Example sentences of "their [det] [noun sg] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the early 1960s , the courts reverted to their former attitude and became increasingly willing to review governmental activities on a variety of grounds ; the reluctance of the 1940s and 1950s disappeared . |
| 2 | Furthermore the British , despite the Cold War , were still determined to recover as much as possible of their former independence and influence in the world . |
| 3 | They spend the week polishing , cleaning and painting … restoring the old locomotives to their former glory and doing essential trackwork . |
| 4 | be encouraged to think about the accuracy of their own reading and to check for errors that destroy meaning ; |
| 5 | OPCS hold the data on their own mainframe and try to trace individuals from one Census to the next . |
| 6 | Everyone , however conditioned by family and society , still retains the dignity and freedom given by God , of exercising their own will and choosing good or evil . |
| 7 | Head teachers and governing bodies under L M S control their own spending and determine their own priorities . |
| 8 | In so doing , they enable women to organise against their own victimisation and create the conditions in which men themselves may take responsibility for the reform of masculinity . |
| 9 | ‘ It makes them more responsible for their own work and gets them into the idea that they have to work outside normal school hours . |
| 10 | The groups police their own work and require the minimum of supervision . |
| 11 | The children are encouraged to take increasing responsibility for their own work and to become more aware of the importance of self-evaluation . |
| 12 | Helpful for professional development , in that the process of carrying out systematic assessment , — recording attainment and moderating the outcomes and discussion with other teachers will provide a valuable basis for teachers to evaluate their own work and to gain access to new thinking . |
| 13 | The atmosphere was one of people enjoying themselves in their own way and allowing everyone else to do so too . |
| 14 | No , I 've always admired them for doing it their own way and getting away with it all the way to the end . |
| 15 | RCA is content to let the group try it their own way and win a lot of the early battles . |
| 16 | Spokesman Paul Smith explained that students could work at their own pace and return their work to the centre for correction , annotation and comment . |
| 17 | It is an attractive concept : learners work at their own pace and make their own choices about what and how they will study . |
| 18 | The best assignments allow learners to progress at their own pace and provide opportunities for tutors and learners to tailor provision to meet individual needs . |
| 19 | I think that given that University work is supposed to encourage intellectual activity at the highest level of which any individual is capable it is very important to increase motivation by allowing those individuals to proceed at their own pace and to establish their cognitive frames as and when they feel capable of doing so . |
| 20 | He suggests that children should be given a comprehensive range of civil and legal rights including the right to vote , to manage their own financial affairs , to direct and manage their own education and to control their own sex lives and |
| 21 | What effectively , I think , I mean I 've never actually sat down because it would be an enormous mistake and nobody would thank me for it , but my guess is that those enormously complex classificated can be understood as a method by which old men rig the system for their own benefit and hide this kinds of ridiculous anonymous and the anomaly basically is the young men end up with old wives |
| 22 | Hence the need for non-logical factors to influence the subject classes so that they will allow themselves to neglect their own utility and pursue what is in the interest of the governing elite and therefore of the community as a whole . |
| 23 | Chelmsford have beaten the Surrey side twice on their own ice and know how to cope with the likes of Sean Murphy , Darren Zinger and Danny O'Hanlon . |
| 24 | An education which does justice to feminist priorities is not merely a matter of curriculum innovation and change although when women begin to rewrite the history and culture of societies in ways which include the diversity of women 's experiences , and when women generate their own knowledge and become their own teachers — the consequences can be challenging to men 's view of the world and their view of women . |
| 25 | Having enjoyed their own childhood and experienced their parents ' delight in them , they want to repeat the good experience from the position of parent , and have few fears about this . |
| 26 | Human-Computer Interaction : Issues and techniques which determine the usability of computer systems , interactive programming techniques , and novel types of human-computer interface such as computer hearing , vision , speech , and AI systems ; Industrial computer vision systems ; Aiding the work of a programmer producing computer vision systems for specific applications ; Building into such systems the ability to monitor their own performance and adapt appropriately ; Studying the human-computer interactions involved both in the developmental and industrial environments . |
| 27 | Lastly , you may be perfectly healthy but are one of those increasing number of people who want to take responsibility for their own well-being and wish to discover more about themselves . |
| 28 | It was with a certain amount of satisfaction that they settled down in their own kitchen and discussed their financial situation . |
| 29 | However , once they learn the conventional term for a specific meaning , they must give up their own coinage and begin instead to use the conventional term . |
| 30 | In times of exchange rate volatility , such as we have been experiencing for the past few years , most overseas buyers will want to be invoiced in their own currency and avoid any exchange risk . |