Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 31 | Nevertheless , there is concern that if wealthy individuals are able to purchase their own higher-priced coverage , a two-tiered health system will develop . |
| 32 | The strings , thanks to their numerical superiority , are able to hold their own against the brass far more successfully than can the woodwind . |
| 33 | On the first limb of the response , the Royal Commission rather lamely noted that the procedures of some tribunals have become ‘ legalistic ’ , mainly because the law governing their work has become more complex , and recommended that procedures be reviewed ‘ to ensure that applicants in person are able to conduct their own cases wherever possible ’ . |
| 34 | Life is more interesting if you are able to guide your own destiny , and this is only possible if you can find the time to plan . |
| 35 | And again one of the great concerns that we have with the development of N H S Trusts , is those Trust Boards are able to determine their own policies in respect to staffing , to set their own pay scales for staff , also they are able to do their business to a large extent behind closed doors . |
| 36 | Through project work , learners are able to express their own ideas and opinions in English . |
| 37 | This prevents competition by helping to ensure the power of the incumbent and increasingly wealthy individuals are able to launch their own campaigns from personal funds . |
| 38 | In each unit there is a kitchen where the residents are able to make their own snacks and a communal television and activity room . |
| 39 | After the first day or so some people are able to operate their own catheters . |
| 40 | In the meantime , the Board is looking for ways to fund the deficit should it continue , but has decided not to charge the deficit as an additional burden upon those residents who are able to pay their own way from their own resources , and not to move from its established principle of offering care to those most in need towards a degenerate policy of offering care only to those who are most able to pay . |
| 41 | There is something puzzling here , since Mrs Moore , though an unbeliever , had been happy to have her own daughter confirmed , and there is a steady succession of references in Jack 's letters and diaries , during the years 1919–1931 , of attendance at church with Minto . |
| 42 | People who are concerned to preserve their own well-being , and also to strive to do a better job , need to look in two directions for help : they must look inwards , to gain insight into the dynamics of their own stress ; and they must look outwards , to understand better the social forces that surround them . |
| 43 | The young designer plans to go to fashion college , and has been busy choreographing her own charity fashion shows in the meantime . |
| 44 | While not present at an event , the writer may have been able to use his own detailed sources which are no longer available — or the writer may have relied on hearsay . |
| 45 | By providing money for so-called buy-back operations , in which countries either bought their own commercial debts back from the banks at deeply discounted levels or , alternatively , simply used the money as collateral when negotiating low-interest bond deals , a number of countries had been able to reschedule their own external obligations on easier repayment terms than had been agreed at the time when they were made . |
| 46 | Faye as Prefect-Apostolic of Ziguinchor , Senegal , brings Africa into line with India , China and Japan , who have each been able to boast their own bishops for some years . |
| 47 | So far , she had been able to contain her own grief . |
| 48 | After attending a local nursery school , some children had been able to write their own names . |
| 49 | The people who decide whether to believe them or not have been able to check their own stocks quickly , to make sure no bombs or material are missing . |
| 50 | Until very recently housing associations have been able to have their own policies as to whom they can house , as well as housing a certain proportion of people from the housing waiting-list as part of their financial agreement with the local authority . |
| 51 | ‘ If I had been able to run my own theatre , like Alan Ayckbourn or Neil Simon , I would definitely have directed all my plays myself . |
| 52 | The self-employed have long been able to make their own pension arrangements . |
| 53 | ( Incidentally if budding authors are happy to type their own scripts on a word processor , that would usually be helpful . |
| 54 | The island spans over 200 miles by road from north to south and within its borders the proud Sardinians are happy to boast their own language , customs and intriguing culture . |
| 55 | At this level the subordinate is saying ‘ I 'm helpless to solve my own problems so I need a wise person ( Parent ) like you to solve them for me . ’ |
| 56 | We should assess the current and future requirements for GIS within RBGE , to determine whether or not it would be cost-effective to acquire our own expertise and hardware in-house , or contract out our GIS work . |
| 57 | We , as jurymen , must listen to one set of evidence only and be prepared to do our own mental cross-examination . |
| 58 | To some extent this may be ameliorated by offering a cash alternative to shareholders , but the offeror must be prepared to defend its own financial condition and may even be compelled to issue a profit or dividend forecast in order to buttress its position . |
| 59 | Actors must be prepared to create their own work . |
| 60 | Is this just the state having been convinced by the academics ' own rhetoric about themselves , or hoping that the academics will actually be prepared to keep their own house in order ( for instance , by closing down a course of their own volition ) ? |