb] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hong Kong companies are not well-known moralists : their main interest lies in staunching their own losses of trained workers , and preserving the machinery of government . |
| 2 | In creating their new home , they feel they have succeeded in making their own personal artistic statement . |
| 3 | If the Israeli ‘ extremists ’ are allowed to persist in their grand design , their Palestinian counterparts will eventually succeed in re-imposing their own , with the ‘ moderates ’ , including Arafat himself , reverting to the belief that Zionism remains the all-or-nothing , demoniac creed they used to say it was . |
| 4 | If ever they lose the ability to scavenge energy , and put it to use in repairing their own fabric , then they are said to be dead ; and they begin immediately to fall apart . |
| 5 | As we noted before , one of the prime concerns of teachers is that they do not have enough time to carry out the day-to-day tasks and responsibilities of their jobs to their own satisfaction , let alone to invest in enhancing their own skills , or reflecting on their roles and priorities , to anything like the extent which they would like . |
| 6 | In so far as they secured a satisfactory response then they succeeded in lifting their own fiscal crisis up to the central level of the state . |
| 7 | In addition , the Regional document was the resource on which most schools depended in preparing their own health education policies . |
| 8 | This is vital because most people taking up franchises are not experienced in running their own businesses . |
| 9 | All children should be supported in valuing their own dialects and in using them where they are appropriate to context and purpose , but they should also be able to use Standard English when it is necessary and helpful to do so in speaking as well as writing . |
| 10 | The documentarists were natural allies of the government , well practised in tailoring their own ideas to the demands of their sponsors , and exploring ideas about British character that it had become important to validate in order to distinguish the natives from their foes . |
| 11 | Since he believes that students may be aided in drawing their own conclusions if writers make their own value biases explicit , it is particularly important to do this . |
| 12 | The family will have to decide on how much its teenage members will be allowed to spend , and how much discretion they have in making their own choice of clothes , records , holidays or motor cycles . |