Example sentences of "its [noun] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the second incident of its kind on the same stretch of motorway , in two days . |
| 2 | With the backing of President North , the Josephite Church was building its sanctuary in the former state of Utah . |
| 3 | The compensation claim was of symbolic importance to the Sandinistas and followed a 1986 ruling by the International Court of Justice that the US had broken international law and had committed illegal acts in its support of the former contras . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Iomega has enhanced its products to the same drive to work with Unix , Apple Macintosh and personal computers machines , has also made its drives work with the NeXT Inc and Silicon Graphic Inc 's boxes via interfaces . |
| 5 | I am sure that the House wished to join him in sending its sympathy to the many victims , some of whom may have suffered irreparable damage . |
| 6 | In January 1983 , the water content of reservoirs in South Africa had fallen to 50 per cent of its level at the same time last year , and the 1982 maize crop was 40 per cent lower than the record of 40 million tonnes harvested in 1981 . |
| 7 | Like the NL this too was a secret society and had its headquarters at the same address in licensed premises in Lamb 's Conduit Street , London . |
| 8 | In 1991 , the NYOS earned nearly 60 per cent from sponsorship , compared to an average of 41 per cent for youth orchestras , while the SCO raised around 17 per cent of its income from the same source , double the national average of 8 per cent . |
| 9 | He managed to convey some contempt for the TAS and its operations at the same time . |
| 10 | The best way to mimic an earthquake is to place a building on a shaking table which subjects its Foundations to the same force as the acceleration of the ground during an earthquake . |
| 11 | The government , publishing its reply on the same day , stated that it had no legal liability to pay compensation , rejected the report 's assertions that actions fell short of the standards appropriate to the regulator , and further asserted that the general handling of the licensing of the Barlow Clowes partnership was careful and considerate . |
| 12 | Australia has a marsupial " mole " , superficially almost indistinguishable from the familiar moles of other continents , but pouched , making its living in the same way as other moles and with the same enormously strengthened forepaws for digging . |
| 13 | Like Hornblower , whose temperament was delighting readers with its contradictions at the same time as that of the Quinn adventures , Septimus has adopted certain measures of what could be called self-defence . |
| 14 | It is unlikely a team will get all the details of its programme at the same time as the call to the work . |
| 15 | The Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge asked him to report on the work of its schools at the same time . |
| 16 | The Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge asked him to report on the work of its schools at the same time . |
| 17 | Now the public may enjoy its stately grandeur and the magnificent flowering trees of its parkland at the same time , perhaps , pondering upon the enterprise and ethics with which the magnificent property was founded . |
| 18 | The standard of living is another key measure which has its origins in the same source . |
| 19 | … on the physical resource of water in all its spatial and temporal inequalities of occurrence , and by its conceptualization of the many systems subsumed under the hydrological cycle … |
| 20 | Nick Price says that point to point is just like the cheltenham gold cup … its run under the same rules as the grand national … the big difference is that this is amateur … totally amateur … but its a boom sport and very popular in this area |
| 21 | Any extinguishing agent which develops its effects in the same direction must be capable of overtaking the flame front if it is to have an acceptable limiting influence on potential damage . |
| 22 | By the end of The Order of Things , however , he revises this somewhat conventional thesis to suggest that what was involved was not so much a move from a static to a historical view of things as the break-up of a common , unified historical time-scheme in which every phenomenon had had its place in the same space and chronology . |
| 23 | But although the company managed to exceed its targets by the half year stage , it was n't able to maintain such growth levels — turnover for the entire year grew only 10% to $253m . |
| 24 | Similarly , an airline or even government operated air traffic control authority might amend a procedure promulgated in its manuals for the same reason . |
| 25 | Occasionally the sun would appear from behind a roof-top , and she would feel its warmth for a few seconds . |
| 26 | Burdened by hindsight , by a chronic fear of becoming bloated and self-indulgent , this indie generation tries to freeze-flame development at the point just before ‘ it all went wrong ’ , and so turns its back on the few things that went right . |
| 27 | This catfish exhibits an usual form of ‘ parental care ’ , not dissimilar to that of the cuckoo — which is infamous for laying its eggs in the nests of other birds and leaving them to be hatched and raised by the involuntary ‘ foster-parents ’ In the case of Synodontis multipunctatus , it swims in and out among mouth-brooding cichlids which are in the throes of spawning and releases its eggs at the same time as the cichlid , whose eggs it often devours . |
| 28 | This was built in 1582 by the Teatini Fathers and took its name from a former church attached to a monastery of the Brothers of St Anthony , a curious horse-riding fraternity who ‘ kept alight the fires of St Anthony ’ . |
| 29 | That argument rests on the claim that the universe displays the hand of its Architect in the same way as a human artefact is recognisable as the work of an intelligent designer . |
| 30 | Until 1976 the Commission had responsibility for England , Wales and Scotland , but thereafter its role in the latter countries has been taken over by the Welsh and Scottish Development Agencies ( Carney and Hudson 1978 , 1979 ) . |