Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [v-ing] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there was growing competition also between building societies and banks , as banks moved into the housing loan market , and from National Savings as governments used National Savings more aggressively as a means of financing their own borrowing requirements . |
| 2 | Finally , it is sad but understandable that the parents of disabled children should clutch at the straw of conductive education as a means of resolving their own problems . |
| 3 | Koontz , O'Donnell and Weihrich formulate the principle that ‘ since people tend to follow those whom they see as a means of satisfying their own personal goals , the more managers understand what motivates their subordinates and how these motivations operate , and the more they reflect this understanding in carrying out their managerial actions , the more effective leaders they are likely to be . ’ |
| 4 | But we knew it was not , and I have always cherished the strange memory of how those women , who live at such an extreme of personal restriction , had a means of acknowledging their own desire to go free through a custom which celebrated the tides of darkness and the moon . |
| 5 | But if , throughout the secondary school , literature in the classroom consists chiefly of modern , chronologically organised novels , written in familiar language that is interpretable at a literal level , then not only are pupils being offered a narrowed range of literary experience , they are also being denied an important means of extending their own language and thinking . |
| 6 | Broadly speaking , we can identify four sets of pressures which serve to disable the media from meeting their own criteria of objectivity and balance in the coverage of public disorder . |