Example sentences of "to be [vb pp] [prep] its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To imply that the Kha-Khan 's exchequer was likely to be burdened beyond its ability to support the embassy was nonsense , as they both knew . |
| 2 | A periodical reunion of the deaf of Great Britain and Ireland should always occur , and there is everything to be said in its favour . |
| 3 | At the moment their relationship was a weekend one , but both of them occasionally thought that the idea of marriage still had something to be said in its favour . |
| 4 | I believe therefore that our music is to be recognized by its melodies , and that it is highly important that they be distinctive , with clear-cut , decisive shapes . |
| 5 | It was now also common knowledge that the aircraft , once the Wasp was within range , were to be flown from its decks to the besieged island of Malta . |
| 6 | It was not long before we decided that the question had to be turned on its head . |
| 7 | The matrix would have to be turned on its side . |
| 8 | In the case of individual PCs and printers , each case will have to be treated on its merits . |
| 9 | When it was time for the foal to be separated from its mother , the friends took the foal but no longer visited Shamrock . |
| 10 | It tends to be grown for its foliage . |
| 11 | He has many opportunities to personify the government or , strictly speaking , to be presented as its spokesman . |
| 12 | The Institute has become the first professional institution to be registered for its headquarters administrative operations under BS 5750 . |
| 13 | It was decided that state sickness benefit was to be taxed by its abolition ! |
| 14 | The PSP abolished its central committee and replaced it by an assembly of guides , to be led by its secretary-general , Lt.-Col. Sharif Fayyad . |
| 15 | Not only do accurate 3-D computer models allow information on cleaning , damage and repair to be superimposed as a record of the state of conservation of a work of art , they also allow tailor-made packing cases to be constructed for its transportation . |
| 16 | Each case has to be examined on its merits . |
| 17 | It is opening an office in San Francisco to be run by its founder and president Jacques Quelene . |
| 18 | To this could be added the possibility of building the towers only as high as the wall itself , thus enabling the cannon used for defence to be moved along its length ( now on one level ) to whichever part it was most needed . |
| 19 | But anyone who takes the poem head-on , as though entering upon a piece of hitherto unfamiliar English verse , is bound to be struck by its crazy-paving of little-used or dialect words ( " shaws " ) , of samples from the literary lexicon ( " meads " , " unapparelled " ) , of old-tyme poetryspeak ( " thou wast not born for aye " ) , of dubiously archaic constructions ( " friend thee more " " steads him nothing " ) , of blended or cross-bred idioms ( " pure of stain " ) , of literary reminiscences ( " dust and dreams " — a most adroit rendering of , but one that inevitably recalls Shakespeare and " we are such stuff as dreams are made on " ) . |
| 20 | It is increasingly important that there is just such a Wales-based environmental group putting forward a Welsh viewpoint ; and that such a group is seen to be supported at its grass roots by active branches playing parallel roles at local levels . |
| 21 | One of them died soon afterwards ; and the other one — I saw it myself-was so bad and its head so swollen up with the stings that it had to be supported in its stable by a kind of sling fixed to the roof . ’ |
| 22 | Tandy Corp , Forth Worth , Texas , has caused many eyebrows to be raised with its plan to spin off its manufacturing operations to shareholders as a new company , TE Electronics Inc , and the move has not done the parent 's credit rating any good either . |
| 23 | But it clearly is much more difficult and heroic for any group of people who are on the front line of discrimination to adopt a nuanced reading of racism 's multiple forms than for those who are or want to be distanced from its processes and effects . |
| 24 | The Japanese company 's Bluebird model , the first to be built at its Sunderland factory , never rated : dealers thought it lacked pzazz for executives . |
| 25 | A much-publicised gateau factory is to be built in its place . |
| 26 | Essentially this is based around choosing and then communicating the geometric properties necessary for the successful functioning of the item , together with material properties and the procedures to be employed during its generation . |
| 27 | This is why every family needs to be renewed in its relationships — both to one another and to God . |
| 28 | Though there is a case to be made for its use as an educational medium — and the BBC 's contribution to the Open University at Milton Keynes has been considerable , if politically questionable , and will continue despite the closure of their studios in a fine example of accountant 's false logic — this has not been the main area of impact . |
| 29 | There is little wrong with the tenor and even toughness of the Code but its weakness is that it is unrealistic when crucial choices have to be made by its members . |
| 30 | The wine was introduced into them by means of fine glass pipettes , though the champagne had to be robbed of its sparkle before it could be persuaded to enter ! |