Example sentences of "of its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this , the final year of its TVEI Extension , Lothian has a substantial budget for general SVQ development work in the following areas : |
| 2 | It would be convenient to know the extent of its following in Perth . ’ |
| 3 | The relationships of Cuscuta are still uncertain ; on the basis of its flower structure , most taxonomists have placed it in the Convolvulaceae , the bindweed family , but Arthur Cronquist , in his Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants ( 1968 ) , gives it its own family , the Cuscutaceae . |
| 4 | I accept the fresco , not as something which gives emphasis to the wall , but , on the contrary , as a means to destroy the wall violently , to remove any notion of its stability , weight , etc . |
| 5 | The standard molar enthalpy of formation of a compound or ion is a measure of its stability relative to its constituent elements . |
| 6 | However , a much truer indication of its stability is the free energy of formation . |
| 7 | We saw above that the free energy of formation of a compound is a measure of its stability . |
| 8 | It 's a listed building and a lot of work has gone into making sure of its stability and construction |
| 9 | WEMBLEY has cut some of its ticket prices by half in an attempt to ensure a respectable crowd for England 's friendly against Yugoslavia next Wednesday . |
| 10 | WEMBLEY has cut some of its ticket prices by half in an attempt to ensure a respectable crowd for England 's friendly against Yugoslavia next Wednesday . |
| 11 | There are , nevertheless , features of the Maastricht text which raise questions of general legal interest , irrespective of its fate . |
| 12 | Even if it was rejected , however , under the terms of the country 's constitution approval by the lower house was sufficient for it to become law within 30 days regardless of its fate in the upper chamber . |
| 13 | Comet : Siemens Nixdorf has announced a new Eurotax module for users of its Comet financial management and accounting software . |
| 14 | The art discussed may still be in situ , or at least in the country of its origin ; hence the immense attraction of travel to the sites of great civilisations such as Egypt or Mexico . |
| 15 | It is an ancient Lappish name , and Odd-Knut is not sure of its origin . |
| 16 | At its very inception , the world was hot , but within a billion years of its origin , parts of it at least were at the kinds of temperatures in which complex organic chemistry could take place . |
| 17 | Working class literature is that writing which first appears within the modern working class in the process of its formation and carries the marks of its origin in its attitude to society , particularly to workers ' problems , and in its manner of expression . |
| 18 | I made the choice at random , the sole criterion being that a book had to have come from a library and have a recognisable sign of its origin . |
| 19 | The Shorthorn/Highland first cross has always been popular but it took the concerted efforts of the three Cadzow brothers on an island off the west coast of Scotland to consolidate the virtues of the cross and turn it into a genuine breed , the Luing , named after the island of its origin . |
| 20 | In the 19th century an anthology was made of all the surviving T'ang poetry and someone complained that what he saw was only a meagre yield from the vast harvest of its origin . |
| 21 | A less glamorous version of its origin sees the first Manx cat as nothing more than a Manx sailor 's pet — a curiosity brought home after travels to the Orient . |
| 22 | In the vital chapter ‘ The Shadow of the Past ’ Gandalf says a great deal about it , but his information boils down to three basic data : ( 1 ) the Ring is immensely powerful , in right or wrong hands ; ( 2 ) it is dangerous and ultimately fatal to all its possessors — in a sense there are no right hands ; ( 3 ) it can not simply be left unused or put aside , but must be destroyed , something which can happen only in the place of its origin , Orodruin , Mount Doom . |
| 23 | Tuning his psychic sense , he strove to analyse this feeling until he was virtually positive of its origin . |
| 24 | The more History attempts to transcend its own rootedness in historicity , and the greater the efforts it makes to attain , beyond the historical relativity of its origin and its choices , the sphere of universality , the more clearly it bears the marks of its historical birth , and the more evidently there appears through it the history of which it is itself a part … inversely , the more it accepts its relativity , and the more deeply it sinks into the movement it shares with what it is recounting , then the more it tends to the slenderness of the narrative , and all the positive content it obtained for itself through the human sciences is dissipated . |
| 25 | Regardless of its origin , however , a silicate liquid crystallizing augitic pyroxene in equilibrium with plagioclase of andesine composition would not co-crystallize albite . |
| 26 | Mobility means that the deviance exists independently of its origin , allowing polluters opportunities of evading detection . |
| 27 | It was described in a Greek herbal written in the third century B.C. and is probably a native of the eastern Mediterranean area , though it is now so widespread it is difficult to be certain of its origin . |
| 28 | In the country of its origin , England , it was well established , and working well , half a century or a century before the franchise became at all democratic . |
| 29 | Science was essentially the study of the world as a going concern , not of its origin or end . |
| 30 | In most cases we will be asking when a particular parish or set of parish boundaries was first defined , and if that was the date of its origin or if it is older . |