Example sentences of "'s own [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like all loyalty , loyalty to one 's own sex was at once necessary for the survival of the whole and self-serving . |
| 2 | ( 2 ) That although the privilege against self-incrimination subsisted and could only be removed or altered by Parliament , there was no reason to allow a defendant in civil proceedings to rely on it , thus depriving a plaintiff of his rights , where the defendant 's own protection was adequately secured by other means ( post , pp. 350B , 352C–D , 354B , 355B , 357F–G , 358F–G , 359A–B , F–G , H , 360A ) . |
| 3 | Priscillian 's own teaching was characterised by a marked strain of Nestorian thought , as well as by skeins of Gnostic Manichaeanism . |
| 4 | ILEA 's own response was probably not unusual . |
| 5 | Beador 's own response was reassuring — he thought it a ‘ ripping good idea ’ and gladly added Fontana to the travelling stable of two hunters she had brought down from Yorkshire . |
| 6 | On the 18th Braid hit his 2nd shot into the road and he ‘ might have damaged the steam roller ’ so it is some comfort for us to know that the course 's own architect was penalised by his own design . |
| 7 | Nicholson 's own idea was , in fact , to write the first existentialist cowboy story , which was something of a departure from the current genre ; he was surely right in his assumption that Corman might not see the potential , if such existed . |
| 8 | At the Olympic Games in Barcelona this year , the spectacle of the 100 metres will provide an almost sadistically tremulous thrill for the spectator , a perfect metaphor for those hidden seconds when one 's own life was changed by the failure or ability to rise to a demanding moment of crisis . |
| 9 | The writer 's own experience was seeing the Progress car in the first post-war Illuminations of 1949 : sheer magic as it swept by , playing music while its myriad bulbs radiated heat and light . |
| 10 | Laura 's own experience was also decisive here . |
| 11 | Sally-Anne 's own preserve was the kitchen , where she ate either at the kitchen table , or , when that was full , at a small card table which was folded up and put away when she had finished . |
| 12 | The haft of Molassi 's own knife was embedded in his throat . |
| 13 | This reasoning alone casts doubt on the idea that the Earth 's own moon was formed from its orbiting dust grains . |
| 14 | Liz 's own forehead was villainously low , coarsely low . |
| 15 | The Captain 's own English was passable but the younger man 's was fluent . |
| 16 | Charles 's own inclination was always towards a pro-French and anti-Dutch policy , though marriages between the Stuart family and the ruling Dutch House of Orange slightly restrained him and by the 1670s most Englishmen were beginning to be a little worried by the increasing power of France . |
| 17 | Montesquieu 's own work was not entirely new since it was based on classical models , but it started a growing tradition both in France and in the other main centre of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment , Scotland . |
| 18 | They alerted Liverpool Coastguard but their amphibious craft , a DUKW , was unable to get close enough to the vessel so the town 's own lifeboat was launched . |
| 19 | This was held to be incorrect , but irrelevant ; incorrect , because a mere sense of alarm was insufficient to give rise to a fear of a breach of the peace , and irrelevant because the justices had found ( or there was evidence from which they could have found ) that the constables reasonably believed that the defendant 's own behaviour was likely to constitute a breach of the peace . |
| 20 | Darnley 's own dagger was found still in the body . |
| 21 | The fact that his life is totally unrecorded until 866 need not suggest that Ermentrude 's own influence was limited , but shows that a royal marriage did not necessarily bring honours to the bride 's close kinsmen . |
| 22 | Rey 's own music was first heard at the Concert Spirituel in 1773 , and his compositional ability enabled Sacchini , before his death in 1786 , to nominate Rey to complete Arvire et Evelina ( 1788 ) , which was successful and durable . |
| 23 | RIVER ISLAND 'S own selection was a sharp pinstripe suit teamed with crisp white shirt and polka dot tie pinched from the men 's section , for daytime . |
| 24 | Similarly , Edward Woodville 's fleet posed a threat to Gloucester only as long as the duke 's own position was uncertain ; once he had been recognized as protector the matter could be dealt with . |
| 25 | The government 's own position was that conflicting property claims should , if possible , be resolved by arbitration within the context of a national dialogue between trade unions and business leaders [ see p. 37771 ] . |
| 26 | Similarly , Edward Woodville 's fleet posed a threat to Gloucester only as long as the duke 's own position was uncertain ; once he had been recognized as protector the matter could be dealt with . |
| 27 | The latter 's own gallery was in his house in Viktoriastrasse not far from a whole set of galleries and new theatres in Berlin 's ‘ alten Westen ’ around Lützowplatz and Potsdamer Strasse . |
| 28 | The Queen 's own saloon was always kept in special care at an equable temperature . |
| 29 | Chamoun 's own home was here , a graceful , red-roofed villa whose tennis courts and lawns ran down to the Mediterranean . |
| 30 | The head of the ‘ effigy ’ is a wax portrait — Bentham 's own head was removed , desiccated , provided with glass eyes and placed under a glass dome to sit between the feet of the auto-icon ; it , too , is now on public display — a little start-eyed , yet nevertheless recognizable ( Col. 3 ) . |