Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until she won their trust their manners were deferential , identical to the old-fashioned manners of her own youth . |
| 2 | For example , an article in Ekonomska politika ( 27 July 1987 ) , after pointing out that , according to the law , banks are independent organizations and carry the risks of their own decisions , continues : ‘ But it is not so in practice . |
| 3 | We were now in the 20th century irrevocably , ‘ part of an age where we must be allowed to take the possible risks of our own knowledge . ’ |
| 4 | The mill became a delightful residence in 1968 and , despite its domestic role , still manages to retain the unmistakable characteristics of its former uses . |
| 5 | Apple 's publication Human Interface Guidelines ( Apple Computer 1987 ) set out the 10 chief characteristics of its own GUI as follows : |
| 6 | They defended the entitlement of teachers , by virtue of their education and training if not their professional standing , to shape the learning experience of pupils and to devise a curriculum suited to the characteristics of their own pupils . |
| 7 | In nature , to look at your parents is a good method of learning the characteristics of your own species . |
| 8 | Females , moreover , only approach loud-speakers playing songs of their own species . |
| 9 | At weddings of the unpretentious kind it was usual for one or two singers to perform songs of their own composition , epic epithalamiums sung to an accompaniment of gentle clapping , interspersed with an antiphonal falsetto nasal chant from another singer . |
| 10 | The action demonstrated the belief that Korea was ready for independence and was intended to forestall a lengthy American occupation or the Americans advancing Koreans of their own choice . |
| 11 | ‘ What characterizes this Christian revolutionary tradition from Joachim of Fiore to John Huss , from Thomas Münzer to the theologies of hope and political theologies of our own day , is that the Kingdom of God is not conceived as another world in space and time , but as a different world , a changed world , a world changed by our own efforts … . |
| 12 | Under the STV a candidate must compete not only with political opponents but also with candidates of his own party , and compete in a popularity contest which , commencing with his first election campaign , will have to last without remission for as long as he wishes to hold his seat . |
| 13 | After all , if its purpose is professional development and curriculum improvement , there is no reason why schools and teachers should disseminate what they do farther than the bounds of their own school community . |
| 14 | The sameness of yellow road lights , shaped like faucets , flash black flash upon the desert of the motorway , and then , the bit where the road goes dark , where there is no light at all , but for the torch-like eyes of our own headlights . |
| 15 | As early as January 1961 a US Department of State report on Cuba argued that ‘ Castro , aware of [ growing discontent within Cuba ] and of the lack of decisive support by the Soviet countries is endeavouring , through his acts of provocation , to create a crisis against Cuba that will compel the Soviets to support him and will restore him to the position of anti-imperialist hero in the eyes of his own people and the Latin American masses ’ ( US Declassified , 1982 , 001697 ) . |
| 16 | Its army was invincible ; its palaces unparalleled ; the domes of its many mosques quite literally glittered with gold . |
| 17 | The French gunners opened fire again , this time using short-barrelled howitzers that fired shells in a high arc over the heads of their own columns , and which exploded in small dirty gouts of flame and smoke . |
| 18 | The Chilean case shows that the working class were prepared to take the situation into their own hands and adopt radical action over the heads of their own leaders . |
| 19 | For Leapor , women are not merely the authors of their own misfortunes or , at best , ‘ softer men ’ , but the victims of an unjust order . |
| 20 | However , Mar delayed in an attempt to raise more men , which allowed the British government time to build up concentrations of its own troops and collect reinforcements from its foreign allies . |
| 21 | Reliving Keats , love for Fanny Brawne , Thomas ( away from home and family ) was tapping the subterranean channels of his own courtship and early days as a writer . |
| 22 | The Casa Republicii was the symbol of Ceauşescu 's indifference to the well-being of the current generation of Romanians as much as Versailles was the embodiment of Louis XIV 's quest for glory regardless of the sufferings of his own people . |
| 23 | Berger watched the race for a while and it was tempting to speculate on his thoughts as the cars of his former employer , Ferrari , screamed by in second and third places , Alesi keeping a respectful distance behind his team leader . |
| 24 | We believe that the analysis of these four cornerstones can help women transform themselves into subjects of their own reality . |
| 25 | To Freire , the purpose of education should be human liberation , which means people are subjects of their own learning , not empty vessels filled by teachers ' knowledge . |
| 26 | Minns brought a broad range of expertise to bear on a field extending from eastern Europe to China , while at the same time paying close attention to the antiquities and books of his own college , where he occupied the same rooms over a period of fifty-five years as undergraduate , fellow , president ( 1928–49 ) , and senior fellow . |
| 27 | Stunned by the images of her own mind , all she could do was clench and unclench her fists , praying the numbing effect she had encouraged would disappear as quickly as Rune had implied . |
| 28 | But the movement — I suppose on the whole I am sympathetic towards the movement , but we have different images of what that movement is. erm the sort of image in the media is often very misleading . |
| 29 | His mind busied itself with images of what this news could do to his investigation if it ever became public ; the newspaper headlines ; the half-amused speculation of the cynics ; the crowds of sightseers , the superstitious , the credulous , the genuine believers , thronging the church in search of … what ? |
| 30 | Representations of female sexuality here were not merely negative , they now offered women positive images of their own autonomy through a stress on celibacy , evolutionary superiority and the power of human love . |