Example sentences of "of [verb] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I despise the stupidity of those painters who defended the removal of ‘ Guernica ’ to its new air-conditioned penthouse because , in setting such a precedent , they are passing up the opportunity of bequeathing their own works to the Prado . |
| 32 | It seeks to assist individuals in the process of defining their own problems and difficulties , in increasing their personal knowledge of self . |
| 33 | The Malaysians , in the process of razing their own country 's rainforests , have become world experts in the quick-timber business ; local problems in places such as Sarawak have suddenly expanded into international threats — and any country in the world with any tropical rainforests left is in danger of getting the full , ruthless Sarawak treatment . |
| 34 | The Society supports the young churches in their task of training their own priests and religious . |
| 35 | Instead of forcing their own decisions on a clearly reluctant public , they offered the public the opportunity to make the choice . |
| 36 | During the Gulf crisis , we are seeing a comeback of the old colonial ‘ values ’ : the West has a ‘ moral duty ’ to resolve other nations ' problems ; Western ‘ civilisation ’ comes to the rescue of nations incapable of solving their own problems . |
| 37 | On a pragmatic level , the pressure for self-government or franchise complicated the aristocracy 's game of preserving their own lordship while subverting that of their rivals . |
| 38 | To extend the Right to Own — to give more people the chance of owning their own homes , savings and pensions . |
| 39 | Such figures are also useful for indicating the distribution of various life chances , for instance the chance that different social groups have of owning their own home . |
| 40 | My hon. Friend rightly draws attention to her many constituents who are now home owners and thus have the privilege of owning their own homes — a right which would have been denied them if we had listened to the advice of Opposition Members . |
| 41 | It 's all thanks to the efforts of two cinema buffs from Gloucester who for years dreamt of owning their own picture palace . |
| 42 | MANY Scotch whisky-drinkers dream of owning their own cask or two . |
| 43 | It has also been noted that influential local people use the provision of school facilities , extra classrooms , libraries , more teachers and lower teacher/pupil ratios as a way of enhancing their own status and prestige . |
| 44 | ‘ The aim of the programme is to assist them to improve the quality of the work they do and raise efficiency by giving them the task of analysing their own and their colleagues ’ activities and producing improvements . |
| 45 | Creative Machine Knitting Design This is a ten-week course to introduce students to the elements of designing their own machine knitted garments . |
| 46 | Arts should provide disabled people with ways of confirming their own identity and , as a secondary gain , inform , educate and attract the non-disabled world . |
| 47 | ‘ They tend to want everything handed on a plate to them instead of adding their own personal touch . |
| 48 | Departments , with some external advice , could now be capable of evaluating their own courses . |
| 49 | The system means that all companies within a building have access to a staff restaurant facility without the cost of installing their own kitchen and restaurant . |
| 50 | Indeed , for the local authorities ( many of whom were angry that the Government were treating nationalisation merely as a book-keeping transaction within the public sector and thus paying them little compensation for the takeover ) , the maintenance of uneconomically low prices was one way of getting their own back for the local ratepayers ( who were also usually electricity consumers ) . |
| 51 | With this went the prospect of renting better housing , of buying the new consumer items , and for those on £4 , with small families , the prospect of buying their own semi-detached houses — although it was manual workers who earned more than £4 who were likely to do that . |
| 52 | An explanation needs to be made to these pupils as to the benefits of providing their own paints and thereby gaining more experience with a wider range of materials . |
| 53 | Dunvant , whose ground was opened by Swansea nearly 20 years ago , at least had the satisfaction of holding their own after the interval . |
| 54 | These are territorial fish capable of holding their own among other larger specimens of almost any species . |
| 55 | For many CMEA countries , but particularly for Gierek 's Poland , Western largesse became the linchpin of a strategy to refurbish the economy and reorientate production towards competitive industries capable of holding their own in world markets . |
| 56 | ‘ This place right now is like Chicago in the 1930s , ’ says publisher Vladimir Grigoriev , one of a new breed of Russian businessmen capable of holding their own with the best in the world . |
| 57 | Few peasants became involved , and the workers were frequently indifferent — or positively hostile , feeling that national struggles were ways of evading their own class demands . |
| 58 | Their editorial resources are , however , limited , so the church will be welcomed if it can provide good story ‘ copy ’ and clear photographs , thus saving them the expense of sending their own paid staff along to the various functions . |
| 59 | I would suggest even that since there is a surplus in C P D , of over a million pounds , that er , they are perfectly capable of funding their own studies . |
| 60 | But we knew it was not , and I have always cherished the strange memory of how those women , who live at such an extreme of personal restriction , had a means of acknowledging their own desire to go free through a custom which celebrated the tides of darkness and the moon . |