Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , this may mean that old people are exposed to risk in their own homes and that there will be , on occasion , tragic consequences . |
| 2 | Its accommodation was considerably greater than would ever be needed in normal times , but its nationalistic opulence was intended to come into its own every four years , at the inauguration of successive presidents . |
| 3 | He too insisted on drawing a clear line between theology and philosophy ; he accepted Kant 's demolition of any philosophical natural theology , and insisted that theology must be permitted to proceed with its own work without dictation from speculative metaphysics or the imposition upon it of alien concepts and patterns of thought and investigation . |
| 4 | ZERO SITS ON A swivel office chair and clicks on his Quadra 900 Macintosh PC with 240 megabytes of memory and a keyboard which he has remodelled to conform to his own idea of how a keyboard ‘ should have been laid out in the first place ’ . |
| 5 | A highly sophisticated and well-read composer such as Britten could be expected to look for his own Hofmannsthal . |
| 6 | The Firm have come to cheer on their own , to celebrate , and to hold a Council of War . |
| 7 | Parts lists including description reference numbers and sometimes drawings are necessary if the user is expected to deal with his own replacements . |
| 8 | Now the uncertainty has been lifted , hundreds of hospitals will seek self-governing status while more family doctors are expected to opt for their own budgets — although Mr Major reaffirmed yesterday that he would continue to cherish and build up the NHS . |
| 9 | There will be lectures and seminars , to which teachers will be expected to contribute from their own experience , and in which taped and transcribed texts from their classrooms , and written work produced by their pupils will be discussed and analysed . |
| 10 | Taken on around Whitsuntide , such men were provided with a cottage for the period of the hire , and in return were expected to supply from their own meagre resources a ‘ bondager ’ — a woman who would perform field-work or any other menial farm duty required of her . |
| 11 | In spite of being an experimental novelist himself , Charles Newman has recently levelled a fierce attack on postmodernism which he argues ‘ has come to rely upon its own linguistic awareness of itself rather than plot or character development , to provide its own momentum ’ ( Newman 1985 : 98 ) . |
| 12 | Thus the tenant will not be permitted to rely on his own breach of his repairing obligations in order to depress the rent payable on review ( Harmsworth Pension Funds Trustees v Charringtons Industrial Holdings ( 1985 ) 49 P&CR 297 ) , and a surety who had guaranteed the obligations of a tenant was not allowed to rely on the tenant 's failure to register an assignment with the landlord in order to escape liability under his surety covenant ( Cerium Investments v Evans ( 1991 ) 62 P&CR 203 ) . |
| 13 | Or am I not permitted to speak in my own house ? ’ |
| 14 | Since formal application for the erection of suitable fencing would only result in further delay it was decided to proceed on our own . |
| 15 | Since formal application for the erection of suitable fencing would only result in further delay it was decided to proceed on our own . |
| 16 | He is said to come into his own behind closed doors when giving Prime Ministers advice they do not want to hear — in the politest possible way . |
| 17 | As with the misquotation cited above , the function of the advertisement is deflected : the text is made to refer to its own rhetorical device of washing meaning out of language . |
| 18 | Section 71(1) is in very broad terms , and it is well capable of embracing any proceeding necessary to secure observance of the Act , including civil proceedings for an injunction which authorities are subsequently empowered to commence in their own name . |
| 19 | History is the arena in which , first through the period of the Old Testament , then by the teaching of Jesus in the New , the way has been prepared for the gradual purifying and refining of man 's religious sense which will lead to a third , future era , in which religious values will be seen to shine in their own light as ‘ necessary truths of reason ’ . |
| 20 | Mr Gillman had had to attend to his own patients . |
| 21 | Your application will be even better supported if you can give examples of when you 've had to work on your own , as when decorating your new house or when preparing the accounts of a small business whilst at home with your children . |
| 22 | So , I mean these are the supporters that they , they 've got to sort of focus on erm even i he does say that some of the erm er leaders of the associations are n't actually up to scratch but he says eighty five percent of them are and it would be wrong to attack or to arrest , you know , the other fifteen percent and it 's got to come from their own discipline of the association , you let the movement grow together , do n't try and er become er , you know , resisting forces because er these are the people who we 've got to erm s stay with and to look after , to harness erm to work for and er so that 's basically , is his conclusion . |
| 23 | But , molly-coddled by the government for years , they may not be equipped to stand on their own two feet . |
| 24 | In principle we accept that people should be helped to provide for their own needs in old age by contributing throughout their working life to a pension scheme . |
| 25 | In Sweden , government prevention policy has been directed to heterosexuals , so that the gay movement has had to look for its own information . |
| 26 | Well I think that we have shown that we 're prepared to support Gorbachev in so far as er peace reform in the Soviet Union , but I think we 've got to look towards our own security in the West and we 've done very well with NATO , with the defensive block NATO over the last 40 years or so , and until we can have cast iron guarantees that Gorbachev is going to be secure and that he 's actually going to carry out his promises we 've got to keep our guard up . |
| 27 | The landlord insisted Mr Brady had agreed to leave of his own free will , and he was not assaulted . |
| 28 | Throughout this period older men and women in this country have preferred to live in their own homes and have maintained a strong belief in independence . |
| 29 | His are primarily paintings , compositions in which he includes other objects with ‘ a universal symbolism that 's not precise — people have got to arrive at their own interpretation , ’ he stresses . |
| 30 | But erm it 's all very easy to say you ca n't have socialism or this ideal state , whatever you might like to call it , unless it 's all er er you know kind of international er it 's got to be , happen all over the world or it never will happen at all but erm first of all it 's got to happen in your own country and it seems to me that we imagine that everybody , the mass of the people that we , we do that er we want this ideal state . |