Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [noun] [coord] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was tempting to march him home and face him with my sewing machine and its 10-point threader . |
| 2 | There are better-engineered cars than those made by Citroen in Paris and , for a while , in Slough , but there is no mass-production company that was so regularly ahead of the research- and-development pack — from the 5CV in the '20s , with its coil ignition and its removable cylinder head , onwards . |
| 3 | Its cabaret tradition and its popular music are unrivalled . |
| 4 | After selecting a suitable site , the mite will use its mouth parts and its four front legs . |
| 5 | The bulk of his Getty Oil fortune went to establish the $3.5 billion Getty Trust which maintains the museum , its research projects and its new acquisitions . |
| 6 | Despite increased teaching loads over the past three years , the School , as a whole , has very substantially increased its research funding and its research output , over the 3–4 year period of assessment . |
| 7 | We cut out from Old Gang across the grouse moor of Lord Peel of Gunnerside Lodge with its shooting butts and its newly cut Land-rover track , a great scar bulldozed across the moor , and followed the path down to Potting . |
| 8 | The Wensleydale market town with its inns , its tea shops and its cobbles looks to have as much chance of being frequented by members of the oldest profession as being the venue for the Olympic Games in the year 2000 . |
| 9 | And are you happy with your pointlessly expensive urban house with its coffee-and-cream décor and its bristling gadgets , your sixty-five-minute slog into work every day , your overheated office with the 'phone shrilling in your ear , your tiresomely predictable holidays , your interests in food , jogging and American films of the 1940s , your car which is always getting scratched , and your kids and the mortgage and the bills and all that ? |
| 10 | On a smaller scale there was a nucleus of liberal lawyers and merchants in other coastal towns : in Cadiz , with its seventy-nine French exporting houses ; in Bilbao and San Sebastian , where the pretensions of the rural oligarchy confronted the interests of an experienced and prosperous community of merchants ; in Santander , which was to become a centre of the flour trade with Cuba ; in Seville , with its American trade and its tobacco factory ; in Valencia , with its silk manufacturers and its fruit trade ; in Malaga , with its strong English and German connexions . |
| 11 | The presence of IBS in individuals has not been linked to their fibre intake and its presence in countries such as China makes it unlikely that a single dietary factor such as fibre deficiency is at fault . |
| 12 | Its body rots but its bones settle into the mud . |
| 13 | At this stage it will be instructive to consider the effects of different growth assumptions on a firm 's share price , its dividend yield , its PE ratio and its total rate of return . |
| 14 | It is not often that the Opposition play to the Government 's strengths , but , as my hon. Friend the Member for Batley and Spen ( Mrs. Peacock ) said , the council tax is a simple and fair tax , and she was right to welcome its rebate scheme and its transitional relief . |
| 15 | Especially the Royal Academy , he wrote , with its Presidents and its private views and its Signed Goblets and its Concerts of Spanish music to go with the Murillo exhibition and its Concerts of Russian music to go with its Tatlin exhibition and its Concerts of Dutch music to go with its de Hooch exhibition , and its Silk-screened Scarves and its Special Offers and its Jigsaws of the Raft of Medusa and La Grande Jatte and its Good Taste and its Tondo and its Education Department and its Restaurant with its Tasty Snacks and its Cold Buffet and its Glass of Wine and its Napkins Designed by a Living Artist , and its Proximity to Cork Street , with its Galleries and their Private Views and their Favoured Clients and their Phone Calls to New York and their Summer Shows and their Autumn Shows and their Winter Shows and their Embossed Invitations and their Highly Polished Floors . |
| 16 | Secondly , and more importantly for what follows , there is a crisis of the political language , images and cultural symbols which this movement needs in order to develop its self consciousness and its political programme . |
| 17 | For British Gas , its defence policy is its share price and its shareholders , not its workers , not gas supply in the U K. |
| 18 | The overt part of television 's curriculum is its programming content and its advertising . |
| 19 | Worse , by stripping Germany of much of its industrial wealth , its merchant fleet and its colonial possessions ; and by resurrecting Poland , and making inroads into the German sense of security over Danzig and the Polish Corridor , they gave further cause for grievance and hardened the most unpleasant facets of the German identity fostered by the marcher lands . |
| 20 | It takes a little of the Continental Plate with it , producing a rare and exotic melt of rock ; and as it goes down and melts , and as its volume changes and its physical chemistry alters , so this deep-diving mess of ocean rock contorts and winces , and deep-seated earthquakes and violent eruptions occur . |
| 21 | It has restructured its terror cells and its ranks have swollen since the government proscribed the UDA in August last year . |
| 22 | But there have been many more relevant developments in feminist literary and historical studies which are engaged in reconsidering the importance of the 18th century for the emergence of modern western culture , its class system , its gender relations and its racism . |
| 23 | Kahn 's thesis is simply that both because of its profit record and its potential as a brand name , Velcro 's share price should have been a lot higher — in the region of over $40 a share . |
| 24 | Now one has a healthier order book while the other finds its delivery times and its storage needs slashed . |
| 25 | The European Communities ' " troika " of Foreign ministers — of the current Commission chair Italy , its predecessor Ireland and its successor Luxembourg — told the Israeli Foreign Minister David Levi in Jerusalem on July 23 that the EC supported an urgent resumption of peace efforts in the Middle East , and that any delay in the resumption of such efforts could lead to serious consequences in the region . |
| 26 | On the day the merger was announced , USL president Roel Pieper , who will report to Noorda , claimed a positive reaction to the move from AT&T 's old enemies Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM who always fretted over AT&T 's control , its hardware biases and its association with the bad blood that drove the industry apart . |
| 27 | Tense , silent , on the chair by the table with its flower bowl and its dish of cracked apples . |
| 28 | In his first major interview since moving to Chrysler as chairman elect , he says : ‘ The problem with the Elan was very simple : it came in dramatically over its cost target and its investment target , and the marketplace did n't put as much value on the vehicle as it cost to build it . ’ |
| 29 | the problem with the Elan is very simple : it came in dramatically over its cost target and its investment target , and the marketplace did n't put as much value on the vehicle as it cost to build it . |
| 30 | The proposal documents also indicate that selected schools have made positive attempts to improve the provision for their school library and its links with the curriculum , though all reflect continued dissatisfaction with the relative paucity of stock . |