Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [verb] their [det] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Thus the primary motivation of professionals is public service rather than personal gain : doctors are concerned primarily with the health of their patients rather than with lining their own pockets . |
| 2 | But that the the leader of the house effectively made a statement in Prime Minister 's questions on the same issue , misleading the house into believing that the government were actually applying this money to patient care rather than to meeting their own political incompetence . |
| 3 | The ‘ Pater Nostra ’ organisation , which will care for physically and mentally handicapped people in Atea , expect to find that by owning their own tractor they will not only go a long way to becoming self-sufficient but will be able to hire out the tractor locally to enhance their income . |
| 4 | The course is based on the principles of self-help , hence clients are reminded that they have responsibility for their own problems and for changing their own behaviour . |
| 5 | Here it is much more feasible for feminists to try and intervene more formally by criticizing existing sources , and by creating their own alternatives . |
| 6 | The students had not only training in teaching methods but in growing their own food , and we had twenty acres of rice land , an acre of garden , a Berkshire boar imported to improve the strength and size of the village pigs , and several pure-bred cocks to convert the village hens from laying two clutches of a dozen eggs each year to something like 150 bigger and better eggs . |
| 7 | Speaking in Brussels on Sept. 9 at a meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers , Baker called on the USA 's allies to contribute more to " responsibility-sharing " , not only by helping to transport troops by air and sea , but by committing their own forces . |