Example sentences of "for [verb] their [det] " in BNC.

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31 And he does not believe the Government 's proposals to make gipsies responsible for finding their own sites will work either .
32 The course is based on the principles of self-help , hence clients are reminded that they have responsibility for their own problems and for changing their own behaviour .
33 The clergy were beginning to pay the price for assessing their own tax in their own assembly .
34 So , the mormyrid group of electric fish have two types of receptors — highly sensitive ones for picking up messages , and less sensitive ones for monitoring their own field .
35 The present research will consider cognitive constraints that may arise from limitations in children 's capacities for monitoring their own success at a task and thereby employ a strategic approach to its mastery .
36 Many came to the women 's movement from backgrounds where the state was viewed as an instrument for enacting their own class specific demands .
37 They are so used to watching TV images that they have no capacity for formulating their own images at all .
38 While he did not dispute that in many cases money had been levied that was twice what was necessary for satisfactory repair , and even then that the work carried out had been slovenly or even not done at all , the great laissez-faire economist had been convinced by the turnpikes that so far as public works " for facilitating commerce in general " were concerned , " the greater part may easily be so managed as to afford a particular revenue sufficient for defraying their own expense , without bringing any burden upon the general revenue of society " .
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