Example sentences of "to [v-ing] their [adj] [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 | Francis made it clear Wednesday were n't interested , even at £4 million or more , which is a new experience for Wednesday supporters accustomed to seeing their best players sold to more ambitious clubs . |
3 | It went some way to repairing their damaged pride after their defeat by Swindon Town at the weekend , Mickey Inotta was there ; Mickey it must have cheered you up a bit . |
4 | Companies that change factors or move back to handling their own invoices frequently cite poor quality of service . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | What the Double-up weeks will be able to do , that they are not supposed to do now , even though everyone involved assures me it happens , is to pay appearance money to the leading players to enter their tournaments in addition to meeting their unchanged commitment of eight single and three double-up weeks , and presumably the Grand Slams . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | For corporate management , cost and productivity benchmarking identified work organization as the key to regaining their competitive advantage . |
11 | In our main 1979 survey , we asked people which of four statements came closest to describing their own feelings about credit . |
12 | Our Royals , I am afraid , are arrogant , uncharitable , greedy and downright un-Christian when it comes to preserving their own privileges and image . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | In Britain the majority of people aspire to owning their own home and those who do acquire a certain position in society . |
15 | But they were unable to commit themselves to cutting their own industries ' emission of gases that threaten the world 's climatic balance . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Once here , the racism they faced in employment often forced them to turn to starting their own business as a means of livelihood . |
18 | Prior to starting their fourth album , the Mondays were characteristically in a state of organised chaos . |
19 | LOWLY Brightlingsea United came agonisingly close to recording their first Jewson League Premier Division win of the season against top of the table Wisbech . |
20 | Detectorists outside your area should form their own clubs with a view to approaching their own councils . |
21 | Over the centuries , Iranians have become used to having their religious leaders denounce the Shahs policies on the grounds they were contrary to Islam . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 ? |
24 | 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 . |
25 | At least the Welsh , who have taken four points from three games , can look forward to finishing their qualifying campaign with three home games . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | The first weeks in a job can be daunting — and irritating for women who are used to running their own lives . |
28 | ‘ 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 . |
29 | They have gone some way to healing their internal rifts . |
30 | 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 . |