Example sentences of "of its [noun] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He walks along the top of ancient city walls , passing secretly among the rooftops , through a world of slates and television aerials and caged birds at dormer windows ; emerges upon high places where the whole city — roofs , towers , domes , and lives — is gathered at his feet , and the immense acreage of its noise comes up to him like the murmur of the sea . |
| 2 | After losing most of its wartime recruits back to the universities and the law , the Service was determined to maintain its new influence , in Whitehall if not the world . |
| 3 | The heads of all three of its occupants whipped round to the large screen , where a buzzing black shape hovered expectantly . |
| 4 | Slowly the pressures of its differences bore down on my thinking and decisions , prying open my defences and forcing me to face questions I had not been conscious of before . |
| 5 | The truck climbed steeply , the sound of its engine echoing back from thick forest . |
| 6 | Whether blacks are indeed being incorporated into American society is seen as a major test of its capacity to live up to its liberal and democratic ideals . |
| 7 | There was very little disruption , a couple of chairs turned over and a table with most of its top scored off by shotgun pellets lay on its side . |
| 8 | ANGLIAN Water yesterday splashed out £36 million on a Swedish water engineering company as part of its attempts to diversify out of water supply . |
| 9 | Parts of its head wrinkled up into a half frown . |
| 10 | The ILP certainly broke up , but most of its members went back into the Labour Party . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , to keep as much of its collection as possible in New York City , the Society is offering other New York institutions the right of first refusal in the purchase of its works put up for sale . |
| 12 | The main opposition party , the right-wing Community party ( Atassut ) , lost three seats , leaving it with eight , as some of its support went over to the Centre Party , which entered the legislature for the first time with two seats . |
| 13 | News of its existence leaked out following the murder in July 1989 of Aurelio Sichel , a wealthy restaurateur with close links to the CNI . |
| 14 | Fully restored flour mill with much of its machinery dating back to 1730 . |
| 15 | Four phases can be identified in the development of economic relations between the two regions : ( 1 ) In the 1920s tentative links were initiated by the new Soviet government , which was anxious to secure diplomatic recognition and to explore the potential for trade with Latin America as part of its attempt to break out of what was perceived as an economic blockade by the Western nations . |
| 16 | Sun Microsystems Inc management estimates it is spending 10%-15% of its revenues moving over to Unix SVR4 : that must mean , that when the exercise is over , it will be rolling in cash . |
| 17 | At the moment , no law requires any company or research organisation to notify the HSE of its intention to scale up to fully commercial production in the field of genetic manipulation . |
| 18 | The FAA voluntary reporting system was retained and continues to work well for routine incident reports , while the NASA administered anonymous system made great strides but suffered from the inability of its operatives to refer back to those reporting the incident to obtain amplification of the circumstances or to ask supplementary questions . |
| 19 | This sparrow-sized bird is dull brown and grey in colour , and since it spends much of its time scurrying around on the ground , it often looks more like a mouse than a bird . |
| 20 | This new dialectical relationship between spectator and screen image led some critics and film-makers to make large claims for the avant-garde film as inherently more progressive and political , because of its self-reflexiveness and because of its refusal to give in to the tendency of mainstream film to construct an ‘ imaginary identity ’ . |