Example sentences of "[det] [coord] [pron] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Assembly , which was a kind of democracy , though a rather small , special and elite one , was liable to the bad democratic habit of rapidly overturning its own or its advisers ' decisions : so for instance Thucydides ( vi.89ff. ) implies that a single speech by Alcibiades was enough to make the Assembly reverse a decision not to help Syracuse in 414 . |
| 2 | For a discipline that generally deals simplistically with social relations , and rarely studies its own or its subjects ' histories , such an approach is especially important . |
| 3 | In higher grade cases , some Down 's people have undergone operations , either at their own or their parents ' instigation , to alter the physical characteristics which have become a stigma for them . |
| 4 | In this chapter she discusses her preconceptions and first impressions of further education , then describes her own and her students ' experience of their course and their attempts to participate with other students in the life of the college . |
| 5 | However , as we have seen , central government , who through the SEC has boldly pressed on with the introduction of the GCSE , has even in doing so been subject to its own and its advisers ' demands that Standards should be preserved . |
| 6 | Their motives tend , I suspect , to be a mixture of concern for their own and their families ' future , concern for countries and people who are less well-off than they are and a sympathetic response based on a wish for the better treatment of the animal world . |
| 7 | After the initial effects of this wear off , children begin to realise their own and their parents ' position . |
| 8 | However , apart from their own and their parents ' socio-economic characteristics , demographic factors such as early marriage and childbearing experience also have a substantial effect . |
| 9 | The banks utilized domestic and foreign financial resources , they were shareholders of and suppliers of credits to domestic and foreign industrial companies , they combined the short-term business of deposit banking with the long-term business of investment banking and also provided stockbroker services , managed their clients ' portfolios , acquired shares and voted their own and their customers ' stock at general meetings of joint-stock companies . |
| 10 | Individuals , denied a common conception of their own and their fellows ' human goals within a shared moral tradition , are unlikely to be able to come to any agreement with others or to articulate their desire for fulfilment on the basis of procedural rules alone . |
| 11 | Buthelezi and the ANC deputy president , Nelson Mandela , meeting in Durban on March 30 amid media claims that both their own and their organizations ' authority had been diminished by the events , issued a new five-point plan to try to control the situation . |
| 12 | Matching applicants to available jobs — both under- and overqualified employees represent significant risks by being a negative influence on morale ( both their own and their co-workers ' ) . |
| 13 | In bowls all round you have some or all of the following : a salad of chick peas , an aïoli , black olives , capers ( these are the four typical , native Provençal dishes ) , a spicy tomato sauce , a grated carrot salad , a Jerusalem artichoke salad , potatoes , beetroot , celery , sweet red peppers , gherkins , hard-boiled eggs — it depends what is available , how many people you have to feed , on your own and your guests ' tastes . |
| 14 | In it he expressed his own and his dancers ' sheer enjoyment of ‘ just dancing to music which cries out to be danced ’ . |
| 15 | This was exciting and I was very soon trying crystals of all sorts of substances taken from the shelves of my own and my colleagues ' laboratories . |