Example sentences of "own [noun] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a time in the history of the Liberal party when it trusted people with their own money and believed that they could make their own decisions . |
| 2 | Orality is also a feature of the fiction of Juan Rulfo , whose Pedro Páramo re-creates the world of rural Mexico through a narrative which initially appears to be a conventionally written text but turns out to be constituted orally , with one of the characters , Juan Preciado , emerging as the internal author as he recounts his own story and hears and transmits those of the other characters . |
| 3 | Not doubting your own sanity or believing that the problems are all your fault . |
| 4 | A responsible staff … should have called his attention to the violations of his own policies and warned that the intelligence about Iran was fragile at best and obtained from parties with strong interests and biases of their own . ’ |
| 5 | I hope that Germany , which has stood firmly in favour of a common foreign and security policy in the intergovernmental conferences that have just concluded and in the discussions on this week 's Maastricht treaty , will listen to its own exhortations and ensure that , whenever the decision is taken on recognition , it is made collectively , not unilaterally . |
| 6 | Anxious to get news of this latest development back to their own offices and realising that there was unlikely to be any more to be gleaned from this unpleasant vigil , the remaining newspeople departed as the small convoy of police traffic vanished into the maw of the blizzard . |
| 7 | It seems likely that in ways we can never measure , the preachings about the superiority of the life of the spirit may have been profoundly discouraging and alienating to mothers of very young children , who knew about the realities of their own lives and realized that these preachings were profoundly insensitive to those realities … . |
| 8 | Safe : Distribution systems need to be safe in their own right and to facilitate or even promote safe working as far as possible . |
| 9 | This particular accolade results from opinions given by our own buyers and coming as it does after four years of recession speaks volumes for our commitment to quality and customer care . |
| 10 | He rates only the Nippon Challenge and the New Zealanders ahead in his own group and feels that , although the French show promise , they are dogged by lack of funds ( it was subsequently announced that French funding by the City of Paris was likely ) . |
| 11 | Aunt Emily said , ‘ If you read it , dear child , it will take away your fear , ’ and Alexandra , stubbornly remembering Michael Swinton 's saying that she seemed to be working out her own salvation and feeling that the decision to read the journal must be part of that working out , shook her head and sent her needle stabbing in and out of the canvas . |
| 12 | Make your own observations and see if they are true . |
| 13 | The sufferer has to learn to live in reality , blaming self rather than others for his or her own problems and recognising that unconditional love could only be received when it is equally freely given . |
| 14 | He said the existing system was a throwback to the days when each borough ran its own affairs and added that for much of the time the heavy rescue unit could only be used if firemen were taken off other machines . |
| 15 | The fourth is not to believe his own publicity and think that the problem is fixed if the share price goes up . |
| 16 | What seems to happen is that an individual , given his arrival in a situation , reviews it in the context of his own objectives and decides that if he takes certain actions , the situation will change in the direction of his objectives . |
| 17 | He was about to experiment with a drastic remedy — not only taking his own advice but overriding that ‘ occasionally ’ by cohabiting with a prostitute as a common law wife . |
| 18 | He refused only to renew his own homage or to recognize or consecrate bishops whom the king had invested . |
| 19 | He gave no credit to his own moves and answers because he had all but forgotten them . |
| 20 | The Interministerial Council was an indispensable tool for keeping track of his own government and ensuring that it followed the line that he delivered from above . |
| 21 | He felt guilty at not returning to his own church but hoped that his few parishioners would understand . |
| 22 | For example , as I indicated in discussing personal care , it is regarded as legitimate for children to think about their own interests when deciding whether to support a parent , but this is balanced rather delicately with the morality of obligation and duty , so that children can quite easily get into the position where they are regarded as too self-interested . |
| 23 | She looked so competent and self-assured , so hard , so distant from his own thought and feeling that she might just as well have been a stranger , passing by without a glance in the street . |
| 24 | Then , perhaps a little frightened by his own rhetoric but thinking that he might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb , he increased the figure to 1 million . |
| 25 | ‘ Unless Flixe needs me , ’ he said , looking at his wife with a mixture of protectiveness and adoration that made Julia think back to her own honeymoon and wonder whether Anthony had ever looked at her like that . |
| 26 | Assistance in all these areas would provide the chance for musicians to develop their own potential and to discover whether there is an audience for their music . |
| 27 | The correspondents expressed deep gratitude to Hannah — they were so inspired by her sublimely tranquil and uncomplaining acceptance of the kind of material deprivation considered unacceptable by modern society , so moved by her angelic demeanour and indomitable spirit , that they had been obliged to consider their own situation and concluded that their individual complaints about life were so paltry by comparison that their entire perspective had been changed . |
| 28 | But surely , in the caring '90s , The Man just gives indie bands space to , like , do their own thing and create and all that bollocks ? |
| 29 | Only fifty yards further upstream I find a smooth glide along my own bank that looks as though it should hold a few chub . |
| 30 | We are not concerned here with the morality of such actions but there is no doubt that most of the people evicted did not want to leave their home , a home that they or their forebears had built with their own hands and enlarged as the family increased . |