Example sentences of "be [adj] to make their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In each unit there is a kitchen where the residents are able to make their own snacks and a communal television and activity room . |
| 2 | The self-employed have long been able to make their own pension arrangements . |
| 3 | Enterprise managers would be free to make their own deals with suppliers , but there would be no change in the basic concept of state ownership of industry . |
| 4 | Delivering the keynote address at the Windows World annex to Comdex yesterday , Bill Gates announced that NT source code will be given to some US research institutions , including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , the University of Washington , Stanford University , Browns University and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and they will be free to make their own enhancements to the Microsoft Corp operating system : Unix System Laboratories Inc has been less encouraging of the university fraternity in recent years , and the move is intended to unsettle the Unix community ; Gates also claimed NT 's Posix interface made it as easy ‘ to move applications here as to any of the versions of Unix out there . ’ |
| 5 | Delivering the keynote address at the Windows World annex to Comdex last week , Bill Gates announced that NT source code will be given to some US research institutions , including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , the University of Washington , Stanford University , Browns University and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and they will be free to make their own enhancements to the Microsoft Corp operating system . |
| 6 | If the Arbitration Commission expresses a negative view about any one of the republics , there is no collective decision to implement , and countries will be able to make their own assessment . |
| 7 | People who were able to make their own fun , did n't rely on store-bought fun . |
| 8 | The demands of the unemployed workers ' movement of the 1930s had an unexpected radicalism , not because people then were more " political " , but because the unemployed were able to make their own measure of an income . |