Example sentences of "of its own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has the merit of simplicity and responds adequately to the desire of States to maintain control over purely domestic transactions , in that the laws of a State are enacted primarily for the benefit of its own residents , not for those situated abroad . |
| 2 | De Man asks whether Proust 's novel is " the allegorical narrative of its own deconstruction " . |
| 3 | Those authorities show that , in approaching the language of the Act of 1986 , one must pay particular attention to the purposes and policies of its own provisions and be wary of simply carrying over uncritically meanings which had been given to similar words in the earlier Act . |
| 4 | Slater , however , who figures MIPS for one of the strongest long-term challenges to Intel 's iAPX-86 dominance in the personal computer market , allows that MIPS has nevertheless created some of its own headaches — like delays in the R4000 RISC stemming from its decision to produce a chip that pleased everybody , yet pleased nobody . |
| 5 | Licensed semiconductor partners will be able to involve their customers at the beginning of the design process and Sun says its current intention is to facilitate early design adoption and volume sales as soon as silicon is production ready , independent of its own system products becoming available . |
| 6 | In the dimness , his tousled hair seemed to send out rays of its own brightness . |
| 7 | The God-consciousness which is aware of its own limitations , and beyond that , of its own imperfection , becomes a consciousness of sin . |
| 8 | In the absence of the UCR 's 85 deputies , the government was still accused of resorting to bribes and political favours to guarantee the support of all 119 of its own deputies , when securing the passage through the lower chamber of the Congress on Sept. 24 of reforms to the hydrocarbons law . |
| 9 | Despite his absence from the Vouli ( parliament ) which deprived the government of its one-seat majority , an austerity budget for 1993 was approved on Dec. 23 after the opposition Panhellenic Socialist Movement ( Pasok ) withdrew one of its own deputies . |
| 10 | It would also now risk being seen to act as much in the interests of its own credibility , as in support of a sincerely-held belief . |
| 11 | The consumption rate of ectotherm predators is equal to its own body weight every sixty days , and this contrasts with the mammalian rate of its own body-weight every 6.6 days for wild dogs , 8.0 for lions , and 10 days for cheetahs . |
| 12 | However , in a letter to the BMC , Longleat Estate have made it clear that any cleaning work necessary to stabilise climbs will be done on the advice of its own specialists , dependent on the interests of tourists and the estate 's employees and not undertaken from a climbing perspective . |
| 13 | For the purpose of its own capital gains base cost the purchaser of assets buys those assets at the value attributed to them at the time of purchase . |
| 14 | " There is a yew-tree , pride of Lorton Vale , Which to this day stands single , in the midst Of its own darkness , as it stood of yore . " |
| 15 | The God-consciousness which is aware of its own limitations , and beyond that , of its own imperfection , becomes a consciousness of sin . |
| 16 | In the aftermath of the July rising the Republic faced the threat not only of military overthrow but also of its own disintegration . |
| 17 | The problem is that the massive increase in objective culture has not been appropriated by the subject in such a way that material goods become the instrument of the subject 's self-development through the sublation of its own projections ; instead , the subject confronts the world of material goods as an alien sphere . |
| 18 | In addition to the Health and Safety Executive proposals , British Gas is to review the impact of its own campaign on maintenance and safety checks on gas appliances in properties of multiple accommodation . |
| 19 | The Government wanted to speak directly to the people without having to compete with other voices , to give its version of events , of its own policies and activities , without having these questioned . |
| 20 | Had local authorities still the influence over schools which was diminished by the Education Reform Act , it would have been commonplace for each authority to compare the performance of its own policies and of its own schools with a national standard . |
| 21 | ‘ So it emerges from these authorities that the retention of moneys known to have been paid under a mistake at law , although it is a course permitted to an ordinary litigant , is not regarded by the courts as a ‘ high-minded thing ’ to do , but rather as a ‘ shabby thing ’ or a ‘ dirty trick ’ and hence is a course which the court will not allow one of its own officers , such as a trustee in bankruptcy , to take . |
| 22 | ‘ I in no way dissent from this reasoning , but I should myself have been content to derive the same conclusion from the broader consideration that Parliament must have intended rating authorities to act in the same high principled way expected by the court of its own officers and not to retain rates paid under a mistake of law , or in paragraph ( a ) upon an erroneous valuation , unless there were , as Parliament must have contemplated there might be in some cases , special circumstances in which a particular overpayment was made such as to justify retention of the whole or part of the amount overpaid . |
| 23 | ‘ the broader consideration that Parliament must have intended rating authorities to act in the same high principled way expected by the court of its own officers and not to retain rates paid under a mistake of law , or … upon an erroneous valuation , unless there were , as Parliament must have contemplated there might be in some cases , special circumstances in which a particular overpayment was made such as to justify retention of the whole or part of the amount overpaid . |
| 24 | A local authority may be asked to provide a report from one of its own officers or to arrange for another person to provide a report as appropriate . |
| 25 | In some areas , the Central Authority 's status , despite its statutory powers , was weak because of its own lack of experience and knowledge . |
| 26 | Architecture also differs from language in its strict observation of its own rules and conventions , and in its sense of detail . |
| 27 | for every legislative enactment constitutes a diktat by the state to the citizen which he is not only expected but obliged to observe in the regulation of his daily life and it is the judge and the judge alone who stands between the citizen and the state 's own interpretation of its own rules . |
| 28 | In any case , if one insists on anthropomorphizing the gene , it behaves not selfishly but in utter disregard of its own interests , either doing the same thing over and over again or , by mutation , doing something else quite arbitrarily , and passively allowing itself to be favoured or eliminated by natural selection . |
| 29 | One group may dominate large areas of cultural production , while another , through lack of access to cultural form , may be less clear as to the nature of its own interests . |
| 30 | The impression conveyed by Wilfrid 's career in these years is of a Church still very dependent in the pursuit of its own interests , certainly in territories outside Canterbury 's sphere of influence , on the unpredictable inclination of the princes with whom it had to deal . |