Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | Continued to support elderly owner occupiers to remain in their own homes . |
| 2 | The fly is large , and took eight minutes to erect on my own but just five minutes with a friend . |
| 3 | I give space for others , and allow others ' plans to come before my own . |
| 4 | Happening by chance to be employed in one of the most notoriously protest-prone university schools in the Western world , I have noticed an extraordinary anomaly in student protest behaviour which I invite my readers to compare with their own experience , which I think they will find quite closely comparable to my own . |
| 5 | The danger with this was that it caused believers to look to their own faith rather than to Christ alone for the assurance of their salvation . |
| 6 | This can be solved by a provision enabling either one of the parties to apply on its own . |
| 7 | They wanted one-to-one sessions to focus on their own abuse . |
| 8 | But the next best thing is for more money towards fourteen to nineteen education so that 's very welcome at least and was widely supported in the various versions we saw this morning , my concern is with the way in which this money is to got from the centre to the school and I 'd like to speak very strongly in favour of what if I got what you 're is education so that we aim to assist schools to build on their own interests and and not have it parcelled out by some central authority which is and which a sigh of this is an area of great relevance to schools |
| 9 | The flexible approach is therefore to allow organizations to account for their own economic reality . |
| 10 | A brief review of the impact of oil prices , external debt , financial flows and the Brandt Reports will enable readers to assess in their own minds the true nature , scale and possible solutions to LDCs ' problems . |
| 11 | The strategy is focused around nine general aims : , Respect and care for the community of life , Improve the quality of human life , Conserve the earth 's vitality and diversity , Minimize the depletion of non-renewable resources , Keep within the Earth 's carrying capacity , Change personal attitudes and practises , Enable communities to care for their own environments , Provide a national framework for integrating development and conservation , Create a global alliance . |
| 12 | I think that given that University work is supposed to encourage intellectual activity at the highest level of which any individual is capable it is very important to increase motivation by allowing those individuals to proceed at their own pace and to establish their cognitive frames as and when they feel capable of doing so . |
| 13 | The main incentive for building trade workers to go on their own and become labour-only sub-contractors is the opportunity to increase their earnings . |
| 14 | ‘ Our guiding element could be the Durutti 's Brigade moving from village to village , liquidating the bourgeois elements and leaving the workers to see to their own organization . ’ |
| 15 | We want companies and workforces to come to their own arrangements . |
| 16 | Emphasis is placed on the responsibility of individuals to provide for their own welfare needs and those of their dependants . |
| 17 | You have enough confidence in your abilities to talk of your own interior design business . |
| 18 | Mr Major will tell Tory rebels to look at their own constituencies to see the effect of Euro investment . |
| 19 | The importance of persuading individuals to save for their own pension instead of just relying on the State has been recognised by successive governments . |
| 20 | Possibly the deaths of the Chancellor and the Treasurer undermined the confidence of the King 's surviving ministers , and it was left to other loyalists to act on their own initiative . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm giving you an opportunity to make life easier and more comfortable for your mother — something it might take you years to achieve on your own . |
| 22 | First of all , the National Book Sale licence allows booksellers to dispose of their own overstock , hence to some extent reducing the need for returns . |
| 23 | They encourage landowners and businesses to plant on their own land . |
| 24 | At this point I merely suggest that there should be an amendment to the Treaty of Rome , stripping the Commission of its powers to issue of its own initiative interpretative , law-making directives and making it , as with all democratically controlled civil services , the servant of the elected national governments . |
| 25 | State welfare services supplement the efforts of individuals and families to provide for their own needs . |
| 26 | It is possible , Independence said , that NCR could buy back some of the ports to sell to its own customers . |
| 27 | The best assignments allow learners to progress at their own pace and provide opportunities for tutors and learners to tailor provision to meet individual needs . |
| 28 | Hilton now urged his contemplatives to look into their own depths and , by means of the disciplines of contemplation — the ‘ reformation of feeling ’ — to re-fashion the image of God there which had been destroyed by original sin . |
| 29 | In other words , the practice of placing infants to sleep on their own , for relatively long periods of time , which is widespread in Western industrialised societies , is not only historically and culturally unique but also evolutionarily recent . |
| 30 | The purpose of such an approach would be to demonstrate that the second language has the same potential for use as the first language , encourage learners to draw on their own experience of language by applying familiar procedures to the interpretation of second language use , and so to teach the second language system not as an end in itself but as a resource for the achievement of meaning . |