Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] own [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is the Prime Minister aware that 500,000 cashmere jerseys are worth £75 million to textile communities such as my own in the central borders in Scotland ? |
| 2 | FOLLOWING the article by Warren Bagust on the raw deal David Gower has been given by the England selectors ( WCM Sept ) , I have been doing some research of my own on the relative merits of David Gower and Graham Gooch as batsmen and as captains of England . |
| 3 | I concluded my own column of that week as follows : ‘ After sneering at Lord Mogg , I suppose I should commit myself to a conclusion of my own from the last ten days ' dramas . |
| 4 | Although they 're among the poorest people in the community , many feel better off than they 've ever been — they 've got money , time and friends of their own for the first time . |
| 5 | I would think every community would have sort of customs of their own to a certain degree too would n't they . |
| 6 | Similarly a grant is paid to staff who move from a rented unfurnished house or flat to a similar property at the new base or who buy a house of their own at the new location . |
| 7 | But many Special Hospital patients could move straight into independent living in hostels or flats of their own with the right professional support from local services . |
| 8 | The Ann Cam team were taken to the London Weather Centre , to learn how the weather is predicted — gathering information for a page of their own in a forthcoming edition of the Young Telegraph supplement . |
| 9 | It is for all people , as people are and as they behave , for imperfect people living lives of their own in an imperfect world . |
| 10 | The magnificence of crinoline and the billowing hoop-skirt were certainly exciting an interest of their own in the mid-1850s , as something symptomatic of the extravagant optimism of the period . |
| 11 | In addition to the national objectives such as Health of the Nation , Patient 's Charter and Caring for People , NEHA has identified specific targets of its own for the coming year . |
| 12 | Questions are frequently divided into two or more parts , and this division raises difficulties of its own for the inexpert candidate . |
| 13 | Viewed from the front it could be any make ; it 's from behind that it establishes a look of its own with a high , rounded tail . |
| 14 | In December , when a meeting between Mr Baker and Mr Hussein still looked possible , the European Community decided against starting talks of its own with the Iraqi leadership . |
| 15 | When the Company entered the dynastic politics of southern India by putting forward a candidate of its own in the Carnatic , the French were soon able to drive him back to Trichinopoly and beseige him there . |
| 16 | First , the state remains bureaucratized , though with some interesting departures of its own from the classic Weberian model of bureaucracy . |
| 17 | More significant , it was not until after it ended that she began to possess permanent representatives of her own in the major capitals of Europe . |
| 18 | Was n't she entitled to some time of her own after a busy week 's teaching and little free time on Saturday ? |
| 19 | The boy was going to the boxroom and was clearly excited at possessing a room of his own for the first time . |
| 20 | And the issue was still very much alive , for here beside him , listening alertly and with a dry little smile , was the earl of Leicester , who , whether in earnest or in mischief , was urging a plea of his own for the same prize . |
| 21 | A former accountant who used to work in the music industry with Tony Visconti ( David Bowie 's producer ) , he now has a hit of his own with the quoted company The Pelican Group . |
| 22 | He gave an account of a dream of his own about the French Revolution , and the reign of terror following it . |
| 23 | He was also invited to conduct a Mass of his own before the imperial court , which , according to Leopold , went some way towards repairing the damage their enemies had done by preventing the opera . |
| 24 | A year earlier , David Damiani had married Blanche , an 18-year-old Nazareth girl , and set up a home of his own in the Arektenje district of Jaffa . |
| 25 | Still , Sisson managed a ‘ Herr Issyvoo ’ sting of his own in the Nazified Berlin of 1934 and watched ideological street-squads slanging one another in Paris the next year . |
| 26 | A narrow matching fabric belt covers the gently elasticated waistband , and can be alternated with belts of your own for a contrasting effect . |
| 27 | You might be able to get a cart-wheel of your own from a local bygone auction or junk yard . |
| 28 | We 're committed to Harlow er , as an area we put considerable resources of our own into the first phase of er , the Three Hills and you 'll hear tonight we 'll be putting in a conditional er , two hundred thousand odd into into this phase from our own reserves . |
| 29 | It could perhaps be said that Miss Cotrubas came truly into her own with the operatic excerpts that provided the second half of her programme . |
| 30 | But she comes into her own at the not-bloody-likely tea party ; and by the end , she has achieved just the right blend of poignancy and pride . |