Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] their own " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Britain where freedom was extended and where people took on more responsibility for running their own lives . |
| 2 | It has given parents and teachers much more responsibility for running their own schools and has freed the schools from the dead hand of local education bureaucracy in many places . |
| 3 | The rationale for school self-evaluation is that the most effective means of improving the quality of the education provided by schools is to give them the responsibility for reviewing their own performance and for carrying out any reforms which seem necessary in consequence . |
| 4 | Reformers were seeking to integrate working-class adolescents into the ‘ common good ’ by means of an educational programme which it was hoped would lead them to internalize the community perspective and , therefore , use it as the criterion for evaluating their own wishes and responses . |
| 5 | Many came to the women 's movement from backgrounds where the state was viewed as an instrument for enacting their own class specific demands . |
| 6 | The operator is only used to give special service to customers and to connect incoming calls , while the extensions have the convenience and speed of dialling their own calls . |
| 7 | It is hoped , however , that as Compacts increase understanding and trust between Education and Industry , employers will re-examine the appropriateness of administering their own tests . |
| 8 | It was once owned by a cotton baron from Lancashire ; today it belongs to Brian and Ann who left Australia ( where they worked as wool buyers ) to fulfil their long-time ambition of opening their own hotel . |
| 9 | Although he became critical of the methods of the old bone-setters , and especially of their views on diseases of the joints , he had learned from watching his father 's manipulative practices , and in his workshop he followed their practice of making their own splints . |
| 10 | Their editorial resources are , however , limited , so the church will be welcomed if it can provide good story ‘ copy ’ and clear photographs , thus saving them the expense of sending their own paid staff along to the various functions . |
| 11 | According to Henry Vizetelly in his History of Champagne , many nobles went to the expense of having their own special buying commissioners stationed in the village to secure the finest vintages of this royal wine . |
| 12 | But it was a time when the boy and his mother , who lived in a little cottage just outside the town , had to earn their living from growing their own vegetables and doing what they could to help other people in order to make a living . |
| 13 | Four hospitals in the central south area are to carry out a pilot study in running their own affairs , a first step towards opting out of the National Health Service . |
| 14 | The three contending armed factions inside Liberia signed a ceasefire agreement in Bamako ( Mali ) on Nov. 28 , and a further agreement in Banjul ( The Gambia ) on Dec. 21 declaring their intention to set up a national conference within 60 days as a prelude to establishing their own interim government . |
| 15 | In contrast popular dissenting tracts frequently insist on a strong separate identity , suspicious of being seen as formally composed and keen to assert scriptural language as a key to asserting their own experience . |
| 16 | The only small crumb of comfort is that , since May 1990 , tenants ( but not managers ) of national brewers ' pubs can buy guest cask ales free of the tie — but the nationals have been quick to dominate this new market niche by organising their own lists of ‘ guest beers ’ , many of them brewed by their own subsidiaries . |
| 17 | Lean and Pearce wrote in August 1988 , ‘ In theory Local Authorities could fill some of this gap by taking their own samples of drinking water . |
| 18 | But some people do n't like having the responsibility of doing their own thinking — they let the Church or television do it for them . |
| 19 | Surgeons should not be burdened with the responsibility of assessing their own degree of risk . |
| 20 | My hon. Friend rightly draws attention to her many constituents who are now home owners and thus have the privilege of owning their own homes — a right which would have been denied them if we had listened to the advice of Opposition Members . |
| 21 | Stonier and Conlin point out that , " A word processor allows the student the opportunity of correcting their own work before presenting it to the teacher as a finished product " . |
| 22 | I despise the stupidity of those painters who defended the removal of ‘ Guernica ’ to its new air-conditioned penthouse because , in setting such a precedent , they are passing up the opportunity of bequeathing their own works to the Prado . |
| 23 | They are so used to watching TV images that they have no capacity for formulating their own images at all . |
| 24 | Together with some dinosaurs , perhaps , and with birds , which also emerged from a different reptilian stock at this time , they developed the capacity for regulating their own body temperature . |
| 25 | The redundant pitmen each pledged ten thousand pounds of their own money to try to turn their dream of running their own business into reality . |
| 26 | MANY Scotch whisky-drinkers dream of owning their own cask or two . |
| 27 | Mr Belcher , 64 , and his 63-year-old wife took out a loan for their dream of becoming their own bosses . |
| 28 | They had a personal stake in improving their own incomes ( and they were aided in this by the growth of white-collar and public-sector trade unions ) , and they had a professional commitment to improve the lot of the clients of their services . |
| 29 | Most enjoyed the luxury of employing a cleaner to do their housework but a few took a puritanical delight in doing their own . |
| 30 | As well as advising on death duties and acting as executor of wills , this division will provide for those who need help in managing their own affairs , arrange retirement benefits and advise on tax reduction . |