Example sentences of "own [noun] but [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was plain that this could not be regarded as a trust of the estate in favour of her sister , who was coheir , since the testator wanted not to dispose of his own money but on the pretext of advice to derogate from her rights by prohibiting her from making a will . |
| 2 | Unlike the mystic , the prophetic visionary believes that he undergoes this fearful experience for the sake of mankind : God does not send these revelations for their own edification but for the sake of their people . |
| 3 | This may be true but presupposes that the law in question is the one which will govern the contract , whereas the reality is that for every contract governed by that law there will be another contract governed by a foreign law with which the party concerned may be unfamiliar , which is in a foreign language he does not understand , and which , when put to the test , may prove demonstrably inferior not only to his own law but to the proposed uniform law . |
| 4 | Yet in Roman law discretion is regularly interpreted not on the subjective criterion of an individual 's own opinion but on the objective standard of what a good man would think in the circumstances . |
| 5 | In September 1329 Edward sent a yeoman of his household , William Montague , to enlist the aid of the pope in the matter of appointments ‘ not only for our own needs but for the advancement of the people of our household and for others ’ . |
| 6 | For example , a Phantom may only be able to stay airborne for something like an hour and three-quarters , two hours using it 's own fuel but with a tanker there we can keep them topped virtually well , obviously until we run out of fuel and for much , much longer . |
| 7 | For many builders the instigation to prepare management accounts arises not from within their own organisation but from the insistence by external bodies that more detailed information concerning the company 's financial position should be made available . |
| 8 | If you think not of yourself and your own feelings but of the other person , your interest and concern is likely to evoke a response . |
| 9 | But if I claim that my religious experience is experience of God , then I am not simply talking about my own feelings but about a transcendent being that I am claiming my feelings to be feelings of . |
| 10 | From the bench Bateman had said : ‘ I here beg leave , not merely in my own name but in the name of the whole bench , to require from Mr Ashton the name of the individual on whose statements he has thus presumed to impugn our magisterial conduct . ’ |
| 11 | Pericles , in the funeral speech attributed to him by Thucydides , was clear that a withdrawal by the citizen from public life into privacy was not acceptable : " Here each individual is interested not only in his own affairs but in the affairs of the state as well … we do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business ; we say that he has no business here at all . " |
| 12 | Gudjonsson and MacKeith have drawn attention to the suggestibility of witnesses and to their tendency to absorb and assimilate information emanating not from their own perceptions but from the interrogator . |
| 13 | The reduction wo n't hurt Midland much because the connection to the grid will still be necessary , and it will make a profit from the schemes installed , not just in its own area but throughout the UK . |
| 14 | They did not sell in their own names but in the name and on behalf of their principals , the Company . |
| 15 | But for all that , thought Cadfael , back in his own bed but with no will to sleep , how many of the five of us , one who spoke and four who listened , will close an eye again tonight ? |
| 16 | Not with height , but the changes I 'd seen , not just in my own life but in the fortunes of Danu . |
| 17 | Ileana felt that women had won a new respect after this military operation , not only from their own organization but throughout the FMLN . |
| 18 | The final examination of the year was early in December at the elegant Victoria Rooms in Clifton , Bristol , when a Promotion Evening was held to publicise the Institute not only to our own profession but to the business community in Bristol . |
| 19 | On the other hand , he was concerned not just for his own popularity but for the legitimacy of his regime , in general , and of the presidency , in particular . |