Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [verb] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It saw a company which , by 1975 , had a turnover of five million pounds , employed 1,000 men and women worldwide , had forty shops , three factories and which was profitable enough to own its own jet . |
| 2 | But neither side is yet strong enough to install its own candidate . |
| 3 | He was n't strong enough to boost his own confidence . |
| 4 | But precisely in that act of consignment you may have committed an unconscious iconoclasm — for each of the above-mentioned artists at one time or another personally designed his own exhibition announcement . |
| 5 | When your baby is old enough to hold its own head up , a more robust back pack is a variation on the front carrier . |
| 6 | Surely Rob was old enough to manage his own affairs ! |
| 7 | I 'm old enough to handle my own money , and he 'll have to accept it . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You are old enough to get your own food , like your fool of a father . ’ |
| 9 | She is feminine enough to maintain her own identity . |
| 10 | In some cases , where the childhood has been unhappy or deprived , there is no such happy occasion to build upon ; in such instances I start by asking the patient to tell me what he could see as he lay in bed at night — this often brings its own feelings of security to even the unhappiest child . |
| 11 | They now not only conduct funerals but have their own joiners and monumental masons making coffins and headstones , and some even own their own crematoria . |
| 12 | Robin Child 's influence has gone far beyond the limits of the classroom and his Marlborough pupils : he has lectured widely , here and abroad , to teachers , art societies , art colleges , educationists , church audiences and schools ( some subsequently sending their own heads of department to Marlborough to see how it 's done ) on many aspects of art and art history , the philosophy of teaching and his own approach to it . |
| 13 | By the fifteenth century the King of England was Lord of Ireland , though his new territory was separate enough to have its own parliament , whose power was reduced but not eliminated by Poyning 's Law of 1495 , which forbade it to pass any law that had not been approved in advance by the King and his council . |
| 14 | ( Rebecca Saire 's Bianca is clever enough to conceal her own shrewishness until after she has secured a husband . ) |
| 15 | After starting in Ian 's hallway , Hunter Equipment Sales Limited now has its own freehold premises and a turnover in excess of £1m , selling specialised microscopes and other visual inspection equipment . |
| 16 | But it comes down to , first of all , whether it 's sensible to borrow against assets , and all of us do if we 're lucky enough to own our own homes we tend to have borrowed either our first mortgage or sometimes a second against it , and we make our own judgement , and I see there are some suggestions on how the Government spotted this with regard to schools in suggesting that perhaps schools could raise money by mortgaging their school buildings , of course |
| 17 | If you are lucky enough to have your own land , you have a head start on those of us who have to rent facilities : but are you making the most of it ? |
| 18 | But no one else is likely to be bothered by this , since the product is intended for the industrial site or building large enough to have its own substation . |
| 19 | ‘ Here ’ was a small Cotswold town , small enough to be delightfully picturesque and unspoiled , large enough to boast its own cottage hospital . |
| 20 | The book becomes gripping once allows his own interests and opinions to come closer to the surface . |
| 21 | On 16 December Hoare returned to London , but was not well enough to leave his own house . |
| 22 | Um it 's also the case that um particularly round about that time there was an an idea that children were not competent enough to know what had happened to them , not competent enough to know their own minds . |
| 23 | The transnational capitalist class , fractions of the labour force , and other support strata that the TNCs have created , will all increasingly identify their own interests with those of the capitalist global system and , if necessary , against the interests of their ‘ own ’ societies as the transnational practices of the system penetrate ever deeper into the areas that most heavily impact on their daily lives . |
| 24 | I bought along this brochure , you can have a copy if you like but I mean at the back there are forty five institutions all virtually paddling their own canoe . |
| 25 | Shaw , Black and Lulu all cheekily carved their own slices of the cake before they reached the matronly age of eighteen . |
| 26 | I am glad that you have been able successfully to run your own practice . |
| 27 | In the absence of consensus , government has to be bold enough to propose its own answers , and these must be seen to incorporate an underlying principle , carried through and exemplified in all of the stages of education from primary to tertiary . |
| 28 | ‘ Without that I do n't think I 'd have been able to leave home at 17 , be mature enough to manage my own career and be in a steady relationship for three-and-a-half years . |
| 29 | Yeah , luckily enough she 's just been able enough to do her own thing ai n't she ? |
| 30 | The homeostat , the automaton concerned only to preserve its own equilibrium , was never a convincing model of human behaviour . |