Example sentences of "[prep] its own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last Ukraine has started looking after its own citizens . ’ |
| 2 | Each division will be looking after its own interests and will try to maximise its own profits . |
| 3 | Dent Town suffered its gradual loss of status passively and withdrew into its shell , content to look after its own affairs exclusively and be bypassed by a changing world . |
| 4 | I was pleased to see that , after its own trials , Bridgemere Nurseries in Cheshire , one of the biggest and best garden centres for plants in the country , has grown a quarter of a million herbaceous plants in coir compost . |
| 5 | ‘ All happy families are alike but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion , ’ observes Leo Tolstoy in the opening lines of Anna Karenina . |
| 6 | They buy from it and the design group has to look after its own destiny and its own profitability . |
| 7 | The first is where a broker sells to a customer off its own book . |
| 8 | The question here is what must a firm disclose to its customers in order to permit its broker/dealer department to sell or buy stock off its own book to or from a " fiduciary customer " ( ie a customer to whom fiduciary duties are owed , eg where a broker acts as agent ) ? |
| 9 | In effect , where a firm 's customer is an intermediary dealing on behalf of his own clients , the firm must in principle treat the intermediary 's client as its own customer if it knows the client 's identity ( except where the firm is dealing with a market counterparty , see page 29 below ) ; in certain circumstances , however , the intermediary can be treated as the customer ( see below ) . |
| 10 | The crucial breakthrough came in 1854 , with the purchase of the United Kingdom rights of an American patent for the manufacture , by steam machinery , of a revolutionary wood-screw with a pointed end which acted as its own gimlet . |
| 11 | It has also been pointed out that the ancient quarter of the city around the eastern gate took , as its own symbol , a black lion on a white background . |
| 12 | Such undertakings will normally be unacceptable to the purchaser who may wish to dispose of part of the assets or reduce inherent costs by utilising existing central services such as its own accounts department . |
| 13 | In experiments performed on dogs , each animal served as its own control . |
| 14 | Thus each biopsy specimen acted as its own control . |
| 15 | The mean values of these counts were compared using a paired Student 's t test ( each case acting as its own control ) . |
| 16 | In 1936 Tolkien had warned the British Academy that the Ragnarok spirit had survived Thórr and Óthinn , could revive ‘ even in our own times … martial heroism as its own end ’ . |
| 17 | The largest investment in East Germany was being made by Volkswagen AG , which planned to invest DM5,000 million over four years by expanding through its own subsidiaries . |
| 18 | British Steel already held 15 per cent of the stockholder market through its own service centres operation . |
| 19 | In the absence of appropriate provision by other bodies , the WEA had grown as a social movement which sought to provide those opportunities for people , denied access to further and higher education , either through its own efforts or cooperatively , but without patronage , in partnership with the universities , LEAs , and other agencies . |
| 20 | Poland reappeared on the maps of Europe not so much through its own efforts to liberate itself — though over the years these had been prodigious but unsuccessful — but through the collapse of the partitioning powers that had held Poland in check . |
| 21 | The first was to enable the prison system to feed and clothe the prisoners through its own efforts . |
| 22 | For a dynamic company which is growing through its own efforts it is important that we should have other and new businesses of a similar nature coming along . |
| 23 | The headings of this document describe the areas where the BDA is active either through its own efforts or by sponsoring , partially funding or otherwise assisting the work of other bodies . |
| 24 | Torquil Norman summed-up the ‘ life ’ that the airfield had regained , ‘ the place has grown a pace more through its own heritage than our input … it has taken on its own momentum … ’ |
| 25 | As the Squig escapes from the control of its Night Goblin herders it may burst through its own unit , but it does not cause any damage as it does so . |
| 26 | In the first instance , the Centre has worked with a small number of course leaders , helping to identify , through its own contacts , appropriate live projects . |
| 27 | But if it is the case , simply and conclusively , that music ‘ must intervene actively in consciousness through its own forms and not take instructions from … the consciousness of the user ’ ( quoted in Held 1980 : 83 ) , the baby has gone as well as the bath water and utopian critique begins to look suspiciously like spiritual determinism , autonomy like repression . |
| 28 | As a consequence of these complications the Modular Course has to operate a planning and response structure , through its own committees and crucially through a termly meeting of Heads of Departments contributing to the Course , that is not only sensitive to overall Polytechnic directives but also ensures a sensible collaborative response . |
| 29 | Information to the right of an errorful or missing region could still activate a higher-level unit through its own bottom-up excitatory links . |
| 30 | through its own odours |