Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , using our standard Components and techniques , we can work to your plans or our own designs , to produce the most attractive and economical structures . |
| 2 | The autocratic style of a president who regarded state-controlled radio and television as a transmission service for the government , who felt free to interpret his constitution as he saw fit and regularly to circumvent parliament or his own ministers teetered perpetually on the verge of excess . |
| 3 | So if the teacher wanted to find out about the courses they could either contact the University or their own organisations , erm the D E S or the , the Local Education Authority . |
| 4 | I make a plea for the Government to consider a matter of urgency , either through independent research or their own officers , finding a long-term method of achieving a much more comprehensible system that is easy to use and that can be understood by ordinary people . |
| 5 | Follow the photograph or your own set of Snakes & Ladders for the exact layout of the different coloured squares . |
| 6 | She was not gracious to those whose arguments she rejected , whether they came from the opposition or her own party , as Aneurin Bevan [ q.v. ] and Michael Foot were both , at different times , to discover . |
| 7 | Dean reveals Northern grit but not doubt : not to the opposition or his own team-mates : ‘ Obviously I have moments of self-doubt , but I do n't believe it 's right to show that . |
| 8 | Although the examiner appointed by the court may submit a report which accompanies the deposition , this is merely intended to give him the opportunity of recording facts , including incidents during the examination ( for example , that the witnesses fainted or rose up and tried to assault cross-examining counsel ) ; the examiner can not indicate his opinion as to the credibility of the witness or his own impressions of the witness 's demeanour . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | While the government may decide how much it wishes to spend on health care and it may seek to discourage employers from spending by changing tax incentives , the report said , the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from ‘ barring individuals from using their own funds or their own insurance coverage to obtain appropriate medical care ’ . |
| 11 | Holidays spent in Swindon or Wales , a time of freedom from the severities of classroom timetables and disciplines , gave opportunities for naturalistic pursuits in a setting more favourable even than the widening circle of his weekend and holiday explorations of London and Surrey commons with Arthur Hardy or his own brothers , themselves an essential escape from domesticity , homework and discipline . |
| 12 | The default size of the blank grid is 24 stitches by 40 rows and its proportions are determined either by the default tension or your own tension if you have entered one . |
| 13 | The anecdotes and examples chosen to add colour to strictly academic material revealed highly sexist ideas about history , the pupils ' homes or their own knowledge or interests . |
| 14 | She could taste blood now on her lips where her own teeth had bitten them , could see blood flecking her vision , hear it pounding in her ears as she ran , propelled by the first hot rush of her panic so that when she collided with the rough corner of a market stall she did not feel it ; when she stumbled again and scrambled to her feet she was unaware of her grazed hands and knees ; heedless of brewers ' drays , the hooves of heavy horses ; the outrage of the passers-by she pushed aside ; the woman with the heavy market basket she knocked over . |
| 15 | Robyn felt herself growing warm with resentment of his rudeness , mingled with the consciousness that her own conduct had not been entirely blameless . |
| 16 | In the words of Abraham Lincoln ‘ Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing ’ . |
| 17 | Pretty soon the law would know more about Mahoney than his own mother . |
| 18 | Often the activists were fifteen and sixteen years old and parents lived with the fear that their own children could become involved . |
| 19 | In the past few months it has become clear to Her Majesty that her own children have spectacularly failed in their duty to the Crown . |
| 20 | Traditional accounts place the blame squarely on Gloucester 's shoulders , assuming in effect that his own ambition is an adequate explanation for what happened . |
| 21 | Traditional accounts place the blame squarely on Gloucester 's shoulders , assuming in effect that his own ambition is an adequate explanation for what happened . |
| 22 | The need for a centralized reference laboratory stemmed from the difficulty in persuading venereal-disease pathologists that their own test methods might need revising . |
| 23 | He proved rather better at handling animals than his own family , who scattered in all directions — his wife to Israel , his younger son to America , and Wim to England . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Partly that is because the people in power are primarily interested in the high-quality urban schools that their own children attend — and the best schools in Delhi or Nairobi are now the equal of any in the West . |
| 26 | On July 3 Doe had reportedly agreed to resign at the request of a deputation of his remaining allies , including Vice-President Harry Moniba and Samuel Hill , the Speaker of the House of Representatives ( parliament ) , on condition that his own safety and that of the Khran people was assured . |
| 27 | For roughly £2 million ( little more than the cost of one Falkland islander ) the British government can preserve both Henderson , Pitcairn and its own reputation for colonial fair play . |
| 28 | Instead of a great historical narrative common to ill , everything now had its own chronology and its own history . |
| 29 | Thus the Community Relations and Neighbourhood Units in Easton each have their own offices and their own sergeants ( but not inspector ) , are free from the obligation of responding to logged calls from central control , and can decide for themselves their priorities and programmes . |
| 30 | She longed to give in to the desire in his eyes and her own body 's urging . |