Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] [prep] its [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The goals of the organisation are on the whole shared or accepted by its members : only the means of achieving them are in dispute . |
| 2 | The basic principle in operant learning is that an item or sequence of behaviour is strengthened or weakened by its consequences . |
| 3 | Born and reared within its environments , joining up straight from school as an eighteen-year-old seemed at the time no great trauma . |
| 4 | The basic theme , topic , or specific subject-matter will be selected , and examined for its facets , concepts and possible sub-units as well as for the skills that are necessary for its full comprehension and others that can be usefully practised within its general ambit . |
| 5 | As has been seen , partially as a result of Cardinal Cullen 's nineteenth-century reforms , the church became more organized and developed in its numbers of clergy and religious . |
| 6 | The Treaty of Canterbury was signed later the same month and included among its provisions of the establishment of an Intergovernmental Commission to monitor the execution of the concession , and a Safety Authority which advises the Commission on all safety matters relating to the construction and operation of the Tunnel . |
| 7 | This new appendage is ‘ out of all proportion to the initial development and separated from its services , including a primary school , by a busy main road ’ ( Blacksell and Gilg 1981 , p. 186 ) . |
| 8 | Able to absorb large amounts of punishment in combat , the P-47 Jug was respected and admired by its pilots and groundcrews alike , emerging as one of the great fighting aircraft of World War Two . |
| 9 | This resolute action secured the surrender of the ANA 's entire command , which announced the ANA 's dissolution and called on its members to lay down their arms . |
| 10 | A COSATU statement also gave full support to the ANC 's May 9 ultimatum , and called on its members to arm themselves and to form self-defence units " in a disciplined and organized way " . |
| 11 | If , furthermore , animals lack self-consciousness , as I have argued in Chapter 6 , then no sense can be given ( a far stronger claim than that we do not know ) to the contention that they are aware of the prospect of death and terrified at its implications . |
| 12 | It represented a novel venture , owned , controlled , and administered by its members . |
| 13 | All around it the bloodstained undergrowth lay broken and flattened by its struggles , and as soon as it saw him , the animal lowered its needle-sharp horns that had grown in its prime to a length of nearly three feet . |
| 14 | Most popular pool-liners consist merely of a sheet of heavy-gauge polythene or rubber material which is placed in the excavation and moulded to its contours . |
| 15 | Because so many other lines were dependent upon and linked to its operations they are brought into the story . |
| 16 | Not snow fallen on peaks alone , but the image of Christ as on Saint Veronica 's cloth , the dark eyes and the crown of thorns scorched and scarred on its folds and pleats . |
| 17 | Each National Association is autonomous and run by its members , but co-ordination and liaison is maintained through HIAN . |
| 18 | Each National Association is autonomous and run by its members , but co-ordination and liaison is maintained through HIAN . |
| 19 | The regime ( headed by Stanislaw Kania after Gierek 's resignation in 1980 , and then from 1981 by Wojciech Jaruzelski ) committed itself to a programme of ‘ renewal ’ ( odnowa ) , but the economic situation continued to deteriorate , while Solidarity for its part became increasingly powerful , radical and politicised in its objectives . |
| 20 | THE Christmas tree lying on the side of the pavement and shorn of its decorations is not only a forlorn sight but also symbolic of a gigantic disposal problem as America 's landfills rapidly run out of space . |
| 21 | This body met for the first time in May 1989 and elected from its members the bicameral 542-member Supreme Soviet — the working constitutional body responsible for all legislative and administrative matters — consisting of the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of Nationalities . |