Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ' own " in BNC.
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| 1 | the rich nations no longer have the stomach for sending their men to fight unless it is safe or there is a threat to the rich nations ' own pampered existence , and |
| 2 | But monism has had many other manifestations : in the philosophy of Croce , in the one-form-one-meaning postulate of pretransformational linguistics , and not least , in some authors ' own sense of the artistic integrity and inviolability of their work ; in Tolstoy 's words : " This indeed is one of the significant facts about a true work of art — that its content in its entirety can be expressed only by itself . " |
| 3 | These would compete directly with voluntary agencies and health and social services ' own provision and the quality and effectiveness of such services will depend on the contracting skills of purchasing agencies and on close quality-monitoring programmes . |
| 4 | Chairman , could I just mention to the Committee , on Shropshire child care links , erm , the County Council of course , is also the registration body that erm , registers childminders and day care , and erm , while obviously this is very much to be supported and ties in with Social Services ' own requirements to promote child care , it should not be seen , and we should perhaps , Bruce make a , we can have discussions with , we should be careful to endorse , the giving of this money does n't necessarily imply or endorse the standards of the people on their books , who may be people that the County Council in another arm , are investigating and in some cases , taking action to close down . |
| 5 | the investing group 's share of any goodwill in the associated companies ' own balance sheets |
| 6 | It comes broadly from four sources : direct giving by households and enterprises , indirect giving by tax payers , and charitable bodies ' own income from property trusts or investments . |
| 7 | The anthropologist 's task , therefore , is to gain access to societies through means which contain these societies ' own interpretations about themselves . |
| 8 | There is an example of this in ‘ Fighting talk ’ where the police are recorded as using the white boys ' own rules of territoriality as a device to keep them apart from blacks ( ‘ if you 're on your own territory we 'll nick the others , but if you 're outside , we 'll nick you' ) . |
| 9 | Advice sessions , taking place on the black groups ' own premises , have begun . |
| 10 | However , the general precedents often contain little or no guidance about when to use a particular form , or why a particular term is drafted in a particular way ( although many firms ' own in-house precedents are accompanied by a commentary explaining the terms and offering suggestions for modifications ) . |
| 11 | But where did the original instruments , the Hawaiian players ' own guitars , come from ? |
| 12 | This marginalization of women seems to draw on both dominant discourses ' elevation of men , as the bearers of culture , over women , the repositories of biology ; and biological discourses ' own low valuations of women and femininity . |
| 13 | The tough talk seemed at odds , however , with some recent US policies , including President Clinton 's decision to continue favourable trade benefits for China for at least another year , and the United Nations ' own treatment of Tibet 's exiled Dalai Lama . |
| 14 | Next day , in a classic Boys ' Own move , Neame and two other Britons — Jonathan Tinker and Harry Taylor — set the Sherpas an example by trudging off up the mountain , loaded with supplies . |
| 15 | The second book is Daniel Kon 's Los Chicos de la Guerra , the Argentine conscripts ' own moving accounts of their Falklands war . |
| 16 | Secondly , the other students ' own right to learn ( Lernfreiheit ) can be called into question . |
| 17 | Clearly the departments intend to keep a check on how it is spent , and they can even check the local authorities ' own financial manoeuvres by the powerful instrument of loan sanction . |
| 18 | Central government , then , exercises considerable power , not only over the services it administers directly , such as social security , but also over those that are the local authorities ' own concern , such as education or personal social services . |
| 19 | They have been updated and supplemented by local authorities ' own guidelines , covering procedures , training and pupil-teacher ratios , ranging in Strathclyde 's case from 10-1 for easy hillwalking to 5-1 for walking on difficult ridges . |