Example sentences of "to [verb] their [det] " 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 | Companies that change factors or move back to handling their own invoices frequently cite poor quality of service . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Equally , we noted some heads ' resistance to developing their own professional understanding and their failure to engage with current educational issues . |
| 13 | In our main 1979 survey , we asked people which of four statements came closest to describing their own feelings about credit . |
| 14 | Our Royals , I am afraid , are arrogant , uncharitable , greedy and downright un-Christian when it comes to preserving their own privileges and image . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In Britain the majority of people aspire to owning their own home and those who do acquire a certain position in society . |
| 17 | But they were unable to commit themselves to cutting their own industries ' emission of gases that threaten the world 's climatic balance . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Once here , the racism they faced in employment often forced them to turn to starting their own business as a means of livelihood . |
| 20 | Detectorists outside your area should form their own clubs with a view to approaching their own councils . |
| 21 | As the principals were all noblemen and their ladies , each used to having their own way in their own time , organising them was almost impossible . |
| 22 | because , you know , erm , most kids these days , especially by the time they 're nine or ten , they 're used to having their own pocket money , and then you , and they say they ca n't do any maths at all , and you say well , if you had a fifty pence and you bought something for twenty four , how much change ? |
| 23 | Your users will all execute this as they log in to the VAX , prior to executing their own login command files as specified in SYSUAF.DAT . |
| 24 | ‘ Most people in the health service suffer from the feeling there are far too many layers of authority above them and far too many constraints about what people can do when it comes to running their own unit better . |
| 25 | The first weeks in a job can be daunting — and irritating for women who are used to running their own lives . |
| 26 | VAT rules are threatening a valuable scheme that helps people on unemployment and other benefits to get the first foot on the ladder to running their own businesses . |
| 27 | Moorhens , for example , are rather poorly adapted to parasitising their own . |
| 28 | By the time children go to school they will be used to choosing their own books and will know and enjoy a good range of picture books , stories , and poems . |
| 29 | For many of us it was a huge disappointment ; a paradox , too , that a people who had proved themselves historically and geographically over and over again , who had shown a rare talent for managing the affairs of other people , should choose to chicken out when it came to managing their own . |
| 30 | Their lack of commitment to extending their own professional knowledge and understanding , and their rampant anti-intellectualism , tended to infect the whole professional climate of their schools , depriving them of the spark of lively discussion about issues which is essential to educational progress , and dampening the enthusiasms of those staff who were otherwise inclined . |