Example sentences of "[pron] [det] language and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seems to be no obvious reason why such tasks should not also allow learners to refer to the systemic and schematic knowledge of their own language and culture . |
| 2 | They bring with them immense reasoning power , knowledge of the world , and a sophisticated skill at implementing through their own language and culture the complex needs of all humans ; to relate to others , and to act with them . |
| 3 | But if , throughout the secondary school , literature in the classroom consists chiefly of modern , chronologically organised novels , written in familiar language that is interpretable at a literal level , then not only are pupils being offered a narrowed range of literary experience , they are also being denied an important means of extending their own language and thinking . |
| 4 | The Sea , the Sea ( 1978 ) similarly broods upon the capacity of its own language and structure to contain a reality which can be obscured as much as illumined by the illusions of art . |
| 5 | It is an exploration of [ a ] vocabulary … which has been inherited within precise social and historical conditions and which has to be made at once conscious and critical — subject to change as well as continuity — if the millions of people in whom it is active are to see it as active : not as a tradition to be learned , nor a consensus to be accepted ; … but as a vocabulary to use , to find our ways in , to change as we find it necessary to change it , as we go on making our own language and history . |
| 6 | This use of Shakespeare , the central figure of Anglo-Saxon culture , stresses that the poem is not only about the cultural change in Venice , but about that at the heart of our own language and culture also . |
| 7 | We have our own name , our own language and culture . ’ |
| 8 | if you have feelings or attitudes of superiority in relation to your own language and culture |