Example sentences of "[conj] its [noun] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unix , meanwhile , derives its greatest unequivocal advantage from kernel robustness , where its maturity earns it a high degree of reliability . |
| 2 | The day-to-day management is in the hands of the managing director , and if the number of members or the importance of the functions of the association or its character justifies it , a supervisory board may be created . |
| 3 | The proper reply , which accepts the fact that we may rightly have some suspicion of a view on the ground that its proponent wants it to be true , is that the satisfactions afforded by indeterminist as against determinist claims of one kind and another are far greater . |
| 4 | Even though its population was overwhelmingly German , the politicians rightly considered that its position made it vital to the Polish economy . |
| 5 | In this last case the prime purpose of the prize is to benefit its giver ; if Barclays Bank had to pay for the column inches of publicity that its award brings it every year , there would be no Barclay 's Prize . |
| 6 | Far better that its messengers take it only to plants of exactly the same kind where the genes it carries will unite with eggs and form seeds . |
| 7 | So flowers keep their nectar behind locks to which only a small group or even a single species has the key , which is of such a specialised design that its owner finds it difficult if not impossible to use on any other flower . |
| 8 | For much of the last millennium , the Caucasus was nominally part of the Persian empire , although its inaccessibility made it largely independent . |
| 9 | The measure was not the subject of a specific UN resolution , although its proponents saw it as coming within the scope of general principles of international humanitarian law , and as providing a safer environment for Western reconnaissance aircraft to monitor Iraqi compliance with UN Security Council Resolution 688 of April 1991 against " repression of the Iraqi civilian population " [ see p. 38127 ] . |
| 10 | It is well written and interestingly , Warner is publishing it as an original B format and its gimmick to bring it above the rest is to give it a dust jacket . |
| 11 | Although this has the weight of patristic authority behind it , Hilton very simply outlines the bare essentials of the story and its interpretation giving it particular emphasis to highlight implications peculiarly relevant to the noble lord . |
| 12 | I 've not heard that for quite a while and its unfamiliarity makes it sound strange . |
| 13 | SWAPO and its sympathisers condemn it for let ting the South Africans out of their bases . |
| 14 | Bert Lewis , urbane and big-hearted , director of many companies , says ‘ Things will change decisively before the end of the year — one way or another — and its hard to imagine it being ‘ the other ’ . ’ |
| 15 | A patrol car spots us and its occupants make it clear we are under observation . |
| 16 | Until now SuperCalc lacked mouse support and its users found it perfectly possible to do without it . |
| 17 | It reacted to the crime , and its attempts to suppress it succeeded only in forcing cattle stealers to adjust to administrative policies . |
| 18 | As far as overall weight is concerned , it 's surprisingly manageable and its size puts it into the larger car boot category for transport . |
| 19 | In the North-West Frontier Province ( NWFP ) , the PPP coalition administration of Chief Minister Aftab Sherpao successfully resisted the attempts of the IJI and its allies to unseat it , but only at the cost of offering government jobs and incentives to secure the support of independents . |
| 20 | You may have some if you have any dental fillings ; it is also used as a contact in telephone circuits and its malleability makes it a useful substitute for platinum in jewellery . |
| 21 | Some industry watchers espouse the theory that says Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp picked on the COSE move as a way out of OSF and that OSF could eventually find itself with its funding terminated and its sponsors telling it it 's a for-profit software developer . |
| 22 | The wicket in the west door opened silently ; he did not mark it until its weight carried it gently right back to knock against the wall . |
| 23 | ‘ Perhaps that 's because it was a private home until its owner gave it to the National Trust . |
| 24 | However , if its movement carries it into any other target it charges into hand-to-hand combat and stops . |
| 25 | Because a Woonerf will not be created unless its residents want it , they too will expect to be involved in the planning , whilst there are additional complications of assuaging the fears of commercial interests such as shopkeepers . |
| 26 | Coventry Cathedral Priory declared possessions worth £500 , but its debts left it £52 in the red ; similarly its net income was less than a quarter of the gross . |
| 27 | The SVi has the basic 2-litre engine — catalytically converted like the other petrol models — but its interior brings it into the luxury class . |
| 28 | These above-average profits depended to some extent on the Company 's political influence in England ; in India it was not powerful enough to control the market , but its charter gave it a monopoly in England which let it push prices up further than would have been practicable if non-members of the Company ( denounced as ‘ interlopers ’ ) had been able to import cotton goods into England freely . |
| 29 | We rarely saw its summit , lost as it would be in thick mist , but its mystery made it all the more attractive and seductive . |
| 30 | The spiny anteater , too , has a long pointed snout , but its spines give it a superficial resemblance to a hedgehog rather than to another typical anteater . |