Example sentences of "in their own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1'Entrepreneurial' capitalists are those who have a substantial stake in their own firm . |
| 2 | Potentially , both the experience of repression in their own culture , and the experience of cultural difference on the other side of the divides they cross , contribute to a critique of repression which includes , but also goes beyond , its sexual forms . |
| 3 | Unschooled Wolof children know when to make certain things explicit in their own culture ; it would appear that they are not triggered off to do so by Greenfield 's questions . |
| 4 | They assert , for example , by implication that non-academics in their own culture and members of other cultures , particularly illiterate ‘ primitives ’ , can not have the skills of ‘ objectivity ’ , ‘ neutrality ’ and ‘ logic ’ which their own academic language is specifically designed to facilitate . |
| 5 | As we have seen , this is an impossible task and at times Olson himself seems prepared to admit as much , But the tenor of his claims , and those of others , for the lack of ambiguity of literacy , and of Lyons ' claims for its ‘ objectivity ’ , are , as we have seen , such as to imply that not only can the goal be achieved , but that it has been uniquely achieved in the form of writing developed in their own culture or sub-culture . |
| 6 | The Canadian visit 's all part of a concerted effort by the centre 's administrators to keep its members immersed in their own culture . |
| 7 | The new breed are using boys ' phallic noise toys to take rock in their own direction . |
| 8 | At the end of spawning I had over 20 eggs plastered to the sides of the aquarium , so I took a razor blade and carefully scraped them off and placed them in a margarine tub in their own aquarium water . |
| 9 | Even in their own computer in a context-free grammar no general procedure exists for determining whether the grammar can be ambiguous in any one of every single case , however long one ran the program . |
| 10 | He says : ‘ What we are talking about is ensuring that the workers are confident in their own knowledge about HIV and are actually able to answer question , and can talk about sexual matters . |
| 11 | Article 42 went on to give an almost supplementary right to the state in providing for a child 's education by acknowledging the right of parents to school their children in their own home should they wish it . |
| 12 | The responses indicated that 28 per cent would prefer to buy through a building society ; 27 per cent said they would buy from a salesman in their own home . |
| 13 | The Ramseys wanted a house big enough to be able to entertain the clergy and their wives in their own home . |
| 14 | Observe the difference between the behaviour of children in their own home and that of friends who enter . |
| 15 | She and her husband were shocked and appalled and wondered if they would become prisoners in their own home . |
| 16 | • 41% wanted care at G.P. surgery , 34% in their own home and only 16% in hospital . |
| 17 | But although these figures do tell us how few families had a grandparent in their own home , they can be misleading . |
| 18 | Phobia sufferers often find themselves virtual prisoners in their own home , unable to do those things which other people class as ordinary . |
| 19 | In the Grants ' case , ‘ contract sessions ’ were organized in their own home and were chaired by me . |
| 20 | No one would send a small child to the theatre to watch Macbeth or Othello alone , yet many children watch scenes of violence on the screen in their own home . |
| 21 | As a key worker or a care assistant , you may go to see the person in their own home . |
| 22 | The principles of care mean that the resident should , as far possible , feel they are in their own home . |
| 23 | Sooner or later it may become impossible for an elderly person or couple to continue living in their own home without support . |
| 24 | Many people are in this situation of trying to find time to care adequately for parents in their own home , while running their own jobs and family . |
| 25 | Remaining in their own home with carer living in . |
| 26 | Other ways of making life more interesting for the housebound are the occasional holidays in the homes of various members of the family ; also offering to help them to entertain their friends in their own home to more than just a cup of tea , by arranging to take a pre-cooked , easily served meal round to them beforehand . |
| 27 | Living with an elderly parent in their own home |
| 28 | The camcorder has given everyone the chance to star in their own home movies . |
| 29 | More than 6 million single people now live in their own home . |
| 30 | W.N. and L.A. Kellogg adopted the then revolutionary idea of rearing an infant chimpanzee in their own home in the 1920s but the experiment with Gua was abandoned after a year because no signs of vocalisation resembling human speech were observed . |