Example sentences of "own [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , such a policy would be seen to be libertarian , in that it genuinely trusted people to spend their own money in ways they prefer , rather than trying to bribe them into centrally determined consumption patterns . |
| 2 | Only for a moment did he pause and face the buffeting wind with an effort , and Paul recognised in that moment his own struggle with bales of wool before the same door . |
| 3 | They will be expected to carry out tasks during the residential with limited support from the tutor and to monitor their own progress in terms of personal and social development . |
| 4 | In Daniel Deronda , Gwendolen 's enjoyment of ‘ her own furlong of corridors ’ at Ryelands , with its ‘ rich glow of light and colour ’ in numerous rooms , is destroyed by her awareness that , although each detail is superficially right , the whole is profoundly wrong , for this house too rests upon the ruin of other lives , those of Grandcourt 's mistress and her unacknowledged children . |
| 5 | John Wilkes 's North Briton has its own brand of excitements , and a complete run of the Gentleman 's Magazine , from its inception in 1731 , will occupy a good deal of shelf room and , probably , a decade or two of happy searching . |
| 6 | On a happier note , Wharfedale 's own brand of loudspeakers has won the Dutch Audio & Video Totaal Award for innovation in loudspeaker systems . |
| 7 | He advertised his own brand of cigarettes and sold his own brand of whisky . |
| 8 | Where such a step-by-step approach is not appropriate , and it does restrict the contractor 's freedom to use his own judgement in areas where he may be better informed than his customer , an approach that divides risk and reward on a reasonably equitable basis between customer and contractor may be a useful option . |
| 9 | That has been done by turning a division into a wholly owned subsidiary limited company with its own board of directors and separate accounts . |
| 10 | The company was organized in approximately ten areas of business , each of which had its own board of directors and its own CEO , but all of which were wholly owned by the parent company . |
| 11 | Regrettably , the Court of Appeal has no power in such cases to substitute its own award of damages , and the parties were sent away to face the expensive prospect of a fresh trial , which they avoided by agreeing that the damages should be £60,000 . |
| 12 | Following a government amendment to the Courts and Legal Services Bill , the Court of Appeal will have greater power to substitute its own award of damages . |
| 13 | In relation to our " design-and-society " problem , design , in rending itself from the social fabric and attempting to construct itself as an independent discipline — and having constructed its own pantheon of values and principles with only tangential relation to the social — becomes , quite literally , socially unintelligible . |
| 14 | Abolitionists began to create their own pantheon of heroes , veneration of whom contributed both to longitudinal solidarity over time and horizontal solidarity between groups . |
| 15 | UEFA have banned Eric Cantona from attending his own trial on charges of serious misconduct . |
| 16 | The SEC has given evidence of its own inability to police its anti-insider dealing regulations , especially where foreign funding of such trading is involved . |
| 17 | Within the co-text , as we have seen in ( 17 ) above , a further context may be constructed which has its own index of coordinates . |
| 18 | In recovering these implicatures , readers will draw on their own experience of ceremonies and rituals , and consequently may draw different conclusions . |
| 19 | From their own experience of endowments that have proved inadequate , the National Trust has evolved a method of calculation known as the ‘ Chorley formula ’ . |
| 20 | All of them volunteers with nothing but a rudimentary knowledge of psychology and , possibly , their own experience as parents to help them , they grappled with problems that challenged the skills of the best doctors and psychiatrists . |
| 21 | The interdisciplinary team is using approaches from anthropology , sociology , social psychology and cognitive science to understand the processes by which members of the lay public and others directly involved with some issue , such as the Chernobyl fallout , combine scientific information from ‘ official ’ sources with interpretations of their own experience into forms meaningful and useful to themselves in their own practical situations . |
| 22 | Indeed Becher et al ( 1981 ) in their interviews with teachers in East Sussex found that teachers were likely to use such tests as an ‘ occasional independent check on their judgement ’ i.e. as an external evaluation of their own assessment of pupils . |
| 23 | He has to build his own resistance to infections and he ca n't do that if he never meets them . |
| 24 | Ponyboy and his brothers have their own gang of friends . |
| 25 | The fact that families when one woman in six retires with an entitlement to a full basic pension , based on her own level of payments , speaks volumes . |
| 26 | Erm first , first of all erm Sue has , has just er reminded me that the , the government is , is considering the matter of planning application fees and we understand that there could be some proposals which erm modify the way in which er those fees are set and may give a greater erm autonomy to local authorities to set their own level of fees , in order to allow them to erm recoup erm more of or perhaps even all of the costs of operating the service , but that is something that 's er definitely for the future er and er is , is not entirely . |
| 27 | Their ability to throw things with the trunk is also well known ; in zoos it is not unknown for elephants to hurl lumps of their own dung at keepers and visitors . |
| 28 | We have our own chart of accounts , but in France , for example , we need a second one that complies with French fiscal law . |
| 29 | It had changed little since then , a street where people minded their own business , principally that of supplying their own kind with meals remarkable for value and cheapness . |
| 30 | Rufus was one of those people who admire their own kind of looks better than any other sort and whose partners are chosen because they belong in the same type as themselves . |