Example sentences of "[noun] of [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until she won their trust their manners were deferential , identical to the old-fashioned manners of her own youth . |
| 2 | Here , his son Joseph learnt the traditions and religion of his own people . |
| 3 | For example , an article in Ekonomska politika ( 27 July 1987 ) , after pointing out that , according to the law , banks are independent organizations and carry the risks of their own decisions , continues : ‘ But it is not so in practice . |
| 4 | We were now in the 20th century irrevocably , ‘ part of an age where we must be allowed to take the possible risks of our own knowledge . ’ |
| 5 | A more open and informed attitude to the problems of stress also allows more opportunities for individuals to emerge from the isolation of their own anxieties ( ESAC 1990:26 ) . |
| 6 | Apple 's publication Human Interface Guidelines ( Apple Computer 1987 ) set out the 10 chief characteristics of its own GUI as follows : |
| 7 | They defended the entitlement of teachers , by virtue of their education and training if not their professional standing , to shape the learning experience of pupils and to devise a curriculum suited to the characteristics of their own pupils . |
| 8 | In nature , to look at your parents is a good method of learning the characteristics of your own species . |
| 9 | She felt so good she stopped the remedy of her own accord but within 2 weeks began a period . |
| 10 | Jacques Attali , the ( French ) president of the EBRD , estimated that eastern Europe would need ECU2,000,000 million over the next 20 years , although " the most important point " was that " the money will come from the reorganization of their own economies and their own savings " . |
| 11 | Females , moreover , only approach loud-speakers playing songs of their own species . |
| 12 | At weddings of the unpretentious kind it was usual for one or two singers to perform songs of their own composition , epic epithalamiums sung to an accompaniment of gentle clapping , interspersed with an antiphonal falsetto nasal chant from another singer . |
| 13 | Thinking of her own marriage , Constance said , ‘ Maybe , but I think it was very much in character with my mother . |
| 14 | Then , thinking of her own mother , she wondered how two sisters born of the same parents could be so different . |
| 15 | The president was anxious to expose the thinking of his own advisers to outside criticism and review . |
| 16 | In a private postscript added surreptitiously to one of Wolfgang 's letters home from Paris , Frau Mozart had also expressed her anxieties about her son 's infatuation with the Webers ; as soon as Wolfgang met someone new , he seemed at once ready to dedicate himself to them body and soul , without thinking of his own interests . |
| 17 | He finds himself ‘ considering the idea of flight ’ , and the idea of defeat : ‘ 1 suppose that , thinking of my own harassment and Raymond 's defeat , I had begun to consider Yvette a defeated person as well , trapped in the town , as sick of herself and the wasting asset of her body as I was sick of myself and my anxieties . ’ |
| 18 | American , other analysts noted , has had several months to prepare contingencies for a hostile takeover attempt , and probably has a restructuring deal of its own waiting in the wings . |
| 19 | This self-confessedly wilful boy always contrived to have a great deal of his own way and seemed able to follow his bent whenever the weather permitted . |
| 20 | I was giving up a great deal of my own time , I may say , just to supplement the inadequate teaching he got at Burleigh . |
| 21 | So even unanimous decisions , taken by individuals freely acting according to their perception of their own interests , will not necessarily produce the result they want . |
| 22 | This tends to leave their perception of their own teaching — both how they do it and how well they are doing — in a rather uncomfortable vacuum , especially if the staffroom ethos prohibits any kind of discussion other than crisis-management and grumbles about individual or whole-class ‘ personalities ’ . |
| 23 | Since there is no suggestion that their perception of their own situations may itself be explicable in holist terms , the two accounts are distinct , but are also complementary ; the conceptual space occupied by agents reflects the constraints under which they labour . |
| 24 | Even he has been drugged by the system and anaesthetized against the perception of his own misery . |
| 25 | This module aims to develop the student 's perception of his/her own roles and behaviours and those of others . |
| 26 | And if we harness our minds to influence our bodies and our internal blocks we can change our health and attitudes , habits and perception of our own limitations . |
| 27 | This variation on the theme is bursting with extravagant quantities of kumquats and comes to table sitting in a pond of its own sauce . |
| 28 | When the US firm of Laventhol & Horwath folded in the face of a mass of litigation , the court required its partners to find $40m of their own money to help pay the creditors , and some of the partners have gone bankrupt . |
| 29 | There was agreement that people should play an active , participatory , democratic role through community business in the regeneration of their own areas , and that this process can best be facilitated , as in Strathclyde , by supportive and sympathetic local government attitudes and action . |
| 30 | What role can/should people play in the regeneration of their own areas ? |