Example sentences of "our own [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision to make this process possible by the foundation of colleges or universities and the financial maintenance of students has been taken , down through the ages , by the sources of munificence in each succeeding period , until in our own day the lion 's share is produced through public funds voted by central government and local authorities . |
| 2 | Yet it , too , was a registration of the triumph of European culture ; down to our own day the political life of the world has increasingly been debated in the terms forged by European history and in a European idiom . |
| 3 | At the time of the Han dynasty , when jade was still the only material fit to accompany the emperor , it was accompanied in the case of feudal lords and officials of grades 1–3 by pearls and in that of officials of grade 4 by gold.47 One indication of the status of pearls in Christendom is their use in iconography as symbols of regeneration , and the way they have long been used to enrich the crowns of sovereigns from the sacred crown of Hungary to the mitre crown of Catherine II of Russia and in our own day the State Crown of Queen Elizabeth II ( Frontispiece ; figs. 35 and 37 ) . |
| 4 | The eyes that see ourselves see always the same creature throughout life ; in our own mind the child and the youth and the mature man are the same . |
| 5 | The film makers of 1938 slipped in , behind Shaw 's back , a sentimental ending in which Eliza improbably returned to Higgins and in our own time the play has become operetta fodder . |
| 6 | In our own time the Armstrongs ' Hollows Tower has been romantically restored ; but Mangerton , home of the most powerful of the Liddesdale branch of the family , is no more than an overgrown knot of stones on a knoll beside an equally melancholy , abandoned railway line . |