Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [verb] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hand-outs to the poor will merely reduce the pressure for such change and are particularly pernicious if they are given by the rich , who are in effect purchasing their own privilege at a small price . |
| 2 | All staff who have a telephone extension will in effect have their own direct telephone line . |
| 3 | It may be that it may help those in business understand their own , or their trading partners ' standard terms ; however , it is not intended that it should be used by persons without legal knowledge to draft standard terms without legal advice . |
| 4 | Still able to see the problem , they no longer knew where to find its solution , and seemed happy in consequence to embrace their own annihilation . |
| 5 | Tumours er greater than two millimetres in size require their own blood supply . |
| 6 | Each in turn speaks their own language of jargonistic expertise and coded euphemism . |
| 7 | The standard approach was to seek the friendship of the major landowners in the county , particularly the leaders of the dominant political interest , and they in turn approached their own friends . |
| 8 | Thus , by a seeming concession to native sentiment , the Russians are in reality playing their own game . |
| 9 | Though the generals were brought to some sort of obedience by the Cortes and the Regency , in the provinces they used the ‘ egoism ’ of the Juntas and their endless disputes with the relics of the old administration in order to extend their own power . |
| 10 | The Webbs , who had little sympathy with Liberal cosmopolitanism , were happy to come to terms with the imperialist agenda in order to promote their own brand of statist socialism . |
| 11 | Looking young is important to many women today in order to hold their own with confidence in the world outside the home , whether they are married or single . |
| 12 | Whereas it used to be assumed that she would follow him around the country and around the world , it is now not uncommon for wives to decide to stay put in order to further their own careers , or so that they do not disrupt their children 's education . |
| 13 | The last few years have seen significant developments in this direction , as the different European Affairs committees in national parliaments study one another 's methods of scrutiny , control , and influence in order to improve their own , and work together more systematically to promote informed and transparent law-making by the Community . |
| 14 | All six companies use unedited quantitative information ; for example , the annual accounts which can be analysed by the planners themselves in order to form their own opinions . |
| 15 | In fact I suspect on June the ninth even the wipe out of the Conservative party in the European elections may make even those members that side think that in order to say their own skins in the future they will actually have to start to think about a fairer electoral system and indeed there will be a unified system on the way forced by Europe on this house if we do not take it upon ourselves to do so and it will be our own fault that we 've shirked our responsibilities in my view to actually take it on board . |
| 16 | We did n't shout loud enough ; those who came left impressed , but kept quiet in order to preserve their own reputations . |
| 17 | As Cobbett had noted in 1822 : ‘ Society is in a queer state when the rich think , that they must educate the poor in order to insure their own safety . ’ |
| 18 | Moreover , in view of the government 's stance , their new associations began to recognise and establish on-going relations with unions on an industry or regional basis — although they continued strongly to oppose a union presence within the enterprise in order to maximise their own control . |
| 19 | People will understate how much they value the good in order to reduce their own payments , just as in a private market . |
| 20 | For their part it seems likely that his errors and omissions were welcomed by Lewis and Shinwell as an excuse for breaking away from a situation and a personality they disliked in order to establish their own unions in their own communities |
| 21 | There is also the opportunity for the client 's own personnel to be closely involved in the work in order to develop their own personal skills and expertise . |
| 22 | He proposed a slightly more ‘ progressive ’ political model , and argued that Hong Kong people should unite in order to influence their own affairs . |
| 23 | Heseltine 's aides were able to exploit this by urging all opponents of Mrs Thatcher to vote for him in order to bring their own preferred candidate into a second ballot . |
| 24 | They too have assumed that there is something natural and self-evident about the human individual as a separate physical body , but then , in order to distinguish their own field of enquiry from that of the physical anthropologists , they have reified their special concept of culture to a point where we end up with the implicit definition : " Culture is everything which concerns the life and behaviour of human beings which is not an aspect of human nature , as the physical anthropologists perceive it . " |
| 25 | Was it all a stage-managed event by the party leadership in order to distract their own people and foreign observers from the real issues facing China ? |
| 26 | Farm families by contrast increasingly sold off their holdings , in order to secure their own last years and at the same time allow equal treatment of their children . |
| 27 | As a corollary to this , there was perhaps the suspicion that some of the opposition to the Bill came from politicians who wanted an alternative press in order to enhance their own political future . |
| 28 | To what extent are headhunting firms moving into lower-level recruiting in order to maintain their own momentum of growth , and how is this being incorporated with their higher-level work ? |
| 29 | They learn not to take things on trust , but to make sure they fully comprehend in order to make their own assessments . |
| 30 | Alternatively , in the present economic climate , the power relationships between the different agencies may result in professionals vying to serve the needs of prospective clients since they have vested interests in defining the needs of their clients and expanding the numbers they serve in order to safeguard their own jobs . |