Example sentences of "[adv] in [pron] [adj] right " in BNC.

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1 You 're alive here , now , entirely in your own right .
2 But if a war went badly and looked likely to drag on , that would be a calamity not just in its own right .
3 And unless we can find in the end a proposition or set of evidence en which has somehow in its own right the probability 1 , all these probabilities will have nothing to rest on .
4 The Working Party believed , and those we consulted concurred whole-heartedly , that competence in English is important , both in its own right and to enable pupils to gain access to and benefit from the other subjects of the National Curriculum .
5 Nevertheless an exercise programme is useful both in its own right and as a focus and forum for observation of the patient 's physical progress and of his psychological process at the same time .
6 This is a problem both in its own right , and because it reflects the relative lack of all forms of power that women have in contemporary Britain .
7 The specialist field of old master drawings has received extremely detailed study ; the drawings are interesting both in their own right and as a means of knowing more about artists ' practices .
8 Hence a company has its own legal capacity and is able to contract , etc. in its own right .
9 It is essential but not enough to postulate that an object-topic , if it is to qualify as existing in the modus per se , i.e. in its own right and not just as an object of thought , must be a subject , at any given time , of a non-arbitrary set of predicates .
10 Either in his own right , or through his links with other lords , Gloucester dominated the entire north east and the north-western counties of Cumberland and Westmorland .
11 Either in his own right , or through his links with other lords , Gloucester dominated the entire north east and the north-western counties of Cumberland and Westmorland .
12 Britain does have a future as part of the EC but I want it to be prosperous again in its own right .
13 Only comparatively recently have roses been grown again in their own right as flowering shrubs ( as opposed to being massed in beds for maximum display ) and therefore the Dictionary 's comments are pertinent today .
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