Example sentences of "for their own " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a detailed study of the Stormont archives , Bew , Gibbon , and Patterson ( 1979 ) have shown that there were indeed different currents within the Stormont administration but the ones which predominated belonged to those among the ruling protestant classes who were bent on preservation of the status quo for their own purposes , including their own dominance of the protestant alliance as well as their particular sectional interests . |
| 2 | Please note that apart from MAC , venues will not be taking advance bookings for their own events and screenings . |
| 3 | Some of them tried to make amends for their own earlier contribution to this state of affairs and moved to include me more fully in the life of the school — a few even started to invite me back home for meals and things . |
| 4 | Where there does exist a genuine public expression of concern about the way the police operate this can not just be dismissed as a matter of misunderstanding or be written off as the foolish ramblings of that police ‘ folk devil ’ the ‘ loony left ’ , who would dismantle the system for their own political ends . |
| 5 | Although this sounds silly , it happens quite often that contestants act with no regard at all for their own safety . |
| 6 | By now they were in among thickening crowds of people , nodding to acquaintances and looking out for their own key men from down the valley . |
| 7 | Donald McLaggan was speaking in a loud high voice , for their own benefit , they guessed . |
| 8 | Prior to the establishment of the Federation Cup by the ILTF ( now the ITF ) in 1962 , the former US player , Margaret du Pont , together with former Australian pro , Thelma Coyne Long and supported by the USTA , had drawn up plans for their own women 's international team competition and had even offered to donate a cup for the event . |
| 9 | This factsheet is designed to help those people who have to organise someone 's funeral and/or those people who want to plan ahead for their own funeral . |
| 10 | It is important to check whether the deceased has already made arrangements for their own funeral , or carried funeral insurance ( see Section 6 ) . |
| 11 | Agencies may charge an agency or booking fee , and staff may be self-employed and responsible for their own tax and national insurance contributions . |
| 12 | ‘ We are also concerned about arrangements made by individuals or organisations like outdoor centres negotiating their own arrangements for their own benefit . |
| 13 | Sir : Has anyone a suggestion about how , once we have made all our graduates pay for their own education through some sort of lifelong surtax , we should set about stopping those with any marketable skills and sense leaving the country as soon as they possibly can ? |
| 14 | There will be a few people , beginning with Mr Fallon , looking for their own McGoolies when this is over . ’ |
| 15 | From then , licencees will be responsible for their own transmitters , either owning or leasing them . |
| 16 | STERLING hung like a pall over commodity markets which have been growing more gloomy for their own reasons in recent months . |
| 17 | Politicians tend to act from baser motives , of which the strongest of all is an instinct for their own survival . |
| 18 | Octavia Hill , too , adopted the principle that her housing ventures must be self-supporting , and that the tenants should pay an economic rent ; she maintained that rate-aided housing might be a danger to poorer tenants , who would be in the position of having to contribute through the rates to council housing , when they could scarcely afford the rent for their own inferior accommodation . |
| 19 | There are some things which no one would wish to know for their own sake , some subjects which have no possibility of being endowed with general significance . |
| 20 | The utopias which those most sensitive to envy and guilt have devised throughout the ages for their own relief remain literally utopian : the question is not how envy is removed , but how it is lived with . |
| 21 | The title ‘ Head of the Commonwealth ’ , against which from the government benches I registered a lone protest upon the second reading of the Royal Titles Bill in March 1953 , enshrines a paradox which thirty years ago two countries in particular conspired for their own purposes to ignore : India , in order to become a republic while forfeiting none of the privileges which allegiance had conferred , and Britain , in order to feed its delusion that the Empire was being transformed into something brighter and better still . |
| 22 | The other concurrent development was the growing and irrepressible conviction that the inhabitants of India would claim and must sooner or later obtain responsibility for their own government . |
| 23 | Even though some presenters use music merely as a vehicle for their own performances , it is worth remembering that they would all find it very difficult to do their job without the music base . |
| 24 | Since that time the productivity of the top 20 per cent of farmers has been sustained with a continuous record of technical improvement ; about 40 per cent have maintained a level of productivity which enables them to generate an acceptable income ; and a further 40 per cent have continued to produce enough for their own household 's subsistence requirements . |
| 25 | As a result , the majority of farmers continued to concentrate their efforts on the production of food for their own families , rather than for the market . |
| 26 | Run by a crowd of small-minded gangsters out for their own good . |
| 27 | The Lettrists and the Situationists had used ‘ pre-existing elements ’ for their own ends , and so the editors of the Boston text and the curators of On the Passage have , they feel , a certain entitlement to do the same . |
| 28 | Reception class children involved in fights have also been moved to schools outside the area ‘ for their own safety ’ , we were told by teachers . |
| 29 | To find out we asked a number of interested parties for their own budget proposals . |
| 30 | She also thinks that men tend to choose women who make up for their own shortcomings . |