Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | Medical hygienism was quite obviously a necessity , nor is it likely to become completely unfashionable ; the consequence of this interest to the student of child care was that the enthusiasm justifiably generated by its successes led to an assumption that mental hygiene , applied on the same principles , would be equally beneficial . |
| 2 | Richard now married Berengaria in a wedding long remembered for its splendour . |
| 3 | If we strip it of the insulation apparently provided by its appeal to the technology of literacy , we will expose the same ethnocentric claims and uncritical faith in the observer 's own ways of thinking . |
| 4 | Its white walls contrasted vividly with the black shutters latched into place over the numerous windows , and the heavy curtains drawn across the three dormer windows jutting out from the unpainted corrugated-iron roof only added to its forbidding atmosphere . |
| 5 | ‘ … we have found ourselves at the end of the research thoroughly persuaded of its merits . |
| 6 | After due consideration , the Committee thought this remark ‘ was not out of context in a programme well known for its fictional exposure of the more dubious side of the antiques trade . ’ |
| 7 | The political situation continued to deteriorate during May , apparently little affected by President Paul Biya 's decision the previous month to appoint a Prime Minister , Sadou Hayatou [ see p. 38135 ] , and a " transitional " government which was in effect barely changed in its composition . |
| 8 | Tough it may be , but Washington is one who defied the odds to achieve world status in a sport not known for its liberal representation of blacks . |
| 9 | The most important English writer of the seventeenth century on international law still thought in its middle years that " the reception of ambassadors further requires that hospitality should be provided befitting their rank , and necessaries supplied to them " , and practice varied considerably between different states . |
| 10 | ( It must be said that the RTOA also contributed to its own downfall , by failing to get a grip on in-fighting among its own members . ) |
| 11 | Much remains to be learned of their activities , but what is certain is that they had converts in high places — notably Edward Wood ( of whom more anon ) , Leo Amery , and Lord Hailey of African Survey fame and immense Colonial Office influence — and that through their publication of a journal widely respected for its seriousness they kept before the eyes of the political establishment the idea of a new kind of empire . |
| 12 | It continued in use as a corn mill up to around 1930 , although the business apparently diminished during its last decade . |
| 13 | The chapel had something of the calm , attentive atmosphere of a drawing-room just vacated by its owners . |
| 14 | It would probably be better to drop in at The Times ' party , see who he could find to have dinner with and take pot luck in a town not noted for its restaurants . |
| 15 | LIFE is a group best known for its anti-abortion stance , but its activities as a pressure group and charity extend into other areas . |
| 16 | Didcot in Oxfordshire is a town best known for its power station , so it probably does n't figure in most people 's top ten tourist destinations . |
| 17 | A town best known for its links with the railways is trying to turn itself into a garden city . |
| 18 | CHINKS of light are at last starting to shine through the high street gloom , reports Courts , the furniture stores business best known for its irritating TV ads . |
| 19 | He took his sword still sheathed in its scabbard , and in turn struck lines in the dust : adding four more full moons . |
| 20 | Shrewsbury , 12 miles away , is a medieval town once built on its wool trade , and peppered with Tudor , Georgian and Queen Anne architecture . |
| 21 | He sets Ireland up as a type of extreme place — a place possibly cursed in its very soil or divinely reserved to act as a scourge for England . |
| 22 | With a membership deeply divided in its views , will a politicised curriculum be divisive ? |
| 23 | HALL Engineering is selling 7.2 acres of its 35-acre site formerly occupied by its RBC subsidiary in Stafford , to Safeway for £6.06m . |
| 24 | Although dualistic it was quite different from Platonism : cosmic time was not the moving image of eternity but ‘ at best a caricature of eternity , a defective imitation far removed from its model ’ . |
| 25 | However , even with this unpromising start , more could possibly have been achieved with a leadership less trapped in its own class origins . |
| 26 | Information Resources , another organisation better known for its EIS-type products , has similarly developed FCRS , another system devoted to consolidation . |
| 27 | Experimentation and development go on all the time as the company searches for new ways to capture and build on the knowledge already accumulated by its workers . |
| 28 | It enables analysis to address the role of knowledge as power and leads to a critique of knowledge not based on its truth but on how it affects and is affected by social relations . |
| 29 | The new leadership later declared as its long-term goal the restoration of a constitutional monarchy in Georgia . |
| 30 | Throat infection is more common among females who practice oral sex than among men , because the female 's mouth is in direct contact with the infected part ( the tip of the penis ) whereas the male is in contact with an area not infected of its own right ( the clitoris and vulva ) . |