Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ' own " in BNC.
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| 1 | They went along with populist solutions to problems that if not actually created by the Nazis , had certainly been worked on and exaggerated to the Nazis ' own advantage . |
| 2 | And in fact the coffee rooms not only were not profitable but I think at one time were even subsidized by the directors ' own pocket which just how balmy some people can be . |
| 3 | Through these activities the newly acquired language is transferred to the pupils ' own world and enables them to talk about their own experiences . |
| 4 | According to the Bolsheviks ' own admission , the local militia was incapacitated . |
| 5 | By the spring of 1937 the Largo Caballero government had gone some way towards taming the process of social revolution and absorbing the militias into a regular army built around the Communists ' own Fifth Regiment . |
| 6 | Some groups were not favourably received partly because they had little to offer the council but also because they were seen as making ‘ unreasonable ’ demands on the local authority — that is , demands which did not square with the councillors ' own policy predispositions . |
| 7 | Is this just the state having been convinced by the academics ' own rhetoric about themselves , or hoping that the academics will actually be prepared to keep their own house in order ( for instance , by closing down a course of their own volition ) ? |
| 8 | At a time when FISA , the sport 's organizing body , helped by the drivers ' own association , had belatedly begun to pay some attention to safety in a notably risky sport , Chapman 's remarks showed a callousness towards his drivers — and by implication , towards other human beings — that I found it hard to admire . |
| 9 | The resulting courses were spread over eighteen three-quarter-hour or twelve one-hour periods ; they began with an introductory review of the college library , its purpose , stock , arrangement and services , including standard reference books , and then proceeded through the detailed study of a specialist literature , in a field closely integrated with the students ' own subject courses . |
| 10 | Some courses draw on the students ' own experience , usually in the workplace . |
| 11 | In some macroeconometric models ( for example , the Liverpool model of the UK economy ) , inflationary expectations are based on the models ' own predictions of the future inflation rate . |
| 12 | The opening of relations had largely been dictated by the powers ' own interests in the East Asian region , but now the issues became far more complex ; account had to be taken of factors as diverse as Japan 's economic imperatives , the growth of Japanese military power and the emergence of national sentiment in response to foreign contact . |
| 13 | The king 's needs , however , were challenged by the popes ' own obligations to reward their growing army of servants . |
| 14 | Usually ministers are formally answerable to Parliament only for discharging their own responsibilities relating to sponsored bodies ( such as in terms of broad policy and general oversight ) , while responsibility for efficiency and day-to-day matters normally rests with the organizations ' own management . |
| 15 | All answers had to be remembered in the mothers ' own words . |
| 16 | In fact , studies of colonial government have often involved a perspective which is derived from the colonialists ' own assessments of their impact on dependent territories . |
| 17 | This suggests that men are more cruel than women towards cats , but such an interpretation assumes that cats can distinguish between deliberate cruelty and pain inflicted for the animals ' own good . |
| 18 | They derive from the writers ' own work practice and belief system and serve to reinforce it in relation to other groups and cultures . |
| 19 | The second part of the plan was to turn to the Tories ' own strong issues for the last 10 days : defence , foreign policy , law and order and — hard though it is in a recession — the economy . |
| 20 | The special cases of literacy usage represented by the analysts ' own academic experience , by the literary forms of their own culture and other specific social conventions are still taken by many , often implicitly , as the appropriate models for describing the ‘ universal ’ qualities of literacy and for testing other groups ' or societies ' conventions of literacy usage . |
| 21 | It is in fact directed against the protesters ' own parents — especially the father — and is intended to take the place of the infantile and adolescent reproaches and criticisms of the parental authority which have now come to be directed at each and any cultural equivalent of the father . |
| 22 | That is , the material presented is not some kind of post hoc analysis imposed upon the texts in the light of present-day concerns , removed from the ancients ' own understanding of the laws in their original context . |
| 23 | Other labels derive from words taken from the foreigners ' own language . |
| 24 | Although it is now possible to use a system of notation , choreographers still prefer to create directly on the human material , working on it and relying on the dancers ' own memories to repeat what has been designed on and for them . |
| 25 | But preferable to have it stated under the buyers ' own signatures , and by you on taking instructions . |
| 26 | Work should start from the pupils ' own linguistic competence . |
| 27 | This awareness should , in turn , contribute to the pupils ' own sensitivity as language users . |
| 28 | External assessment , in the form of SATs , should : generally be conducted by the pupils ' own teachers ; observe the principle of fitness for purpose ; be intrinsically rewarding and enjoyable for pupils and accord with good classroom practice . |
| 29 | A useful first step is to dispose of the workers ' own mother with her propensity to produce competing brood . |
| 30 | Ominously , the highest estimate comes from the bankers ' own technical adviser , who puts it at £8.1bn . |