Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [verb] [pos pn] own " in BNC.
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1 | It saw a company which , by 1975 , had a turnover of five million pounds , employed 1,000 men and women worldwide , had forty shops , three factories and which was profitable enough to own its own jet . |
2 | Both were heavy red-wine drinkers , always bloated , and each jealously guarded his own inferior status . |
3 | But neither side is yet strong enough to install its own candidate . |
4 | When one finds a sympathetic platform from which to display an idea , many more ideas are stimulated which , although having no sympathetic platform , may be strong enough to create their own . |
5 | He was n't strong enough to boost his own confidence . |
6 | They were often not interested enough to develop their own bona fide opinions . |
7 | But precisely in that act of consignment you may have committed an unconscious iconoclasm — for each of the above-mentioned artists at one time or another personally designed his own exhibition announcement . |
8 | When your baby is old enough to hold its own head up , a more robust back pack is a variation on the front carrier . |
9 | Surely Rob was old enough to manage his own affairs ! |
10 | I 'm old enough to handle my own money , and he 'll have to accept it . ’ |
11 | ‘ You are old enough to get your own food , like your fool of a father . ’ |
12 | Until I was old enough to make my own . |
13 | It would have been agreeable if Mr William Ross , who was also in the House , could have been generous enough to admit his own past errors and congratulate his successor on his decision . |
14 | She is feminine enough to maintain her own identity . |
15 | In some cases , where the childhood has been unhappy or deprived , there is no such happy occasion to build upon ; in such instances I start by asking the patient to tell me what he could see as he lay in bed at night — this often brings its own feelings of security to even the unhappiest child . |
16 | They now not only conduct funerals but have their own joiners and monumental masons making coffins and headstones , and some even own their own crematoria . |
17 | Robin Child 's influence has gone far beyond the limits of the classroom and his Marlborough pupils : he has lectured widely , here and abroad , to teachers , art societies , art colleges , educationists , church audiences and schools ( some subsequently sending their own heads of department to Marlborough to see how it 's done ) on many aspects of art and art history , the philosophy of teaching and his own approach to it . |
18 | Although just over five feet eight inches tall , and seldom well trained , at his best he was strong , fast , and skilful enough to hold his own with Cribb , reputedly the best of all bare-knuckle boxers , and but for his fondness for high living , might well have been champion . |
19 | By the fifteenth century the King of England was Lord of Ireland , though his new territory was separate enough to have its own parliament , whose power was reduced but not eliminated by Poyning 's Law of 1495 , which forbade it to pass any law that had not been approved in advance by the King and his council . |
20 | ( Rebecca Saire 's Bianca is clever enough to conceal her own shrewishness until after she has secured a husband . ) |
21 | After starting in Ian 's hallway , Hunter Equipment Sales Limited now has its own freehold premises and a turnover in excess of £1m , selling specialised microscopes and other visual inspection equipment . |
22 | But it comes down to , first of all , whether it 's sensible to borrow against assets , and all of us do if we 're lucky enough to own our own homes we tend to have borrowed either our first mortgage or sometimes a second against it , and we make our own judgement , and I see there are some suggestions on how the Government spotted this with regard to schools in suggesting that perhaps schools could raise money by mortgaging their school buildings , of course |
23 | If you are lucky enough to have your own land , you have a head start on those of us who have to rent facilities : but are you making the most of it ? |
24 | But no one else is likely to be bothered by this , since the product is intended for the industrial site or building large enough to have its own substation . |
25 | ‘ Here ’ was a small Cotswold town , small enough to be delightfully picturesque and unspoiled , large enough to boast its own cottage hospital . |
26 | The book becomes gripping once allows his own interests and opinions to come closer to the surface . |
27 | On 16 December Hoare returned to London , but was not well enough to leave his own house . |
28 | Um it 's also the case that um particularly round about that time there was an an idea that children were not competent enough to know what had happened to them , not competent enough to know their own minds . |
29 | UTV and Channel 4 now have their own separate sales arrangements in Dublin , and UTV is pushing itself as an all-Ireland TV medium . |
30 | Tala-Tala even had its own home-made harbour , a kind of inner lagoon in the outer lagoon , obviously a laboriously built , three-sided breakwater , in which I assumed that every stone must have been carried by hand or on rollers to afford protection for the boats it enclosed . |