Example sentences of "and [noun sg] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | So one horse may show apprehension by putting its ears half back at another more dominant horse , or drop its lower eyelids , or extend its top lip , or dilate and round-out its nostrils . |
| 2 | In some instances ‘ sameness ’ comes to signify the tyranny of Western patriarchal metaphysics , and homosexuality its practice or , more vaguely , its metaphor . |
| 3 | In Juliet Mitchell 's account sexual difference becomes the archetypal split , and castration its symbol : |
| 4 | Yet treachery was the greatest crime in the feudal code : loyalty and generosity its supreme virtues . |
| 5 | But the U.S. has space and a welcome for even more of us : with travel and tourism its third-largest retail industry , the ailing American economy can not afford to leave it up to our own tour firms to persuade us that the time — and price — is right . |
| 6 | It was observed : ‘ In most villages of the realm there is some one dresser or worker of leather , and in most of the market towns iij or iiij or v , and many great towns and cities x or xx , ’ and indeed , with cattle and timber its chief products , the Weald was a natural location , and local bark , of which colliers and ironmasters had plenty to spare , was much in demand by tanners . |
| 7 | When the author of the Life of Edward the Confessor says that he trusted the cause of God to his bishops , and ordered secular judges to act fairly , so that honesty could have royal support and evil its just condemnation , this may be an indication that someone did for Edward what Wulfstan had done for Æthelred and Cnut . |
| 8 | Much of the bureaucracy 's time was absorbed in checking and double-checking its own work . |
| 9 | But the demands it made upon my timid psyche gave it a quality and significance its components : loose rock , repetitive moves and so forth , would n't immediately suggest . |
| 10 | INGLEBOROUGH IS STURDILY buttressed in the north by Simon Fell and Park Fell , but in the west and east its slopes quickly decline to valley level . |
| 11 | Yet Tom Fawthrop could write in It52 that the RSSF represented a move away from ‘ the sectarian left ’ and ‘ the move into a deeper , more imaginative level of politics … we will be the first generation in history to consciously plan and map-out its own future , and create a society of its own . ’ |
| 12 | A new national organisation he believed should be on a smaller and more economical scale than required by the struggle up to 1833 ; functioning as a watchdog over legislation and supplying information to ministers and public its style had to be ‘ very prudent and discreet ’ . |
| 13 | Sligo deserves them all and more , as for friendliness and conversation its sons can not be beaten . |
| 14 | Just as kung fu has its forms and karate its katas , so taekwondo has its version of set patterns . |
| 15 | and conscience is either killed , or , if it lives at all , lives but to give rebellion its fascination , and disobedience its charm . |
| 16 | HOW THE UK MAKES TORTURE AND DEATH ITS BUSINESS Amnesty International 's new book on repression , trade and government policy . |
| 17 | From where does the law derive its categories of the ‘ person ’ and ‘ property ’ and politics its categories of ‘ shared material ’ and the ‘ polity ? |
| 18 | They demand , therefore , that the social security bureaucracy should more effectively control and discipline its subordinates . |