Example sentences of "[noun] their own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And one tends to conclude that all attempts to be poetic in some manner or other defeat their own end ; whereas an intentness on the quality of the emotion to be conveyed makes for poetry . |
| 2 | Those who had come to New England to have an opportunity to practice their own approach to religion , and then found they did not agree with the views held by those who were in power , had a more serious problem . |
| 3 | Freeze marking is used by a growing number of owners to give animals their own serial number and put off thieves . |
| 4 | Many owners do not realize what effect their own behaviour has on their dog . |
| 5 | Under the acts , corporations are required to measure their own pollution level and report this to the inspectorate . |
| 6 | Individual constructors can easily adjust the rates to suite their own fancy . |
| 7 | Expressive tools give children opportunity to express on the computer their own ideas about reality , so that they can learn through representing , exploring and reflecting on the consequences of their own models . |
| 8 | Trees such as poplars , elms , limes and oaks account for much shrinkage in soil and should not be closer to the building than 1.5 times their own height . |
| 9 | As a result of this , it is now possible to leave a natural history museum knowing that some fleas can jump 130 times their own height , and that elephants can not jump at all , and that as many as a thousand dead ants have been found inside the stomach of a single mole . |
| 10 | The museum visitor who is told that some fleas can jump 130 times their own height simply has no idea where to go from that point onwards . |
| 11 | The majority of vehicles pounding the British countryside produce four times their own weight in carbon dioxide every year . |
| 12 | First , the energy budget of predators is said to decrease with increasing weight , so that lions require ten times their own weight , whereas shrews require 100 times their own weight . |
| 13 | First , the energy budget of predators is said to decrease with increasing weight , so that lions require ten times their own weight , whereas shrews require 100 times their own weight . |
| 14 | Fourth , they argued , Muslim and Croat forces would have moved into the areas their own forces had vacated . |
| 15 | We shall go on improving our public services , cutting through the authorities and bureaucracies to give our colleges , hospitals , school and doctors ' surgeries their own funding . |
| 16 | Each child provides a stimulus to the others , and gains from the place their own contributions play in the joint explanation . |
| 17 | Bishops who themselves were , or had been , royal clerks often commended to the king 's service their own clerks and servants , and equally often found benefices for royal king 's clerks . |
| 18 | The Junkers , by leading the German unification , were able to enshrine their own position . |
| 19 | Indeed , they are often stroppy and apparently unreasonable , but they do things their own way and when they stop doing that The Wedding Present are finished . |
| 20 | An indie band on a major label , the PODs spurned the homogeneous spit and polish this set-up normally brings and tried to do things their own way . |
| 21 | They do not rate their own intelligence as highly as other groups . |
| 22 | All the other Minpin families wanted to show Little Billy their own rooms . |
| 23 | They assume that erm it 's very difficult to talk about reality , that reality means different things to different people , that people create in many ways their own reality , and they 're interested in the process therefore of fiction-making , they 're interested in erm how people create their own fictions , so that it becomes almost an endless series of mirrors , novelists writing novels about novelists writing novels and so on . |
| 24 | Material realities may be profound sources of satisfaction or discontent but it is more often symbols which signal to people their own position , their own worth , and their own precariousness . |
| 25 | Novices will enjoy being with people their own standard , getting all-day tuition with English mother-tongue instructors in small groups . |
| 26 | Apron on , sleeves rolled up , she and the children are busy baking their own decorations for the Christmas tree . |
| 27 | The screen is divided into two halves , to give both players their own cockpit view . |
| 28 | It is easy to perceive that so long as this group of entrepreneurs is active in the market , and so long as they are alert to the changing prices their own activity brings about , the market process can proceed in an entirely normal fashion . |
| 29 | A few decades later , the alleged philosophers and legislators made public in Greek their own philosophy and legislation . |
| 30 | Effective safeguards could be built in to prevent the inflationary dangers inherent in parallel currency systems , particularly in that the central banks of all member states would be obliged to repurchase their own currencies from the EMF for hard currencies . |