Example sentences of "in its [adj] right " in BNC.
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| 1 | The personality with which Braque invests his jug is something that the jug possesses in its own right . |
| 2 | And it is a trip in its own right , on the teller 's part . |
| 3 | A hedge can be a dense , glossy barrier , an informal background to herbaceous plants or , with flowers and bright fruits , a colourful feature in its own right . |
| 4 | Half-points will also be upgraded to full points for techniques which catch the opponent as he attacks ; for deflecting the opponent and scoring on his undefended back ; for techniques which immediately follow a sweep or throw ; for an onslaught of continuous and effective attacks , each component of which scored in its own right . |
| 5 | All consciousness does in its own right is to tell us that it is something internal which fulfils a certain role . |
| 6 | Although the majority of scientists tend to be a little coy about metaphysical matters in their professional publications , they are often less so outside when writing elsewhere , being prone to describe the framework of presuppositions about perception within which they conduct their investigations as if it were a discovery in its own right and that ‘ discovery ’ an explanation of perception . |
| 7 | It seems that Carnedd Uchaf has crept into the list , but is this not subsidiary summit of Foel Gras rather than a 3000'er in its own right ? |
| 8 | The contemporary historicism , fuelled by Marx and Foucault , presents history as a force in its own right , ceaselessly dramatizing clashes of class and power . |
| 9 | War in Henry V is a test of kingship rather than a subject in its own right . |
| 10 | The texts themselves are inspirational , but Beyer 's lettering style for this commission , which treated each letter as a piece of incised sculpture in its own right , greatly adds to their declamatory power . |
| 11 | By 1959 , the 1.7-square mile site had become a small industrial town in its own right and production peaked at 470,000 cars , trucks and tractors . |
| 12 | But routine policing in a divided society also constitutes an important substantive topic in its own right , for it provides an additional dimension to the analysis of routine policing , as well as expanding and clarifying our understanding of what divided societies are like . |
| 13 | The institutionalisation of the social services is an interesting study in its own right , especially for Tories , who are the connoisseurs of institutions , and I should like to offer some case histories . |
| 14 | Education is a good in its own right , something which men desire because they are men , and which they will therefore spend their effort and their riches to procure for themselves and to bestow upon others . |
| 15 | However engaging the film sequence is in its own right it remains Henry Fonda in a 1930s thriller , a captivating spectre , but a spectre nevertheless . |
| 16 | As such it potentially functioned as a perverse dynamic — neither a part of created nature , nor a sexuality in its own right , but rather ‘ a potential for confusion and disorder in one undivided sexuality ’ . |
| 17 | The progress of sport as a ‘ commodity ’ either to be sold to the media in its own right or to be used in order to sell other products was slower and more halting than might be imagined . |
| 18 | Sport had always been a prominent source of news in its own right . |
| 19 | Here 's the world 's first radio that doubles as a fun fashion accessory in its own right . |
| 20 | And anyway , the thought of spending January and February in Spain or Portugal for as little as £10 a day seems attractive in its own right . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , this one can be enjoyed for what it does in its own right . |
| 22 | But if a war went badly and looked likely to drag on , that would be a calamity not just in its own right . |
| 23 | Another horror in its own right — but one which would also have wider economic implications . |
| 24 | Now although Berkeley pictures the doctrine of abstraction as a support of the ‘ false principle ’ of materialism , it is additionally a ‘ false principle ’ in its own right . |
| 25 | Lead was first used at about the same time as copper , though it was seldom used to make artefacts in its own right . |
| 26 | The power and wide-ranging applications of mathematics quickly gave it recognition as a discipline in its own right , whose theorems have now been brought to bear on problems in every field of knowledge . |
| 27 | A thesaurus ( see Chapter 9 ) is essentially a database in its own right , with each word constituting a record , cross-referenced to other records or terms through a series of relationships which can be broad , narrow or related ( e.g. ‘ metal ’ is a narrower term of ‘ inorganic ’ , but it is a broad term of ‘ iron ’ . |
| 28 | Its production is not a once-and-for-all process but a tool in its own right , complementing the many other processes that contribute to the Museum 's development . |
| 29 | It was a development of an urban form in its own right , ’ she said . |
| 30 | Prof Oesterhelt said that bacteriorhodopsin could be of use in its own right , in a prototype ‘ biological computer . ’ |