Example sentences of "people in [pron] [adj] right " in BNC.
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| 1 | So strategic was the city 's position that the present inhabitants claim that the dwellers were a people in their own right even by the time of the Roman conquest , and that when Julius Caesar gave them Roman citizenship they were already famed as an industrious , peaceable , practical people with a legendary ability to confront any misadventures with incredible resources of energy . |
| 2 | We have to leave them to be independent and responsible people in their own right . |
| 3 | But some find it difficult to treat their grown-up children as people in their own right , entitled to plan their own lives . |
| 4 | And when your children fail to live up to the hopes you have for them , you imply they are not acceptable people in their own right . |
| 5 | They have become devalued as people in their own right and everything that happens to them subsequently serves to reinforce this impression . |
| 6 | All the girls I used were n't bimbo model types — they were people in their own right . |
| 7 | The pension and benefits systems , both state and private , have discriminated heavily against women in the past , seeing us not as people in our own right but as dependants or exdependants . |