Example sentences of "[v-ing] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Mrs Van Brandenburg also has wonderful and original ideas for redesigning customers ' own jewellery . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |