Example sentences of "[be] its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I do not utter a word , I am its master ; once I utter it , I am its slave . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ If I do not utter a word , I am its master ; once I utter it , I am its slave . ’ |
| 3 | To all intents and purposes , I am its mother . |
| 4 | I am its lord . |
| 5 | You are its guardian . |
| 6 | And what are its management problems likely to be ? |
| 7 | ‘ These mountains are the soul of the island , and the people who live here are its heart . ’ |
| 8 | The debate over the owl , and the forests which are its home , has raged between the timber industry and environmentalists since the owl was listed as an endangered species in 1990 [ see EDs passim ] . |
| 9 | But there is a second possibility : beyond our planet 's computer , there may be others that are its superior . |
| 10 | Octopus tentacles are its favourite . |
| 11 | The basic parameters of the damper are its inertia ( J ) and the viscous fluid constant k , but in addition there is the inertia of the damper housing OH ) , which increases the overall motor/load inertia . |
| 12 | Its principal inputs are its address lines , which may each be set to 0 or 1 . |
| 13 | A unique city — whose very construction is a marvel — it is linked in every way to the canals and lagoons that are its foundation . |
| 14 | Danger stalks this place , and you alone are its quarry . |
| 15 | Apple trees are its bread and butter in Britain but mistletoe clearly has no meal ticket . |
| 16 | Saxton Bampfylde tries to be extra sensitive , open and considerate , not only to the clients who are its bread and butter , but also to candidates , who frequently feel they have been ridden roughshod over and hard-done-by in the search process . |
| 17 | The most notable characteristics of a gas are its compressibility and its ability to expand . |
| 18 | Important amongst these properties are its ability to : induce chemotaxis by vascular smooth muscle cells ( Grotendorst et al , 1982 ) ; fibroblasts ( Seppä et al , 1982 ) and monocytes ( Deuel et al , 1982 ) ; increase rates of fluid phase pinocytosis ( Davies & Ross , 1978 ) and protein synthesis ( Owen et al , 1982 ) ; increase the number of LDL receptors ( Chait et al , 1980 ) and somatomedin receptors ( Clemmons et al , 1980 ) as well as stimulate proliferation of connective tissue cells . |
| 19 | Three major weaknesses of the paper are its lack of clarity , its lack of detail and the many opportunities it offers to those who hold information that should be made public , to use various loopholes to avoid so doing . |
| 20 | If ego-states ( see page 56 ) are the backbone of transactional analysis ( see page 167 ) , strokes are its heartbeat . |
| 21 | Among the beauties of the Dewey Decimal system are its simplicity and the universal appeal of its notation , which can be easily understood and applied . |
| 22 | In my view the weakest sounds in the A4 are its overdrive and distortion , not because of the amount of effect available , but because of the various voicings on offer . |
| 23 | One must look to the contract as a whole to identify the kind of goods that the seller was agreeing to sell and the buyer to buy … where , as in the instant case , the sale ( to use the words of s13 ) is " by sample as well as by description " , characteristics of the goods which would be apparent on reasonable examination of the sample are unlikely to have been intended by the parties to form part of the " description " by which the goods were sold , even though such characteristics are mentioned in references in the contract to the goods that are its subject matter . |
| 24 | The sums of money that have to be paid for these efforts and sacrifices will be called either its money cost of production , or , for shortness , its expenses of production ; they are the prices which have to be paid in order to call forth an adequate supply of the efforts and waitings that are required for making it ; or , in other words , they are its supply price . |
| 25 | His passionate love of the English language is absolute : his wit and fluency are its testimony . |
| 26 | Actions of evil and barbarism are its stock in trade . |
| 27 | SunConnect 's biggest revenue earners are its SunNet Manager system — which is also being implemented on HP and IBM Corp Unix kit — its Open Systems Interconnection stuff and X.25 products . |
| 28 | The lines and masses of a statue are its soul ’ . |
| 29 | The clue to what he meant is the last sentence from Lewis : ‘ The lines and masses of a statue are its soul ’ . |
| 30 | Its chief merits are its cheapness and convenience . |