Example sentences of "in its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It wants the EC to make an exception in its case . |
| 2 | In its case , however , the eye-spots are on the front wings and are exposed by suddenly spreading the folded wings and directing them at the attacker . |
| 3 | The completed board mounted in its case can be seen in the photograph above . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm quite OK , ’ said Ricky , slotting the gun back in its case , ‘ and I would like to come to supper . ’ |
| 5 | Keep the camcorder in its case when not in use . |
| 6 | In its case , although just viable , opinions over its right to life are fiercely contested . |
| 7 | In its case , this results in a picture of psychology as completely opportunistic , ‘ a mixture of philosophy without rigour , ethics without obligation and medicine without control ’ ( Canguilhem 1980 : 37 ) . |
| 8 | More valued , infinitely more needed , the violin in its case on the living-room floor between the television and the bookshelves . |
| 9 | She replaced it in its case . |
| 10 | His clarinet lay in its case on the stool at the foot of his bed ; the very wide bed Francis bought when we married . |
| 11 | The power supply goes in too , the whole thing in its case , and is stuck down with one of those double sided pads . |
| 12 | As I was putting the thermometer back in its case the calf suddenly toppled over and went into a frothing convulsion . |
| 13 | The central problem for the government was the central element in its case — the Thomas Leavy birth certificate . |
| 14 | Jacques 's inventory after death , an extensive document of 69 pages , lists his musical instruments kept ‘ in another cabinet right next to the alcove , which were essentially the ones inventoried among the contents of Martin 's bedroom ( ‘ a basse de viole , a viole , a pardessus de viole , a violon by Pierres in its case , a child 's violin with a bow , a monocorus , a théorbe and a musette , priced at 100 livres ’ ) . |
| 15 | It was shocking in its coarseness and to her gentle Victorian mother alarmingly primitive , nearly pre-moral . |
| 16 | Micro-readers glowed green in its gloom . |
| 17 | Mourns to the city in its gloom . |
| 18 | Remembering that pin 2 is an inverting input , any rise in its voltage will cause a corresponding fall in voltage at pin 6 , and vice-versa . |
| 19 | An old kettle with a hole burnt in its bottom lay on its side in a drift of twigs and old mortar . |
| 20 | It is at its best and most characteristic in its bottom octave-and-a-half . |
| 21 | By the law of primitive socialist accumulation we mean the entire sum of conscious and semi-spontaneous tendencies in the state economy which are directed towards the expansion and consolidation of the collective organisation of labour in Soviet economy and which are dictated to the Soviet state on the basis of necessity : ( 1 ) the determination of proportions in the distribution of productive forces , formed on the basis of struggle against the law of value inside and outside the country and having as their objective task the achievement of the optimum expanded socialist reproduction in the given conditions and of the maximum defensive capacity of the whole system in conflict with capitalist commodity production ; ( 2 ) the determination of the proportions of accumulation of material resources for expanded reproduction , especially at the expense of private economy , in so far as the determined amounts of the accumulation are dictated compulsorily to the Soviet state under threat of economic disproportion , growth of private capital , weakening of the bond between the state economy and peasant production , derangement in years to come of the necessary proportions of expanded socialist reproduction and weakening of the whole system in its conflict with capitalist commodity production inside and outside the country . |
| 22 | In a discussion of Asian security on Soviet television a Pravda writer denied that Soviet initiatives for ‘ pan-Asian security ’ were intended by Moscow ‘ to draw the countries of the region into some kind of Asian-Pacific pact , to make allies of them in its conflict with Washington ’ . |
| 23 | It coped easily with gently curved edges , and was in its element coasting up and down a slightly sloping lawn , producing those satisfying stripes that can make mowing a distinct pleasure . |
| 24 | And look on the feelings , etc. , as you look on a way of regarding the language-game , as interpretation ’ ; ‘ We are not analysing a phenomenon ( e.g. thought ) but a concept ( e.g. that of thinking ) , and therefore the use of a word ’ ; ‘ a concept is in its element with the language-game ’ . |
| 25 | At La Buia Italy is in its element , and immediately it becomes obvious that this is the place where I should bring my class . |
| 26 | He smiled at the ease of it ; one minute the fish was dying , the next it was in its element . |
| 27 | Indeed , there was an increase in its threat and its illegality with the passing of years . " |
| 28 | The Romans called the spirit or GHOST of a dead person his manes or mares , and believed it was also interred deep in the earth in its master 's grave . |
| 29 | SunSoft Inc has adopted London-based Alex Technolgies Ltd 's graphical user interface tool for use with Solaris 2.0 in its master developer series on Intel and Sparc platforms : Alex allows users to transform their character applications to run under Open Look without modifications to the code . |
| 30 | Urquhart 's hand stopped dead in its trajectory towards the bill . |