Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] [unc] own [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Through Brian Way 's influence a new kind of college course was emerging that saw drama as the basis for the students ' own personal development . |
2 | Operational balances in the Bank of England are like the banks ' own current accounts and are used for clearing purposes . |
3 | Ominously , the highest estimate comes from the bankers ' own technical adviser , who puts it at £8.1bn . |
4 | For lack of sufficient central funds the rudimentary basis of a welfare state was being set up through contributions from the workers ' own meagre wages . |
5 | Work should start from the pupils ' own linguistic competence . |
6 | Listening provides a much-needed perspective on the subject , and includes material from the authors ' own recent work in comprehension task design . |
7 | Intervention in the children 's own dramatic play ; structuring play corner activities |
8 | This strategy is based upon the work of Slobin and Welsh ( 1973 ) , and upon the authors ' own extensive research regarding the imitative abilities of mentally handicapped children . |
9 | The early part of the decade had seen the festival succumb entirely to the boys ' own heavy metal hackery that at that point ruled the roost in certain quarters , most significantly the mind of Jack Barrie , Marquee General Manager and responsible for booking the bands . |
10 | The teacher thus : added to the information she already had became aware of a different information source learned how to use that source used the source to present information in a different way and the class : also became aware of the information source responded actively to the on-screen presentation of statistical material could all use the material at the same time manipulated the material easily , moving to and from different parts of the database as they thought appropriate to support their arguments The viewdata presentation therefore : allowed ease of display and manipulation of information in a way in which a chalkboard , flip chart or handout could not and became a kind of electronic chalkboard provided a catalyst for discussion of subject matter related easily the subject matter to the students ' own geographical and social environment encouraged the development of oral discussion based on evidence inferred from information rather than expressed , but unsupported , opinion |
11 | The ‘ information ’ part of Vredeling , which would apply to employers with 1,000 or more employees , would require that information relating to the business as a whole , and to the employees ' own particular subsidiaries or establishments , be supplied annually to employees ' representatives . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Convocation , by 1327 no longer confusable with parliament , was assimilated to the clergy 's own provincial synod . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |