Example sentences of "well [subord] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met executives who knew the inside of a Concorde better than their own back yard , who had telephones stuck permanently to their ears . |
| 2 | Firth , Hubert and Forge report that some people get on with their mothers-in-law better than their own mothers , but for the most part these relationships are regarded as likely to be tricky : people treat them as an ‘ occupational risk ’ of marriage and regard themselves as ‘ lucky ’ if they work out satisfactorily ( 1970 , pp. 414–15 ) . |
| 3 | Now what has happened here is that on the previous public enquiry over the Tetsworth site , Tetsworth , Great Milton and various other Parish Councils have the defence of producing sites which they think are appropriate or better than their own site , and they mentioned Wheatley . |
| 4 | The result is that you often know your grandchildren better than your own children ! ’ |
| 5 | In the air at around 3,500 feet I found that , provided one held it with the antenna close to horizontal , the ICOM IC-A20 MkII could produce quite accurate VOR indications at distances of well over 25 nm from the VOR — rather better than my own King KX99 does . |
| 6 | And yet I know it almost better than my own street . |
| 7 | In addition , Global itself included such names as Golden Circle and Overland Holidays , as well as its own name . |
| 8 | The Tarentaise has also been exported and has breed societies in Canada and the USA as well as its own herdbook established in France in 1880 . |
| 9 | It 's an object-oriented Object Management Group Common Object Request Broker Architecture-compliant application integration scheme that DEC already has running on Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp machines as well as its own Alpha RISC . |
| 10 | The generator has forms , menus and report handling systems as well as its own database processing language . |
| 11 | DEC for its part disassociated itself from statements made by DEC VP of software engineering David Stone as well as its own PR people that DEC had decided not to pursue the OSF/1 path for MIPS . |
| 12 | Intasun includes the Intasun label , plus Club 18–30 , Golden Days , Ski Scene , Lancaster Holidays as well as its own airline , Air Europe . |
| 13 | Rank Travel was made up of Wings and OSL in 1985 , while British Airways Tours included the Enterprise , Sovereign , Flair , Alta ( Speed Bird ) , and Martin Rook holiday names as well as its own airline company , British Air Tours . |
| 14 | The following year the PLO fell apart , under attack from Syria as well as its own dissidents . |
| 15 | When Florence of Worcester draws elements of his account of the battle of Assandun in 1016 from Sallust he is revealing quite a lot about the classical interests of twelfth-century historians , but also raising doubts about his own reliability , and William of Malmesbury , whose methods so often find favour with modern scholars , nevertheless records miracle stories which his critical faculties ought to have led him to doubt , and perhaps did ; and like historians of all periods , William , Florence and their colleagues were at the mercy of the bias and inadequacy of their sources , as well as their own prejudices and errors . |
| 16 | Insurance companies offer mortgages from banks and building societies , as well as their own brand . |
| 17 | The Dunbar family had houses in London , Scotland , Ireland and a villa in Biarritz , as well as their own yacht . |
| 18 | It will be interesting to see how the two company 's product lines merge ; Letraset distribute Ready , Set , Go ! 4 and Adobe 's offerings as well as their own ImageStudio and the forthcoming LetraStudio and its accompanying display face type . |
| 19 | The collapse of the coup was blamed by RAM on strong US support for Aquino , as well as their own failure to attract visible popular support , chiefly because they did not convince enough people that they had the experience to run the country . |
| 20 | The Retros are firmly based in the sixties performing old hits as well as their own material . |
| 21 | The Uighurs are the predominant people in Xinjiang , where they maintain their own political leadership as well as their own language . |
| 22 | European movements of national liberation were the most important forms of popular rebellion during their lifetime , but the intellectual atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century London as well as their own convictions made it seem that nationalism was a temporary phase , and that internationalism was the norm , or at least the force that would grow most powerfully in the future . |
| 23 | Best of all , the chapters ‘ Nursing as a helping relationship ’ and ‘ Burnout and its management in nursing ’ are superb , clearly demonstrating the importance of the interaction of nurses with patients as well as their own colleagues . |
| 24 | The method to be used is face-to-face interviews with accountants ; accountants have been chosen because of their knowledge of the tax system , the likelihood that they pay high marginal tax rates and their familiarity with quantitative measurement ; as well as their own reaction to the tax changes they will be asked about the reactions of their clients . |
| 25 | The fortunate individuals who turn out to be at the top end of the income distribution usually own physical and financial capital as well as their own labour , or human capital . |
| 26 | Frequent references to German and Japanese experience failed to recognise that their export drives ( based on new goods , new markets and new marketing techniques ) had been made in the 1950s and their very success changed the trading world as well as their own economies . |
| 27 | Fine , she always manages to do it , she complains at first that she 's got too much to do , but she always gets in done in time , as well as her own work . |
| 28 | Liza was aware that , on hearing she was pregnant , her mother-in-law as well as her own mother would probably guess the truth . |
| 29 | Despite a liberal peppering of designer labels — like Ghost and Helen Storey as well as her own Pat Young label — in her wardrobe , Pat insists it does n't have to cost the earth to look good . |
| 30 | Her hard-fought for earnings were at stake here as well as her own self-confidence — she had to get it right . |