Example sentences of "for [verb] their [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they behave illegally , they could be required to pay for publicizing their own failures , negligence , indifference , apathy , and greed , and also the names , photographs , and misdeeds of each corporate offender . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The view of pedagogy proposed here , then , makes teachers responsible for defining their own problems and providing their own solutions . |
| 4 | Erm , I think that the comments that Chair made ar are extremely bias , in what she 's saying , I think is , that it looks as if , if erm , the minister is beginning to realise this simply ca n't go on , this this disproportionate funding , and that is what is so unfair , and I think it does need to make quite clear to grant maintained schools , that there is , it , there is that possibility that that will be reduced , because they need to know that just as well , for balancing their own budgets in the future . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A Britain where freedom was extended and where people took on more responsibility for running their own lives . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As a general rule , residents should be considered responsible for taking their own medicines , but some may be administered by care assistants under the supervision of senior staff . |
| 11 | In line with the 1992 Further and Higher Education Act , colleges will now be responsible for managing their own budgets and the Government will hold the purse strings , funding them directly through a national FE Funding Council.Once considered the Cinderella of education , further education is now being promoted as the fairy godmother with the ability to improve post-16 education and training , stem the drop-out and failure rates and make Britain economically competitive once more . |
| 12 | Usually ministers are formally answerable to Parliament only for discharging their own responsibilities relating to sponsored bodies ( such as in terms of broad policy and general oversight ) , while responsibility for efficiency and day-to-day matters normally rests with the organizations ' own management . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | And he does not believe the Government 's proposals to make gipsies responsible for finding their own sites will work either . |
| 15 | They are so used to watching TV images that they have no capacity for formulating their own images at all . |