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

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1 As long as people are told that their own oral language skills are irrelevant then demystifying the particular demands of reading and writing is going to remain difficult .
2 But their own ace striker Paul Furlong never stopped running and deserved his goal late on .
3 To that you can add an internal 2400/9600 fax modem , more memory , or GRiD 's own solid state Sundisk storage technology ; the PCMCIA slot can be used to add extra memory too , or other add-ins like Ethernet or Token Ring Adaptors .
4 Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland have their own Low Value Definitives , called Country Definitives .
5 We tested the TEX with the company 's own low temperature general purpose glue sticks , the TEC-Bond LM44 .
6 Tribal communities — who have ownership rights over 97 per cent of the country 's land — are becoming more reluctant to sign agreements with the logging companies , the RIC says , while developments such as the " walkabout " sawmill are allowing them to operate their own small-scale logging operations in a more or less sustainable manner .
7 After leaving Congress he established his own private law practice , but did not cut his political ties .
8 Yeah , own private shower unit , with a special seat so she could sit and have a shower .
9 We revisited some of our old haunts like Butterfly Creek , and old friends like the Lawrences whose house is approached by their own private cable car ( very scary the first time you ride it ) .
10 When asking guest Medau Teachers to teach at rallies please check that she holds own private insurance cover otherwise let the Office know at once so that cover can be arranged for her .
11 The banks ' own private deposit insurance scheme had collapsed because of what were termed " extremely high delinquency rates " among borrowers .
12 Or we can reform our own private health care system , which still gives us , for all its flaws , the best health care in the world .
13 The Hotel de France is situated between the two resorts of Rimini and Riccione and is the only three-star hotel in Rimini featured by Citalia which stands right on the beach , but also has its own private swimming pool .
14 Equally worrying to the BMC is that the centre negotiated its own private access agreement without consulting or even informing the council or its access officer Bill Wright .
15 What 's more , you 'll enjoy ALL the benefits of AA Hospital Plus for a cost that is 20% lower than PPP 's own Private Hospital Plan .
16 True to his word , Tom Warner had located an immense 8-wheeled transcontinental locomotive , not yet cooled down at the divisional changing point , assembled a crew of engineer and fireman , loaded the engine with coal and water , and attached the engine to the Divisional Superintendent 's own private railway coach .
17 Except for Xanthe , Mercer was the only Lorrimore to surface for breakfast , and he came not to eat but to ask Emil to send trays through to his own private dining room .
18 It was also well known that Mrs Thatcher preferred to have people buying their own private pension scheme ; here was an area in which the state might be rolled back .
19 In addition , the commission claimed that García removed US$50,000,000 from the BCCI accounts and dispersed it in several of his own private bank accounts .
20 Cagliari — population 225,000 , stadium capacity 38,800 — is a city with its own strong soccer culture , and its own football hero , Luigi Riva ( pictured below , and , left , as celebrated by a lifesize statue in a local bar ) , who played for Cagliari as a left-winger when they won their one Italian league title in 1970 and was a prodigious scorer .
21 He hugged her close to him , pressing his hands down her body , his own rampant masculinity hunting blatantly against her yielding female flesh .
22 The equation determining unc is obtained from the vanishing of the determinant of the lambda-matrix ; it is evidently a quartic in unc and each of the four roots will have its own associated vector x .
23 AVS Inc , Waltham , Massachusetts , will assume all future development and marketing of the product and other packages based upon it , and is to integrate SunVision into its own Advanced Visualisation System .
24 Meanwhile , IBM is particularly proud of its own advanced speech recognition personal computing system , which it was showing off at Comdex .
25 And it refers to Britain 's own advanced passenger train as carrying ‘ its first fare-paying passengers in a record-breaking run from London to Glasgow before being withdrawn from service for further trials ’ .
26 The de Rochefort clan , as a whole , had a pretty strong line in contempt , Sabine decided , not letting her own polite smile slip by one iota .
27 Fortunately the AMF(L) Supply Company has its own mobile shower unit co-located with it , and this is a very popular port of call first thing in the morning and throughout the evening .
28 It would suit us better than one of our own mobile sardine cans . ’
29 You just might win the prize for the best one , at that , ’ the reporter replied , fingering his own scanty side whiskers .
30 In the name of modernisation and professionalism , Chinese architects and civil engineers are not prepared to accept for the towns any of those policies which have made their own rural housing programme a model for the Third World .
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