Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [v-ing] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Business Start-Up scheme , which helps the unemployed in launching their own business , will be extended with the creation of 10,000 new places . |
| 2 | In the 1980s , the independents became a real force , recording technology is easily accessible , and bands are more energetic and enterprising in producing their own records and promoting themselves . |
| 3 | ‘ Those representing developed countries were primarily interested in protecting their own industries and jobs and security at the polls , not in protecting the environment . |
| 4 | Hence , if they get interested in designing their own software , scholars may spend their time reinventing last year 's wheel . |
| 5 | Liberals saw this as evidence that the dominions were more interested in going their own way , but Unionists retorted that Canada like Britain had been led astray by a radical government and that Canada 's decision was the result of Britain 's failure to offer preference . |
| 6 | members were most interested in running their own school and tended to see more general materials as not immediately relevant |
| 7 | Some of the propounders of such statements might be guilty of promoting their own companies . |
| 8 | He said that one would not expect a person found guilty of treating their own child cruelly to be allowed their liberty at once . |
| 9 | Anti-aircraft guns opened up hopelessly off target , nervous of hitting their own planes . |
| 10 | Those local education authorities which have begun seriously to seek a place in the curriculum of their schools for locally-used languages have in many cases to be content with providing their own in-service training on a relatively ad hoc basis . |
| 11 | This is not to deny that individual teachers may be highly effective in making their own way by an intuitive sense of direction . |
| 12 | The phasing in of a standardised unit specification will have implications both for centres delivering SCOTVEC units , and for those involved in writing their own units . |
| 13 | The decision that leisure should be the Main focus of the project 's work was also made by the service-providers ; disabled people in the area were not involved in setting their own agendas to decide on the important issues as they saw them . |
| 14 | Children are encouraged to assume as much responsibility as possible regarding their own learning , and to be involved in setting their own personal goals when appropriate . |
| 15 | Family therapy techniques , emphasising as they do the role of the parents and the necessity for them being fully involved in solving their own problems , were considered helpful . |
| 16 | An in-service activity can be conceived as something one person does to another , with the assumption that change is most effectively produced from outside ; or as a process in which teachers are centrally involved in analysing their own situation and needs and working out the best ways of tackling these . |
| 17 | During the 1991 R1 plant overhaul , everyone was involved in ensuring their own and their colleagues ’ safety . |
| 18 | Your users will all execute this as they log in to the VAX , prior to executing their own login command files as specified in SYSUAF.DAT . |
| 19 | Yet 69 per cent think they are good at managing their own finances . |
| 20 | Looking back on his earlier career , he said : ‘ Banks used to be terrible at monitoring their own costs and profitability . |
| 21 | In line with the 1992 Further and Higher Education Act , colleges will now be responsible for managing their own budgets and the Government will hold the purse strings , funding them directly through a national FE Funding Council.Once considered the Cinderella of education , further education is now being promoted as the fairy godmother with the ability to improve post-16 education and training , stem the drop-out and failure rates and make Britain economically competitive once more . |
| 22 | As a general rule , residents should be considered responsible for taking their own medicines , but some may be administered by care assistants under the supervision of senior staff . |
| 23 | The view of pedagogy proposed here , then , makes teachers responsible for defining their own problems and providing their own solutions . |
| 24 | During the day users are responsible for inputting their own data , while at night this machine runs commercial batch work . |
| 25 | They are normally responsible for purchasing their own uniform and music , and often their own instrument too . |
| 26 | And he does not believe the Government 's proposals to make gipsies responsible for finding their own sites will work either . |
| 27 | There are 15 contractors appointed by the Independent Broadcasting Authority ( IBA ) each responsible for selling their own air time as prime time or other time . |
| 28 | It would , however , be too simple to portray antislavery after the late 1830s as purely a scene of contending sects more concerned with maintaining their own kinds of purity than achieving anything practical . |
| 29 | As a reform candidate Reagan had made clear his low view of legislators , presenting them as the tools of special interests , primarily concerned with feathering their own nests . |
| 30 | During the 1960s and 1970s , three explanations in particular gained credence : conservatism ( men innovate , women stick more closely to traditional forms ) ; status consciousness ( women are more sensitive than men to the social meaning of speech and more concerned with elevating their own status through speaking ‘ properly ’ ) ; and feminine identity ( women are expected to talk like ‘ ladies ’ , that is , like middle-class speakers . |