Example sentences of "in their [adj] right " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ensuing debate , however , does little credit to the Mendelians , the more bigoted of whom refused even to believe in the existence of the pads despite the eye-witness testimony of a number of biologists who were later to become household names in their own rights — a list of eye-witnesses that includes British biologists as diverse in their biological contributions as J. B , S. Haldane , W. H. Thorpe , L. Harrison Matthews and G. E. Hutchinson . |
| 2 | But the uncanny resemblance did n't bother the screen tough guys … after all , they know they 're hot shots in their own rights . |
| 3 | Martin always starts by working out the elements in detailed pencil drawings which become works in their own rights , before lightly sketching in the compositions for his paintings |
| 4 | Well tag questions and er and questions in their own rights which i I supposed seeking agreement is the idea . |
| 5 | The specialist field of old master drawings has received extremely detailed study ; the drawings are interesting both in their own right and as a means of knowing more about artists ' practices . |
| 6 | In many cases this has resulted in the introduction of faked features and the associated destruction of existing features which , though often of architectural and historic interest in their own right , do not fit in with the designer 's concept of the pub 's ideal form . |
| 7 | Nicholsons ' pubs for the most part are architectural gems in their own right and include The Blackfriar and The Argyll Arms in Central London and the Prince Alfred in Maida Vale amongst their number . |
| 8 | Some pasta dishes , such as macaroni cheese and lasagne , have become British institutions in their own right . |
| 9 | ‘ Shell-fish can be dangerous in their own right . ’ |
| 10 | But it is accepted by physicalists of all kinds that the meaning or semantic value of internal states must be analysed in terms of their causal relations to stimulus and response , just as it is for the behaviourist 's dispositions , and is not something they possess in their own right , or of themselves . |
| 11 | Euston-Northampton services , now recognised in their own right , jumped the queue in 1989 to receive new Class 321s with first-class facility . |
| 12 | Each of these companies , if listed separately , would be in the top 10 biggest list in their own right . |
| 13 | Human physiology and biochemistry are no less appropriate subjects for understanding in their own right and for university study and research because they have become the tools of the lucrative and utilitarian profession of medicine . |
| 14 | Children will become eligible for legal aid in their own right in April under changes announced last month by Lord Mackay , the Lord Chancellor . |
| 15 | Most blue cheeses are cheeses in their own right , but others are treated versions of existing cheeses , eg Cheshire and Blue Cheshire . |
| 16 | But the biographies of real moguls are often more extraordinary — the lives of Lord Northcliffe , Lord Beaverbrook , Bill Paley , Louis B. Mayer and William Hearst were mini-series in their own right . |
| 17 | Many members of the Moscow research institutes have hurled themselves into politics , as advisers to Mikhail Gorbachev or Boris Yeltsin or as politicians in their own right . |
| 18 | Locke was not much interested in their exact nature : are they mental states or modifications , like waves in the sea , or mental entities in their own right , like flotsam on it ? |
| 19 | All of these metals were already in widespread use in their own right or in alloys over two thousand years ago and some have much earlier origins . |
| 20 | The patinas on copper alloys were often appreciated in their own right and a study of the patination is central to all authenticity studies . |
| 21 | Is the covenant a relation between God and Jewish males , in which Jewish women are included under it , but not as persons who enter into the contract in their own right ? |
| 22 | There is the last and as far as Kylie is concerned most convincing theory , that the stories are the product of small minded , talentless types who can never achieve fame in their own right . |
| 23 | The Beechers , however , became something of an institution in their own right . |
| 24 | Moorcock 's people are amusing on their own terms , in their own right , and not just set down as figures of fun . |
| 25 | Because of the considerable government control over ownership of farms a proven degree of technical and management ability had to be demonstrated before young farmers could become farmers in their own right . |
| 26 | It was from these Mayors of the Palace — senior officers of the royal house — that Charlemagne 's ancestors were eventually to become kings in their own right . |
| 27 | Despite 300 years of conflict , the Merovingian kings and their Mayors ( who eventually became the Frankish kings in their own right ) had found it impossible to subdue the Saxons on any permanent basis . |
| 28 | Only comparatively recently have roses been grown again in their own right as flowering shrubs ( as opposed to being massed in beds for maximum display ) and therefore the Dictionary 's comments are pertinent today . |
| 29 | Some acronyms are almost pronounceable , and have become ‘ words ’ in their own right . |
| 30 | So strategic was the city 's position that the present inhabitants claim that the dwellers were a people in their own right even by the time of the Roman conquest , and that when Julius Caesar gave them Roman citizenship they were already famed as an industrious , peaceable , practical people with a legendary ability to confront any misadventures with incredible resources of energy . |