Example sentences of "their [noun] [adv] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are able to monitor their progress closely and to relate effort and performance to accepted standards . |
| 2 | Students will be asked to monitor their progress throughout and to take part in regular review sessions . |
| 3 | By design they had entered the grounds quite close to the front entrance , and they angled their progress so as to bring them into contact with the main driveway as quickly as possible . |
| 4 | The report concluded that the pattern of courses and examinations below the level of OND lacked clarity and cohesion and that , consequently , there was a need to rationalize their provision so as to offer students a recognizable ladder of progression within clearly defined educational stages . |
| 5 | The actin cable provides a novel way for epidermal cells to coordinate their activities so as to close gaps , fulfilling their function as a self-repairing barrier layer . |
| 6 | In Tanzania , the Government had control of most of the media and claimed to exercise this control on behalf of the workers and peasants in order to enhance their freedom rather than to restrict it . |
| 7 | Well , children can be allowed to express their anxieties verbally and to learn perhaps from the adults ' modelling around them that to talk about these things in moderation is perfectly acceptable erm but not to do it to the extent or to allow children to perhaps watch the news coverage to the extent that they become over excited and are not able to contain their own feelings of anxiety about loss and damage and death and separation from parents and significant adults . |
| 8 | Ask the Lord to guide their steps daily and to enlarge their understanding of his love . |
| 9 | The experience then was that floating did not appear to be very successful since individual countries depreciated their currencies so as to gain a competitive advantage over their trading rivals . |
| 10 | They certainly choose their abuse so as to indicate to those who do toe the line that they have lost it . |
| 11 | They will obviously arrange their affairs so as to ensure a steady stream of maturing loans . |
| 12 | Apart from the very great difficulty of establishing how a couple manage their finances ( in effect one would have to take their word for it ) and the strong incentive they would have to arrange their affairs so as to safeguard the woman 's claim to benefit , the fact that she is receiving benefit may itself make it unnecessary for the man to give her more than is required for his own keep . |
| 13 | Then both the earners and the users of foreign exchange will know its real opportunity cost , and they will adjust their behaviour so as to economize on foreign exchange in the short term and to earn more of it in the long term . |
| 14 | I would emphasize first , here speaking as one who has in the past given evidence on behalf of the Government , that the value of the scrutiny process is in part that it forces those with more direct power to consider their positions and their arguments carefully and to defend them in the face of public questioning by a Committee whose members may have long experience of the subject-matter involved . |
| 15 | Later , as the sac-like evagination develops , the bases of the epithelial cells become drawn out into long processes , so imparting a spongy texture to the tissues of the wing-pad , and the basement membranes of the lower and upper epithelia become apposed for most of their area so as to form the so-called middle membrane ( Fig. 30 ) . |
| 16 | There are many other characteristics of bad organizations , ones in fact which are designed to switch off their people rather than to switch them on . |
| 17 | First , marriage as a legal institution developed , I submit , as an essential legal first step towards amassing wealth and power by uniting partners with these attributes and endowing with legitimacy their heirs so as to guarantee inheritance according to articulated and certain principles . |
| 18 | In 1859 , when the Origin of Species had come out , the evidence from fossils was suggestive but very incomplete : geologists had sought to characterize strata by their fossils rather than to follow family trees through from early times to the present . |
| 19 | This means that farmers in these dales may opt to be paid a certain amount per hectare by the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food to manage their lands so as to ensure the traditional landscape features of stone buildings , field walls and flower-rich meadows for the enjoyment of the public . |
| 20 | A handful of people crossed the harbour square , dawdling on their way home or to drink after work . |
| 21 | ‘ However , because their access to scarce funds is more open than other disciplines , this places an extra responsibility on HSE managers to allocate their budgets wisely and to make this cash really work for them . ’ |
| 22 | Nor need the doctor adopt palliative measures , if ‘ palliation ’ is taken to mean the use of measures aimed at modifying pathological processes or their consequences so as to delay or prevent the otherwise inevitable effects of such processes or their consequences . |