Example sentences of "own [noun sg] [prep] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was very little of his own faith to be seen in the city , even if he had wished to become involved . |
| 2 | He told the Professor then of his own ambition to be admitted to Oxford , of his financial difficulties , of the need to be near his mother . |
| 3 | It was largely his own determination to be rid of the tag of illness that brought eventual healing . |
| 4 | Only the duke of Normandy presumed to make this explicit , allowing his own name to be introduced into the chant after the prayers for the French king , so that the congregation called on the great warrior saints to guarantee the duke 's safety and perpetual peace . |
| 5 | On the advice of Lyell and Hooker he arranged for an account of his own theory to be published alongside Wallace 's paper by the Linnean Society of London . |
| 6 | Checklist of questions for your own information to be answered before the interview |
| 7 | 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 . |