Example sentences of "from the [noun pl] [unc] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crusading Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser assails this almost weekly for its alleged distribution of ‘ jobs for the boys ’ — and girls , many from the councillors ' own families . |
| 2 | Others dived and scurried for any food they found — sometimes a speck of meat from the eagles ' own food , or perhaps the crumbs from some piece of bread that the visitors to the Zoo wrongly threw in . |
| 3 | Ominously , the highest estimate comes from the bankers ' own technical adviser , who puts it at £8.1bn . |
| 4 | The length of the period of cultivation in this bush/fallow cycle depended on the quality of the soils , the requirement of the crops for nutrients , and on whether fertility was supplemented by cattle manure from the farmers ' own livestock . |
| 5 | They derive from the writers ' own work practice and belief system and serve to reinforce it in relation to other groups and cultures . |
| 6 | That is , the material presented is not some kind of post hoc analysis imposed upon the texts in the light of present-day concerns , removed from the ancients ' own understanding of the laws in their original context . |
| 7 | Examples of teaching practice are rejected because they seem too remote from the trainees ' own situation : " Yes but … my students would never ( work in pairs/bring things to class/respond to a video screen . ) " |
| 8 | For lack of sufficient central funds the rudimentary basis of a welfare state was being set up through contributions from the workers ' own meagre wages . |
| 9 | Other labels derive from words taken from the foreigners ' own language . |
| 10 | Work should start from the pupils ' own linguistic competence . |
| 11 | Listening provides a much-needed perspective on the subject , and includes material from the authors ' own recent work in comprehension task design . |
| 12 | This programme included extracts from the police 's own video of the day 's events . |
| 13 | In fact , studies of colonial government have often involved a perspective which is derived from the colonialists ' own assessments of their impact on dependent territories . |