Example sentences of "[adj] in [verb] 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 | This is not to deny that individual teachers may be highly effective in making their own way by an intuitive sense of direction . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | During the 1991 R1 plant overhaul , everyone was involved in ensuring their own and their colleagues ’ safety . |
| 14 | Bank managers tend to be far from impetuous in putting their own money at risk and Mr Cowdrill was suitably cautious before investing his cash . |