Example sentences of "[pos pn] own [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 2 | Now it was that I had a chance of discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar off and imitated in fairly cold blood . |
| 3 | The letters gave him the chance of ‘ discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar and imitated in fairly cold blood . ’ |
| 4 | In my own practice the equivalent of two complete surgery sessions of people fail to turn up each week without letting us know . |
| 5 | I can sill see in my own mind the ball knocking down the middle stump , and as Hearne walked past Lowry he said , ‘ This is quite unfair , Mr Lowry . ’ ’ |
| 6 | In my own garden the twisted hazel , Corylus avellana ‘ Contorta ’ , is underplanted with primroses , bluebells and wood anemones , for that is how I remember them growing , as they still do , along the banks of the rive Greta . |
| 7 | I would arrive home late in the afternoon , and by the time I had had something to eat and done some of my own homework the first pupil had arrived . |
| 8 | From my own observation the majority of thirty four per cent is heavy traffic we have the additional problem that the shops in Saint Mary 's Street , with the majority of shops in Saint Mary 's Street , that is the main street , have no rear accesses . |
| 9 | To their own generation the new-found power and confidence of English Nonconformists were most visible in the buildings they erected in town centres , suburbs and villages throughout England . |
| 10 | At the railway stations appeared cards , cigars , beer , wine , brandy ( the sale of which on their own soil the Bokhariots have prohibited by agreement ) … |
| 11 | To those who did not respond to his sad soliloquies on the terrible social stigma which must naturally fall upon the parents who forbade their own child the opportunity of gainful employment and condemned him instead to a living purgatory of dole-queue misery , there was always the wall of shame , upon which their names must be forever writ in letters big , for destroying the glorious reputation of the school . |
| 12 | Of their own inclination the people will not apparently leave the place … they prefer to stay on , meeting calls upon them by small accommodation bills , thus gradually impoverishing themselves and making their prospects cheerless . ’ |
| 13 | As individual cities look to their own government the mercantile Burgomeisters gain in power . |
| 14 | Oh ye you 'd actually think they was making their own pay the way they carry on , I mean |
| 15 | The development is one of recovery of health from sickness ; Hilton sees that man 's dual nature has a double inheritance : the sickness of the self that we are born to ( 3.19 – 20 ) and the transcendent " heritage of " ( Scale 2. 46.139r. – 301 ) that we can work towards : In The Scale Hilton developed at greater length the nature of the active and passive elements that belong to the contemplative life through which those who pursue it discover in the structure of their own experience the very being of Christ . |
| 16 | It does indeed make those who require nursing care through no fault of their own shoulder the cost . |
| 17 | In their own country the children lead very deprived lives . |
| 18 | Christians never entirely clarified to their own satisfaction the questions about how much of this appeal they could afford to yield to . |
| 19 | The showmen hated those whom the Cinematograph Year Book always described as ‘ the Busybodies and Meddlers ’ and thought of their demands in terms of what the Bioscope referred to as ‘ Prussianism ’ but in order to keep control of their own industry the showmen accepted many of the standards of middle-class taste and insisted that what they would provide would be for the most part family entertainment . |
| 20 | If a health status question asks people to rate their health in comparison to others of their own age the pattern of age-related change in responses does not materialize . |
| 21 | For their own safety the babies were kept in cages but were handled every day by Regina and Monica . |
| 22 | The time of the children was spent entirely on tape listening ( 15 minutes ) question and answer ( 25 minutes ) and working on their own tor the balance . |
| 23 | Government regarded as an unacceptable invasion of its own sovereignty the use of proceedings in the United States courts as a means by which the United States government sought to investigate activities outside the United States of British companies and individuals which might infringe American anti-trust laws As has already been noted , a request for extracts from a public record is an example of a Request falling outside the judicial function in some States . |
| 24 | Back on its own territory the gallery is holding a small exhibition ( 3 February to 25 April ) based around its celebrated Rembrandt ‘ Girl at a Window ’ . |
| 25 | Although there are differences between them , each addresses in its own way the range of concerns sketched in this Introduction . |
| 26 | In its own way the co-operative was quite a success story if only for the fact that it had kept going more or less continuously for almost five years . |
| 27 | This generally took place at Easter preceded by confession , often in public , in which the social duty of making restitution for sin was stressed ; it might be succeeded by a parish party which played out at its own level the eternal being of love celebrated in the Mass . |
| 28 | In the spirit of affability , may I congratulate the Government on one of the changes that they made some time ago , in which they followed fairly accurately the views expressed in early-day motion 488 , which noted that when ’ the Social Fund cold weather payments scheme trigger mechanism was put to a serious test it collapsed three times under the weight of its own absurdity the scheme is inadequate , inefficiently targeted and wasteful as the cost of advertising and administration are unjustifiably high ; and urges a new saving limit of £3,000 that would create a fully automatic scheme ’ . |
| 29 | The boxing match ‘ is the public incarnation of all conflict ’ ( II , 32 ) , totalizing in its own struggle the whole of ‘ contemporary irreducibilities and fissures ’ ( II , 26 ) : |
| 30 | The church 's response says that by its own admission the Scottish Office Education Department recognises the inadequacies of its proposals . |