Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [unc] own " in BNC.
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1 | These restricted lawful picketing to the pickets ' own place of work and removed the unions ' legal immunities from civil actions , so making them liable for damages up to a certain limit where they were responsible for unlawful industrial action . |
2 | A good solicitor will tell you if the expenses you are likely to incur ( including the solicitors ' own fees ) will outweigh any financial benefit to be gained from your action . |
3 | They have to pay for the four officials , the clubs 's own lawyers and witnesses for the hearing in Geneva . |
4 | As well as piped music , in-store bakeries and high-tech scanners at the check-outs , these retail Meccas offer a choice of thousands of different products , some of which carry the chains ' own brands . |
5 | The catalogue is a serious and enlightening examination of the nature of modern British art by James Hyman , which draws heavily on the artists ' own words and writings . |
6 | The courts ' own role in reviewing managerial decisions is in turn defined by their own expertise . |
7 | An added paradox to the Narvik actions was the Germans ' own demolitions that destroyed much of the port 's facilities , reducing iron-ore shipments to little more than a quarter of the pre-war level . |
8 | There are other features of prison life , however , which could only occur in this especially artificial environment , but before moving on to them it may be useful to concentrate on some of the prisoners ' own views of Maidstone . |
9 | Such a change of tactics in the gilt-edged market did not preclude intervention , but such intervention would be in accordance with the authorities ' own requirements rather than in response to particular market changes . |
10 | To investigate this pattern , the researchers transferred fry in the study stream to 25 pairs and , sure enough , only fry the same size or smaller than the pairs ' own offspring were accepted into the fold , while larger fry were eaten or driven away . |
11 | Large sums spent on cosmetic surgery to obscure the aging process and the spenders ' own mortality is best evidence of this trend . |
12 | The manufacturers ' own organisation , the National Office of Animal Health , has reaffirmed its commitment to the dips . |
13 | The percentages of variants in Sue 's speech provide a reasonably reliable index of the socioeconomic status and educational background of her interlocutors , just as the percentages of those forms in the clients ' own speech are able to do . |
14 | This suggests that men are more cruel than women towards cats , but such an interpretation assumes that cats can distinguish between deliberate cruelty and pain inflicted for the animals ' own good . |
15 | Other labels derive from words taken from the foreigners ' own language . |
16 | Our first step is to obtain information about the hens ' own point of view . |
17 | At a time when FISA , the sport 's organizing body , helped by the drivers ' own association , had belatedly begun to pay some attention to safety in a notably risky sport , Chapman 's remarks showed a callousness towards his drivers — and by implication , towards other human beings — that I found it hard to admire . |
18 | Special needs post-holders have in this way been able to develop their consultation skills with teachers , while educational psychologists who have begun to extend their remit in this way have found this to be a realistic way of meeting the supporters ' own need for ongoing support . |
19 | Convocation , by 1327 no longer confusable with parliament , was assimilated to the clergy 's own provincial synod . |
20 | The results are then mapped on a micro , using a Postscript driver ( Adobe Systems 1985 ) of the authors ' own devising ( step 5 ) . |
21 | The Authors jointly and severally warrant that the Company has the unfettered right to authorise the publication of the Work ; that the Authors ' own contributions to the Work are original and contain no libellous , defamatory , obscene or otherwise unlawful or misleading matter ; and that all statements therein purporting to be facts are true . |
22 | 15.1.1 it has the unfettered right to authorise the publication of the Work ; that the Authors ' own contributions to the Work are original and contain no libellous defamatory obscene or otherwise unlawful or misleading matter and that all statements therein purporting to be facts are true |
23 | This strategy is based upon the work of Slobin and Welsh ( 1973 ) , and upon the authors ' own extensive research regarding the imitative abilities of mentally handicapped children . |
24 | Listening provides a much-needed perspective on the subject , and includes material from the authors ' own recent work in comprehension task design . |
25 | What is more , it is the individual speakers themselves who " identify the groups " on which they model their behaviour : the groups are thus the speakers ' own creations , not the creations of analysts . |
26 | Usually ministers are formally answerable to Parliament only for discharging their own responsibilities relating to sponsored bodies ( such as in terms of broad policy and general oversight ) , while responsibility for efficiency and day-to-day matters normally rests with the organizations ' own management . |
27 | This has always seemed to make sense , despite the Scots ' own tendency to be caught with a wardrobe of empty coat-hangers and crumpled piles , and one 's fear on behalf of England is that they are running out of time in which to find a dinner jacket . |
28 | Others dived and scurried for any food they found — sometimes a speck of meat from the eagles ' own food , or perhaps the crumbs from some piece of bread that the visitors to the Zoo wrongly threw in . |
29 | The plaintiff must be the ‘ target ’ of the combination but if he is , on this view , the advancement of the defendants ' own interests does not justify the use of unlawful means . |
30 | The very argument that had supported the miners ' own rise in the wages league during the 1970s — that the work was difficult and dangerous — counted against an egalitarian measurement of women 's skills . |