Example sentences of "in the [noun sg] for its " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Rothermere and Beaverbrook were not principally interested in the issue for its own sake . |
| 2 | Although the lungs were removed during mummification , the heart was left in the body for its crucial test in the judgement of the dead . |
| 3 | When the big night finally arrived , New York 's all-powerful theatre critics raved about the acting performances , but the play soon became , literally , a pain in the neck for its star . |
| 4 | At the opposite extreme , chaotic material is irritating because it frustrates interest in the process for its own sake . |
| 5 | But he formed the opinion , which he never afterwards lost , that the Church must gain its proper freedom from the State in the care for its own way of worship , if necessary by disestablishment , from which he never thereafter shrank . |
| 6 | De-La-Pole Hospital , once a mental asylum , has been considerably expanded to deal with general medical and surgical requirements , following the decline in the need for its original purpose . |
| 7 | It is in terms of such a paradigm — broadly conceived , and preferred among the diverse methodological orientations that I discussed in the Introduction for its greater fruitfulness and explanatory potential — that I have analysed political movements , change and conflict throughout this book ; and in these final pages I should like to consider briefly the contribution it can make to understanding the present state of the world and its likely evolution in a medium-term future of two or three decades . |
| 8 | One field officer observed of the analytical results from a sewage treatment works , notorious in the area for its poor performance , that ‘ if you get anything below 80 [ BOD ] you start suspecting your own lab ’ . |
| 9 | In the subsequent investigation of a claim , the proper practice is to check each statement in the Summons for its accuracy and for its relevance to the issues . |
| 10 | The $30,900 million budget for the Department of Veterans ' Affairs included an increase of $1,000 million in the allocation for its 172 hospitals . |