Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] ' own [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These restricted lawful picketing to the pickets ' own place of work and removed the unions ' legal immunities from civil actions , so making them liable for damages up to a certain limit where they were responsible for unlawful industrial action . |
| 2 | The courts ' own role in reviewing managerial decisions is in turn defined by their own expertise . |
| 3 | Large sums spent on cosmetic surgery to obscure the aging process and the spenders ' own mortality is best evidence of this trend . |
| 4 | The manufacturers ' own organisation , the National Office of Animal Health , has reaffirmed its commitment to the dips . |
| 5 | The percentages of variants in Sue 's speech provide a reasonably reliable index of the socioeconomic status and educational background of her interlocutors , just as the percentages of those forms in the clients ' own speech are able to do . |
| 6 | This suggests that men are more cruel than women towards cats , but such an interpretation assumes that cats can distinguish between deliberate cruelty and pain inflicted for the animals ' own good . |
| 7 | Other labels derive from words taken from the foreigners ' own language . |
| 8 | Our first step is to obtain information about the hens ' own point of view . |
| 9 | At a time when FISA , the sport 's organizing body , helped by the drivers ' own association , had belatedly begun to pay some attention to safety in a notably risky sport , Chapman 's remarks showed a callousness towards his drivers — and by implication , towards other human beings — that I found it hard to admire . |
| 10 | Special needs post-holders have in this way been able to develop their consultation skills with teachers , while educational psychologists who have begun to extend their remit in this way have found this to be a realistic way of meeting the supporters ' own need for ongoing support . |
| 11 | Usually ministers are formally answerable to Parliament only for discharging their own responsibilities relating to sponsored bodies ( such as in terms of broad policy and general oversight ) , while responsibility for efficiency and day-to-day matters normally rests with the organizations ' own management . |
| 12 | This has always seemed to make sense , despite the Scots ' own tendency to be caught with a wardrobe of empty coat-hangers and crumpled piles , and one 's fear on behalf of England is that they are running out of time in which to find a dinner jacket . |
| 13 | Others dived and scurried for any food they found — sometimes a speck of meat from the eagles ' own food , or perhaps the crumbs from some piece of bread that the visitors to the Zoo wrongly threw in . |
| 14 | The very argument that had supported the miners ' own rise in the wages league during the 1970s — that the work was difficult and dangerous — counted against an egalitarian measurement of women 's skills . |
| 15 | And in fact the coffee rooms not only were not profitable but I think at one time were even subsidized by the directors ' own pocket which just how balmy some people can be . |
| 16 | The second er factor which really , by the communists ' own decision , completed the destruction of their organization in the cities and towns of er south and east China was the decision in the early nineteen thirties by large numbers of surviving communist militants to leave the cover , to er leave the cities and the towns where the repression was severe , where it was very difficult to avoid being picked up er by the police |
| 17 | The problems of temperature control are a result of the engineers ' own success . |
| 18 | However much encumbered by advisory councils , complaints commissions and the shifting apparatus of consult-ation and audience research , the broadcasters ' own judgement about programme standards and quality — what it meant to inform , educate and entertain — prevailed . |
| 19 | The departure of a ‘ special ’ child may be particularly problematic because he or she may have invoked part of the parents ' own history , or because the child performed a vital role in the family such as ‘ go-between ’ or communicator . |
| 20 | Second the fact that God 's personal self-disclosure in the Bible was given in terms of the hearers ' own culture inevitably means that misunderstanding may arise and points be missed when read by people of another culture who are unfamiliar with the cultural milieu of the Bible . |
| 21 | The Boards ' own impression , strengthened by many consumer complaints about power cuts , was that people wanted faster expansion . |
| 22 | A useful first step is to dispose of the workers ' own mother with her propensity to produce competing brood . |
| 23 | The Oscar-winning documentary is the Allies ' own record of that historic turning point . |
| 24 | It is a cliche to say that it has become a way of life , and that the stone-throwing is only the public , propaganda face of a whole political , social , economic and psychological transformation — the Palestinians ' own perestroika — which both sustains the Intifada and lays the groundwork for the eventual transition to statehood . |
| 25 | Prior to the 1970s most banks relied on their networks of overseas correspondent banks ( sometimes referred to as the banks ' own banking system ) to meet customer needs as regards international trade payments and finance . |
| 26 | We can look at the relationship between perceptions of paper bias and the electors ' own partisanship amongst ‘ readers of right-wing papers ’ , though it has to be remembered that different Voters are Evaluating different individual papers . |
| 27 | Was that the consultants ' own decision or were they prevented from consulting the NRA by the Cardiff Bay development corporation which originally proposed the Bill in close co-operation with the Welsh Office ? |
| 28 | This would take pedagogic advantage of the learners ' own experience , and would help to ensure that the tasks were independently purposeful — a crucial design feature if the tasks are to induce language processing consistent with natural use . |
| 29 | Scripts discussed will be original screenplays or adaptations of the writers ' own work . |
| 30 | They derive from the writers ' own work practice and belief system and serve to reinforce it in relation to other groups and cultures . |