Example sentences of "are [v-ing] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pictured with him is the group 's chairman , Tony Edwards one of 22 mainly unemployed people who are building their own homes during the project . |
| 2 | These dimensions have been tested ergonomically , and are designed to fit in with standard appliances , so they provide a useful guide if you are building your own units instead of buying ready-made . |
| 3 | ‘ We are building our own garden , thanks to a grant from the Merseyside Environmental Trust . |
| 4 | You will certainly need to experiment with exposure periods if you are coating your own boards with a UV sensitive aerosol lacquer . |
| 5 | But now they are defying their own interests too . |
| 6 | We can infer from this that when the authors concerned start out to describe the institutions of an alien exotic social system they are using their own society as a model of normality . |
| 7 | I mean my , one of my friend 's sons , he was a computer man , he was working on his own but he 's in his I should think he 's getting on for about forty six and he was doing freelance but this recession the people who er the firms who were employing him are using their own staff and they 're not calling on him now and er he 's not done any computing for twelve months . |
| 8 | With this approach , the language experience approach , the learners ’ interest is held because they are using their own words and telling their own story . |
| 9 | If you are using your own office rather than an interview room , arrange for telephone calls to be intercepted and make sure you are not disturbed or distracted while interviewing . |
| 10 | The children are producing their own spelling dictionary which is freely available to the whole class . |
| 11 | And although overseas sales are steadily growing , many countries , such as the US , Germany , Italy , and the UK , are producing their own robots , and using them innovatively in a variety of non-manufacturing applications . |
| 12 | Individualists who deny that these claims explain anything at all are , in effect , simply reasserting the hegemony of the interest from which individualism draws its life , while holists are pursuing their own concern with the constraining power of society . |
| 13 | Mr Coulter said : ‘ It is becoming clear that building societies are pursuing their own interests by rescheduling loans or entering into shared ownership agreements , rather than biting the bullet of low interest loans to housing associations . ’ |
| 14 | It 's a story that 's been told thousands of times since Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol , and now a group of disabled students from Herefordshire Technical college 's assisted learning unit are staging their own version . |
| 15 | Er , it is important too , to stress that the Agency is acting as a bridge between the purchasing er , authority , the Social Services Department , and the er , independent sector , and that er , it 's also important that er , too , that er , in many cases , er , the provider 's income er , will , will not just come from Social Services , but it may be that people are purchasing their own care , if , if they 're not eligible for public , public 's er , help through , through funding , and therefore the scheme is much wider than just looking at the purchasing intentions of the , the Social Services Department . |
| 16 | Demonstrate , in talking about fiction and poetry , that they are developing their own views and can support them by reference to some details in the text , eg when talking about characters and actions in fiction . |
| 17 | Demonstrate in talking and writing about literature that they are developing their own views and can support them when appropriate by reference to the text , eg in making judgements of characters and their actions , or when building upon those characters and events in their own writing . |
| 18 | By giving up their lives to protect their nest mates , they are promoting their own genes through their relatives . |
| 19 | For him all vices are forms of mental illness , for vicious action is always a matter of submission to impulses which are seeking their own satisfaction at the expense of the satisfaction of the whole . |
| 20 | This means any class taken on a voluntary basics , classes paid for by a private concern , ( W.I. T.W.G. sports sections of firms etc. ) , are hiring your own premises and running a class , or are coaching any display team . |
| 21 | Seven of them use wheelchairs and so staff need to raise an extra £4,000 so twelve of them can accompany the residents , who are paying their own way . |
| 22 | The sense that many potential carers are guarding their own positions in situations where the care of a relative becomes a live issue in a family , is matched by the very clear message that older people in particular are wary of asking too much of their relatives , or of ‘ having ’ to rely on them . |
| 23 | ‘ We are going our own ways , but hopefully one day we will get together . |
| 24 | Now we are considering our own Shell suit with a small logo on the front . |
| 25 | ONE IN 10 civil servants at the Department of Transport are breaking their own law by not wearing seat belts . |
| 26 | Our friends in the Canadian High Commission and the Canadian Government are conducting their own assessment of the case . |
| 27 | The level of owner occupation in Britain has increased rapidly during the last 30 years to the point where nearly two out of every three households either own or are buying their own home . |
| 28 | About a third are buying their own homes ( some owning them outright ) and two thirds are renting . |
| 29 | About one third will be claiming income support , a half own or are buying their own homes and a half renting . |
| 30 | The problem for the Labour party is that the latter category is declining in size : more workers are buying their own homes . |