Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [unc] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scripts discussed will be original screenplays or adaptations of the writers ' own work . |
| 2 | It may appear that putting this strategy into practice will take more time than the conventional practice of writing words in the children 's own spelling books . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Bourges was a community in a vital sense , bound by rules of the inhabitants ' own making . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This programme included extracts from the police 's own video of the day 's events . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Suggestions for the children 's own work , as well as the simple ones of drawing , model-making , painting , writing and drama , included : |
| 11 | Nevertheless the specific problems and prospects of the churches ' own media need to be studied in greater depth . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | For instance , first-school classrooms with colourful montages of the children 's own work and collections of objects that are interesting to touch and fun to look at provide a stimulating background for pupils whether they have defective vision or not . |
| 14 | Contexts involve characters of the pupils ' own ages and subjects which are relevant to their lives . |
| 15 | Under the Act , persons may be detained for questioning at a police station , without charge , for 36 hours on the police 's own authority , and for a further 60 hours subject to successful application for a magistrate 's order . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | to give examples of the children 's own work as cumulative examples of achievements |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |