Example sentences of "[noun] on its " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laid to rest : Traffic is brought to a halt as the flower-bedecked hearse leads the funeral cortege on its way to the cemetery |
| 2 | This mental state may indicate the remedy on its own , like the emotional state of Chamomilla often does but there may be none of it apparent and yet the physical symptoms would still indicate its use . |
| 3 | How many E6 leaders each year pass by the ledge of Lloydia Serotina — rarest of British plants — which is only yards from the path , and fail to bestow a second glance on its nodding , purple-veined understatedness ? |
| 4 | We regret the delay and we hope that the promised publication on Waddilove will be earlier rather than later in the current session , and that the government will take an early opportunity to publish clearer guidelines on its assessment of ‘ national need ’ for opencast coal , and the weight to be given to environmental considerations . |
| 5 | In a survey with a 75 per cent response rate undertaken by the residents ' association on its new housing estate , some two-thirds of the respondents favoured the setting up of a multi-denominational school . |
| 6 | He congratulated the Association on its decision to affiliate to Congress and thereby join with half a million other workers and their families . |
| 7 | Accordingly , while congratulating the Association on its endeavours , may I make a plea to the members of its Committee to restrain themselves from the political tactic of eyewash and puff and to conduct themselves , so far as the Law Society are concerned , in a straightforward , honest and co-operative manner ? |
| 8 | The answers are butter and yes , according to the very latest research from a team in Wales and both of them stand conventional medical thinking on its head . |
| 9 | And , regarding itself as a cultured nation , the eastern bastion of civilisation , the bringer of culture to the poor benighted Slavs of the east , Germany conducted a Kulturkampf that was intended to destroy and subdue the peoples on its margins . |
| 10 | Additionally , as already mentioned , patting a horse on its neck can be beneficial when trying to shoe a difficult horse ; and we pat it in time to the farrier 's hammer . |
| 11 | The horses were quiet , three of them lying down , only Gary 's horse on its feet . |
| 12 | It was a bay horse on its side , and the waving object he had taken for a branch was a leg which in its faint struggles to rise the beast threshed weakly in the air . |
| 13 | The crash happened when the PIA Airbus A300 crashed into the mountainside on its approach to Kathmandu Airport on Monday September 28 . |
| 14 | Unseen , at the buffers of the actually stationary and chocked vehicle , gangs of ELR volunteers rocked the coach from side to side on its springs , to simulate rapid motion . |
| 15 | At the moment the export of ready-made furniture is subject to a tariff on its entrance to the EEC , whereas raw logs are not . |
| 16 | From there comes a wine with hairs on its chest , a Shiraz from the 1985 vintage described by Rex as ‘ a big , strong red , 14 to 15 per cent alcohol . ’ |
| 17 | The amazing naked cat — the Canadian Sphynx — lacks both guard and awn hairs and has only a soft fuzz of down hairs on its extremities . |
| 18 | A dog with more breeds in its blood than hairs on its back foamed and yapped at them from the limit of its rope ; the curtains of several trailers were drawn back by shadowy witnesses ; two girls in early adolescence , both with hair so long and blonde they looked to have been baptized in gold ( unlikely beauty , in such a place ) rose from beside the fire , one running as if to alert guards , the other watching the newcomers with a smile somewhere between the seraphic and the cretinous on her face . |
| 19 | The hairs on its furry body are covered with microscopic hooks which pick up the slightly sticky pollen grains as the bee busies around the flower . |
| 20 | The scorpion 's natural anemometers are special hairs on its pincers . |
| 21 | In addition to using its antennae , the locust has a patch of hairs on its head , which are sensitive to air currents . |
| 22 | ‘ This bird has a ring on its leg , ’ he informed me . |
| 23 | He picked up the bird and noticed it had a ring on its leg , so he wrote down the number and passed the information on to me . |
| 24 | Each bird has a blue ring on its left with the numbers 5 and 73 on it . |
| 25 | — two-way communication so that SCOTVEC gets feedback on its awards and centres get feedback on their assessment of candidates . |
| 26 | Mace claims that some $1bn of business has now been conducted on 88000-based system products , and claims , as the group often does , that there will be more converts to the cause — this time around there are five or six Intel Corp i860 manufacturers on its hitlist. 88open will open a European office this summer , either in the UK or Germany , which will use space rented in one of its members ' offices . |
| 27 | Eventually they migrate within the sea slug 's tissues and are concentrated in the tentacles on its back . |
| 28 | America Online Inc is challenging Prodigy Services Co , which just announced plans to charge usage fees for the most heavily-used databases on its viewdata service , by cutting prices to its own 250,000 subscribers : the company says it deliberately waited until after the Prodigy announcement to disclose its new pricing , hoping to maximise attention for its move and woo subscribers away from the IBM Corp-Sears , Roebuck & Co joint venture ; under its new plan , subscribers will pay $9.95 a month for five hours of access to all its services , a rate that it claims is less than half the price of Prodigy 's new tariff ; extra hours will cost $3.50 each ; at Prodigy , subscribers pay $14.95 a month for unlimited access to many of the features but from July 1 will pay surcharges after spending two hours on widely-used bulletin boards . |
| 29 | Further along , there was an Eastern Sea ship , beating down under its huge sail along the desert coast on its way south to Punt to collect a cargo of exotica : blackwood so dense it sank in water ; the fierce spotted cats which could be tamed to become the pets , or hunting land falcons of the rich ; myrrh ; the long teeth of the great forest beast . |
| 30 | More than most areas , Scotland trades on its environmental image . |