Example sentences of "[noun sg] for [verb] their [det] " 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 | They are so used to watching TV images that they have no capacity for formulating their own images at all . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This was because they generally had low and insecure incomes , so they could not obtain a mortgage for buying their own suburban house . |
| 9 | ‘ The Smiths are another good example of that : a totally English sort of pop band but with an incredible gift for creating their own sound . |
| 10 | The clergy were beginning to pay the price for assessing their own tax in their own assembly . |
| 11 | When people were already living in towns and storing grain from year to year , the crops hit upon a new strategy for propagating their own kind . |
| 12 | According to Oakeshott , something less pretentious will do ; viz. , ‘ that we are not children in statu pupillari but adults who do not consider themselves under any obligation to justify their preference for making their own choices ’ . |
| 13 | They will be happy to use things like the Glogovac murders as a justification for sending their own armed thugs into action against the Albanians . |
| 14 | But others were the work of private groups or individuals , who used Parliament as an arena for advancing their own interests and for settling disputes with their rivals . |
| 15 | LIKE other companies that presume to tell others their business — banks , advertising agencies and so on — management consultants have a poor reputation for running their own affairs . |
| 16 | We shall see that employers are key actors within industrial relations and that they possess a considerable margin for defining their own policies which are not wholly determined in response to the actions of unions , or to economic and political pressures . |