Example sentences of "own [noun] [adv] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1	A gifted decorating triumvirate with an outstanding range of experience and the capacity to interpret clients ' own wishes rather than to impose a ‘ house style ’ .
2	Families are to be encouraged to live in their own homes rather than to rely on the state ( in the form of local authorities ) for the provision of council housing .
3	Here , it is enough to note that the adoption , largely at Owen 's prompting , by the trade union movement of the strategic objective of organising manufacturing industry in industrial co-operatives , of adopting Co-operation for its own sake so as to make a revolutionary change in the constitutional structure of society , ended almost as soon as it had begun .
4	Except for a brief success for Wilson in London and Southampton , cooks and stewards seem to have been stimulated by his recruiting drive to set up their own organisation rather than to join the NSFU .
5	All three republics , for instance , had already reformulated Article 6 of their own constitutions so as to end the communist political monopoly .
6	Resources should be used to equip people to act in their own interests rather than to pauperise them by treating them as dependents .
7	Every manager has a responsibility towards the organisation as a whole , and must define the activities of his own unit so as to contribute towards achieving the organisation 's objectives .
8	Every manager has a responsibility towards the organisation as a whole , and must define the activities of his own unit so as to contribute towards achieving the organisation 's objectives .
9	try to redefine the way that the opposition sees its own position so as to enable it to shift away from that position to your benefit
10	The scum kid seemed about to fit the mask to his own face so as to hide his savage features … or to become , for a few moments , the reflexion of Lexandro who lived such an unimaginable , foreign life .

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