Example sentences of "their [det] [noun] [conj] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus Johnson replicates these occupations ' concern with their own organisation and their rhetoric of the ignorance ( vulnerability ) of the client . |
| 2 | Obviously unions have their own traditions and their own ways of doing things in their own organizational structures . |
| 3 | Very noteworthy was the imaginative decision to give help and advice to those schools which had shown by their own efforts that their thinking and planning had reached a stage where they were ready to make more effective use of innovative methods and resource materials . |
| 4 | They have their own rules and their own hierarchy . |
| 5 | On the other hand , British political leaders gave priority to what Churchill had called their own dream and their own task . |
| 6 | He also found that in many instances children were able to correct their own errors when their attention was drawn to them . |
| 7 | All over the burrow , both the newcomers and those who were at home were accustoming themselves to each other in their own way and their own time ; getting to know what the strangers smelt like , how they moved , how they breathed , how they scratched , the feel of their rhythms and pulses . |
| 8 | Rubbing shoulders with this aggressively 20th century lifestyle , are the traditions of the majority indigenous Indian population , who forced out of their villages by drought and unemployment to seek work in the city , have established their own communities and their own markets where they come to buy and sell potatoes and cornmeal and where the Fortune-teller sits playing his chanrango while waiting for his next customer . |
| 9 | And of course had their own camp and their own agent 's bungalow Lyness , down on the point . |
| 10 | It would seem that the rationale behind this agenda is that ordinary people who make their own decisions , built on their own experience , who create their own pressure groups , their own education and their own work are dangerous and must be marginalised . |
| 11 | Many black adolescents I talked to were conscious of the differences between their own Creole and their parents ' . |
| 12 | They even had some control over their own finances and their own armed forces . |
| 13 | It was only then that people were able to make the connections to their own lives and their other experiences of oppression , and how different oppressions overlap and intervene . |
| 14 | Lastly it is most important of all that teachers apply the process of clarification to their own values and their own vision of education , and it is to this issue that we will turn in the next chapter . |
| 15 | IT HAS become clear these past few years that London 's investment houses are rather worse at managing their own affairs than their clients ' . |
| 16 | This implies , in the absence of foundationalist or externally imposed ‘ legislation ’ , that cultural practices — e.g. in the various scientific disciplines , in the arts — must develop their own rule-boundedness and their own conditions of validity . |
| 17 | They suggest that the weakening of party identification may mean that voters ' preference on issues will be determined less by established patterns of party identification and more by their own positions and their perceptions of party policy . |
| 18 | They see humans as actively creating their own meanings and their own society in interaction with each other . |
| 19 | She knows that they come to life under her touch , and that they may carry their own life and their creator be forgotten . |
| 20 | I 'm a strong advocate of black people interpreting their own life and their own vision . ’ |
| 21 | And it was , had been a long weary road for these two women as they travelled back to Bethlehem , with their own thoughts and their fears . |
| 22 | One should also accept , however , that interpretation and evaluation are not objective statements about literary works , but statements about the interaction between works and their readers , because critics can not avoid imposing their own views and their own preferences on the texts with which they deal . |
| 23 | Just a merest glimpse at the trade papers reveals the extent to which from the start the movies had to fight against their own impulses and their own logic . |
| 24 | Nowhere is this more obvious than in the music press where critics collect their own charts , their own thought and their own egos . |
| 25 | British members of Parliament invariably use it in their own defence when their opinions diverge from those of their constituency parties ; and the Labour Party 's introduction of compulsory reselection for sitting MPs before each general election was one of the catalysts of the split in the party which led to the formation of the Social Democratic Party in 1981 . |
| 26 | Many were the results of private enterprise by barons concerned with their own defence and their own private wars . |
| 27 | So many women today were independent high achievers , controlling their own money and their own lives . |
| 28 | Women may have problems keeping weight down at the time of the menopause and after , and men and businesswomen have their own difficulties if their work involves a good deal of sitting at a desk or car wheel , and giving or receiving hospitality lunches . |
| 29 | The only thing that could warp the way that the band goes is the media , because they lie for the most part ; they come up with their own reasons and their own interpretations and people just believe what they read . ’ |
| 30 | The reason for thinking that chloroplasts have this origin is that they still retain their own DNA and their own protein-synthesizing machinery . |