Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] own " in BNC.

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1 Professionals and family members have to be very clear about an individual 's own internal experiences and personal needs ; clearly it is no good pretending , for the sake of normalization , that delusions , hallucinations and abnormal moods do not exist and that aberrant and unsocial behaviour is not a real and sometimes pervasive aspect of mental disorder .
2 Evidently Luke 's own assessment of the problem 's urgency was somewhat different from the caller 's own .
3 The abundance of mobile living rooms is clear from the firm 's own client base .
4 system is constantly being updated and is available on-line across the University 's own computer network as well as via JANET and the national and international networks ; the Main Library 's older guard-book catalogue , which also contains many entries for material in the Faculty Libraries , is available on microfiche .
5 Ever since March , when Clinton recalled smoking marijuana , he 's been unconvinced by the candidate 's own version of events .
6 Weiss believes friendships to be important in so far as they reflect attitudes and behaviour that are supportive of the individual 's own beliefs , and they provide a reassurance of self-worth by virtue of their acceptance .
7 The programme is structured in such a way that on-going evaluation is simple and results can be reflected on from time to time by the Family Development Nurse and Community Mother so that the monthly visit to the family which is the main focus of the programme for achieving goals can be adapted to each family 's level and the issues that are discussed are relevant , nonjudgemental , and supportive of the parents ' own ideas and recognises the parents ' desire to do what is best for their children .
8 The unambiguous identity of a child 's father is crucial for the child 's own social identity .
9 Clients ' funds should be kept separate from the firm 's own moneys and be held in bank or building society accounts clearly designated as belonging to the client .
10 to use its best efforts to manufacture Videos to a standard similar to the Publisher 's own work ,
11 The stocks are finished in wood and fitted with half pistol grips similar to the King 's own guns .
12 The gap in services has been filled by child minders who at their best can offer a high quality of care with all the advantages of a domestic setting similar to the children 's own home , but because of the lack of resources , training and support for their work are often the last resort for parents .
13 Clearly , conscious processes are central to an individual 's own experience , but most of us remain neutral as to whether they are central to cognitive processes given that many , if not most , of these are not conscious .
14 All Information Memoranda prepared by KPMG on behalf of the client should follow the Report Style Guide unless this is inconsistent with the client 's own equivalent guidance .
15 Certainly II Cnut 54.1 , which forbids the keeping of a woman in addition to a wife , sits ill with the king 's own relationship with Ælfgifu of Northampton , and suggests that he occasionally turned a deaf ear to Wulfstan 's entreaties ; but this does not necessarily mean that he lacked interest in the archbishop 's work .
16 Crawford still has the original score of The Little Sweep , complete with the composer 's own notation .
17 In relation to on-exchange transactions the amount of margin demanded must be at least equal to the exchange 's own requirements .
18 There is a relevant distinction here between data that are independent of the evaluator 's own judgements and data that are not .
19 Appraisal by panels of other lawyers is hardly independent of the occupation 's own biases .
20 Experience of objects is mediated by the senses , and it takes some time before the child appreciates that objects are best understood not as functions of action and sensation , but as entities which have an existence that is independent of the child 's own actions and experiences .
21 The preservation of such control is important to the officer 's own notion of efficiency .
22 Surely it is more essential that she should be well educated , as research has shown the mother 's education to be more important to the child 's own later achievement than the father 's .
23 Their expenditure had increased more sharply than that of other authorities but this was partly due to the government 's own policy of spending more on law and order and accepting above-average increases in police pay .
24 To some extent this may have been due to the Stanleys ' own efforts , since they had the firmer territorial base in the region , but it must also reflect the king 's wishes .
25 To some extent this may have been due to the Stanleys ' own efforts , since they had the firmer territorial base in the region , but it must also reflect the king 's wishes .
26 So , too , in Ponting v. Noakes , the plaintiff 's horse reached over the defendant 's boundary , nibbled some poisonous tree there and died accordingly , and it was held that the plaintiff could recover nothing , for the damage was due to the horse 's own intrusion and , alternatively , there had been no escape of the vegetation .
27 When something hot touches diamond , the atomic vibrations that constitute the passage of heat pass through the crystal undisturbed by local vibrations due to the crystal 's own finite temperature .
28 Binding was the second most frequent reason for the non-availability of material , and — since the most frequent reason was simply that a requested item was already in use — it was the main reason which could be considered as in some measure attributable to the Library 's own procedures .
29 The present structure of excise duties is inimical to the Treasury 's own interests .
30 The Monopolies Commission recommended scepticism about the figures for nuclear fuel-cycle costs until more figures were available from the CEGB 's own work and from British Nuclear Fuels Limited .
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