Example sentences of "to [verb] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the operating priorities of a CMHT are set by manifest , but more importantly latent lines of local service policy ; without clear specifications as to the roles of team members , members will drift towards their common ground ; where team members have no actual or perceived authority to coordinate services , they will create their own service niche to fill ; where teams have little direct control over service resources , their own role will be limited to using their own personnel as resources . |
| 2 | Francis made it clear Wednesday were n't interested , even at £4 million or more , which is a new experience for Wednesday supporters accustomed to seeing their best players sold to more ambitious clubs . |
| 3 | It went some way to repairing their damaged pride after their defeat by Swindon Town at the weekend , Mickey Inotta was there ; Mickey it must have cheered you up a bit . |
| 4 | Companies that change factors or move back to handling their own invoices frequently cite poor quality of service . |
| 5 | It had taken a war to do that , Vi realized ; though she would n't mind betting that on the day peace came , all the caring would end and people would go back to minding their own business again , just as they had before it started . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , ’ Athelstan replied , ‘ we should be looking for a man or woman with no background , someone who has suddenly appeared on the scene , but everyone we have talked to has their own little niche . ’ |
| 7 | Another , and that 's a , it 's a very much smaller point , but I think it 's not unimportant thing , that I would like to see the British Civil Service emulating , is the amount of time and attention that the French give to training their young civil servants in foreign languages . |
| 8 | In order to absorb growing labour militancy , maintain and prevent turnover among their ( mobile ) key workers , and strengthen their right to manage , employers ' labour strategy in the larger enterprises turned to establishing their own training schools and internal promotion ladders . |
| 9 | The three contending armed factions inside Liberia signed a ceasefire agreement in Bamako ( Mali ) on Nov. 28 , and a further agreement in Banjul ( The Gambia ) on Dec. 21 declaring their intention to set up a national conference within 60 days as a prelude to establishing their own interim government . |
| 10 | All religions show how difficult the path is to embodying their high moral ideals — they acknowledge a high failure rate , the majority do not come anywhere near achieving what they should , and the more saintly or holy within the religions see this the most clearly . |
| 11 | Tied cottages , indeed , performed much the same function as the closed village in Victorian times , by enabling farmers to ensure that their expenditure on housing was limited as far as possible to guaranteeing their own labour requirements . |
| 12 | What the Double-up weeks will be able to do , that they are not supposed to do now , even though everyone involved assures me it happens , is to pay appearance money to the leading players to enter their tournaments in addition to meeting their unchanged commitment of eight single and three double-up weeks , and presumably the Grand Slams . |
| 13 | But that the the leader of the house effectively made a statement in Prime Minister 's questions on the same issue , misleading the house into believing that the government were actually applying this money to patient care rather than to meeting their own political incompetence . |
| 14 | This favourable treatment is explained and justified on the basis that the corporators are required to perform public functions in addition to serving their own private interests . |
| 15 | Several other British towns and cities are already committed to developing their own version of this game , with all profits going to the local YMCA . |
| 16 | The consultant may , on the other hand , be able to suggest to the head teacher that an invitation be extended to other support staff with such specialist qualifications , from within the school or the school services , to act as co-consultants , with a view to developing their own consultative skills . |
| 17 | Equally , we noted some heads ' resistance to developing their own professional understanding and their failure to engage with current educational issues . |
| 18 | For corporate management , cost and productivity benchmarking identified work organization as the key to regaining their competitive advantage . |
| 19 | In the course of getting to know the right conditions for plants to survive well , in addition to looking their best in the overall scheme of the garden , Tricia — internationally known as an interior designer — has naturally become something of a plantswoman . |
| 20 | IAN LUCAS guides you step by step from buying Angels to selling their young … |
| 21 | In our main 1979 survey , we asked people which of four statements came closest to describing their own feelings about credit . |
| 22 | Our Royals , I am afraid , are arrogant , uncharitable , greedy and downright un-Christian when it comes to preserving their own privileges and image . |
| 23 | Now you ca n't really get a coherent staffing policy within a school in that kind of flux , whereas now people perhaps erm a bit too much at the opposite extreme but nevertheless erm do know that they 're committed to being in the school and have a , therefore a commitment to it , a commitment to improving their own work and , and their collective work . |
| 24 | In Britain the majority of people aspire to owning their own home and those who do acquire a certain position in society . |
| 25 | But they were unable to commit themselves to cutting their own industries ' emission of gases that threaten the world 's climatic balance . |
| 26 | Composers are notoriously fickle when it comes to performing their own music , but with a few exceptions ( the first part of the Diptyque being the most obvious , where the innumerable pauses , rallentandos and general changes of speed , not to mention more than a few smudges and slips , have no basis in the printed score ) Messiaen not only fulfils his own written requirements , but does so with utter conviction and persuasiveness . |
| 27 | Once here , the racism they faced in employment often forced them to turn to starting their own business as a means of livelihood . |
| 28 | Prior to starting their fourth album , the Mondays were characteristically in a state of organised chaos . |
| 29 | LOWLY Brightlingsea United came agonisingly close to recording their first Jewson League Premier Division win of the season against top of the table Wisbech . |
| 30 | Detectorists outside your area should form their own clubs with a view to approaching their own councils . |