Example sentences of "and [to-vb] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This evidence of strength used by a small country for peaceful purposes and to promote its own self-sufficiency would , he warned , undermine the power of " imperialism " and lay Libya open to attack , especially by the United States . |
| 2 | They are organised to allow the users choice over what to see , in the correct time sequence , and to post their own contributions . |
| 3 | Or use fruit to make instant purées for fools and snows and to flavour your own yogurt . |
| 4 | The best advice anyone can give is for people to get their hands on a copy of the official festival programme and to plan their own agenda . |
| 5 | They will be expected to carry out tasks during the residential with limited support from the tutor and to monitor their own progress in terms of personal and social development . |
| 6 | Students are expected to keep records of their work and experience and to monitor their own performance carefully . |
| 7 | NHS Hospital Trusts will be free to negotiate the pay and conditions of their own staff , and to acquire their own supplies and services locally . |
| 8 | Dressing up helps to , helps children to find a simple way of changing role and to establish their own identities . |
| 9 | As well as enabling students to learn something about production , marketing , and book-keeping , Mini-Enterprise is invaluable in helping students learn to work together collaboratively , to explore leadership roles and to find their own solutions . |
| 10 | It seeks to help individuals to measure their problems against the social realities , and to find their own resolution to their particular dilemmas . |
| 11 | It is argued that the basis of natural justice was the desire of the ordinary courts to maintain control over adjudication , and to impose their own types of procedures on those subject to judicial control . |
| 12 | First , the premise is that natural justice stemmed from a judicial desire to maintain control over adjudication and to impose its own procedures on those subject to its control . |
| 13 | This was an entirely legitimate and historically well-founded practice , but Nixon carried it to extreme lengths , seeing it as a way both to cut back on federal expenditure and to impose his own order of spending priorities . |
| 14 | SHAPE , under the auspices of the Ministry of General Education , Youth and Sport and the Ministry of Higher Education , aims to strengthen teacher competence at local level by encouraging teachers , head teachers and local administrators to initiate their own productive work linked to teaching , and to evolve their own techniques and materials . |
| 15 | I want politicians to be able to form their judgement on what the economy requires and to reach their own decisions on such intimate matters as the rate of interest . |
| 16 | Its policy is to meet or exceed all applicable regulations , and to set its own standards where no relevant government standards exist . |
| 17 | Now is the time to knit those charming small presents and decorations and to create your own Christmas magic . |
| 18 | My aims include encouraging pupils to think for themselves and to choose their own methods of working . |
| 19 | The undermining of local government ( which is part of the deliberate down-grading of all alternative power systems to the central State ) means that communities are being weakened by having no means to advance their own ambitions and to tackle their own problems in their own way . |
| 20 | The main motivating force , however , is the Community Mother 's own desire to give support and to help her own community with the knowledge and experience she has gained through her child-rearing . |
| 21 | Its network offers members , especially those outside London , a unique opportunity to influence the Institute 's technical programme and to broaden their own interests . |
| 22 | In group discussions , students will be expected to evaluate their own performance in terms of strengths and weaknesses and to express their own feelings and reactions to the learning gained . |
| 23 | Above all , project work provides learners with the opportunity to use the newly-acquired language to talk about themselves , and to express their own ideas , feelings , and opinions . |
| 24 | An essay in Arts , Social Science and Business is an intellectual exercise and an aesthetic challenge : you attempt to structure your thoughts and to express your own ideas on a particular topic or question in a concise , elegant and persuasive written form . |
| 25 | We are persuading logging companies and governments to manage the logging of rainforests better and to grow their own hardwoods on separate plantations outside the rainforest . |
| 26 | The signals coming from Spaak and others may in the end have led Britain to underestimate the determination of the Six and to overevaluate its own ability to pull the OEEC states , including the Six , round to its own viewpoint . |
| 27 | There were fierce disputes over the intelligentsia 's determination to exclude all but a token worker or two from their policy-making committees and to assert their own control over workers ' mutual support funds and the content of newspapers written for the workers . |
| 28 | Their suspicions were heightened by the case of S. G. Nechaev ( 1847–82 ) , an amoral firebrand who tried to build a rigidly disciplined organization by brazen deception , and to assert his own authority by involving his fellow conspirators in the murder of one of their number . |
| 29 | Earlier this year I reported in this column the Institute 's decision to terminate its contract with the Institute of Purchasing and Supply and to form its own Secretariat . |
| 30 | Simply that in higher education , we expect students to go beyond the material they encompass and to form their own affinity with it . |