Example sentences of "[pron] own [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOLLOWING the article by Warren Bagust on the raw deal David Gower has been given by the England selectors ( WCM Sept ) , I have been doing some research of my own on the relative merits of David Gower and Graham Gooch as batsmen and as captains of England . |
| 2 | ft was just about the last poem I wrote on my own for the next six months or so ; it is called ‘ Believing Is Seeing ’ , and it was also about a carving , the sculpture illustrating the miracle of Christ healing the blind man : |
| 3 | I 've proved I can still hold my own with the best . ’ |
| 4 | I concluded my own column of that week as follows : ‘ After sneering at Lord Mogg , I suppose I should commit myself to a conclusion of my own from the last ten days ' dramas . |
| 5 | Is the Prime Minister aware that 500,000 cashmere jerseys are worth £75 million to textile communities such as my own in the central borders in Scotland ? |
| 6 | The figures are based on my own in the 1970s and now bear no relation to the present day , but they serve as a broad outline . |
| 7 | now I 'm up here all on my own in the higher class ! |
| 8 | To the snobbish traveller coach tours are a subject of derision , but since the inter-war period when coach touring really took off , thousands of people who could not normally afford to travel have seen countries other than their own through the comparative cheapness of coach travel . |
| 9 | Tim Rodber had a much better game that at Murrayfield and won his share of the ball at the tail of the line-outs , but it remained an area where Ireland did hold their own through the excellent play of Neil Francis and Brian Robinson . |
| 10 | The local newspapers in Ulster printed our press statements , but did not follow up the Black story on their own despite the clear indications of sinister and dramatic happenings . |
| 11 | Computerised composition and the previous generation of photo-typesetters , which came into their own during the 1970s , described characters in this way , known as ‘ bit-mapping ’ . |
| 12 | Young people striking out on their own for the first time frequently do not have transport and colleges or universities are not always situated in city centres . |
| 13 | Although they 're among the poorest people in the community , many feel better off than they 've ever been — they 've got money , time and friends of their own for the first time . |
| 14 | Corbett had heard that the Scots were a crude race but their cooks could have held their own with the best in Europe . |
| 15 | ‘ I have 12 or 13 players who can hold their own with the best in the League but injuries would leave me struggling and I know it . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ This place right now is like Chicago in the 1930s , ’ says publisher Vladimir Grigoriev , one of a new breed of Russian businessmen capable of holding their own with the best in the world . |
| 17 | But many Special Hospital patients could move straight into independent living in hostels or flats of their own with the right professional support from local services . |
| 18 | Similarly a grant is paid to staff who move from a rented unfurnished house or flat to a similar property at the new base or who buy a house of their own at the new location . |
| 19 | Married students are therefore advised to come to Edinburgh on their own in the first instance and to send for their families only when they have secured suitable accommodation . |
| 20 | As can be seen , the Dutch do more than hold their own in the strong German classes , even at this level . |
| 21 | The full effects of the theological liberalism which had been at work since the nineteenth century came into their own in the English-speaking world after the publication of Honest to God ( Robinson 1963 ) . |
| 22 | The magnificence of crinoline and the billowing hoop-skirt were certainly exciting an interest of their own in the mid-1850s , as something symptomatic of the extravagant optimism of the period . |
| 23 | At all centres we complete your logbooks at the end of the holiday , and most beginners are happily sailing on their own by the second week . |
| 24 | Yet these and other highly original mathematical developments did not come into their own until the new revolutionary age of physics which began at the end of the century . |
| 25 | So , the Glacial Control theory , while seeming to be mostly invalidated as a basic explanation , may come into its own as the best way to explain many of the details of present reef morphology . |
| 26 | Medicine is highly labour-intensive , and the NHS does not have the money to hold its own with the sheer weight of clinical traffic at present , let alone cope as the population gets older , the drug costs escalate and research brings exciting but expensive new treatments . |
| 27 | In December , when a meeting between Mr Baker and Mr Hussein still looked possible , the European Community decided against starting talks of its own with the Iraqi leadership . |
| 28 | Advertising came into its own with the mass media , and soon ‘ steam radio ’ turned into portable transistors and the old 78s phonographs became radiograms and record players . |
| 29 | Yet for Labour to win on its own at the next general election would be a victory on a scale comparable with that achieved by Attlee in 1945 . |
| 30 | For , as Raymond Briggs once said , in Maus the cartoon book holds its own for the first time against all-comers as a literary medium . |