Example sentences of "[adv] in [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ ’ I charge you , therefore , for the present abjure all fighting but that is forced upon you , when no man can blame if you do valiantly in your own defence . |
| 2 | In each of these forms , the Word is the Word insofar and only insofar as God really expresses and communicates himself through it ; and the special task of Christian dogmatics is to refer the present proclamation of Jesus Christ back to its original ground in God himself in order to clear away distortions and misrepresentations so that the Word itself can be heard afresh in its own integrity . |
| 3 | The journalists asked a few questions and got no real answers and the old Monsieur le Président , who had presided so long in his own way at the top , shouted and banged his fist before leaving the room . |
| 4 | But in spite of the fact that I am more attentive to my own affairs than to yours , the disproportion of awareness is not necessarily in my own favour . |
| 5 | No one should be subjected to this sort of ordeal , especially in their own home . |
| 6 | Only gradually were these treacherous areas brought into profitable use from peat digging to farming or , especially in our own time , for afforestation . |
| 7 | Clara could not count the times she had heard her mother declare that when she died she would be dead , and she would n't care what happened to her body , and for all site cared they could put her out for the dustman to collect sentiments which from the first had filled Clara with a vague alarm and horror , for they were clearly reasonable enough in their own way . |
| 8 | Luce followed his lead , not yet clear enough in her own mind to try and provide any answers , or confide what she 'd been thinking . |
| 9 | His intentions were clear enough in his own mind , but it was decidedly difficult to make a beginning , particularly when Dimity was so busy . |
| 10 | This is hard enough in our own lives but it is doubly hard in public work where it calls on people devoted to different ideals to work together in mutual acceptance , and that means not just tolerating one another but respecting and understanding what the other is talking about . |
| 11 | It may be all in my own head . |
| 12 | Faced with worrying medical symptoms in one 's child , signs that an elderly parent can no longer cope alone in their own home , or the sight of flames consuming the house around you — what you do is crucial ! |
| 13 | This was n't like love at all , this was n't what she felt when they kissed , or when he put his mouth behind her ear , or rubbed his hands over her stomach , or when , alone in her own bed she had imagined he was there with her . |
| 14 | Among all these famous names there is one who knew them all , and who perhaps in his own way did as much as they to popularize , and incidentally to record , the Lake District at the turn of the century . |
| 15 | The spirituality of The Cloud of Unknowing never became as popular in the West as the Mystical Theology of Dionysius has remained in eastern Orthodox Christianity , but perhaps in our own day when many people in the Western world have reacted against inadequate human ideas of God , this book might prove to be a refreshing and useful corrective . |
| 16 | She felt as if she were sinking deeper and deeper in her own panic , her whole consciousness going down into a quicksand while her body stood there , stupid with fear . |
| 17 | That they will do so in their own interest is ( considered ) self-evident , and the nature of that interest is inferred from the status which they occupy ’ ( Bendix and Lipset , 1957 , p. 85 ) . |
| 18 | The sixth-century bishop of Le Mans , Badegisel , who had been maior of the palace , did so in his own interests , seizing the property of others , including that of his relatives . |
| 19 | A part-time probation officer may do so in his own time provided that he has not previously been concerned with the child and his family in a professional capacity . |
| 20 | From the bench Bateman had said : ‘ I here beg leave , not merely in my own name but in the name of the whole bench , to require from Mr Ashton the name of the individual on whose statements he has thus presumed to impugn our magisterial conduct . ’ |
| 21 | Yet it was in the rank and file , those men known only in their own chapel and town , that Nonconformity made itself felt in English religious life . |
| 22 | Since its formation these founding companies have been joined in the Quality Scotland Foundation by other like-minded organisations , all keen to promote a quality-conscious attitude not only in their own businesses but throughout Scottish life . |
| 23 | However , restrictions are placed on the power of management to combat a hostile takeover bid , for fear that they might act only in their own interests rather than for those of the company or its shareholders . |
| 24 | Salvation for the slaveholders lay only in their own willingness to accept abolition and undertake amelioration of slavery on their estates . |
| 25 | In May 1314 they maintained that they could be taxed only in their own assemblies ; when Edward tried to proceed through parliament he often found himself thwarted — as in January 1316 — by the inadequate attendance of the clergy . |
| 26 | Thus , as if by an Invisible Hand , prices are guiding individual consumers and producers , each acting only in their own self-interest , to an allocation of the economy 's resources that is Pareto-efficient . |
| 27 | Conservative Members are not interested in the poor , but are interested only in their own shares and in the rich . |
| 28 | Fangorn agrees when he says of his own dying species , ‘ songs like trees bear fruit only in their own time and their own way , and sometimes they are withered untimely ’ . |
| 29 | However , as time progressed they took up the argument of legislation requirement and professional competence as a form of self-defence and as a means of maintaining their professional standing not only in their own eyes , but in the eyes of other planners , and in the eyes of their fellow colleagues in Kirkwall . |
| 30 | SCIENTIFIC investigation of other societies and other ages has increasingly come under attack from relativists claiming that other cultures , and even other scientific paradigms , can be understood only from within , and only in their own terms . |