Example sentences of "[modal v] be [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sport 's first concern , Pascoe says , should be its own development and that means presenting itself in the best possible way . |
| 2 | Healing should be its own reward and not the means of converting patients . |
| 3 | Though it should be her own lack of will-power she was cursing , she admitted . |
| 4 | Some of the objectives should be his own proposals . |
| 5 | These feelings are reinforced by dominant social ideas of individual pathology , that is , if something is going wrong in their lives it must be their own fault . |
| 6 | We must be our own mystics . |
| 7 | For one thing he would have to acknowledge that Sarah was not barren , so it must be his own fault she had n't given him children . |
| 8 | For a confused moment she felt as if it might be her own subconscious , ridiculously exhilarated by an encounter her intellect had found dreadful , humiliating and anxiety-provoking . |
| 9 | I feel as though he might be my own child . |
| 10 | There was nothing at all , except Roland 's own need and concern , to suggest that the long letter might be his own letter . |
| 11 | At first , he thought it might be his own reaction to the figures of the Inland Revenue 's share of his money and then , perhaps , a neighbour with some interfering machinery . |
| 12 | It 'll be her own fault . |
| 13 | Thank God you 'll be your own boss as a doctor . ’ |
| 14 | From now on I 'll be mine own executioner . ’ |
| 15 | This could be your own form or an Employee 's Statement of Sickness ( SC2 ) . |
| 16 | It is perhaps a mistake , though , to try to identify too many categories of independent craftsmen , even though the sources can attest a surprising level of specialization ; in a small community , a jobbing builder could be his own mason , bricklayer , carpenter , tiler , thatcher , and slater , possibly even burning his own lime and making his own bricks . |
| 17 | Just think , you 'd be your own boss , up to a point , master of your own destiny , not slaving away for a pittance while someone else makes all the profit . ’ |
| 18 | As everyone knows who has translated from a foreign language , it is no excuse for a bad translation that the meaning chosen was found in the dictionary ; for the document may be its own dictionary , showing an intention to use words in some special shade of meaning . |
| 19 | If it is not those of Garrafad and Carnach we will soon have to face , it may be our own people . |
| 20 | The astronomer , who can predict the exact position of a planet in the heavens one thousand years hence , knows not what may be his own state of health tomorrow … ’ |
| 21 | Ultimately , however , the biggest barrier to Lewis 's goal of becoming Britain 's first world heavyweight champion this century may be his own personality . |
| 22 | The illusion was only to precipitate into a historical fact — the proletariat 's birth and growth — history 's total meaning , to believe that history itself organized its own recovery , that the proletariat 's power would be its own suppression , the negation of the negation . |
| 23 | Louis-Napoleon made it plain that he was himself sure that the main result of the establishment of universal suffrage would be his own success . |
| 24 | On one occasion , when the first two volumes were banned by Royal Decree , and the order went out to seize the unpublished texts and plates , Malesherbes suggested that the best place to conceal them would be his own house . |
| 25 | The only outcome then would be his own death under the sword of his more skilful opponent . |
| 26 | ‘ If you will obey my voice , ’ said God to the Israelites after the Exodus , ‘ and keep my covenant , you shall be my own possession among all peoples ’ ( Exod. 19:5 ) . |
| 27 | In the end , the best ambassadors will be its own graduates , but until then the support of its friends both in and outside Africa will be invaluable . |
| 28 | Perhaps in the end , the best of both sites will be my own materialization . |
| 29 | We will be our own masters yet ! ’ |
| 30 | In fact I suspect on June the ninth even the wipe out of the Conservative party in the European elections may make even those members that side think that in order to say their own skins in the future they will actually have to start to think about a fairer electoral system and indeed there will be a unified system on the way forced by Europe on this house if we do not take it upon ourselves to do so and it will be our own fault that we 've shirked our responsibilities in my view to actually take it on board . |