Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( g ) the perceived advantages and disadvantages of the takeover ( in a contested bid , the offeror will need to think carefully about what arguments it will put forward in order to persuade the target 's shareholders to accept the offer against their board 's recommendation and , where it needs its own shareholders ' approval , its arguments justifying the proposed bid ) ; and |
| 2 | The L & NWR is unique in that it manufactures its own accumulators for carriage lighting plants . |
| 3 | Newcomers to CAD say that it has its own jargon . |
| 4 | Kaye enjoyed helping the group but found that it eroded her own identity . |
| 5 | The whirligig sometimes moves so fast that it overtakes its own ripples , and then any slight slope in the surface alerts it to an obstacle . |
| 6 | Robert Luterell , younger brother of Sir Geoffrey Luterell , who commissioned the famous Luterell Psalter , gave his house called ‘ the Gannoc ’ on St. Peter 's Street for use as a school , and it had its own chapel of St. Mary . |
| 7 | The actual administration of the National Union was separated from Central Office in 1921 , and it appointed its own secretary thereafter ; it was a change of no great importance , for the National Union continued to work from Central Office and the Principal Agent continued to be Honorary Secretary , but it was a minor declaration of independence . |
| 8 | A complex dedicated simulator can cost several million pounds and it needs its own crew of skilled operators . |
| 9 | The Ship slowed its fall and drifted down across the scrublands until it met its own shadow . |
| 10 | If it 's a merger there 's a gradual shifting of the sands until it finds its own level . |
| 11 | And the world , if it flunks its own test in the Gulf , will have no right to ask it to . |
| 12 | And as I said , it , it was er , it , it , it , it was , it was denigrated but it had its own strengths , and the Margaret case er , is , is one of them . |
| 13 | The centre has already placed 50 or 60 people here or abroad but it has its own problems to overcome : there are few , if any overseas versions of NISW as most of the work tends to be located in the ministries of health or welfare . |
| 14 | It 's more of an English tweed suit of a butterfly than a Sultan 's robe but it has its own uniqueness and beauty . |
| 15 | It may be a wonderful alternative to fossil fuel but it brings its own problems . |
| 16 | Group leaders are not ‘ mission-committed ’ to the group 's success , but rather want to maximize membership and the achievement of collective benefits for members because it expands their own patronage , power and prestige . |
| 17 | These are old party bosses who believe in strong central government , not least because it confirms their own power . |
| 18 | The base is spared the curse of the ‘ brown-outs ’ familiar in Manila because it has its own power plant . |
| 19 | But you had to win it twice before it became your own property . |
| 20 | The saw stuck when it reached its own depth , but he kept on trying . |
| 21 | Rulers and governments might well be willing when it suited their own purposes to overlook the difficulties which precedence , titles and formal procedures in general so often caused . |
| 22 | Fergie says : ‘ Finally something did happen , but it soon became clear that the Queen was just not capable of getting involved in emotional , personal problems — even though it involved her own flesh and blood . ’ |
| 23 | There must have been a lot of that sort of thing , when you come to think about it : tolerating ideological undesirables as long as it suited your own book — not that National Socialism had much ideology beyond being first at the trough . |
| 24 | As it crossed its own lines , a plane suddenly dived on it out of the early morning sun . |
| 25 | I felt the sinking whir of the back wheel as it dug its own grave . |
| 26 | So he persuaded himself , for it made his own sin less grievous that he was not leading her into temptation too . |