Example sentences of "[subord] their own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case they were quite clear where their own priorities lay : |
| 2 | The head needs to encourage staff to scrounge for good management , display and communications ideas from schools where they have previously worked , schools where their own children attend , industry , supermarkets , courses , magazines and even books . |
| 3 | For working-class women , especially the many who lived still in conditions of severe poverty where their own wages were essential to the household , a decision to share a household with an elderly person simply could not mean full-time unpaid caring . |
| 4 | They now supposed that Marian and Allen must be trying to pass the depression to the south , and if this were so there was still ample time to position themselves to cut off that route although it involved going considerably deeper into the forest and into territory where their own danger was greater . |
| 5 | He says these forces will move into areas where the retreating Serbs ( or Croats or Muslims ) ‘ have been protecting villages and towns where their own constituent people are in the majority . ’ |
| 6 | The church is using state money rather than their own money and it was felt that the church had become another agency of the state in this regard . |
| 7 | As far as the first point is concerned , there is I believe a real appeal for many people , not least on Christian grounds , in arguing that the overriding need at present in the U K is for the government , the TUC and the CBI to sit around a table and talk , so that both corporations and unions will change their behaviour and act in the public interest rather than their own self-interest . |
| 8 | ‘ He has this notion that women are not capable of managing anything more important than their own kitchen — and then only if they have a competent cook . |
| 9 | The peasants had little notion of belonging to any wider grouping than their own volost' , like Nikol'skaia , or even sometimes , and depending on the subject , than their own village . |
| 10 | Egyptians usually spoke badly of anywhere other than their own village and district . |
| 11 | There are also many other organisations which willingly provide their particular form of expertise when AlB need a more profound appreciation of a problem than their own resources can provide . |
| 12 | Their Lordships also upheld the trial judge 's refusal to allow the defendants to put any evidence before the jury about why they believed that nuclear weapons , rather than their own actions , were ‘ prejudicial to the safety … of the State ’ . |
| 13 | What better place to release them than their own territory ? |
| 14 | Now they 're better Jews than their own parents ever were — I know one chap from Willesden Green who wo n't even eat in his mother 's kitchen any more . |
| 15 | Indeed , the ideological leanings of readers ' papers had more impact than their own ideology . |
| 16 | Indeed , the ideological leanings of readers ' papers had more impact than their own ideology ( though much less than their partisanship ) . |
| 17 | But there is something of a tension in Mill 's view , because he thinks that erm it 's very important that if there is plural voting then the people who only have one vote should be prepared to accept the situation , so that the reasons why these people are given extra votes should be reasoned that the public , the uneducated accept past critics have pointed out if that 's going to be the case , why is it necessary to give these people extra votes , give the educated actual votes , because if the uneducated accept that the decisions of the educated are worth more than their own decisions , the opinions of the educated are worth more than the opinions of the uneducated , if they really do accept that , what 's to stop them just following the decisions of the educated in their own vote ? |
| 18 | The peasants had little notion of belonging to any wider grouping than their own volost' , like Nikol'skaia , or even sometimes , and depending on the subject , than their own village . |
| 19 | On the other hand , it was for a very long time the only kind of popular medical and natural science handbook which was available to laypeople , who possessed little knowledge of such matters other than their own experiences and the tales of other . |
| 20 | European directives on acquired rights and the transfer of undertakings regulations have given public service shop stewards their first glimmer of light over C C T which they fought for a decade with little more than their own bluff and courage . |
| 21 | But the behind-the-scenes truth is that the cast and crew rarely went further than their own back yard . |
| 22 | I met executives who knew the inside of a Concorde better than their own back yard , who had telephones stuck permanently to their ears . |
| 23 | Of course , some young fathers are fascinated by their babies and enjoy cohabiting co-operatively , finding more " meaning in being fathers than their own fathers did . |
| 24 | At the same time , some women in the older generation believed that they were a less significant source of advice and support for their daughters than their own mothers had been for them , and all were concerned to ensure that their support did not amount to ‘ interference ’ ( Blaxter and Paterson , 1982 , especially pp. 174–9 ) . |
| 25 | Firth , Hubert and Forge report that some people get on with their mothers-in-law better than their own mothers , but for the most part these relationships are regarded as likely to be tricky : people treat them as an ‘ occupational risk ’ of marriage and regard themselves as ‘ lucky ’ if they work out satisfactorily ( 1970 , pp. 414–15 ) . |
| 26 | The Central Authority also felt that Whitehall pruned the Area Boards ' budgets , which could be relatively easily adjusted to meet short-term government policy , more severely than their own budget for generation . |
| 27 | Remember the strong vested interest of politicians in alleging other causes of inflation , because if they can persuade the public that other causes than their own behaviour are really at work , then they will be able to transfer the responsibility from themselves to other people . |
| 28 | So easily did the rational fear of not being able to exchange their products so advantageously merge , for a whole generation , into the absurdity of supposing that they could somehow have access to a source of wealth other than their own production . |
| 29 | Although the book 's authors concede that ‘ bluffing , exaggeration and obfuscation are all part of the game ’ , they believe that honesty , friendliness and fairness may be more than their own reward . |
| 30 | However problems can arise even for intelligent people with an extensive vocabulary , for example when they are communicating with someone on a subject other than their own speciality . |