Example sentences of "control [prep] their own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would cure unemployment , it would give the workers control of their own industries and that everything would be hunkydory . |
| 2 | Control of their own work or study must be enhanced , rather than diminished , by the system . |
| 3 | Some adults make the choice to live on their own after they have tried various shared living arrangements and discovered that they prefer to be in control of their own life and make their own rules . |
| 4 | They want to have total creative control of their own development , and I like bands that have really strong views of what they want to do . ’ |
| 5 | This can be comforting to them to some extent , but what they really want to hear is that you will not only see that they are cared for properly for the rest of their days , but that you will help them to remain in control of their own finances and to be as independent as possible . |
| 6 | He said the Lib Dems would encourage school opting out but stop hospitals taking control of their own finances . |
| 7 | It was a horrendous , rapacious strategy that they had used to gain control of their own home system . |
| 8 | This pattern was one of " alternate bouts of intense labour and of idleness wherever men were in control of their own working lives " . |
| 9 | Men might reject the guiding hand of Providence and increasingly take control of their own lives , but death , when it came to them or their loved ones , had the same countenance that had frightened their ancestors . |
| 10 | The meeting aimed to help the client make choices and take risks , and to be more in control of their own lives . |
| 11 | to enhance their decision-making control of their own lives ; |
| 12 | We must remember that to deny someone control of their own lives is to offer them a most profound insult , not to mention the injury which the frustration of their wishes and the setting at naught of their own plans for themselves will add . |
| 13 | As workers in the ‘ caring services ’ we need to ask ourselves certain questions : are we enabling and supporting people to take control of their own lives or are we disabling , taking the control for ourselves ? |
| 14 | And people now have much greater control of their own lives through their participation in neighbourhood committees in the barrios as well as in the mass organizations . |
| 15 | Sex education in schools may therefore have most impact if it aims to discourage helpless attitudes , by emphasising to young people that they are in control of their own lives , encouraging them to see themselves as active rather than passive , and in discussing what they might do in the event of an unwanted pregnancy . |
| 16 | In our second report on Oxfam 's work in South America we meet a researcher from Oxford whose efforts may help forgotten people to take back control of their own lives … |
| 17 | Many more of the 226 schools that have taken control of their own affairs in the past three years fear victimisation if they are returned to hostile local authorities . |
| 18 | Spinsters and widows enjoyed the legal status of femme sole in which they had control of their own affairs . |
| 19 | Thus the implantation of the intendant system weakened rather than strengthened the hold of metropolitan Spain , by ending corrupt practices that had allowed creoles control of their own affairs , and by creating bitter rivalries between the new officials and their subordinates . |
| 20 | They wanted a model which reflected their need to retain control of their own affairs as individuals and their concern not to allow any cosmetic compromises . |
| 21 | The schools who took the challenge are happy to be in control of their own affairs . |
| 22 | Republics would have control of their own resources , except gold , diamonds and hard currency . |
| 23 | The Vietnamese have finally got control of their own country after forty years of war ; defeated the Japs , the French , us , and the most powerful nation in the history of the planet in succession , with bicycles , guns and guts , been bombed back into the bronze age in the process and all you can do is spout some tired nonsense about little yellow men infiltrating the steaming jungles of the Nullarbor Plain and turning the Aussies into Commies ; I think a Highland League side winning the European Cup is marginally more likely . ’ |
| 24 | Schools have control of their own budgets , with the freedom that entails . |
| 25 | Processes of hiving-off , privatization and contracting out are all based on the belief that ‘ public ’ services will be provided more efficiently if those providing them have control of their own budgets and compete for contracts . |
| 26 | General principles of local self-government and local economy , approved on April 9 and due to enter into force progressively from July 1 , granted local soviets ( councils ) " broad powers to decide matters relating to social and economic development and environmental protection " , including full control of their own budgets . |
| 27 | They claim he spoke hastily on the issue of surgeries in Darlington which have control of their own budgets . |
| 28 | Like the situation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , it was a struggle to resolve some basic contradictions , i.e. a desire to involve the working class in the control of their own education and a concern to link that education to a process of social and community action . |
| 29 | If teachers are to assume a greater role in the control of their own organisations a far wider range of knowledge and skills is required than if they are to remain ‘ in the classroom ’ — they must move from the restricted to the extended approach . |
| 30 | All of this was a sign that they were taking control of their own destinies instead of being swept along by a tidal wave of money , fame and popular enthusiasm . |