Example sentences of "'s own [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the fault-tolerance front IBM says that Mode 3 substantially cuts the delay between the one machine failing and the other one picking up where it left off ; by the company 's own estimation the switch can take from anywhere between a long 30 seconds to a horribly long five minutes in modes 1 and 2 . |
| 2 | Indeed , in the author 's own village the parish register was being kept in Latin as late as 1657 . |
| 3 | With financial help from the Rockefeller family and Gere 's own money the organising committee had a base of £300,000 from which to create the exhibition . |
| 4 | This was a system in which , not only were members of one 's own generation the only legitimate sexual partners , but not even all of these , since people who were descendants of the same ancestors would not marry . |
| 5 | The point of the exercise is the exercise itself — and the pleasure of exploring at one 's own pace the wild , white countryside . |
| 6 | The specialist teacher or adviser will need to discuss with the pupil 's own teacher the information obtained from screening procedures that has a bearing on adaptations to learning materials or to the environment . |
| 7 | Liam found a letter , which the old man had written just after Liam 's mother 's own death the year before . |
| 8 | In Huxley 's own book The Crayfish ( 1879 ) , written twenty years after the Origin had appeared , the development of crayfishes is a very unimportant part of the work , forming a confessedly hypothetical section at the end . |
| 9 | The organization concentrated its activities on publishing anti-semitic literature , most notably the Protocols and Beamish 's own concoction The Jew 's Who 's Who ( 1920 ) . |
| 10 | Practically the whole of Ata'i 's work , on the other hand , is concerned with scholars who lived in a period of relatively rapid elaboration of the hierarchical structure ; and well before Ata'i 's own time the development was nearly complete . |