Example sentences of "its [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , their bedroom with its mattress on the floor and a black and white duvet looks spacious , verging on empty , but this is the way the Woolleys like to live now . |
| 2 | It will be useful , for example , for the school librarian to visit other schools and discuss the uses of the microcomputer and ask questions about its range of software ; its suitability e.g. do teachers and pupils use it ? ; its ability to cope with heavy use ; its reliability as a system — does it break down ? |
| 3 | The firm has been at pains to correct this recently , however , and points to a ban of all flags in the workplace ( Union Jacks were seen to be intimidatory ) and its monitoring of the composition of the workforce . |
| 4 | In the absence of a full Test tour , public attention was focused on the World Cup but the Red Stripe Cup and the England A team tour , the first of its kind to the Caribbean , offered chances to those aspiring to replace the greats who have now gone into retirement . |
| 5 | Wroughton airfield near Swindon was the busiest in the world this weekend , as more than fifteen hundred aircraft flew in for the largest rally of its kind outside the United States . |
| 6 | It is the only marketing device of its kind for a drink brand , and is designed to increase sales of both Draught Guinness and canned Draught Guinness . |
| 7 | The weir will be the second of its kind on the river and was designed by the National Rivers Authority to keep gravel spawning beds clear of silt . |
| 8 | The 22-bedroomed clinic will be the only one of its kind on the island , and the only centre outside of London where such treatment is available . |
| 9 | This program is the best of its kind on the market for page making facilities , it is far better than a number of ‘ Commercial ’ pagemaking programs that are popular with users who only have a dot-matrix printer . |
| 10 | This folly was the first of its kind at a time when all things gothic suddenly became very fashionable . |
| 11 | It 's the second incident of its kind at the hospital this year . |
| 12 | The agreement , the first of its kind between a company and an indigenous group , aims to ensure that the Kayapo benefit from any commercial development of other materials which they harvest on their lands . |
| 13 | This was the first major incident of its kind since the beginning of the November revolution . |
| 14 | In the spring of 1991 the reconciliation was sealed when the Chinese party leader Jiang Zemin visited Moscow , the first visit of its kind since the days of Mao Zedong . |
| 15 | The visit , by an Israeli diplomat serving in Thailand , was the first of its kind since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975 . |
| 16 | The sentence was the first of its kind under an August 1991 law making the death penalty mandatory for blasphemy [ see p. 38393 ] . |
| 17 | The latter have lacked an effective spokesman partly because the Polytechnic of Wales which , in other circumstances , might have been able to give a lead , is in an isolated position , being the only one of its kind in the Principality . |
| 18 | The legislation , which is the first of its kind in the common-law world , was seen as clarifying and putting the law beyond doubt , rather than making new law . |
| 19 | IPAL 's director , Rafael Roncagliolo , addressed the conference , which was the first of its kind in the history of Peru , attracting leading politicians and communication policy-makers . |
| 20 | The flight , which involved a detailed aerial survey of Soviet and Hungarian military bases in Hungary , was the first of its kind in the history of the two blocs . |
| 21 | The Harvard University Art Museums are in the process of acquiring the Gregory and Maria Henderson Collection of Korean Ceramics , the most important private collection of its kind in the West . |
| 22 | The largest of its kind in the west , a substantial part of the collection assembled by Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert has already been donated to the museum and the rest is promised . |
| 23 | Mr Wixom recently acquired a rare German fifteenth-century altar frontal , one of only two of its kind in the United States . |
| 24 | The collection is one of the most important of its kind in the United States and focuses on landscape and still life . |
| 25 | You see , captain , I want to make the Sherman Field Museum the finest of its kind in the United States , maybe even the finest in the world . |
| 26 | The department is one of the largest of its kind in the United Kingdom and offers a full range of courses and postgraduate research.There are courses leading to professional and post-qualifying qualifications in social work ; taught Master 's degrees in policy studies ( full-time ) and social and public policy ( part-time ) . |
| 27 | The code , the first of its kind in the mining industry , was aimed at eliminating violence in the mines . |
| 28 | We happen to have the largest direct sales force of its kind in the U K anyway . |
| 29 | This committee set about establishing a small residential home for old people , the second of its kind in the country , and , by July 1942 , thanks largely to her drive , West Town House in Bristol was opened . |
| 30 | All thirteen LEAs in the region served by the District were represented on the Council together with the University , the WEA , the YMCA and the Educational Settlements Association and formed the first consultative body of its kind in the country . |