Example sentences of "[adj] is [vb pp] [prep] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | Car 3 of 1885 is seen with its 20-foot trolley arm reaching across to the overhead line above the kerb . |
| 2 | Only one wheel now remains , although this is fixed at its base . |
| 3 | This is done for its own sake but it is found that the primary sufferer will quite commonly seek treatment through his or her appropriate Anonymous Fellowship within a few months of the family member seeking his or her own recovery . |
| 4 | This is seen at its most capricious in the case of exceptions and reservations . |
| 5 | Although theoretically the Type 11 system permits full GP ( and consumer ) choice and , indeed , this is seen by its advocates as one of its virtues , some commentators question how much choice would exist in reality . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , the organ has an important place and this is indicated by its prominent position in most buildings , often behind the central pulpit . |
| 7 | India , as a nation , has lost its confidence ; this is reflected in its underlying defeatism and passivity , its confusion of identity . |
| 8 | These interactions ( which may be peripheral or central ) will modify the way in which the stimulus is perceived , producing generalization decrement when a stimulus trained in compound with another is presented on its own , or vice versa . |
| 9 | The maths he produced in the six short years before his death in 1920 is treasured for its originality . |
| 10 | Each of these is equipped with its own set of organs — on either side , leg-like projections sometimes equipped with bristles and another pair of feathery appendages through which oxygen is absorbed ; and within the body wall , a pair of tubes opening to the exterior from which waste is secreted . |
| 11 | The country 's budget of £4 million for bus services in 1993–4 is exceeded by its education services budget of £5.5 million used partly for local bus service contracts and partly for purchasing seats on commercially run buses . |
| 12 | The department 's strength in the latter is reflected in its advisory association with the Overseas Development Administration , and in links with a variety of other development agencies . |
| 13 | It is denounced , and scorn and more is poured on its protagonists . |
| 14 | As more is learned about its capabilities and applications , partly from user experience , design changes are required to exploit the findings and cater for individual user needs . |
| 15 | As more is learned about its capabilities and applications , partly from user experience , design changes are required to exploit the findings and cater for individual user needs . |
| 16 | The reason for wanting 18 is that there are nine genes , and each one can mutate in an " upward " direction ( 1 is added to its value ) or in a " downward " direction ( 1 is subtracted from its value ) . |
| 17 | The reason for wanting 18 is that there are nine genes , and each one can mutate in an " upward " direction ( 1 is added to its value ) or in a " downward " direction ( 1 is subtracted from its value ) . |
| 18 | Such information as is available at the end of t - 1 is put to its best use . |
| 19 | As a result , the nineteenth-century approaches had misconceived the nature of God 's Word itself , turning it into a spiritual ideal , a heroic example , or a set of ethical norms , and interpreted Jesus accordingly , instead of recognising in him the perennially contemporary event of the encounter of time with eternity , the intersection of the finite by the infinite , by which everything human and creaturely is contradicted in its self-enclosedness and opened up to the reality of God . |
| 20 | In a fifth instance , given in ex.5d , the cellos , again in the tenor clef , have the combined angular and linear theme the first with strokes , the second with dots while the basses , in bar 383 , give out the fourth of the five themes , with strokes in pure accentual meaning , as proved by the third minim that is tied to its neighbour . |
| 21 | That is recognised by its supporters and opponents alike . |
| 22 | In Freudian terms these would be clear symbols of the fear of castration , but the laws of classical psychoanalytic interpretation are bent and broken in Such , and if anything it is the concept of the castration complex itself that is mutilated by its subjection to the laws of physics . |
| 23 | At the mouth of the Patuxent River on the bay 's western shore , there is a dollop of land called Solomons that is known for its commercial fishing community — the bay 's watermen ’ . |
| 24 | Sympathy is often centred upon the younger family , little is said about its indirect effects on old people , who themselves are often reluctant to complain . |
| 25 | Newbridge , for instance , is now only a farm near Pulborough , and very little is known of its foundation . |
| 26 | Yet despite this , relatively little is known of its pathogenesis in the vast majority of sporadic cases . |
| 27 | Little is known of its pathogenicity although a chronic gastritis has been reported in the pig . |
| 28 | Little is known about its long-term effects . |
| 29 | Unfortunately little is known about its internal layout , while its date remains uncertain . |
| 30 | Paradoxically , therefore , Water Newton is our clearest ‘ town plan ’ , yet surprisingly little is known about its development through time . |