Example sentences of "[Wh det] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you , an ambitious young squire or the equivalent ( a grade 2 clerk ) are allocated a knight whose own baron or mentor is out of favour , or whose manager is out of fashion , your ambitions will be thwarted . |
| 2 | The invasion force comprised 3,000-5,000 heavily armed Liberians and Sierra Leonean troops , according to Taylor ( whose own forces controlled most of Liberia outside Monrovia , the capital , and had themselves penetrated deep inside Sierra Leonean territory with the backing of local dissidents earlier in the year — see pp. 38181 ; 38278 ) . |
| 3 | As a small owner-occupied parcel it could have been missed ; alternatively he might have preferred to sell it , possibly to John , whose own assessment could therefore have embraced this as well . |
| 4 | Kitson was a prolific inventor whose own difficulties in financing and manufacturing his patents had led him to a radical critique of the banking system . |
| 5 | At a Christmas assembly at Aachen in 837 , having carefully built up aristocratic and episcopal support , and secured the agreement of Pippin ( whose own ambitions in Francia now looked blighted ) and Louis the German , Louis solemnly conferred on Charles " a part of the regnum " , with the following boundaries : the greater part of the Belgic provinces , in other words , the whole of Frisia from the North Sea and Saxon frontier as far as the frontier of the Ripuarian Franks , and along the latter , the counties of Mulekewe , Ettra , Hamarlant and Maasgau ; then all the territory between the Meuse and Seine as far south as Burgundy , including Verdun ; and going from Burgundy , the counties of Toul , Ornois , Blois , Blaisois , Perthois , the two Bars [ i.e. Bar-le-Duc and Bar-sur-Aube ] , Brienne , Troyes , Auxerre , Sens , the Gâtinais , Melun , Etampes , the Pays de Châtres , and Paris ; then along the Seine to the Channel and up the coast as far as Frisia again : within these , all the bishoprics , abbacies , counties , fisclands , and all pertaining thereto . |
| 6 | He listened — at first with a curious air of detachment , as if he was an observer from another civilisation , or someone whose own experience had come to an end , someone who was waiting to embark on a journey and looked at the world with vacant eyes , his mind already in transit . |
| 7 | Wilson , whose own competence left something to be desired but who had learned from experience , had already centralised the finances which he had accused branches of the old union of frittering away . |
| 8 | When Edward delayed his consent to the election , Clement , whose own preference was for Walter Langton , reserved the see , but in October 1313 translated Walter Reynolds from Worcester to Canterbury where he remained until his death in November 1327 . |
| 9 | Theologically , the basis for this understanding lay in Jesus Christ as the one in whose own person God and man are reconciled , and in the vision of the church — the whole church — as the continuation of his life through the centuries . |
| 10 | Cuts last year in the Dutch health budget were passed on to the national applied research organization ( TNO ) , whose own grant is being halved by 1994 . |
| 11 | His nearest rival in the elections , for which there had been seven candidates in all , was a film producer , Davlar Koudonazarov , who gained only a quarter of the vote , despite being backed by both opposition parties , the Democrats and Islamic Rebirth ( whose own candidate had withdrawn ) . |
| 12 | Ahmed Ould Daddah was supported in his campaign by the main opposition party , the Union of Democratic Forces ( Union des forces démocratiques — UFD ) ; by the Islamic fundamentalists of the Umma Party , banned but still influential among the Arab merchants of the capital , Nouakchott ; and by the Nasserists , the Democratic Justice Party and the Democratic Centre Party ( whose own candidate , Benba Ould Sidi Badi , withdrew ) . |
| 13 | At Sheriff Hutton , as at Middleham , the core of the affinity consisted of men whose own estates lay close to the castle and it is among these that continuity is likely to have been strongest . |
| 14 | At Sheriff Hutton , as at Middleham , the core of the affinity consisted of men whose own estates lay close to the castle and it is among these that continuity is likely to have been strongest . |
| 15 | Against landowners whose own fathers had had to flee from the Crown 's killers in ‘ Forty-six ? |
| 16 | Generally , as with the York and Durham texts mentioned above , such ephemera often only exist today when entered into formal manuscripts whose own chances of survival were relatively good . |
| 17 | Griffin , whose own contribution to the experimental investigation of bird navigation and bat orientation is immense , argues that the objectifying abstractions of both behaviourist learning theory and much contemporary ethology simply ignore these issues . |
| 18 | Their leader , whose own origins were inauspicious humanly speaking , was going to die a pretty ignoble death , but those who had gathered around him subsequently discovered that there were depths to experience and power that words can hardly explain . |
| 19 | This might seem more than enough for one life , but in the Ravensbruck concentration camp to which she was now sent she met the woman with whom she formed the other crucial relationship of her life , with Milena Jesenska , whose own life experience drew Margarete intensely , if vicariously , into another of the crucial Central European milieux of that period — the Prager Kreis of Willy Haas , Max Brod and Kafka , whose lover , and early translator , Milena was . |
| 20 | Lane had been assisted by a woman police officer , Detective -Sergeant Phyllis Henley , a thickset girl , whom he had called in because she was an old friend or enemy of Roxie whose own life had not been without criminal excitements . |
| 21 | Such theories must have attracted the Eliot who so often had connected modern and savage life and whose own poetry had been attacked for its apparently illogical movements from one image to the next . |
| 22 | After nine months , Henry was adopted by Thomas ' older brother , the ninth Earl , whose own marriage was childless . |
| 23 | The tomb is the work of Leone Leoni whose own memorial , his house , stands close to the Duomo ( see page 90 ) . |
| 24 | Moon , whose own route Hubble , F8c± , at Ravenstor is still unrepeated , is a strong supporter of the modern ‘ microroute ’ . |
| 25 | Caxton 's successor after his death was Wynkyn de Worde , whose own press was ‘ at the signe of the Swane ’ in Fleet Street , the chief centre of printed information in Britain ever since . |
| 26 | Leeds boss Howard Wilkinson whose own title defence is in tatters , admitted : ‘ There are eight or so teams up there , but there is no indication that any of them are putting together the kind of run that looks ominous ‘ Blackburn showed the sort of confidence against us that comes from the feeling that you have got a chance . |
| 27 | Armed with this concession , and under pressure from Mr Milosevic , whose own country is beginning to buckle under international sanctions , Mr Karadzic duly signed , subject to parliament 's approval . |
| 28 | The charges of genocide that followed were denied by Iraq but pressure accumulated for a UN investigation , not least through the criticism of Turkish premier Ozal , whose own country 's relations with its Kurdish minority have enjoyed a chequered history over the years . |
| 29 | But their privacy is disrupted by a series of uninvited guests , ranging from Mark 's long-lost cousin Fred , to their neighbours , whose own home has been gutted by fire . |
| 30 | For Constance , whose own home was sparsely furnished and contained no pictures apart from framed photographs of her father in a group of students and her parents ' wedding photographs , the walls of Seaton Cramer Hall teemed with interest and life . |