Example sentences of "[verb] in [pron] [adj] right " in BNC.
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| 1 | Human physiology and biochemistry are no less appropriate subjects for understanding in their own right and for university study and research because they have become the tools of the lucrative and utilitarian profession of medicine . |
| 2 | This was how I valued other people , too — how I valued Dana , as someone who did not need to be improved but allowed to flourish in his own right , with all the confusions and contradictions of which he was capable . |
| 3 | Use to which the information system will be put impinges upon most of the earlier issues , but there are elements of the nature of use which can be considered in their own right . |
| 4 | Both feature Hewlett 's JetDirect interface for connection to local networks , which Hewlett-Packard will also market in its own right . |
| 5 | It will be better to leave that question , together perhaps with questions about the value of larger totalities of activity of which such university education is a part , until after we have considered what value it has in its own right . |
| 6 | He declared that ‘ our only wish is that Afghanistan should be a neutral and independent state developing in its own right and friendly to the USSR , and not a base for hostile activity threatening the security of neighbours ’ . |
| 7 | Half-points will also be upgraded to full points for techniques which catch the opponent as he attacks ; for deflecting the opponent and scoring on his undefended back ; for techniques which immediately follow a sweep or throw ; for an onslaught of continuous and effective attacks , each component of which scored in its own right . |
| 8 | We 've chosen Boppard as the base for our Rhine Fly-Drive holidays because it 's not only a great place to visit in its own right , but because its central location makes it an ideal spot from which to explore the mighty Rhine . |
| 9 | The personality with which Braque invests his jug is something that the jug possesses in its own right . |
| 10 | While we should at all times act reasonably with the client 's best interests in mind , when such a specific contract is required , it must be extremely clear that the firm acts on behalf of the client and is , as far as the public arena is concerned , not acting in its own right . |
| 11 | They are Labour party policies , which are desperately needed in their own right but which have a vital knock-on effect on offending rates generally . |
| 12 | Unlike a company , a partnership does Dot exist as a separate legal entity : for example , a partnership can not sue and be sued in its own right . |
| 13 | Paragraph 5 of the rule was directed not only at enforcement of a judgment in favour of a claimant who had obtained judgment in his favour but also at preventing , by means of the principle of res judicata , relitigation of the same case by a person who was properly represented by a claimant against whom judgment had been given dismissing the claim , whether that person tried to pursue his claim against a named defendant sued in his own right only , or against a named defendant sued both personally and as a representative of a class , or against a member of that class . |
| 14 | Space exists in its own right as a given frame for the visible order of things , whereas time is simply a feature of that order . |
| 15 | In short , there is an eternal into which men can be liberated , suggesting something which exists in its own right and is not dependent on any prior cause . |
| 16 | Each has its own genuine identity , has its own government and exists in its own right . |
| 17 | What is involved in saying that something exists in its own right , while something else does not ? |
| 18 | Money wage increases are valued in their own right : workers pay no attention to the purchasing power of the money wage . |
| 19 | Confrontation with the enemy and violence done to him when necessary were not only justified but appeared as ends in their own right . |
| 20 | Thus , although the legal model may prevent directors from regarding third party interests as ends in their own right , it is arguable that it is consistent with the directors ' obligations to the shareholders for the company to sacrifice profits in order to protect them given these possible relationships with shareholder utility . |
| 21 | Pressed flowers have many more uses than one might at first imagine , and as well as being used in their own right , they can also serve as the inspiration for further designs . |
| 22 | As the performance of the two is relatively similar and inverted files are more widely used in their own right , most of this chapter deals with serial and inverted files . |
| 23 | But if birdsong , babbling streams and chopper blades could be slung between heavy-duty percussion — they reasoned — maybe these noises would stand up as tunes in their own right . |
| 24 | Leslie was himself a painter , and thus comments in his own right on his friend 's art , as here on a painting of Hampstead Heath : |
| 25 | His elevation to the kingship may have been a manifestation of the support he could command in his own right among the northern Angles as the son of the victor of ‘ Heavenfield ’ . |
| 26 | This , it is claimed , provides at the same time a clue as to the meaning of fiction ; for fiction really is the result of treating that which can exist only derivatively , or " parasitically " , as if it existed in its own right . |
| 27 | After the whambamthankyouma'am of the sixties , the seventies barely existed in their own right , but were more a kind of dream time when no one wanted to admit the good times had gone , or indeed had never really been . |
| 28 | However , there is an interesting and well developed literature which is worth considering in its own right , namely the application of the arbiter model to explain the existence of authoritarian regimes under capitalism . |
| 29 | ( iv ) Peers and peeresses in their own right , except peers of Ireland — the latter were , before 1963 , qualified to sit for constituencies in Great Britain but not in Northern Ireland . |
| 30 | ( a ) Hereditary Peers and Peeresses in their own right of the United Kingdom including : ( i ) Holders of titles created in the peerage of England before Union with Scotland in 1707. ( ii ) Holders of titles created in the peerage of Great Britain . |