Example sentences of "in [verb] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1980s , the independents became a real force , recording technology is easily accessible , and bands are more energetic and enterprising in producing their own records and promoting themselves . |
| 2 | In producing their own versions of what the dialogue might have been , students will be practising language they are studying in their textbooks . |
| 3 | Shop stewards in the UK enjoy greater freedom in pursuing their own domestic negotiating relationships with their managements , especially since there is no alternative workplace structure to provide a competing focus of authority or regulation . |
| 4 | If ever they lose the ability to scavenge energy , and put it to use in repairing their own fabric , then they are said to be dead ; and they begin immediately to fall apart . |
| 5 | Since he believes that students may be aided in drawing their own conclusions if writers make their own value biases explicit , it is particularly important to do this . |
| 6 | AT&T complains that US carriers wanting to enter the UK market not only have to invest substantial time and money in building their own networks , but also have no alternative but to negotiate with British Telecom for local access to customers . |
| 7 | This change can not take place without the involvement of the people themselves and , therefore , they must be moved from their traditional passivity towards an active role in shaping their own lives . |
| 8 | Their staff were generally willing to ‘ have a go ’ , and with some information and support went a long way in challenging their own attitudes and those of other children and parents . |
| 9 | The Business Start-Up scheme , which helps the unemployed in launching their own business , will be extended with the creation of 10,000 new places . |
| 10 | Staff will need help in understanding their own reactions to the patient 's behaviour . |
| 11 | ‘ Those representing developed countries were primarily interested in protecting their own industries and jobs and security at the polls , not in protecting the environment . |
| 12 | Banks would lend money more freely and , in fattening their own balance sheets , would feed credit-starved economies . |
| 13 | In establishing their own style , the younger brothers of the mods adopted certain elements of the mod style , combined them with items from traditional working clothes , borrowed some influences from the West Indian blacks and became skinheads . |
| 14 | Emerging in the late sixties it took several forms : informal consciousness-raising groups were set up ; women 's campaigns were run in support of abortion , battered women , women in employment , and of oppressed women in different parts of the world ; and women found their own voice in establishing their own magazines and publishing houses . |
| 15 | Involvement of the teachers : In successful schools , the teachers were involved in curriculum planning and played a major role in developing their own curriculum guidelines . |
| 16 | The phasing in of a standardised unit specification will have implications both for centres delivering SCOTVEC units , and for those involved in writing their own units . |
| 17 | Artists ' writing on art can naturally be more practical or technical , even in defining their own aims . |
| 18 | All children should be supported in valuing their own dialects and in using them where they are appropriate to context and purpose , but they should also be able to use Standard English when it is necessary and helpful to do so in speaking as well as writing . |
| 19 | Liberals saw this as evidence that the dominions were more interested in going their own way , but Unionists retorted that Canada like Britain had been led astray by a radical government and that Canada 's decision was the result of Britain 's failure to offer preference . |
| 20 | The aim of any professional involvement must always be to advise and assist parents in solving their own problems . |
| 21 | Family therapy techniques , emphasising as they do the role of the parents and the necessity for them being fully involved in solving their own problems , were considered helpful . |
| 22 | As we noted before , one of the prime concerns of teachers is that they do not have enough time to carry out the day-to-day tasks and responsibilities of their jobs to their own satisfaction , let alone to invest in enhancing their own skills , or reflecting on their roles and priorities , to anything like the extent which they would like . |
| 23 | They had a personal stake in improving their own incomes ( and they were aided in this by the growth of white-collar and public-sector trade unions ) , and they had a professional commitment to improve the lot of the clients of their services . |
| 24 | Hence , if they get interested in designing their own software , scholars may spend their time reinventing last year 's wheel . |
| 25 | An in-service activity can be conceived as something one person does to another , with the assumption that change is most effectively produced from outside ; or as a process in which teachers are centrally involved in analysing their own situation and needs and working out the best ways of tackling these . |
| 26 | The students had not only training in teaching methods but in growing their own food , and we had twenty acres of rice land , an acre of garden , a Berkshire boar imported to improve the strength and size of the village pigs , and several pure-bred cocks to convert the village hens from laying two clutches of a dozen eggs each year to something like 150 bigger and better eggs . |
| 27 | If she tends to dominate children of her own age and push them round , try to arrange for her to play with older children who will have no trouble in holding their own . |
| 28 | Most criticisms of trade unions will reflect upon individual officers , who will usually be financially supported by their union in vindicating their own reputations . |
| 29 | Where this is overlooked , it is not unknown for the continuing partners to have difficulty in persuading their former colleague that it is in his own interest that changes need to be made . |
| 30 | The documentarists were natural allies of the government , well practised in tailoring their own ideas to the demands of their sponsors , and exploring ideas about British character that it had become important to validate in order to distinguish the natives from their foes . |