Example sentences of "determine their " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was what people believed their interests to be , not what they actually were , that determined their actions . |
| 2 | For the vast majority of older workers in the After Redundancy study , therefore , it was likely to be the interaction of the two sets of influences — individual characteristics and knowledge about the demand for labour and their chances of securing further employment of a similar kind — that determined their response to redundancy . |
| 3 | Some of the former private enterprise managers ( notably E. H. E. Woodward on the Central Authority and Harry Randall at the London Board ) had seen from the beginning that proper decentralisation required that the Boards relate capital expenditure to revenue-earning potential in order to retain direct control of their financial viability ; and outside commentators were sometimes surprised that the Boards ' decisions on capital expenditure to meet statutory obligations were made quite separately from the revenue estimates which determined their profitability . |
| 4 | As often happens , this younger generation of ‘ Tractarians ’ who were leading the crusade on the side of ‘ collectivism ’ joined forces with the older generation like J. A. Macfadyen who had remained Calvinist in their views and ‘ deplored the modern nondenominational spirit , the temper of indifference to questions of church order ’ , the spirit which saw local churches as ‘ mere voluntary associations for religious purposes , with power to determine their own polity and prescribe their own sphere of action ’ . |
| 5 | Egypt feared the Hashemites intended to control the land from the Mediterranean across the Negev to the Gulf , and the Palestinians feared that foreign Arab armies spelt the end of Palestinian hopes to determine their own future . |
| 6 | Attempts to determine their molecular weight suggested that proteins were behaving as though they were substances with a fixed and definite composition and , probably , structure . |
| 7 | However , despite some lip-service to the rights of schools to determine their own curriculum , on the whole those who argue against centralist control of schools do so not so much on grounds of loss of freedom for schools as on grounds of the consequent loss of local power . |
| 8 | For those who are capable of learning how to modify diet and insulin dose to suit prevailing circumstances and want to do so , the ability to determine their own blood glucose has been a major step forward , permitting more satisfactory glycaemic control and a more adventurous approach to many activities ( Skyler et al , 1978 ; Sonksen et al , 1978 ; Walford et al , 1978 ) . |
| 9 | Tenure was challenged — and probably quite rightly — but so was the universities ' freedom to determine their own fate . |
| 10 | Individuals have to search more intensively for the most favourably priced goods , and firms have to determine their new prices ( not easy when production costs are continually changing ) and then disseminate the information . |
| 11 | Some will give tongue when on the scent of a rabbit and this helps to determine their position and keeps rabbits on the move . |
| 12 | Any proposed alterations to a health care system have to weigh up the obligation of society to those who are old and sick against the preferences of those who wish to determine their own health care provision . |
| 13 | Psychologists use personal construct theory to get people to determine their own values and beliefs . |
| 14 | They are adults , not children , which places practitioners in a different relationship to them , in which their rights to determine their own lives are accepted , unless they are ‘ incompetent ’ to do so . |
| 15 | Free at last to determine their own futures , the people of Central and Eastern Europe face difficult choices . |
| 16 | Its small size suggests that it was a so-called ‘ satellite ’ pyramid which probably played a part in the ritual entombment of the pharaoh , although the lack of remains found in satellite pyramids have made it difficult to determine their function . |
| 17 | The fact that the butterfly is engraved on circular gold weights from a tomb at Mycenae may indicate that , at least in the Mycenean period , there was a belief in the weighing of souls to determine their fate after death . |
| 18 | The Peacock Committee strongly believes in the need for individuals to determine their own needs and wants . |
| 19 | The initial setting of the presynaptic release mechanism seems to determine their relative importance . |
| 20 | But the development of the polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) and use of DNA sequence encoding 16S RNA ( 16S sequences ) in microbial phylogeny has made it possible to determine their phylogenetic position . |
| 21 | Despite this interest in the way families raise their children , there nevertheless remains a fundamental belief that parents have an inviolable right to determine their children 's upbringing independently of outside interference . |
| 22 | It is suggested that views diverge on the central question of the rights of parents to custody and control of their children in relation to the right of the state ( acting through courts and social work agencies ) to intervene in the parent-child relationship , to remove children from their parents , to allocate their care and control to other parties , and to determine their subsequent upbringing . |
| 23 | But the NIC drivers will automatically read the card 's configuration to determine their own settings at run time . |
| 24 | Professional advisers can help general practitioners to determine their requirements for prescribing at the primary and secondary care interface and ensure that purchasers include these criteria in contracts . |
| 25 | You 'll need to determine their overall height and depth , then work out from that individual riser heights and tread depths , bearing in mind the materials you can use to suit the rest of your garden and house . |
| 26 | It is not always easy to describe conventions and to determine their force and strength . |
| 27 | Whether the objects are books , furniture , or cars , individuals are seen by Simmel as increasingly coming into relationship with them , not as producers who fail to recognize their products , but as consumers who have to determine their own development in this world of goods . |
| 28 | The external auditor should review the work of the internal audit staff to determine their effectiveness in assisting management to improve the quality of information that is necessary if they are to monitor satisfactorily the efficiency and effectiveness of the programmes under their charge . |
| 29 | A fresh look could be taken at some of these , in order to determine their effectiveness in helping parishes both to respond to the liturgical changes of recent years and to explore a wider repertoire of music . |
| 30 | Regarding central/local relations the report urged that local authorities should have greater powers to determine their own structure , organization and policy and should be put in a stronger financial position . |