Example sentences of "its [adj] [noun sg] be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its public premiere was at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , on 19 May 1947 , first night of a tour which also brought the company a change of name , to Sadler 's Wells Theatre Ballet . |
| 2 | But its real purpose is for the prospective auditor/adviser to be made aware of all the relevant facts before taking on the assignment . |
| 3 | It is included at this point on the grounds that its central focus is on the meanings and understandings that people use to make sense of their everyday lives . |
| 4 | Since its early expression was in the form of sexual relations between conquering white soldiers and dominated Indian women , it has taken on a distinctly aggressive element which can emerge in the form of violence . |
| 5 | It employs 370,000 , more than the car industry , and its annual turnover is in the region of £3 billion . |
| 6 | The castle dominates the city and one of the best views of its imposing mass is from the opposite bank of the River Vltava in the Old Town ( Staré Město ) either by day , or floodlit by night . |
| 7 | Evidently unc gives a row which is the sum of all the rows of A and A{gs} sums all the columns of A. Its principal use is in the checking of numerical operations . |
| 8 | Built by Colla MacDonnell in the sixteenth century , it clings to a narrow promontory , and although there is not much left of the castle itself , its magnificent position is worth the long haul back up the cliff path . |
| 9 | Perlman may convey magisterial certainty , but the element of vulnerability in Chung 's reading adds to the emotional weight , above all in the slow movement , which in its wistful tenderness is among the most beautiful on disc . |
| 10 | Berlin might become important in the future but its great age was in the 1920s , when East Germany was rich and clients came from Scandinavia and Russia . |
| 11 | Although we think of it now as a packaging material and the ubiquitous polythene bag appears to be a major support of modern life , its primary contribution was in the impetus it gave to the plastic moulding industry and the first development of plastic buckets , sink bowls and so on . |
| 12 | Its current value is around the £250–300 mark |
| 13 | When Layton hired Mayfair-based KAS , started by Sir David Stirling , founder of the SAS , its day-to-day running was in the hands of another former SAS colonel , Ian Crook . |
| 14 | Today Madeira is European , part of Portugal and the European Economic Community , but its geographical position is off the African coast . |
| 15 | Its esoteric meaning is of the domain of the scholar rather than the layman — of the initiate rather than the priest . |
| 16 | A major exchange between the French science body , the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique , and its Vietnamese counterpart is in the offing . |
| 17 | Its abiding concern is with the interconnectedness of things , with all the links in the social chains that bind individuals together as members of a community . |
| 18 | Its main use is as the fuel in thermonuclear devices . |
| 19 | Its main commitment is to the north , and thus every winter the battalion trains in Norway in Arctic Warfare . |