Example sentences of "'s own [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The association 's own quantity surveyor and marketing department made detailed investigations .
2 NATO had proposed to create a new " rapid reaction force " in Europe , which it wanted to bear the responsibility for the front-line defence of the region , as the USA 's own troop presence in Western Europe was wound down [ see p. 38216 ] .
3 or indeed from a resignation or premature retirement following the procedure , must generally be met from outside the school 's own budget share .
4 Their level of attainment , however , was classified in accordance with their score in the project 's own reference test .
5 Westmacott saw tracer at low level in the direction of Luqa and thought it was fire from an enemy aircraft — in fact it was the airfield 's own machine guns engaging the intruder .
6 The US was pleased to join Canada 's own interfaith network , VISION TV , in providing significant alternative faith and values programming in North America .
7 Apple has been advising developers for some time to use names and not numbers but not all seem to have taken heed — it looks as though they will have to when System 7.0 comes out next year equipped with Apple 's own outline font system .
8 I summed up my military career in Chatterton 's own staccato fashion .
9 The drug 's designed to stimulate the body 's own defence system to fight the virus .
10 I 'm , I 'm sure that would happen , but Lithuania , if , if it had the er complete independence to er choose it 's own trading partners , it 's own defence partners , then it would make sense for Lithuania to have some sort of a a trading arrangement with the old communist block and .
11 The jab , developed from yeast cells , sparks immunity to the protein surrounding the Aids virus and stimulates the body 's own defence mechanism .
12 Regular checks by it 's own monitoring team show only normal background radiation levels .
13 The decision to wind up coincided with Millar 's retirement , but owed more to the competition from the TUC 's own education department and the Workers ' Educational Association .
14 The decision to wind it up coincided with Millar 's retirement , but owed more to the competition from the TUC 's own education department and the Workers Educational Association .
15 Formerly a teacher in the junior school of Donaldsons 's School for the Deaf in Edinburgh and a tutor to the support service for students in Further Education , her principal tasks were organising the BDA 's own education programme making and maintaining contacts with the various educational establishments for deaf students and acting as spokesperson on all educational matters .
16 The BDA 's own education programme has followed the traditional pattern established by Susanne Turfus 's predecessors .
17 The catastrophic fall in union education mirrored a wider malaise in the movement as a whole , as the assumptions that underlay existing strategies started to crumble , The TUC 's own education programme is a case in point ; it expanded rapidly from 1975 , after an internal review of educational services showed that the average workplace or branch official enjoyed half a day 's education a year , but it did so on the basis of government funding combined with statutory entitlements to day release for workplace representatives .
18 Labour 's Alan Milburn meanwhile was predictably pleased with the survey results , saying they were roughly in line with Labour 's own canvass returns .
19 Labour 's Alan Milburn meanwhile was predictably pleased with the survey results , saying they were roughly in line with Labour 's own canvass returns .
20 We saluted the Press , mentioning the government forces that insisted on closing down our city 's own broadcasting station .
21 ‘ It 's Paula 's own simularity diary .
22 A deferred tax charge in the profit and loss account would reflect the difference between the actual tax charge and the tax liability which would be incurred if the company 's own depreciation charge were deductible for tax purposes .
23 Their threats are as misguided as Mr Clinton 's own campaign pledge ; foreign multinationals will suffer as much as American ones if tax authorities start fighting each other .
24 Meanwhile , there were mounting allegations that some of the money paid to him had found its way into the Miyazawa faction 's own campaign funds .
25 Ironically , Clough 's own kid Nigel had to undergo the same perpetual ultra-critical appraisal of his skills before the Forest manager would accept the striker as a player first and a member of the family second .
26 It was noted that most of the ministers from Chatichai 's own Chart Thai party retained their posts in the August reshuffle .
27 Every house had got it 's own it 's own rainwater tub .
28 Bone marrow is the source of immune system cells , and the transplant of new marrow was given after the patient 's own bone marrow had been destroyed by doses of radiation and chemotherapy .
29 Personnel from the resident SAAF cadre , with the guiding light of the CO , are giving a helping hand in the creation of PE 's own aviation museum .
30 Bifurcation , which we mentioned earlier , can be seen as another product of law and order ideology , combined with the pragmatic imperative to do something to limit the numbers in custody : visibly dealing more harshly with the ‘ serious ’ offenders who can be most easily scapegoated ( in the popular press and the public mind ) , while dealing more leniently but less visibly with the much greater number of ‘ run of the mill ’ offenders , is an apparently rational response to a situation where one 's own rhetoric conflicts with practicalities .
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