Example sentences of "person in [pron] [adj] right " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever care you are providing for the residents , treating somebody with respect and dignity , as an important person in their own right , has to be the starting point . |
| 2 | This is the date which will see the taxman treat a married woman as a person in her own right . |
| 3 | My Mam was ‘ the boss ’ at home but outside that house she was merely a wife and mother , never a person in her own right . |
| 4 | He received a brisk and bewildering up-date on the progress , so far , in woman 's struggle to be a person in her own right , and not the property of some bloody man . |
| 5 | As a person in her own right she takes up her destiny . |
| 6 | The married woman 's status is changing and from being a person in her own right she is becoming a chattel . |
| 7 | She 's a woman of her time , and a person in her own right ! |
| 8 | Not a word about how people should have related to me , as a person in my own right . |
| 9 | ‘ I feel a person in my own right , instead of an appendage to the family . ’ |
| 10 | That I was just a father , a husband — I 'd somehow ceased to exist as a person in my own right . ’ |
| 11 | I 've learnt I 'm a person in my own right , not just someone 's wife or mother and I have a right to be here and a right to pursue a career or studies . |
| 12 | The growing boy has to learn to separate himself from his mother , and establish himself as a person in his own right . |
| 13 | Now I love him very much , he is a little person in his own right . |
| 14 | In order to find their own identity and to become persons in their own right , many young people feel it necessary to rebel against the attitudes and beliefs of their parents . |