Example sentences of "of [verb] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But modern surfers were capable of singing their own praises . |
| 2 | It is hoped , however , that as Compacts increase understanding and trust between Education and Industry , employers will re-examine the appropriateness of administering their own tests . |
| 3 | In future , the primary rental will be abolished , and the new costs of maintaining their own transmission systems plus paying for the licence are expected to be considerably less expensive . |
| 4 | Both were accused by some contemporaries of pursuing their own interests , cynically exploiting their position , betraying the ruler when it suited them . |
| 5 | But there was growing competition also between building societies and banks , as banks moved into the housing loan market , and from National Savings as governments used National Savings more aggressively as a means of financing their own borrowing requirements . |
| 6 | It also hopes to short-circuit any notions the vendors might have of building their own OSI stacks . |
| 7 | As I mentioned early the , the city of Sermaria it was under siege and the army of Seria was encamped all around it , Ben Hadad was a great warrior , he would of been the , the Alexander or the Napoleon of his day and he had set up this encampment around the city of Sermaria , nobody could get in , nobody could get out and very quickly the stocks of food and water er were used up , rationing would of been introduced but it only lasted for a certain period , they 'd got to the stage it tells us in the previous chapter that er , that a donkeys head was sold for eighty shekel 's of silver and some folk had even got to the , had sunk to the level of cannibalism , of eating their own children and the city was , when they heard about this they were in an uproar and they started blaming god and in between the city of Sermaria of all its suffering and hopelessness and helplessness and the army encamped about with all of their supplies , there was this area of no mans land in which they were caught up four men who were leapers and they were trapped there , they did n't want to go over to the Serians because they 'd be killed , they did n't want to go back into the city because they were n't allowed there and any way what was the point , they 'd only die of starvation in there and so these four men are caught up in no man 's land and yet their no better off than people in the city , now god had promised deliverance , through his serve and Eliger he had promised deliverance , Eliger said tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a se shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Semaria , he said the gates are gon na be open , there 's gon na be food and its gon na be a reasonable price and it says the royal officer who 's hand the king was leaning on said the man of god said behold , if the lord shall make windows in heaven could such a thing be , he said do n't talk stupid man , how can such a thing happen for us ? , he did n't believe what god servant said and Eliger brings out to him a terrible judgment , he says because of your unbelief you will see it , but your not participate in it but lets look at these four men for a moment , cos that 's where our real interest lies this morning , I just wanted to say three things in their experience , the first things is that they were amazed that , at what they found , because after they come together and they talk about it and they said well what shall we do and they weighed the pro 's and the cons and Semaria does n't look very attractive with its cannibalism , they said well the least if we stay here were gon na die , if we go into Semaria we 'll die , lets go down to the Serein camp , the worse they can do to us is put us to death and were dying men any way , but they may just take pity on us , we maybe allowed to grope around in their dustbins and get some scraps of food , they may at least allow us that , and so they make their way down just as evening is falling , they make their way down to the Serein lines and when they get there , they are amazed at what they find , you see their condition was helpless and hopeless , they were dying men any way , they were lepers , but they were dying of starvation , that was far more imminent than their leprosy , their problems and their needs were greater than themselves , they could not meet their own needs , their problems and their needs were greater than their government , the king in Semaria and all of his court could not meet the needs of his people and then in verse five , we read something there , they arose at twilight to go to the camp of Aramians or the Serein 's and when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Serein 's behold there was no one there , they expected to at least meet a guard , there would surely be somebody on sentry duty even if the rest of the soldiers had gone in to their tents and were perhaps getting ready for their , for the evening , going to bed or whatever they were gon na be doing , having their evening meal , there would at least be somebody on guard duty , but when they got there , there was no one there , god had stepped in , god had intervened and the good news of the Christian gospel is that god has intervened in our , in the midst of our helplessness , in the midst of our hopelessness , god has intervened , he had stepped in to history , so often you 'll hear folks say , well why does n't god do something , why does god allow this to happen , why does god allow that one , why does n't he do something all they really show by that comment is their own ignorance , because god has done something , god has intervened , listen to what it says in John three sixteen , for god so loved the world that he gave , he 's only son and the er , the er apostle Paul and he 's writing to the Gallations , in chapter four and in verses four and five hear what he says there , but when the time had fully come god sent his son , born of a woman , born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of son , er of sons , god has done something , he 's sent his son Jesus Christ into this world in fact his done the greatest thing he could do , he has done the very ultimate thing , he has sent his son into the world that 's the greatest intervention god could ever have made , it was far greater than , than just intervening in sm , in some small local event , were you see some catastrophe happening and you say well why does n't god do something there , or there 's a war situation going on in some other part of the world , well why does n't god step in and stop it , god has stepped in , not in a local situation , not in some er passing problem or need but he 's stepped into the greatest way possible by sending his son Jesus Christ into the world to dye for men and woman , to take away sin , to pay the price that god 's righteousness demands for sin so god has intervened and his intervention has changed the whole situation , its brought a whole new complexion on things , its changed the colour completely , no longer is the world now under darkness and in , and in pending judgment in doom , because Jesus Christ came and he took that judgment and that , that condemnation upon himself , he said I 've not come to condemn the world he said its already condemned , its already under judgement , the sword of Damocles is already hanging over the world and Jesus Christ came in and to take that judgment and that condemnation on himself and when he died there on the cross and rose again , there came that burst of light in a world that had been shrouded in blackness and darkness , a world that had been shrouded in sin suddenly for the first time sees the light , god has paid for himself the price of sin , god has intervened and changed the whole situation and the message of the gospel is that if you and I allow that intervention to effect us personally , then like those four men surely we too are amazed at what we 've found . |
| 8 | They range in size from microscopic flatworms to the giant squid and by the process of evolution over the past hundreds of millions of years , have adapted an amazing variety of different ways of perpetuating their own kind . |
| 9 | When , for example , colonies of bacterial species in a laboratory were deprived of a certain kind of amino acid needed for growth , they produced mutant strains capable of producing their own amino acids . |
| 10 | Mr Belcher , 64 , and his 63-year-old wife took out a loan for their dream of becoming their own bosses . |
| 11 | Finally , it is sad but understandable that the parents of disabled children should clutch at the straw of conductive education as a means of resolving their own problems . |
| 12 | The professional diplomatists had the duties of representing their own states , of negotiating for them , of observing , and of keeping their governments informed . |
| 13 | Some horses indulge in this self-orientated activity by biting their own sides or legs , even to the extent of tearing their own flesh so that they bleed . |
| 14 | It was once owned by a cotton baron from Lancashire ; today it belongs to Brian and Ann who left Australia ( where they worked as wool buyers ) to fulfil their long-time ambition of opening their own hotel . |
| 15 | Koontz , O'Donnell and Weihrich formulate the principle that ‘ since people tend to follow those whom they see as a means of satisfying their own personal goals , the more managers understand what motivates their subordinates and how these motivations operate , and the more they reflect this understanding in carrying out their managerial actions , the more effective leaders they are likely to be . ’ |
| 16 | The story , therefore , from the seventh century onwards becomes an increasingly complex one as more countries sought out individual ways of satisfying their own needs , techniques , modes of living and religious beliefs . |
| 17 | Professionals have to be wary of applying their own standards . |
| 18 | This too failed , on the basis that in unlawful means conspiracy , as in conspiracy to injure , there must be an intent to injure the plaintiff , and conspiracy should not be extended ‘ beyond acts done in execution of an agreement entered into by two or more persons for the purpose not of protecting their own interests but of injuring the interests of the plaintiff . ’ |
| 19 | The very large costs of keeping their own staffers in foreign capitals were no longer justifiable , when British interests were a relic of their former importance . |
| 20 | It is not just children who may be incapable of operating their own structuring within an exercise . |
| 21 | My dialogue with them has been an important part of the process of valuing their own contributions . |
| 22 | Some of the propounders of such statements might be guilty of promoting their own companies . |
| 23 | De Gaulle knew that collaborators around the Vichy prime minister Pierre Laval were trying desperately to resuscitate the Third Republic as a way of saving their own skins and forestalling a Gaullist takeover . |
| 24 | As can be seen from the illustration just given , the task of interpreting statutes gives judges the chance of expressing their own opinions as to social policy ; and , inevitably , their opinions do not always command universal assent . |
| 25 | Stonier and Conlin point out that , " A word processor allows the student the opportunity of correcting their own work before presenting it to the teacher as a finished product " . |
| 26 | The Australian Aborigines did not develop a system of writing their own language and the written attempts to spell the words phonetically are the work of Europeans , missionaries or Aboriginals trained by Europeans . |
| 27 | A number of documents were published to help schools manage the process of developing their own responses to the professional development staff needs within schools ( McMahon et al , 1984 ; Oldroyd et al , 1984 ; Parsons and Steadman , 1984 ; Easen , 1985 ) whilst HMI published guidance upon curriculum building ( DES 1981 , 1985a and 1985b ) . |
| 28 | It is structured to provide information for those who have to ‘ flesh out ’ a module as well as discussing criterion-referenced assessment and choice of assessment instruments in more detail for those who might be thinking of developing their own module or seeking permission to vary the assessment instruments in an existing module . |
| 29 | These ‘ partial bureaucracies ’ are , however , capable of developing their own competing interests and alliances with the sectors of the population that they manage ( Feher , Heller and Markus 1983 , pp. 106–12 ) . |
| 30 | There was no need for them to be imported to Britain since they mostly came from countries which were capable of developing their own waste-disposal programmes . |