Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So local authorities make their own policies , which sometimes leads to conflict with central government and always to diversity of provision .
2 those institutions develop their own rationality and specific conformations and have definite resources and limitations .
3 Distrusting the accuracy of the commercially available products , those in ideological groups build their own machinery for picturing the world .
4 At Cambridge research will take place on how individuals make judgements of risk and at reading on how drivers perceive their own ability and accident likelihood .
5 Some such animals make their own poisons ; others take them from sources in their environment .
6 As a result these sub-organizations develop their own repertoires , standard operating procedures and specialized ways of attending to problems .
7 In ordinary language , this node expresses the situation in which readers judge their own satisfaction as being solely dependent on their own processing efforts ; and they judge the author 's satisfaction as being purely a matter of the authorial effort of writing .
8 'Men make their own history , ’ to quote the master , ‘ but they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves , but under circumstances directly encountered , given and transmitted from the past .
9 Peters ' Thriving on Chaos , the first big success in the field , was closely followed by Waterman 's The Renewal Factor and Richard Pascale 's Managing on the Edge , which preached that successful organizations breed their own failure unless they encourage constant debate , even conflict , as a tool of change .
10 Then , you could continue with a whole succession of closer shots concentrating on the colour and glitter of the shop windows in which the reflections of shoppers add their own element of movement and interest .
11 Interested parties meet their own costs in all circumstances .
12 Remember vivas and interviews ; candidates dig their own pits quite happily , with minimal help from the examiners .
13 However , some schools set their own versions of the tests .
14 To make this system more effective , animals emphasise their own scent by marking themselves as enthusiastically as their territories .
15 The ‘ happy ’ ending in which the Toons inherit their own ghetto is in some ways positive , but the Toons remain happy infants — has anyone ever tried to imagine the bedroom scenes of Roger and Jessica ?
16 Readers share their own experiences of problems featured on this page , and offer advice and support
17 Readers share their own experiences of problems featured on this page , and offer advice and support
18 Bennett and Williams suggest that the cells of opening or closing traps acidify their own walls by releasing hydrogen ions .
19 A formula has been devised where instead of any attempts at recalling the Scottish parliament , the three parties convene their own summit as a parliamentary forum for debate on issues such as future water and sewerage delivery .
20 PPC : We 'd estimate that 99% of shareware authors include their own address in the documentation somewhere , and many also include an order form , so the first point of contact is usually plain to see .
21 ‘ Now schools have their own budgets I hope we shall see growing diversity , ’ he said .
22 I mean actuarial erm a lot of it is er er not open to public view of course , life offices have their own views of it .
23 Such special units have their own procedures for dealing with these hazards .
24 Different nations have their own sayings and proverbs .
25 That we Jews have our own country instead of being small part only of many countries .
26 The Hawaiian islanders have their own name for these glassy droplets ; they call them Pele 's tears , after the Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes , Pele .
27 All political parties have their own reasons for pushing the quality of public services further up the political agenda .
28 Whilst for the teachers these lads are ‘ trouble makers ’ , the lads have their own interpretation :
29 Mildew is not so very difficult to stop in the early stages , and there are several fungicides that will give it a severe check — all the chemical manufacturers have their own products and trade names which , like everything else , are constantly being improved and changed — but by far the most important point to bear in mind is that it has to be hit early and repeatedly .
30 His eyes have their own agenda .
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