Example sentences of "[noun pl] to [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Callinicos ' criticism of the ‘ postmodern ’ hypothesis contains a range of emphases , the three principal ones of which are : First : advocates of the postmodern in art ( which attains uncommon prominence in so far as the ‘ postmodern ’ is powerfully underwritten by a claimed distinction from Modernism ) , tend to misread the modern and arrogate its defining characteristics to their own period . |
| 2 | This backlash has meant many dog owners having to confine their pets to their own gardens for exercise and toilet use which , of course , leads to the problem of how to dispose of the dogs ' faeces . |
| 3 | Nithard puts them in 839 : Charles 's mother , and the magnates who had worked on the will of his father to promote Charles 's cause , fearing that if Louis were to die before matters were settled , they would risk incurring the hatred of Charles 's brothers to their own ruin , advised that the father should choose one of those sons to be his helper so that , even if the others refused to remain at peace after their father 's death , these two at least would have been so firmly united that they would be able to withstand the hostility of their rivals . |
| 4 | This ‘ mini-apartheid ’ was reminiscent of the colonial era , when parts of China were out of bounds to its own people . |
| 5 | He also found it possible to direct public funds to his own use . |
| 6 | In June a settlement agent in Fort Worth , Texas , was indicted for embezzlement , an agent in Birmingham , Alabama , was found guilty of the theft of $168,000 , and a computer operator in Denver , Colorado , was found to have transferred $313,127 in HUD funds to his own account . |
| 7 | Fortunately , technology often brings solutions to its own problems . |
| 8 | There is surely a lesson here for us , as we turn to information technology for solutions to our own problems of communication . |
| 9 | Santa Clara , California-based RasterOps Corp warns that it will record an operating loss and take a $5m to $7m restructuring charge for the third quarter ending March 31 : it says third quarter sales will be about equal to the second quarter 's $25m , and it blames ‘ general market softness and lingering effects of the transition from third party channels to its own sales force . |
| 10 | Proposals put forward by Maynard et al ( 1986 ) for GP budgets would overcome this problem , since GPs would act as gatekeepers to their own budgets . |
| 11 | By that he meant the rich , using their wealth , are able to manipulate the flow of information and images to their own advantage . |
| 12 | In the end Diana , who had an epidural injection in the base of her spine , was able to give birth thanks to her own efforts , without resorting to forceps or an operation . |
| 13 | When she was alone , Emily allowed herself a smile of satisfaction , nothing could stop her now , she was on her way up and all thanks to her own ingenuity . |
| 14 | For nearly 500 years the people of this area built churches , cathedrals , schools and houses on the Byzantine model and , as time passed , adapted these designs to their own needs . |
| 15 | He was giving words to her own struggle , but before she could feel too much empathy a light went on inside her . |
| 16 | In Holland , the unions made structural adaptations to their own organisations to meet the needs of the rank and file . |
| 17 | In Holland , the unions made structural adaptations to their own organisations to meet the needs of the rank and file . |
| 18 | Tiguary , at the north tip of the island , could muster about five hundred men ; from the length of the northern shore , the chiefs there could raise another four hundred ; on Oualie , Dulé could promise a force nearly two hundred strong of a mixed crowd of men , a core of maroons from islands in the archipelago colonised already , some redlegs , or tallow men , renegades to their own people and the more ardent to fight for that very apostasy ( some of them former prisoners and others who had been press-ganged into sailing service ) . |
| 19 | NCM in Cardiff will initially use the well established system of its parent company and then , in time , transfer its clients to its own system . |
| 20 | From January , Dolphin , the Norsk Data A/S affiliate based in Oslo , will sell NeXT workstations as clients to its own server systems — targeting public service , banking and finance sectors . |
| 21 | However , for practical reasons , most are concentrating only on the borders to their own territories , and for cultural reasons ( say their customers ) some are still not serious about competing at all , and retain the old , nationalised take-it-or-leave-itism . |
| 22 | It had been far from the capital week he had come to expect from Cowes , what with Willie winning everything in sight , having to make diplomatic speeches to his own nephew about how jolly it was to lose to him , and then just as he got time to drown his sorrows at the Yacht Club he had to come to Broadstairs . |
| 23 | From over George 's shoulder stared the portrait of a general whose handling of an attack in the South African war had caused so many casualties to his own brigade that he had immediately been promoted away to see if he could do the same thing with divisions and corps . |
| 24 | This is one of the so-called auto-immune group of diseases in which the body produces antibodies to its own tissues , and thus begins to destroy them . |
| 25 | The granite control he exerted over his features said it all as he clipped the keys to his own ring . |
| 26 | The Lancashire KFA ( whose members are frequent visitors to our own Days and Rallies ) have invited Beryl Beddows to give their teachers a Medau session in October — a very nice complement ! |
| 27 | In his memoirs , which are monuments to his own consistency , he answered this question in the negative : while admitting that he had no pre-established plan ( naturally since that would have been the kind of dogmatic thinking that he abhorred ) , he insisted that " the broad outlines were fixed in my mind … |
| 28 | He was nothing if not open-minded , adapting English ingredients to his own purposes and forever exercising his gift for fantasy . |
| 29 | So long as other leaders do not follow Dubček 's example , Moscow can be confident of dealing with known quantities in its client states and of possessing means to manipulate factional rivalries to its own advantage . |
| 30 | The Investment Managers Regulatory Organisation had already said that , as a result of responses to its own proposals for individuals in member firms to be trained up to and tested on a certain level of competence , it was having to reconsider them with an obvious impact on its meeting its 1 January 1994 deadline . |