Example sentences of "its own [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , the Glacial Control theory , while seeming to be mostly invalidated as a basic explanation , may come into its own as the best way to explain many of the details of present reef morphology . |
| 2 | Medicine is highly labour-intensive , and the NHS does not have the money to hold its own with the sheer weight of clinical traffic at present , let alone cope as the population gets older , the drug costs escalate and research brings exciting but expensive new treatments . |
| 3 | In December , when a meeting between Mr Baker and Mr Hussein still looked possible , the European Community decided against starting talks of its own with the Iraqi leadership . |
| 4 | Advertising came into its own with the mass media , and soon ‘ steam radio ’ turned into portable transistors and the old 78s phonographs became radiograms and record players . |
| 5 | Yet for Labour to win on its own at the next general election would be a victory on a scale comparable with that achieved by Attlee in 1945 . |
| 6 | For , as Raymond Briggs once said , in Maus the cartoon book holds its own for the first time against all-comers as a literary medium . |
| 7 | Questions are frequently divided into two or more parts , and this division raises difficulties of its own for the inexpert candidate . |
| 8 | In addition to the national objectives such as Health of the Nation , Patient 's Charter and Caring for People , NEHA has identified specific targets of its own for the coming year . |
| 9 | Outmoded by the plastics for smaller kites , it comes into its own for the big stuff as , for example , replica Cody man lifters , or the large Baden-Powell ‘ Levitor ’ where , in turn , it replaces the bamboo spars in the original pioneer designs . |
| 10 | Perhaps the slow movement misses out on exploratory shadings , but this is still a performance that can hold its own beside the finest currently available — which is to say Mintz and Bronfman on DG . |
| 11 | Then I noticed the Bible lying all on its own on the other side of the bunk ; the Bible on which I had laid out the relics the night before last , Night Zero . |
| 12 | First , the state remains bureaucratized , though with some interesting departures of its own from the classic Weberian model of bureaucracy . |
| 13 | When the Company entered the dynastic politics of southern India by putting forward a candidate of its own in the Carnatic , the French were soon able to drive him back to Trichinopoly and beseige him there . |
| 14 | For thirty five years Espinasse 's Ale held its own in the turbulent market conditions of Ireland 's eighteenth century brewery industry . |
| 15 | Despite many ingenious methods of providing transcendental excitement , the TOM only came into its own in the mid twenty-second century . |
| 16 | The responsible commitment which is assumed in a small way in all personal knowledge comes into its own in the Christian faith . |
| 17 | The great Da Ponte operas have been constantly in the international repertory since the early years of the century ( with the exception of Così fan tutte , which finally came back into its own in the 1950s ) ; while the lesser-known ones such as Idomeneo and La clemenza di Tito are now taking their place alongside their more familiar stable-mates . |
| 18 | He has had to find an alternative group in Europe which will be able to hold its own against the formidable record of Eliot Gardiner 's English Baroque Soloists , and has chosen well with the Hungarian ‘ authentic ’ orchestra Capella Savaria . |
| 19 | The growing plant partly relies on the host tree for nutrients but it also makes its own by the usual photosynthesis . |
| 20 | Now Feuerbach 's critique came into its own within the new movement of theology itself . |