Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actors must be prepared to create their own work . |
| 2 | Is this just the state having been convinced by the academics ' own rhetoric about themselves , or hoping that the academics will actually be prepared to keep their own house in order ( for instance , by closing down a course of their own volition ) ? |
| 3 | They may be prepared to build their own checks into ordering referring unscheduled or non-conforming orders to unit management for specific authorisation before actioning . |
| 4 | German Chancellor Helmut Kohl , in a marked shift of attitude , stated before the meeting that the peoples of Europe had to be free to choose their own future , while Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher warned that Germany would press for severe political and economic sanctions against Yugoslavia if the army continued to defy the federal authorities . |
| 5 | There has been some debate over the necessity of maintaining a central bank , when it is possible to have a free banking regime in which banks would be free to print their own notes to satisfy the demand for cash . |
| 6 | Subsidiaries will be free to set their own prices . |
| 7 | Land would remain state-owned and might not be bought or sold , but inheritance rights over land would be guaranteed and peasants would be free to set their own prices for their produce . |
| 8 | Under the agreement EC airlines would be free to set their own tariffs from January 1993 and to fly between any EC country . |
| 9 | Each person must be free to pursue their own case , ’ said Miss Nicholson . |
| 10 | If it were , it would not be an association of equal citizens but of members with differing status ; subjects would not be free to pursue their own purposes but would be required to perform particular roles ; government would be a matter of management rather than rule ; and government would also be provisional rather than unconditional and non-retractable . |
| 11 | Enterprise managers would be free to make their own deals with suppliers , but there would be no change in the basic concept of state ownership of industry . |
| 12 | Delivering the keynote address at the Windows World annex to Comdex yesterday , Bill Gates announced that NT source code will be given to some US research institutions , including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , the University of Washington , Stanford University , Browns University and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and they will be free to make their own enhancements to the Microsoft Corp operating system : Unix System Laboratories Inc has been less encouraging of the university fraternity in recent years , and the move is intended to unsettle the Unix community ; Gates also claimed NT 's Posix interface made it as easy ‘ to move applications here as to any of the versions of Unix out there . ’ |
| 13 | Delivering the keynote address at the Windows World annex to Comdex last week , Bill Gates announced that NT source code will be given to some US research institutions , including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , the University of Washington , Stanford University , Browns University and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and they will be free to make their own enhancements to the Microsoft Corp operating system . |
| 14 | Just as you do not wish others to inflict their desires upon you , you must leave it to them to be free to follow their own direction in life . |
| 15 | Readers less familiar with these studies may be interested to weigh their own experience against the research evidence . |
| 16 | By allowing a number of copies of the same document to be produced on request from the microfilmed back-up copy , branches would be likely to establish their own duplicate files . |
| 17 | If you have already pressed and arranged the flowers on a mount , the recipient will be able to assemble their own picture rather than take the risk of a glass frame smashing during its journey through the post and damaging the picture . |
| 18 | From 1 January next year VAT practitioners will be able to acquire their own specialist qualification , following the Institute of Indirect Tax Practitioners ' decision to introduce examinations from 1 January next year as a condition of membership . |
| 19 | Consumer prices would also double , as producers would be able to set their own prices up to a fixed maximum , but Byambasuren said that the prices of some foodstuffs and industrial goods would remain under government control . |
| 20 | They will probably be able to respect their own tears and if they have children they will be able to respect their tears . |
| 21 | In the second category , general civil cases , parties should be able to choose their own lawyers because the interests of justice would be inherently less likely to fetter the client 's right of choice . |
| 22 | It would be good for the Hong Kong citizens , and it would be inconsistent for Thatcher not to do this , since she has said , for the Falklands , that a people should be able to choose their own government , and we should n't give in to dictatorships . |
| 23 | Under the terms of the White Paper , practices serving at least 11,000 patients will be able to manage their own budget . |
| 24 | The Poll Tax Register will be held on a computer and each person will only be able to see their own entry . |
| 25 | Although the UN Resolution adopted in December 1989 holds great promise as a major step towards ending the use of large-scale drift-nets , the drift-net nations may still be able to manipulate their own data to ‘ prove ’ that drift-nets , if not harmless , at least have no greater effect on marine mammals than other fishing methods , such as purse-seining for tuna . |
| 26 | Some , primarily because of their educational background , though there will be other causes , are in a position in a business enterprise to be able to define their own roles and will have a determining voice in deciding pay and other rewards and , in general , be able to define the procedures and roles by which others ' work will be done . |
| 27 | Now I promise to devote myself to bringing down the costs of your mortgages because I believe that people should be able to own their own homes and to own them cheaply . ’ |
| 28 | Of the former he said : ‘ Disabled people should have or be able to lease their own car , with all the new horizons such freedom of movement will open up for them . ’ |
| 29 | The successful applicant will be able to use their own initiative , have good communication skills and previous knowledge of energy/atmosphere issues . |
| 30 | ‘ I just hope Mrs Adams and her family will remember that in a year 's time they might be able to enjoy their own Christmas too . ’ |