Example sentences of "' own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French bank originally heard about the headhunters they had employed by word-of-mouth contact , and BICC had based their choice — perhaps more dangerously — on a review of headhunting firms ' own literature . |
| 2 | By this time Gordon Sloan , a Reporter from Strathclyde Region , had been brought in to do the work in Orkney , as the islands ' own Reporter , Mrs Katherine Kemp , was still under suspension , and the details of her case were lying on the Secretary of State 's desk in Edinburgh . |
| 3 | The Pension Alpenrose is only one minute from the lakeside , beautifully furnished and decorated with Hans ' own carvings . |
| 4 | This may include lecture preparation , presentation , research for a publication or article in the members ' own name or research for a new piece of work to be undertaken . |
| 5 | All these are appropriated , assimilated and interwoven with Andrewes ' own prayers . |
| 6 | Such an approach , they argue , simply restates the professionals ' own self-presentation in seem-ingly neutral categories . |
| 7 | Poulantzas ' own position was to argue for the development of a Marxist , structuralist account which provides for the state to have only a relative autonomy and never a true autonomy . |
| 8 | In Nelson , three miles away , an equal number of women went out to work , yet the infant mortality rate was lower than in John Burns ' own constituency of Battersea . |
| 9 | In this section I will use a study of conversations within Caribbean families to try to put more detail on the pattern of language use which has emerged from community members ' own reports . |
| 10 | But preferable to have it stated under the buyers ' own signatures , and by you on taking instructions . |
| 11 | Scripts discussed will be original screenplays or adaptations of the writers ' own work . |
| 12 | Bayliss ' own work includes ‘ Ten Green Bottles ’ ( above ) . |
| 13 | These should include examples from different cultures and authors and from pupils ' own work ; |
| 14 | The Progress Book gradually builds into a scrapbook of pupils ' own work , forming a personal and lasting record of what they have learned and achieved . |
| 15 | If the problems requiring analysis are thus quite novel , the Marxist toolkit available for constructing a response has remained heavily influenced by the three approaches to the state articulated in Marx and Engels ' own work , namely , the instrumental , arbiter and functionalist models ( see pp. 208–11 ) . |
| 16 | They derive from the writers ' own work practice and belief system and serve to reinforce it in relation to other groups and cultures . |
| 17 | Space is provided for candidates ' own work . |
| 18 | Some will be to provoke interest and curiosity , others will be to reinforce learning , still others will be for extension work and most importantly some areas will be for the pupils ' own work which will serve as a major focus of attention . |
| 19 | Some of Poulantzas ' own claims seem prone to this sort of problem : the hegemonal position of a class , for instance , is a function of its economic , political and ideological roles , of the form of the state , of its relations with other classes and functions , and the state of the class struggle . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The very argument that had supported the miners ' own rise in the wages league during the 1970s — that the work was difficult and dangerous — counted against an egalitarian measurement of women 's skills . |
| 22 | Water suppliers ' own records for 1987–9 showed that such surprising areas as Bath , Brighton , Huntingdon , Braintree and Waveney had lead pollution of drinking water above the MAC . |
| 23 | Early work on clients ' own perceptions emphasized the lack of practical responses and the heavy reliance on ‘ talk ’ ( Mayer and Timms , 1970 ) , however helpful that may itself be ( Phillimore , 1981 ) . |
| 24 | Calculating any extra resource using an index based on doctors ' own perceptions of what creates work seems the more valid approach as these will presumably be factors deterring doctors from working in underprivileged areas or causing them to limit access so as to avoid overwork . |
| 25 | This case also often occurs in practice due to the results of cases such as grouped meter readings from customers who were at home when the meter reader called , combined with customers ' own readings carried out because they were out when the meter reader called , and a number of special checks that are carried out at a different time . |
| 26 | The players ' own feelings about the entertainment factor in the game were epitomised by Andy Slack 's dry remark after the spectacular Australia v France World Cup semi-final of 1987 . |
| 27 | They argue that this puts the researcher on a more equal footing with the people being interviewed and a flowed the interviewees ' own feelings to be expressed . |
| 28 | It began to prove its value when the members of pupils ' own groups helped each other and came not always to rely on the initiative or instruction of the teacher-tutor . |
| 29 | But monism has had many other manifestations : in the philosophy of Croce , in the one-form-one-meaning postulate of pretransformational linguistics , and not least , in some authors ' own sense of the artistic integrity and inviolability of their work ; in Tolstoy 's words : " This indeed is one of the significant facts about a true work of art — that its content in its entirety can be expressed only by itself . " |
| 30 | 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 . |