Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Venice , intensely touchy about its international status , was particularly liable to take umbrage if one of its representatives were not offered such a present or were offered one of less value than expected : the failure of the duke of Savoy to make a gift to a departing Venetian ambassador in 1603 , for example , aroused notably bad feeling in the republic . |
| 2 | It 's presumably popular for its unusual appearance , but it requires very dim lighting and a peat or sand substrate in which it can burrow for food . |
| 3 | It is kept alone due to its aggressive behaviour — it attacked two large Pacus and a 1½″ long Arrowana and had to be swiftly moved . |
| 4 | During the campaign period the DPP had purposely been less strident in its controversial advocacy of Taiwanese independence . |
| 5 | A colony builds a hill in the shape of a rectangular wedge standing fifteen feet or so high with its sharp edge at the top . |
| 6 | The wind did not reach the heights on the Beaufort scale registered against Ireland , but Scotland clearly utilised their local knowledge and were less unsettled by its capricious nature . |
| 7 | She was quite uncritical of the sad , grand dress ; she understood only the pale , still doubtful , beauty , so wrong for its present period , so touching in its failure to be recognized or to please . |
| 8 | But at some point we are bound to stop and ask if what we are studying , however important it may be in its own terms , is sufficiently central to its presumed subject . |
| 9 | I would make it less coy about its radical tradition |
| 10 | She had no need for speech for she gave birth to — she uttered — The Word … ’ and , standing before the icon , so perfect in its gilded stillness , I had thought of the bodies of men , land-locked and mute , and I had felt sorry for them . |
| 11 | ‘ I felt as if I had seen something unclean , ’ Cecil concluded , ‘ so fearful in its cold frenzy that one blanched , asphyxiated in so nauseous an atmosphere . ’ |
| 12 | Porlock is not only famous for its steep hill but is also a superb centre for touring Exmoor . |
| 13 | The most troublesome period concerned the budget in 1981 , when Jim Prior , peter Walker , and Sir Ian Gilmour were so opposed to its deflationary thrust that they considered resigning . |
| 14 | Sierra On-Line is a software house that is justly famous for its high-quality games . |
| 15 | We depend upon it completely … and our dependence makes us so vulnerable to its dark side . |
| 16 | A refusal is only effective within its true scope and is vitiated if it is based upon false assumptions . |
| 17 | The posh agency was terribly ashamed of its creative department , and never took clients up there . |
| 18 | Forced to abdicate and agree to the appointment of the Earl of Moray , one of her father 's illegitimate sons , as Regent on behalf of her son , she languished in the bleak tower which now looks so romantic with its nineteenth-century addition of trees . |
| 19 | There had been 6½ hours of fiercely-contested cricket on this fourth and final day , and yet it had seemed twice that much , so packed with incident had it been and so explosive in its continuous nature . |
| 20 | said that conditions ‘ go so directly to the substance of the contract or , in other words , are so essential to its very nature that their non-performance may fairly be considered by the other party as a substantial failure to perform the contract at all . ’ |
| 21 | Sudbury remains a bustling market town and is still rightly proud of its famous son , Thomas Gainsborough , whose house is open to the public . |
| 22 | ‘ The Chelonian race is rightly proud of its great accomplishments ! ’ |
| 23 | Britain 's systems are good at coping with specific emergencies — not so good at dealing with long developing crisis , but no less explosive for its slow fuse . |
| 24 | Do n't forget , she was returning to a village in the north , hardly the most progressive or liberal-minded place at the best of times , and this particular village was especially proud of its moral record . |
| 25 | While the Kerry is naturally small in its native environment , the Dexter has been deliberately bred small , often to the point of being a true dwarf . |
| 26 | It 's inserted into the poem in two ways : first the devils are identified with the pagan gods — they are introduced , indeed , with a great fanfare in the first book and given all sorts of classical erm and oriental names , and Milton explains to us that of course it was the devils themselves who managed to disperse this tradition that that 's who they really were ; and second , and though less central and less impressive in its poetic results , is perhaps the second device which is more interesting when we think of the poem in terms of Milton 's personal involvement . |
| 27 | The CAB is justly proud of its open-door policy . |
| 28 | It is remarkable that the language of Briggs ' book , a sad commentary on the preoccupation up to now with examinations in England and Wales , should be so accurate in its awful warning of the new system . |
| 29 | She had regarded men as men had been used to regard women : pleasant and pleasurable enough when they stayed in line but outside the mainstream of life and more or less irrelevant to its principal purpose , which was keeping body and soul together with as little effort and as much comfort as was practically consistent with this aim . |
| 30 | Moira from FOR pops up on the title track and ‘ New Love ’ is especially poignant with its sorry story of broken hearts and fond memories . |