Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] of its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the shape of its talons , as if they were inescapable |
| 2 | Because of the shape of its face , as if it were a prison |
| 3 | Because of the shape of its throat , as if it were a torture |
| 4 | The threat by the INTO in respect of the removal of its investments , the placing by SIPTU of its National Office Network at our disposal , the many letters of encouragement and the great assistance given to our members on the Picket Line are some of the indicators of this . |
| 5 | And yet , if it had not been a conquered repressed country from which so many of the flower of its youth were forced to escape , would Ireland have been able to produce sons like Henry Ford ? |
| 6 | The state also has authority to determine disputes which arise out of the operation of its laws . |
| 7 | They call it an attempt to emphasise that Macedonia is an historically and culturally Greek region just when the ex-Yugoslav Macedonia , invented and so-named after World War II by Tito , is seeking international support for its own claim to independence , so far without much success : in part because of the problem of its name , in part because of fear that it is looking with greedy eyes at Greek Macedonia . |
| 8 | The stench of the frowsty rooms as much as the picture of the misery of its inhabitants left him pale . |
| 9 | Even if these were surmounted , two fundamental questions would remain about using the average wealth of a country as an index of the well-being of its citizens . |
| 10 | Newco and its advisers should consider how the target has taken care of the well-being of its employees , and whether it has conformed to health and safety legislation . |
| 11 | They act partly as stabilisers , like gyroscopes , and partly as sense organs presumably telling the fly of the attitude of its body in the air and the direction in which it is moving . |
| 12 | The Communist International failed to turn any political situation to its advantage during the years 1917 to 1935 , largely because of the rigidity of its model and its lack of interest in the actual conditions of Latin America . |
| 13 | Yesterday 's meeting , which saw the group change its name from Ferranti International Signal to Ferranti International , also approved changes in its articles designed to prevent it breaching borrowing powers as a result of the decimation of its equity base by the £215million write-off . |
| 14 | A measure of its success and an indication of the magnitude of its task could be gleaned from Benelux . |
| 15 | The voyage of HMS Beagle has come to eclipse those of the series of scientific voyages to which it belonged , because of the eminence of its naturalist-passenger . |
| 16 | As it happens , the Tyne and Wear Urban Development Corporation , headed by a DOE civil servant on secondment , has not adopted an aggressively ideological assertion of market rationales , which is in marked contrast to the public performances of the head of its Teesside equivalent . |
| 17 | It now has to become a modern social democratic party which can win because of the popularity of its vision . |
| 18 | The permission to make coinage was an important mark of a town 's regional importance and of the acceptability of its trade status among local people ; conversely , failure to maintain that rightful respect brought hard retribution . |
| 19 | English Language is the study of the English language as it is today as well as of the history of its development over more than a thousand years . |
| 20 | For the individual capital the external relations are given in a narrow manner , that is , its main problem is seen as that of the transformation of its commodity-value-product into the money-form of value . |
| 21 | Not many couples will enter into a marital or quasi-marital Partnership with specific reservations as to its duration but for most there is at least an awareness of the Possibility of its breakdown . |
| 22 | This welcomed Soviet completion , in compliance with the 1988 Geneva agreements , of the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan in February 1989 [ see pp. 36448-50 ] and called on all parties to respect the latter scrupulously . |
| 23 | The USA , which well within the memory of the majority of its inhabitants , was the world 's leading oil supplier , does not like being dependent on imported oil , particularly oil imported from areas of the world where political unrest means that a loss of supply — for instance through a closure of the Strait of Hormuz — is always a possibility . |
| 24 | What is at once important to stress about the Council is the lasting caution , indeed conservatism , of the majority of its members and of their consultants , as much as of the curia and the popes . |
| 25 | The system runs under Digital Equipment Corp 's VMS , VMS Ultrix , RISC Ultrix , Santa Cruz Unix , HP-UX and is Posix compliant — DEC and Hewlett-Packard Co being the choice of the majority of its customers . |
| 26 | We accept that both the Unionist and Nationalist traditions are valid and legitimate ; that Northern Ireland should remain a part of the UK until the free consent of the majority of its people is given to change ; that the Republic of Ireland has a legitimate interest in the future of Northern Ireland ; and that a partnership in government which allows both communities to participate is the only practical way in which to make progress . |
| 27 | The exposure draft addresses the process of assessing , ex post , the efficiency and effectiveness of a capital budgeting decision and of the management of its implementation . |
| 28 | in and out of Kuwait they never have to their only restrictions at any time , never , even if Kuwait had a financial crisis because of the crash of its stock market one expected that people might move their capital outside the country because of it , but there was no restrictions , no control , everybody was free , you could walk in and out of the country |
| 29 | So , in the classroom , as in the family and the peer group , socialisation largely takes place as an unintended consequence of the interaction of its members . |
| 30 | Coherence is thus associated with complexity ; the meaning of the text is the product of the interaction of its parts , but this interaction depends as much on their difference from one another as on their similarity . |