Example sentences of "in [pron] [det] right " in BNC.
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1 | Maybe I do n't feel as if I exist in my own right . |
2 | Not a word about how people should have related to me , as a person in my own right . |
3 | ‘ I feel a person in my own right , instead of an appendage to the family . ’ |
4 | ‘ I now feel that I 'm getting to be somebody in my own right , and not someone my mother wanted me to be . ’ |
5 | That I was just a father , a husband — I 'd somehow ceased to exist as a person in my own right . ’ |
6 | 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 . |
7 | ‘ But I 'm a businesswoman in my own right , ’ Robyn continued determinedly , doing her best to ignore his mocking expression . |
8 | ‘ Had it not gone , I was about to give up the idea of being a producer in my own right . ’ |
9 | The specialist field of old master drawings has received extremely detailed study ; the drawings are interesting both in their own right and as a means of knowing more about artists ' practices . |
10 | In many cases this has resulted in the introduction of faked features and the associated destruction of existing features which , though often of architectural and historic interest in their own right , do not fit in with the designer 's concept of the pub 's ideal form . |
11 | Nicholsons ' pubs for the most part are architectural gems in their own right and include The Blackfriar and The Argyll Arms in Central London and the Prince Alfred in Maida Vale amongst their number . |
12 | Some pasta dishes , such as macaroni cheese and lasagne , have become British institutions in their own right . |
13 | ‘ Shell-fish can be dangerous in their own right . ’ |
14 | But it is accepted by physicalists of all kinds that the meaning or semantic value of internal states must be analysed in terms of their causal relations to stimulus and response , just as it is for the behaviourist 's dispositions , and is not something they possess in their own right , or of themselves . |
15 | Euston-Northampton services , now recognised in their own right , jumped the queue in 1989 to receive new Class 321s with first-class facility . |
16 | Each of these companies , if listed separately , would be in the top 10 biggest list in their own right . |
17 | Human physiology and biochemistry are no less appropriate subjects for understanding in their own right and for university study and research because they have become the tools of the lucrative and utilitarian profession of medicine . |
18 | Children will become eligible for legal aid in their own right in April under changes announced last month by Lord Mackay , the Lord Chancellor . |
19 | Most blue cheeses are cheeses in their own right , but others are treated versions of existing cheeses , eg Cheshire and Blue Cheshire . |
20 | But the biographies of real moguls are often more extraordinary — the lives of Lord Northcliffe , Lord Beaverbrook , Bill Paley , Louis B. Mayer and William Hearst were mini-series in their own right . |
21 | Many members of the Moscow research institutes have hurled themselves into politics , as advisers to Mikhail Gorbachev or Boris Yeltsin or as politicians in their own right . |
22 | Locke was not much interested in their exact nature : are they mental states or modifications , like waves in the sea , or mental entities in their own right , like flotsam on it ? |
23 | All of these metals were already in widespread use in their own right or in alloys over two thousand years ago and some have much earlier origins . |
24 | The patinas on copper alloys were often appreciated in their own right and a study of the patination is central to all authenticity studies . |
25 | Is the covenant a relation between God and Jewish males , in which Jewish women are included under it , but not as persons who enter into the contract in their own right ? |
26 | There is the last and as far as Kylie is concerned most convincing theory , that the stories are the product of small minded , talentless types who can never achieve fame in their own right . |
27 | The Beechers , however , became something of an institution in their own right . |
28 | Moorcock 's people are amusing on their own terms , in their own right , and not just set down as figures of fun . |
29 | Because of the considerable government control over ownership of farms a proven degree of technical and management ability had to be demonstrated before young farmers could become farmers in their own right . |
30 | It was from these Mayors of the Palace — senior officers of the royal house — that Charlemagne 's ancestors were eventually to become kings in their own right . |