Example sentences of "be [prep] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problems faced by the accountancy profession are of its own making . |
| 2 | Selection , abstraction and hierarchy are of its essence : and these to be reordered , grouped and juxtaposed to maximum effect . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're in its bag , are n't we ? ’ |
| 4 | Indeed , as we have noted in chapter 2 , librarians are amongst its biggest users . |
| 5 | The fear is that if defined , legal experts will exploit loopholes which , although within the letter of the law , are outwith its spirit . |
| 6 | and at the request and cost of the Landlord to make or join with the Landlord in making such objections or representations against or in respect of any notice direction order or proposal as the Landlord shall reasonably deem expedient except where the Tenant reasonably considers that any such objections or representations are against its best interests or those of any undertenant |
| 7 | A " temporary services business " , which specifies that persons working for it are under its " direction , supervision and control " , is not an " employment business " in the terms of the Employment Agencies Act and is not subject to the regulations governing the operation of such businesses which the Act lays down . |
| 8 | How conservative or parsimonious has nature been with its signals and its building materials ? |
| 9 | Ken was n't as happy with this one as he had been with its predecessor . |
| 10 | Georgia insists the Chattahoochee belongs to it , because the headwaters are within its boundaries . |
| 11 | The leading case is Anisminic Ltd v. Foreign Compensation Commission , where the House of Lords held that the effect of an exclusion clause is only to prevent errors of law by a tribunal which are within its jurisdiction : the clause would not prevent the review of decisions outside jurisdiction . |
| 12 | the document was served by a method prescribed by the internal law of the State addressed for the service of documents in domestic actions upon persons who are within its territory , or |
| 13 | I am in its path . |
| 14 | Miller 's Vinca rosea ( now Catharanthus roseus ) had been brought forward : ‘ as this plant is a great novelty in Europe … the Figure of the Plant has not yet been seen by any living person ’ and of Gardenia capense , called by him Jasminium , he wrote , ‘ Could we have procured a good drawing in proper time it would have been in its proper place , but as this is so curious and being an undescribed plant , we hope our purchasers will not be displeased with insertion here . ’ |
| 15 | As I began to eat , her lunch would have been in its final stages and Susan , our three-year-old , anxious to leave the table . |
| 16 | During the last few days before the event , as spectators arrived from , Ayrshire was busier than it had ever been in its history . |
| 17 | Whatever we may think of the future , we think of the past as having been in its time as determinate as the present now is . |
| 18 | She tried to imagine what an imposing building it must have been in its time . |
| 19 | They brought with them their families , particularly the young children , and under this stimulus the seaside holiday became something which it had not been in its aristocratic heyday — a family affair . |
| 20 | In July 1990 , after lengthy legal proceedings , the House of Lords had ruled that the government had been within its rights in April in " charge-capping " 21 local authorities ( i.e. setting reduced limits on their expenditure for 1990/91 and fixing maximum levels for their community charge ) . |
| 21 | The only sentences generated by a CFG are from its start symbol . |
| 22 | It could be argued that since children from about the age of eight years can create their own mental images and since , according to Shirley Hughes ( 1983 , unpaged ) ‘ The best pictures any child sees are in its own head ’ , there is little need for pictures in books for older children . |
| 23 | ‘ the fruits of the investigation which are in its possession are not the property of the Crown for use in securing a conviction but the property of the public to be used to ensure that justice is done . |
| 24 | This may not appear to be a splendid dish , but its star-rating qualities are in its simplicity . |
| 25 | The study of systems of writing — for each system , graphology describes what graphemes are in its vocabulary and how they are used , as phonology does for phonemes . |
| 26 | Every local authority knows exactly which dwellings are in its area so , by matching the postal code to the authority , all the money would go to the right local authority . |
| 27 | Alternatively , if a firm made its issue thinking share prices were indeed going to rocket ( for that is what the low yields implied ) , then it could be worth its while to take the cash and invest it back into equities or other financial instruments . |
| 28 | And once in your hand , a patent can be worth its weight in diamonds — so treat it with care and remember the case of Walter Hunt . |
| 29 | Of course , even if insider trading had some tendency to make the market smoother the benefit from that smoothness ( and it is not entirely clear why smooth gradual movements are preferable to sudden jumps ) might not be worth its cost . |
| 30 | A dreadful extravagance on one level , but I am in no doubt it will be worth its weight — pure silk £15 , so maybe it will be George 's Christmas present to me . |