Example sentences of "this [noun] has its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patricia Knapp , in the United States , once commented that one could get a perfectly good liberal education from a paperback bookshop : the sense in which this is true must not however blind us to the fact that self-learning of this kind has its weaknesses , is unreliable , and depends very much on the way in which the student undertakes his task . |
| 2 | This alignment has its intake at Zikim , between Ashkelon and the Gaza Strip . |
| 3 | However , this formality has its price . |
| 4 | This division has its roots in developments which took place in the late 1960s and 1970s , particularly in Great Britain . |
| 5 | This practice has its roots in the basic organizational form of the work enterprise : the informal group , which is : |
| 6 | As usual , this batch has its ups and downs . |
| 7 | This work has its origins in the early intelligence test movement and , later , in a specific concern with creativeness as a possibly separable aspect of intellectual functioning . |
| 8 | This requirement has its origins in Greek sculpture . |
| 9 | This development has its opponents , but it does provide a way in which mathematics can become more meaningful to some of the children studying it . |
| 10 | This strategy has its limitations in that polluters with strong market power could simply pay the charges and pass them on to consumers . |
| 11 | This argument has its attractions , and I note by way of analogy with the statutory authority cases that it is only a nuisance inevitably resulting from the authorised works on which immunity is conferred . |
| 12 | Classifying rugs according to their country of origin is both logical and necessary , particularly as discrepancies in exchange rates , import tariffs and production costs can make a considerable difference to the prices asked in shops for very similar items from different countries ; but this method has its limitations . |
| 13 | This debate has its origins in Laski 's deprecation of the narrow social basis of recruitment into the higher civil service in Britain , making it impossible for such people to understand working-class problems ( Laski 1938 ) ; and Kingsley 's prediction that an unrepresentative bureaucracy would block radical reformist policies and therefore threaten democracy ( Kingsley 1944 ) . |
| 14 | Although this herb has its origin in Southern Europe and western Asia , its common name is said to derive either from the Anglo-Saxon dylle or the old Norse dilla which meant to soothe or lull , in reference to its use in calming infants who had hiccups — in fact Culpeper said " it stayeth the hiccough . " |
| 15 | We must demand that these laws be abolished because if this government has its way , the working man will have gone back one hundred years . |
| 16 | On the other hand , this simplicity has its price in that the model proves unsuitable for some applications ( hence , the drive towards semantic data models and object-oriented data models ) . |
| 17 | It seems likely that the fibrosis typical of this disorder has its origin in the transformation of smooth muscle fibres from a purely contractile to a myofibroblast collagen synthetic phenotype . |
| 18 | It is suggested that the fibrosis seen in this disorder has its origin in the transformation of smooth muscle fibres from a purely contractile to a myofibroblast collagen synthetic phenotype . |
| 19 | This idea has its problems . |
| 20 | This doctrine has its roots in the equitable nature of the duty of confidence but can now be regarded as covering both equitable and contractual obligations of confidence ( see Initial Services Ltd v Putterill ) . |
| 21 | This option has its advantages as the presence of competition prevents either supplier becoming complacent . |
| 22 | This fact has its counterpart in Japan 's declining long-term growth rate . |