Example sentences of "for [verb] their [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITAIN 'S big banks stirred up a storm last night after threatening to charge customers for using their own money . |
| 2 | Similarly , restaurant management have wider responsibilities for building their own branch 's business than would the managers of most branded operations . |
| 3 | They are normally responsible for purchasing their own uniform and music , and often their own instrument too . |
| 4 | A major obstacle to accurate prediction was the preference of many MPs for keeping their own counsel . |
| 5 | In the mid-1950s , when the private sector finance houses were increasing their facilities for private retailers , the Government withheld some of the funds the Boards requested for developing their own hire purchase schemes , thus further hobbling them against the competition . |
| 6 | When people were already living in towns and storing grain from year to year , the crops hit upon a new strategy for propagating their own kind . |
| 7 | There are 15 contractors appointed by the Independent Broadcasting Authority ( IBA ) each responsible for selling their own air time as prime time or other time . |
| 8 | Together with some dinosaurs , perhaps , and with birds , which also emerged from a different reptilian stock at this time , they developed the capacity for regulating their own body temperature . |
| 9 | Rob Grunsell encourages teachers to adapt his materials to their own needs or use them as a source of ideas for devising their own training . |
| 10 | ‘ The Smiths are another good example of that : a totally English sort of pop band but with an incredible gift for creating their own sound . |
| 11 | The rationale for school self-evaluation is that the most effective means of improving the quality of the education provided by schools is to give them the responsibility for reviewing their own performance and for carrying out any reforms which seem necessary in consequence . |
| 12 | Tim Albery 's production takes this weird eighteenth-century fantasy of nobles , bourgeois , and servants , all of whom finally settle for marrying their own class , and instils it with Fuselian surrealism . |
| 13 | The course is based on the principles of self-help , hence clients are reminded that they have responsibility for their own problems and for changing their own behaviour . |
| 14 | The clergy were beginning to pay the price for assessing their own tax in their own assembly . |
| 15 | So , the mormyrid group of electric fish have two types of receptors — highly sensitive ones for picking up messages , and less sensitive ones for monitoring their own field . |
| 16 | The present research will consider cognitive constraints that may arise from limitations in children 's capacities for monitoring their own success at a task and thereby employ a strategic approach to its mastery . |
| 17 | Many came to the women 's movement from backgrounds where the state was viewed as an instrument for enacting their own class specific demands . |
| 18 | While he did not dispute that in many cases money had been levied that was twice what was necessary for satisfactory repair , and even then that the work carried out had been slovenly or even not done at all , the great laissez-faire economist had been convinced by the turnpikes that so far as public works " for facilitating commerce in general " were concerned , " the greater part may easily be so managed as to afford a particular revenue sufficient for defraying their own expense , without bringing any burden upon the general revenue of society " . |