Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] ' own [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This strategy is based upon the work of Slobin and Welsh ( 1973 ) , and upon the authors ' own extensive research regarding the imitative abilities of mentally handicapped children . |
| 2 | Listening provides a much-needed perspective on the subject , and includes material from the authors ' own recent work in comprehension task design . |
| 3 | By the spring of 1937 the Largo Caballero government had gone some way towards taming the process of social revolution and absorbing the militias into a regular army built around the Communists ' own Fifth Regiment . |
| 4 | In a sense they had little alternative on account of Israel 's refusal to accept the return of the refugees and the refugees ' own outright refusal of resettlement . |
| 5 | Mr Hamill , the masons ' own leading historian , would be the first to acknowledge that there is no certainty concerning the origins of the Craft . |
| 6 | Ominously , the highest estimate comes from the bankers ' own technical adviser , who puts it at £8.1bn . |
| 7 | The Boards ' own contracting services and the customer canvassing activities of their salesmen played a part in remedying this situation ; and in most new houses ‘ ring ’ mains , with a range of socket outlets and the new standard 13 amp fused plugs , became the norm . |
| 8 | For lack of sufficient central funds the rudimentary basis of a welfare state was being set up through contributions from the workers ' own meagre wages . |
| 9 | The warblers ' own young are turfed out of the deeply cupped reed nest by the cuckoo chick soon after it hatches and the foster parents find themselves feeding an enormous monster with a huge red gape and insatiable appetite — a monster which will eventually grow to three times their size . |
| 10 | Operational balances in the Bank of England are like the banks ' own current accounts and are used for clearing purposes . |
| 11 | The banks ' own private deposit insurance scheme had collapsed because of what were termed " extremely high delinquency rates " among borrowers . |
| 12 | The recruits ' lexicon of facial scars and tattoos spelled out clan and gang allegiances ; similar scarifications signalled the troopers ' own kindred origin . |
| 13 | The patterns of usage therefore reflected the writers ' own individual styles , and their choice of words similarly reflects their own subjective knowledge . |
| 14 | At least in England and , until recently , in all fifty states of the USA , the law , or more strictly — and significantly — the lawyers ' own professional code , does n't allow them to . |
| 15 | Work should start from the pupils ' own linguistic competence . |
| 16 | The testing confirmed that the scoring system was accurate and predictive , and to a great extent it mirrored the underwriters ' own subjective analysis calculated on a case-by-case basis . |
| 17 | Through Brian Way 's influence a new kind of college course was emerging that saw drama as the basis for the students ' own personal development . |
| 18 | It emphasizes activities which encourage the students ' own personal response , while facilitating exploration and extension of the language . |
| 19 | The teacher thus : added to the information she already had became aware of a different information source learned how to use that source used the source to present information in a different way and the class : also became aware of the information source responded actively to the on-screen presentation of statistical material could all use the material at the same time manipulated the material easily , moving to and from different parts of the database as they thought appropriate to support their arguments The viewdata presentation therefore : allowed ease of display and manipulation of information in a way in which a chalkboard , flip chart or handout could not and became a kind of electronic chalkboard provided a catalyst for discussion of subject matter related easily the subject matter to the students ' own geographical and social environment encouraged the development of oral discussion based on evidence inferred from information rather than expressed , but unsupported , opinion |
| 20 | The students ' own deteriorating conditions and increasing awareness of problems experienced by other social groups also played a role . |
| 21 | They provide an open-ended structure which can accommodate the students ' own negotiated programmes of activities . |
| 22 | The early part of the decade had seen the festival succumb entirely to the boys ' own heavy metal hackery that at that point ruled the roost in certain quarters , most significantly the mind of Jack Barrie , Marquee General Manager and responsible for booking the bands . |
| 23 | We would be imitating the Bolsheviks ' own rose-tinted over-concentration on their favourite study topics ( like the proletariat state and collective farms ) if we lingered here too long . |
| 24 | The ‘ information ’ part of Vredeling , which would apply to employers with 1,000 or more employees , would require that information relating to the business as a whole , and to the employees ' own particular subsidiaries or establishments , be supplied annually to employees ' representatives . |
| 25 | The second part of the plan was to turn to the Tories ' own strong issues for the last 10 days : defence , foreign policy , law and order and — hard though it is in a recession — the economy . |
| 26 | Viruses multiply inside cells by hijacking the cells ' own molecular machinery and forcing it into the service of the viral life-cycle . |
| 27 | The special cases of literacy usage represented by the analysts ' own academic experience , by the literary forms of their own culture and other specific social conventions are still taken by many , often implicitly , as the appropriate models for describing the ‘ universal ’ qualities of literacy and for testing other groups ' or societies ' conventions of literacy usage . |