Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] ' own " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , conflict reflects workers ' coming to terms with the rational procedures of employment , and learning to fight back using employers ' own categories of time and money . |
| 2 | All evidence of the safety and risk/benefit ratio of drugs is assessed using manufacturers ' own data . |
| 3 | The good adviser will value schools ' own programmes , and be willing to participate in them and provide additional help , but he will also try to stimulate other opportunities of cooperation between schools , wide-ranging discussion in courses and occasional meetings , and curriculum development planning meetings at teachers ' centres and colleges and departments of education . |
| 4 | A grandparent who tries to counteract parents ' own methods by being over-indulgent or strict will only create further problems . |
| 5 | James Losh , the north country reformer , later remarked that after abolition ‘ the country at large seemed to settle into a state of indifference on the subject of negro slavery ’ or at any rate to accept reformers ' own assurances that amelioration would follow from the cut-off of new labour supplies from Africa . |
| 6 | Workers ' behaviour , he argues , is really a response to managerial control , and is best understood as a counter-attempt to assert workers ' own control ( 1963 , p.6 ) . |
| 7 | Analysing tenants ' own accounts of their living conditions , he again argues that ‘ home ’ and what we have earlier called ‘ ontological security ’ actually mean quite different things for different classes . |
| 8 | From help in solving effluent problems quickly and cost effectively , to maximising members ' own effluent processing business opportunities , EPC is the natural partner for engineers operating in this specialist area . |
| 9 | Ignoring employees ' own capacity to recognise , assess and minimise risk may well mean the risks themselves — the obvious physical ones ( fire , explosion ) and the more mundane and nebulous but often more far-reaching threats to business survival ( financial or market-oriented ) — are overlooked too . |
| 10 | These can either run off the public-telephone network , or off the smaller PABXs that control businesses ' own in-house telephone systems . |
| 11 | In the past , it had to use customers ' own equipment to develop applications . |
| 12 | A gifted decorating triumvirate with an outstanding range of experience and the capacity to interpret clients ' own wishes rather than to impose a ‘ house style ’ . |
| 13 | Second , state leaders ' own doubts about the acceptability of indiscriminate attacks , even as reprisals , were put beyond question by the revulsion that followed Dresden , Hiroshima and Nagasaki . |
| 14 | They can not use a vocabulary which they do not know , nor relate to what they are in deepest ignorance of ; 5. promote pupils ' own search for a commitment by which to live and find meaning and fulfilment in wrestling with ultimate questions ; |
| 15 | Mrs Van Brandenburg also has wonderful and original ideas for redesigning customers ' own jewellery . |
| 16 | These officers were accused by complainants of failing to remain impartial , of adopting hostile and dismissive attitudes towards them and of using complainants ' own statements as evidence against them in court . |
| 17 | The lesson of this period is that this type of legislation by itself , even when backed by executive exhortation , is insufficient to change sentencing outcomes ; and that unless sentencing discretion is restricted there is little hope of modifying sentencers ' own objectives in the pursuit of policy goals favoured by the executive ( Sabol , 1990 ) . |
| 18 | On various occasions I have been able to exploit pupils ' own interests for mathematical ends , however transient the interest might have seemed . |
| 19 | The Enterprise Centre will find suitable placements or approve students ' own choice . |
| 20 | We worked through the medium of the Professional Course in English , designed to improve students ' own English skills , and to equip them to handle English in the Primary School timetable . |