Example sentences of "this [noun] [be] its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is noticeable about this rise is its concentration in peripheral Spain : Galicia , Catalonia , the Basque Provinces , Santander , and the Levante . |
| 2 | The main disadvantage of this practice is its complexity ; it is easier and more comprehensible if the accounts reflect actual revenues and expenses , and the budget reflects budgeted revenues and expenses . |
| 3 | The most striking thing about this instrument is its weight : it 's unbelievably light . |
| 4 | What is most remarkable about this piece is its level of pathos — the company are battling to perform against the wishes of the big , bad man ( on stilts ) in a suit . |
| 5 | Perhaps the most novel aspect of this proposal is its recognition of a category of destabilisation rights , to be enforced by ambitious forms of injunctive relief , which would afford an opportunity for individuals and interests to challenge and disrupt established institutions or forms of social practice which had achieved immunity from conventional legal and political measures of control . |
| 6 | The characteristic feature of this sector is its heterogeneity , brought about by the changes of the last few decades . |
| 7 | Wiltshire Library and Museum Service ( Trowbridge ) The importance of this establishment is its use of a computer data base for recording archaeological sites and historic monuments . |
| 8 | What impresses more about this Nissan is its handling ability . |
| 9 | An impressive demonstration of the role of this factor is its effect on a single progenitor cell which can be followed under a microscope . |
| 10 | One of the reasons for his choice of this area was its proximity to the border with Scotland . |
| 11 | The main disadvantage of this definition is its vagueness . |
| 12 | The main advantage of this definition is its precision . |
| 13 | The essential defining characteristic of this relation is its capacity to give rise to pleonasm . |
| 14 | What was worrying about this phenomenon was its accompaniment by financial hooliganism . |
| 15 | The advantage of this system is its simplicity ; a very limited number of control functions are required and the software or hardware option is available for each function . |
| 16 | Pundir has found that a large number of S. cordifolia have been killed by the hyperparasite V. loranthi , resulting in a sharp decline in the S. cordifolia population , An additional factor in favour of this system is its specificity . |
| 17 | What is important , for our immediate purposes , about this view is its stress on publicly verifiable , observable sensory data , systematically collected and collated , as the route to knowledge . |
| 18 | The critical aspect of differentiation theory in this context is its assertion that exposure to A and B will lead to an increase in the number of distinctive features that can be detected . |
| 19 | The only fault which can be levelled at this production is its brevity in comparison with its cinema counterpart Shirley 's Greek idyll is compressed at break-neck speed into a second half which lasts less than 45 minutes . |
| 20 | ‘ What really attracted me to this hat was its shape — it reminded me of the ones American tourists wear . ’ |
| 21 | An unusual aspect of this slope is its snowmaking system . |