Example sentences of "[to-vb] in [pron] [adj] right " in BNC.

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1 This was how I valued other people , too — how I valued Dana , as someone who did not need to be improved but allowed to flourish in his own right , with all the confusions and contradictions of which he was capable .
2 We 've chosen Boppard as the base for our Rhine Fly-Drive holidays because it 's not only a great place to visit in its own right , but because its central location makes it an ideal spot from which to explore the mighty Rhine .
3 ‘ A chance for the clergy wife to share in her own right . ’
4 So it 's not so much a device to study in its own right , it 's a teaching aid in other words , a classroom aid .
5 The stress , arousal , motor activity and so on inevitably associated with learning themselves result in biochemical and physiological changes in the brain at the same time as the animal is learning , and they are all important and interesting to study in their own right .
6 Gouache paintings completed on site become records of intense sessions of work , capable of being taken back to the studio to exist in their own right or to become resources of ideas for larger-scale studio canvases .
7 For an object to exist in an ontological sense is to exist in its own right and not merely as an object of thought , but it is not to exist independently of the conditions under which it may be thought of and identifyingly referred to as that particular object and no other .
8 Wycliffe was fascinated by the view framed by the window ; a vast expanse of sea which seemed to shine in its own right with almost dazzling brilliance .
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