Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the [noun pl] ' own " in BNC.
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1 | Scripts discussed will be original screenplays or adaptations of the writers ' own work . |
2 | The distinction , termed ‘ polarisation ’ was deemed necessary to make more transparent to customers the possible ties of their advisers , and to eliminate the ability of an intermediary to pass off as an independent adviser yet suggest the policies of the advisers ' own company ( or those which provide the highest commission ) . |
3 | The fact that the machines made by Amstrad had other legitimate uses , such as making copies of the purchasers ' own music or of works not protected by copyright , was important , even though it was obvious that the largest use would involve copyright infringement . |
4 | Bourges was a community in a vital sense , bound by rules of the inhabitants ' own making . |
5 | For lack of sufficient central funds the rudimentary basis of a welfare state was being set up through contributions from the workers ' own meagre wages . |
6 | Leaving this central issue to one side for the moment , we should add here that there are major critiques which can be made of Marxist theories , critiques on the theories ' own terms . |
7 | The percentages of variants in Sue 's speech provide a reasonably reliable index of the socioeconomic status and educational background of her interlocutors , just as the percentages of those forms in the clients ' own speech are able to do . |
8 | Nevertheless the specific problems and prospects of the churches ' own media need to be studied in greater depth . |
9 | Second the fact that God 's personal self-disclosure in the Bible was given in terms of the hearers ' own culture inevitably means that misunderstanding may arise and points be missed when read by people of another culture who are unfamiliar with the cultural milieu of the Bible . |
10 | Contexts involve characters of the pupils ' own ages and subjects which are relevant to their lives . |
11 | No allowance had been made for the physical difficulty of getting heavy guns over a battlefield where all roads had been obliterated and every inch of ground thrown up into huge mounds and craters by the attackers ' own bombardment . |
12 | These claims are made in the context of attempts to justify expenditure on western education systems and to represent the ideals of the writers ' own culture as ‘ universal ’ . |