Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [to-vb] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The purpose of teaching these topics explicitly and formally is to provide student-teachers with the opportunity to evaluate their own experience and to make professional judgments about their learners based on scientific principles and evaluated evidence .
2 Because if we continue with the housing stock that we 've got , then families living in high rise flats are never ever gon na have the opportunity to own their own house with a garden so the children can play .
3 The response from the people he talks to gives him a grassroots view of the questions being asked throughout the Company , while the meetings give the staff the opportunity to put their own points to him straight from the shoulder .
4 We want to give them the opportunity to put their own language into practice in a genuine effort to communicate .
5 ‘ Shandwick offered the opportunity to retain our own name and develop autonomously with no interference and they have been totally true to their word .
6 It also ran a series of weekend schools for the women 's groups , mostly taught by College staff , offering the women the opportunity to situate their own struggles in a wider historical , political and economic context , and develop a more strategic purpose for their actions as well as identify continuing needs for further educational work .
7 Scott , who joined the building society in January from the Midland Bank , intends to launch a savings product which he says ‘ will give customers the opportunity to mix their own savings product .
8 The Latvian Church now has the opportunity to produce its own newspaper , educational material and theological literature .
9 walking you will continue to support the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the A N C and Cosatu and others in South Africa that our eyes should be on the prize and that is to get democracy and the first democratic parliament in the country and after that to help in the horrendously difficult task of reconstruction and development and it is going to be a tough battle in South Africa as elsewhere and we will need to work not just for political democracy because you know so often democratic processes are misunderstood for empowerment of ordinary people and what democracy should really mean is that ordinary people have the opportunity to determine their own destiny and you know from your own advanced society and others how little power individuals have as a result of power of finance capital , of industry and of technology now .
10 When I saw the opportunity to strengthen my own position and lay claim to that which rightfully belonged to me , I brought you the papers , and , being the trusting fellow you are , you made no bones about signing them .
11 A group formed to give ordinary motorists the opportunity to race their own cars safely .
12 What 's more , readers offer students the opportunity to direct their own learning in choosing what to read and how to tackle it .
13 Readers also offer students the opportunity to direct their own learning through choosing what to read and how to tackle it : readers increase students ' confidence and independence and make language learning fun .
14 Having said that , we have , of course , taken the opportunity to review our own sales operation in Europe .
15 She should be given the opportunity to provide her own solution .
16 You will be working in a solicitor 's office or other approved organisation and will have the opportunity to handle your own cases , see clients and undertake most of the work of a solicitor whilst under supervision .
17 A purpose-built training facility , the IBM Information Centre , is being established to give members of staff the opportunity to enhance their own skills in this direction .
18 Her hopes that he might leave something to chance and throw her the opportunity to make her own way back faded as she saw him lock up and pocket the key .
19 The company is also hoping to exploit the link to pump its own programmes out to the thousands of mainstream and cable stations in America .
20 You can become resigned to the monotony of captivity and give up the struggle to maintain your own interests and identity .
21 It becomes an integral part of lesson planning , and the students can use the board to develop their own teaching expertise .
22 Besides , the only stakeholders with an indisputable interest in stopping the sale are NCR 's top managers , who were careful to get the board to boost their own severance packages on the day Ma Bell made its bid .
23 Consider then the added confusion of viewing the reading activity as " allowing the text to deconstruct its own metaphors " .
24 The break with this structure of belonging can be announced only through a certain organisation , a certain strategic arrangement which , within the field of metaphysical opposition , uses the strengths of the field to turn its own stratagems against it , producing a force of dislocation that spreads itself throughout the entire system , fissuring it in every direction and thoroughly delimiting it .
25 A lifelong love of fashions means I have not only the nerve to try something original , but the experience to put my own version of style together .
26 It has also been argued that a reliance on external inspection alone removes from teachers the responsibility to evaluate their own work .
27 When you write an essay you have both the opportunity and the responsibility to state your own views in your own words .
28 All pupils , therefore , must be able by the age of 16 to use spoken and written Standard English ; but schools have the responsibility to develop their own policies on the detail of how this should be done .
29 Management does not have the freedom to optimise its own performance in pursuit of a single objective , or even in pursuit of a number of stable and compatible ones …
30 developed the local authority role from direct provider to effective enabler , encouraging many tenants to buy their own homes , allowing schools the freedom to manage their own affairs and improving the quality of local services by allowing private business to compete for contracts .
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