Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] own [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adults are usually able to meet their own safety needs . |
| 2 | The strength and breadth of these definitions and emphases were to prove encouraging to many institutions , and people in institutions , struggling to establish their own research policies and activities . |
| 3 | That the court is entitled to establish its own classification system has been seen already . |
| 4 | One is General Magic , an alliance of Apple , AT&T , Matsushita , Motorola , Philips and Sony , which aims to establish its own software standard for PDAs and a family of related devices , ranging from PCs to multimedia machines . |
| 5 | RF officials were also worried by moves in Yakutia , where Russia 's major diamond producing region lay , to establish its own diamond business , bypassing central government . |
| 6 | ( It was reported in late April that the West German government had agreed to establish its own space agency , the Agency for Space Travel Affairs , with initial funding of $18,800,000 , to develop a reusable air-launched space shuttle . ) |
| 7 | In addition to securing Commonwealth support for their position , the British sought to consolidate their own aviation policy into some definable form , something which had eluded them for several years . |
| 8 | She soon became intrigued by the possibilities of the medium , acquired practical skills , and went on , in the 1960s , to establish her own portrait studio in Hampstead . |
| 9 | It is , however , now committed to find its own end-user business , and is thought to be talking to Olivetti & Co SpA . |
| 10 | Because every teacher group which decides to discuss disruption will need to find its own starting point , its own trigger for concern or anxiety , the materials are offered , not as a prescribed course of discussion , but as a resource bank from which groups are invited to select discussion units appropriate to their needs . |
| 11 | This would surely encourage golfers to repair their own pitch marks and those left by others . |
| 12 | Sleight apologised for this state of affairs at the Congress in Dublin in 1895 : " It must be remembered that it is exceedingly difficult for the executive committee to meet together often , for every time they do so they have to bear their own travelling expenses , and sometimes hotel expenses ; and to whatever centre they are summoned , it only means that some members of the committee have to travel a considerable distance . |
| 13 | Because er , inevitably man has got ta leave their home , even if they 've had a father erm who 's been a if they 've had no father at all , they 're gon na leave and they 're gon na face a world where they have to be a man and they 're gon na have to find their own male morals , and I think the , the responsibility , basically , has got ta come to men to change not for us to change them . |
| 14 | The papers received their photo of the band with Best but also scurried to their files to find their own action shots . |
| 15 | She plans to launch her own designer clothes label but that is one area where her younger sister has pipped her at the post . |
| 16 | and we 'll be out on the water on monday as banbury gets ready to launch its own water sports week … |
| 17 | The House then went on to pass its own defence budget which seriously undermined the future of the B-2 " Stealth " bomber programme and the Strategic Defence Initiative ( SDI ) . |
| 18 | Norway 's preoccupation is therefore not how to meet its own energy demand , nor will it be for many years , but how best to exploit its hydrocarbon wealth . |
| 19 | It was decided in 1983 that students would in future be required to provide their own bed linen and towels . |
| 20 | But with electricity prices expected to increase 50 per cent by 2010 , the extra cost of power should , in itself , lead consumers to increase their own energy efficiency . |
| 21 | Within such a discourse national intellectuals need not see themselves as attempting to impose their own culture orientations upon a majority population . |
| 22 | If it wins , other non-banks , such as General Motors ' finance arm and the Bell telephone companies , are likely to launch their own Visa cards . |
| 23 | Britain 's highest profile space commitment was to the ESA L-SAT programme ( later called Olympus ) ; this was the high-power , high-science , satellite from which the French and Germans withdrew in order to prepare ( from 1979 ) to launch their own DBS satellite outside the ESA — for their TVSat and TDF-I efforts . |
| 24 | Even ‘ theoretical modernist ’ Sigmund Freud used friends of Hartel to secure his own career promotion . |
| 25 | Pearse , the former Wallaby flanker , intends to establish his own sports marketing company and the NSWRU is set to be his first client . |
| 26 | Savory Milln should have been aware that Mr Ferriday would try and cover his liabilities from whatever funds he had access to , yet it had made no inquiries as to the source of the £13.5m or how Mr Ferriday had managed to meet his own underwriting obligations . |
| 27 | Patrick heard the beat of a familiar engine and went out to meet his own Mascot Missile coming up the drive . |
| 28 | Sir Dick was also planning to write his own life story despite Government disapproval of such books . |
| 29 | Obviously , a child returning from school to find his own study quarters where he has books at his disposal and sympathetic parents who can offer cogent remarks on his work and broaden his outlook with lively , stimulating conversation , will be able to get more out of education than a child who , when doing his homework , has to share the kitchen table with plates , cutlery and cruet as well as the pet cat and having to contend with ‘ Crossroads ’ as the main intellectual challenge of the evening . |
| 30 | As a consequence many large firms began to conduct their own market research until , more recently , it has become the specialised trade of advertising agencies and professional market research organisations . |