Example sentences of "to [verb] their [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the operating priorities of a CMHT are set by manifest , but more importantly latent lines of local service policy ; without clear specifications as to the roles of team members , members will drift towards their common ground ; where team members have no actual or perceived authority to coordinate services , they will create their own service niche to fill ; where teams have little direct control over service resources , their own role will be limited to using their own personnel as resources . |
| 2 | Companies that change factors or move back to handling their own invoices frequently cite poor quality of service . |
| 3 | It had taken a war to do that , Vi realized ; though she would n't mind betting that on the day peace came , all the caring would end and people would go back to minding their own business again , just as they had before it started . |
| 4 | In order to absorb growing labour militancy , maintain and prevent turnover among their ( mobile ) key workers , and strengthen their right to manage , employers ' labour strategy in the larger enterprises turned to establishing their own training schools and internal promotion ladders . |
| 5 | Tied cottages , indeed , performed much the same function as the closed village in Victorian times , by enabling farmers to ensure that their expenditure on housing was limited as far as possible to guaranteeing their own labour requirements . |
| 6 | Several other British towns and cities are already committed to developing their own version of this game , with all profits going to the local YMCA . |
| 7 | In our main 1979 survey , we asked people which of four statements came closest to describing their own feelings about credit . |
| 8 | Our Royals , I am afraid , are arrogant , uncharitable , greedy and downright un-Christian when it comes to preserving their own privileges and image . |
| 9 | Now you ca n't really get a coherent staffing policy within a school in that kind of flux , whereas now people perhaps erm a bit too much at the opposite extreme but nevertheless erm do know that they 're committed to being in the school and have a , therefore a commitment to it , a commitment to improving their own work and , and their collective work . |
| 10 | In Britain the majority of people aspire to owning their own home and those who do acquire a certain position in society . |
| 11 | But they were unable to commit themselves to cutting their own industries ' emission of gases that threaten the world 's climatic balance . |
| 12 | Composers are notoriously fickle when it comes to performing their own music , but with a few exceptions ( the first part of the Diptyque being the most obvious , where the innumerable pauses , rallentandos and general changes of speed , not to mention more than a few smudges and slips , have no basis in the printed score ) Messiaen not only fulfils his own written requirements , but does so with utter conviction and persuasiveness . |
| 13 | Once here , the racism they faced in employment often forced them to turn to starting their own business as a means of livelihood . |
| 14 | Detectorists outside your area should form their own clubs with a view to approaching their own councils . |
| 15 | As the principals were all noblemen and their ladies , each used to having their own way in their own time , organising them was almost impossible . |
| 16 | because , you know , erm , most kids these days , especially by the time they 're nine or ten , they 're used to having their own pocket money , and then you , and they say they ca n't do any maths at all , and you say well , if you had a fifty pence and you bought something for twenty four , how much change ? |
| 17 | Your users will all execute this as they log in to the VAX , prior to executing their own login command files as specified in SYSUAF.DAT . |
| 18 | VAT rules are threatening a valuable scheme that helps people on unemployment and other benefits to get the first foot on the ladder to running their own businesses . |
| 19 | The first weeks in a job can be daunting — and irritating for women who are used to running their own lives . |
| 20 | ‘ Most people in the health service suffer from the feeling there are far too many layers of authority above them and far too many constraints about what people can do when it comes to running their own unit better . |
| 21 | By the time children go to school they will be used to choosing their own books and will know and enjoy a good range of picture books , stories , and poems . |
| 22 | Kate Dyson owns The Dining Room Shop in south London and before the family get round to decorating their own home they create inspirational and exciting festive table settings in the shop . |
| 23 | They were looking forward to tilling their own fields in a land of plenty . |
| 24 | As part of the whole , they are expected to enable all who are present to make their offering to God as fully and as well as they can , in addition to making their own contribution for him . |
| 25 | In their first few months of training , they can give consideration to making their own arrangements if they so choose . |
| 26 | In contrast popular dissenting tracts frequently insist on a strong separate identity , suspicious of being seen as formally composed and keen to assert scriptural language as a key to asserting their own experience . |
| 27 | It is further argued that , in the case of those who are mentally frail , they may no longer be capable of exercising informal consent or its converse — refusal ; and that resistance to leaving their own home may sometimes be as much about fear of the unknown as love of the familiar . |
| 28 | But just as black British musicians have developed the confidence to create their own sound independent of Jamaica or the USA , a new generation of black novelists is now emerging , dedicated to telling their own stories in their own style . |
| 29 | Answer guide : This is an ideal situation to focus on how students will react to setting their own targets and having targets set for them and then relating this to a business situation . |
| 30 | The " Hallelujah lasses " had been used to raising their own voices in protest and employing some fairly dramatic methods to attract attention from the time Catherine Booth took up the cudgels on behalf of women in the early days of the movement . |