Example sentences of "in [verb] their [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If ever they lose the ability to scavenge energy , and put it to use in repairing their own fabric , then they are said to be dead ; and they begin immediately to fall apart . |
| 2 | The Business Start-Up scheme , which helps the unemployed in launching their own business , will be extended with the creation of 10,000 new places . |
| 3 | Banks would lend money more freely and , in fattening their own balance sheets , would feed credit-starved economies . |
| 4 | In establishing their own style , the younger brothers of the mods adopted certain elements of the mod style , combined them with items from traditional working clothes , borrowed some influences from the West Indian blacks and became skinheads . |
| 5 | Involvement of the teachers : In successful schools , the teachers were involved in curriculum planning and played a major role in developing their own curriculum guidelines . |
| 6 | Liberals saw this as evidence that the dominions were more interested in going their own way , but Unionists retorted that Canada like Britain had been led astray by a radical government and that Canada 's decision was the result of Britain 's failure to offer preference . |
| 7 | Hence , if they get interested in designing their own software , scholars may spend their time reinventing last year 's wheel . |
| 8 | An in-service activity can be conceived as something one person does to another , with the assumption that change is most effectively produced from outside ; or as a process in which teachers are centrally involved in analysing their own situation and needs and working out the best ways of tackling these . |
| 9 | The students had not only training in teaching methods but in growing their own food , and we had twenty acres of rice land , an acre of garden , a Berkshire boar imported to improve the strength and size of the village pigs , and several pure-bred cocks to convert the village hens from laying two clutches of a dozen eggs each year to something like 150 bigger and better eggs . |
| 10 | Where this is overlooked , it is not unknown for the continuing partners to have difficulty in persuading their former colleague that it is in his own interest that changes need to be made . |
| 11 | members were most interested in running their own school and tended to see more general materials as not immediately relevant |
| 12 | The new system will provide more consistent information on Group benefits while giving US companies flexibility in managing their own payroll and human resources functions . |
| 13 | We must ensure that those people can play their part with local government , national government , the private sector and the voluntary organisations in creating their own future . |
| 14 | The family will have to decide on how much its teenage members will be allowed to spend , and how much discretion they have in making their own choice of clothes , records , holidays or motor cycles . |
| 15 | This question is particularly important for institutions which are investing time in making their own video recordings . |
| 16 | This is not to deny that individual teachers may be highly effective in making their own way by an intuitive sense of direction . |
| 17 | In addition , the Regional document was the resource on which most schools depended in preparing their own health education policies . |
| 18 | Self-directed learning is a core feature of Project 2000 courses , and could be enhanced by encouraging students to take the initiative in identifying their own learning needs in association with the teacher/ practitioner . |
| 19 | They should play an active part in assessing their own progress through discussion with those who read their writing — their peers , teachers or other adults . |
| 20 | Bank managers tend to be far from impetuous in putting their own money at risk and Mr Cowdrill was suitably cautious before investing his cash . |
| 21 | This despite the fact that , as the same author notes , in codetermination plants ‘ work crews in the key operations enjoy a high degree of autonomy in setting their own pace , breaks , etc. ’ ( p. 330 ) . |
| 22 | The authors show restraint in referencing their own work to support their conclusions but provide an extensive literature review with detailed recommendations for a wide range of surgical specialties . |
| 23 | UDCs must take account of such plans in formulating their own development proposals but are not bound by them . |