Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [verb] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | Television news has three significant characteristics that affect its ability to influence the electorate . |
| 2 | The Law Commission pointed out in a report in April that the use of computers has greatly facilitated the ability to plan and implement in one country a fraud that has its deleterious effect in another . |
| 3 | If it goes ahead with the project , it will find that it has a reward for the investment that exceeds its wildest dreams . |
| 4 | Moreover , it was her nakedness that exerted its mysterious power over the bodies of men . ’ |
| 5 | Vocal mimicry even occurs in a brood parasite that kills its nest mates . |
| 6 | For a number of shopaholics , however , that price turns out to be dizzyingly high — when shopping turns from a pleasure , or an occasional treat , into an uncontrollable obsession that chomps its way through the bank account , with sometimes disastrous effects . |
| 7 | Comparing the show scene with that in Barbados , I would say that the fact that there was an established breed club that held its own breed show with specialist judges made all the difference , Barbadian entries being quite small in comparison to the Jamaican ones . |
| 8 | The Safrane is also a car that meets its rivals head on , even though there are areas in which we , certainly , were hoping for more . |
| 9 | The sole Dino Berlinetta Speciale is now part of the permanent collection of the Le Mans car museum in France , a fitting place for a car that drew its design inspiration from the first mid-engined Ferrari sports racing cars and which shocked the world at Paris more than a quarter of a century ago . |
| 10 | We stopped and built a makeshift shelter to get away , as best we could , from snow that filtered its way through every opening to produce melt water that trickled coldly over us . |
| 11 | He gave the example of a two-year Community Skills course in a local college that drew its recruits from the special schools . |
| 12 | Mr Scowcroft was , until his appointment , the co-chairman of a committee drawn from the defence elites of both parties , which in February found a form of words that satisfied its wide range of members and came down gently in favour of Midgetman first and rail-MX only later . |
| 13 | ‘ Since being born in 1981 , Cheek by Jowl has gained a reputation both in Britain and abroad for the extraordinary verve , versatility , devotion and inventiveness that characterises its style ’ . |
| 14 | When , with a shout , I jerked my eye back to its hole there was no smoke anywhere , only the necessary building , perfect , even to the irises and the low picket fence that lined its path , before which ‘ Uncle Pepi ’ now stood , with one arm crooked and raised . |
| 15 | We have created a flexible motor industry that increased its exports by 78 per cent . |
| 16 | Watching it in action is like seeing some fantastic automatic sewing machine , dropping and lifting its pen to draw and terminate the thousands of lines with a speed that belies its great accuracy . |
| 17 | Such an argument is superficially attractive but conceals fallacies that require its rejection . |
| 18 | The cat had been laid out on the step , like an offering , scarcely recognisable as a grey tabby through the blood that matted its fur . |
| 19 | We easily recognise the aggressive action of a horse that snakes its head towards a newcomer , puts its ears back , pulls up its nostrils , and raises one leg ready to lash out at the other horse . |
| 20 | You have to go with it , riding the pain like a horse that flattens its ears and shies away from you . |
| 21 | So a horse that is roughly bridled may become ‘ head shy ’ and always throw its head when someone tries to put a bit in its mouth ; or a horse that is galled by the saddle when it is initially broken in may always have a ‘ cold back ’ and buck ; and a horse that has its girths thoughtlessly tightened immediately to the top hole may become ‘ girth shy ’ . |
| 22 | Even a certifiable Moon rock that makes its own way to the Earth will be called a meteorite . |
| 23 | or leave : the ambulance that stubs its shock absorbers |
| 24 | And each cough that forced its way past his throat brought with it more of the bright frothy blood , which dribbled from the corners of his mouth faster than his red-soaked handkerchief could mop it up . |
| 25 | Maybe it 's the fact that the Goliath retailed at around £60 with a plywood case that made its demise inevitable , even without the attentions of C.F.Martin . |
| 26 | An option is a contract that gives its holder the right , but not the obligation , to buy or sell a specific quantity of a specific quality of a specific asset at a specific price ( the " exercise price " or " strike price " ) on or before a specific day ( the settlement day ) . |
| 27 | The Iranian policies that frighten its neighbours and the wider world are said to include the promotion of international terrorism , attempts to obstruct peace between Israel and the Arabs and a burning ambition to acquire long-range missiles and weapons of mass destruction . |
| 28 | Very little blood , surely from the first blow that felled its victim through hood and all . |
| 29 | Billingsgate has presided over this decline with all the grace of an oligarchy that sees its power declining . |
| 30 | In this way , the new upper floor is prevented from crossing the original three-light arched windows which serve the end bays of the lower storey , and the stair is prevented from conflicting with the central window of this range by the introduction of a further quarter-landing at an intermediate level that turns its lowest flight parallel to the side elevation at a level just below the window-sill ( Fig 49 ) . |