Example sentences of "[pos pn] own [noun pl] may [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have my fingers crossed , but my own finances may be on the up . |
| 2 | Like mother , like grandmother : research shows that big babies have big grandmas , even though their own mothers may be small . |
| 3 | ‘ If the saints can secure at will whatever their own wishes may be , it would seem the lady saw fit to turn to me . |
| 4 | The SMILE ( Secondary Mathematics Individualised Learning Experiment ) team have addressed this issue and suggest ways in which their own materials may be amended to make them more appropriate for bilingual pupils . |
| 5 | What the PBI felt about their own gunners may be gauged from a French estimate that out of ten shells falling on a Verdun trench , ‘ on an average two were provided by the friendly artillery ’ . |
| 6 | Women have massive amounts of love invested in fathers , lovers and sons , and many of these women despise the systems their own men may be helping to sustain . |
| 7 | Rather , as in social anthropology , it is possible to develop a dynamic model in which the student begins from the acute self-consciousness that his or her own concepts may be culture-specific at depths so far unexamined , and so starts out tentatively from them , being ready to revise them in the light of new ethnography . |