Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , while the growth of the international financial system would seem to imply the need for increasingly centralised decision-making , individual countries were unlikely to be willing to relinquish the freedom to conduct their own economic affairs for the sake of the greater international good . |
| 2 | Legislators and civil servants in the US enjoy a degree of independence and freedom to go their own way that is unheard of in the UK . |
| 3 | Current EC research workplans in biotechnology ( See below ) offer the possibility of collaborative training and research programmes between institutions , and this would offer our own staff the opportunity of acquiring the necessary information and expertise to plan our own future requirements in this field . |
| 4 | Our view is that we should let local authorities make their own decisions about their priorities . |
| 5 | Prague , Budapest and Berlin Various combinations by air or coach with special arrangements in all the countries concerned for student or older groups to plan their own programmes ( min 10 ) . |
| 6 | Expressing his absolute contempt of bands who rely on ambient , effect-heavy swirling guitar sounds , Bernard insists his own playing will never take a back seat musically . |
| 7 | This was , in fact , the key to Franco 's foreign policy throughout the Second World War : he viewed it primarily in terms of an opportunity to realize his own expansionist aims in Morocco . |
| 8 | Management does not have the freedom to optimise its own performance in pursuit of a single objective , or even in pursuit of a number of stable and compatible ones … |
| 9 | Clarkson 's narrative revealed his own perseverance and commitment until exhaustion and financial difficulty overtook him in 1794 and Hoare fastened upon Clarkson 's continuing ‘ zeal ’ . |
| 10 | Cuthbert Welch , the medical officer of health , took the opportunity to emphasise his own higher responsibilities . |
| 11 | Should the auditor design his own software packages ? |
| 12 | They had no great love for Conservatism , but , given the tenor of Liberal politics , saw the Conservative party as the last hope in a struggle to preserve their own brand of Liberalism . |
| 13 | Melissa was horrified when the bounder made his own designs clear as she modelled a £700 Prince of Wales check trouser suit in a London park . |
| 14 | The reduction was intended not only to save central government expenditure but also to put pressure on local authorities to curb their own spending by increasing the local cost thus making the expenditure more ‘ visible ’ to both councillors and the electorate . |
| 15 | Opposing factions including the Khmer Rouge finally agreed to a ceasefire last October , and formed a four-party interim coalition , with each component administering its own territory . |
| 16 | ( Stewart Island is roughly twice the size of the Isle of Wight , but has a population of less than 500 souls ) Much more exciting though , is to rent a Cessna from Invercargill 's Douthland Aero Club , get CFI Chris Thompson to come along as safety pilot , and to show you which of the beaches he recommends as landing grounds , since Southern Air a little jealous of other operators using their own airfield in competition to their service . |
| 17 | Many institutions make their own audio recordings of dialogues . |
| 18 | So local authorities make their own policies , which sometimes leads to conflict with central government and always to diversity of provision . |
| 19 | You can really be a snake eating its own tail and drive yourself nuts with , ‘ Will people like this or that ? ’ |
| 20 | The Colonel was not normally one whose nerve or self-confidence could be shaken by a comrade 's torment — he had seen too much and , besides , a soldier in the field made his own luck — but sitting now in the darkness , hardly aware of the familiar sounds of a barracks coming to life , the hollow ring of that dead voice seemed to re-echo in his ears . |
| 21 | Clearly , a large and growing majority of occupiers owned their own home . |
| 22 | those institutions develop their own rationality and specific conformations and have definite resources and limitations . |
| 23 | In many ways , as the technology and its altering social relations became more general , new forms and new areas of experience made their own way into print . |
| 24 | Together they negotiate a solution to the problem , the first speaker A asking the second B to repair the term by making it more specific , and the second several times repairing his own explanation to make it clearer ( capitals indicate stress ) : |
| 25 | Others would use this capitalization to acquire their own house . |
| 26 | An anonymous letter from an opponent of the regime in Franconia , condemning the ‘ puppet show ’ of the Reichstag and claiming ninety per cent of Germans shared his own desire , that Hitler ‘ disappear from the face of the earth as fast as possible ’ , was an absurd exaggeration . |
| 27 | In the absence of any more eligible candidate , MacDonald became his own Foreign Secretary . |
| 28 | Instead , he destabilized his own government by selecting totally inadequate ministers and , deferring to his hysterical wife , allowed the depraved ‘ holy man ’ Rasputin to tarnish his own popular image and that of tsarism itself . |
| 29 | 1.32 Patients now have an entitlement to see their own medical records under the Access to Health Records Act 1990 which came into force on 1 November 1991 and applies to records created after that date . |
| 30 | We should produce postcards and publicity flyers using our own photographic resources . |