Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] its [det] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plans , put forward by Environment Minister David Trippier , would involve each country disposing of its own waste and would alter the European Commission 's plans to enforce disposal at the nearest plant , regardless of cost . |
| 2 | Each division will be looking after its own interests and will try to maximise its own profits . |
| 3 | He declared that ‘ our only wish is that Afghanistan should be a neutral and independent state developing in its own right and friendly to the USSR , and not a base for hostile activity threatening the security of neighbours ’ . |
| 4 | Scotland , meantime , had her own monarchs and her own parliament which , notwithstanding accession to the English throne by a king of Scotland in 1603 , continued to regulate the affairs of the Scottish kingdom according to its own laws and customs . |
| 5 | The national assessment is not competitive ; each school is assessed according to its own circumstances and locality . |
| 6 | Seen from the inside , however , the Addams area is intricately organized according to its own standards and the residents are fairly insistent on their demands . |
| 7 | The fact that the undertaking is not speaking with its own voice but is merely the echo of another 's soon becomes known . |
| 8 | Public opinion does not go unheeded , and disabled people are not the only group which is asking for its own wishes and opinions to be recognised . |
| 9 | The Scissormen 's finest moment so far is ‘ Sever ’ , a love song positively stewing in its own blood and guts . |
| 10 | Each society , of course , has to deal with many specific problems arising from its own culture and history , but there are also some general issues to be faced , and the two which seem to me still to be pre-eminent are those which I indicated at the beginning of this book : namely , industrialization and democracy . |
| 11 | The human will could not stand back from the Great Battle raging in its own soul as well as in the world at large : it had to choose to contend either for God or the Devil . |
| 12 | The capital of Sardinia , Cagliari , is about 30 miles away and well worth visiting for its many museums and churches . |
| 13 | There 's erm there 's always a tension for those of us who are parents , particularly those of us who erm send our children to the state schools , as to erm what 's in the best interests of our own particular individual child and what might be in the best interests of all the children in the area in which we live , and erm this vote was an invitation to think only , very selfishly , of what might be the situation for our children , and I 'm very glad that erm many parents in Banbury thought of children in general living in North Oxfordshire and erm realise that you ca n't just take one limb of an education service and send it off spinning into its own orbit and not expect the rest to suffer . |
| 14 | As you climb by the road , you see a ring of mountains to your right which you might easily take to be the Cirque de Troumouse , but this is in fact yet a third cirque , that of Estaubé , intermediate between Gavarnie and Troumouse , imposing in its own right if too withdrawn properly to enclose you , as a good cirque should . |