Example sentences of "[adj] of [verb] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the propounders of such statements might be guilty of promoting their own companies . |
| 2 | He said that one would not expect a person found guilty of treating their own child cruelly to be allowed their liberty at once . |
| 3 | Anti-aircraft guns opened up hopelessly off target , nervous of hitting their own planes . |
| 4 | The guerrillas , deprived of Russian invaders to hate , may eventually grow weary of fighting their own people . |
| 5 | When , for example , colonies of bacterial species in a laboratory were deprived of a certain kind of amino acid needed for growth , they produced mutant strains capable of producing their own amino acids . |
| 6 | These ‘ partial bureaucracies ’ are , however , capable of developing their own competing interests and alliances with the sectors of the population that they manage ( Feher , Heller and Markus 1983 , pp. 106–12 ) . |
| 7 | There was no need for them to be imported to Britain since they mostly came from countries which were capable of developing their own waste-disposal programmes . |
| 8 | These are territorial fish capable of holding their own among other larger specimens of almost any species . |
| 9 | For many CMEA countries , but particularly for Gierek 's Poland , Western largesse became the linchpin of a strategy to refurbish the economy and reorientate production towards competitive industries capable of holding their own in world markets . |
| 10 | ‘ This place right now is like Chicago in the 1930s , ’ says publisher Vladimir Grigoriev , one of a new breed of Russian businessmen capable of holding their own with the best in the world . |
| 11 | But modern surfers were capable of singing their own praises . |
| 12 | Perhaps present arrangements make accountability more complex and confused than in the recent past but , through partnerships in communities , and a growing sense and confidence that schools and colleges are capable of managing their own affairs , it is entirely possible that the problems of accountability can be resolved . |
| 13 | They were afraid that if the Russian workers proved by demonstration that they were quite capable of managing their own affairs the workers of other countries would ask why their countries were not being governed in the same way … |
| 14 | Children are usually capable of organising their own games , though an eye needs to be kept on the isolate or child rejected by others . |
| 15 | This necessitates transcending the simple " imitative " pedagogy of the school , since democratic individuals require the kind of " twofold consciousness " which renders them " capable of thinking their own thoughts " and " feeling their own feelings " , In order to achieve this , students require two qualities : " self-identification " and " verification " . |
| 16 | I would suggest even that since there is a surplus in C P D , of over a million pounds , that er , they are perfectly capable of funding their own studies . |
| 17 | Departments , with some external advice , could now be capable of evaluating their own courses . |
| 18 | In the Masai the British believed they had found an audience capable of appreciating their own greatness of soul . |
| 19 | It is important that recruits have experience of living away from their home area and that they are independent people capable of making their own decisions . |
| 20 | In an era of sponsorship , personal endorsement and a volatile transfer market , it is not surprising that footballers — some of whom are incapable of managing their own toilet-bag — should turn to specialist agents . |
| 21 | Fifty years of oralism had by now so severely retarded the education of deaf people that those who became adults were largely judged incapable of managing their own affairs . |
| 22 | It is not just children who may be incapable of operating their own structuring within an exercise . |
| 23 | During the Gulf crisis , we are seeing a comeback of the old colonial ‘ values ’ : the West has a ‘ moral duty ’ to resolve other nations ' problems ; Western ‘ civilisation ’ comes to the rescue of nations incapable of solving their own problems . |
| 24 | Professionals have to be wary of applying their own standards . |