Example sentences of "be [adv] its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Silvester Horne , in his popular survey of nineteenth-century Nonconformity , admitted , ‘ The easiest accusation to sustain against Nonconformity has been hitherto its tendency to disintegration and division ’ . |
| 2 | Thus it might erroneously be said of the dog 's leaping to catch the ball that what I really see are just its movements , upon the basis of which I make a leap of faith to its inner , privately introspective , enjoyment . |
| 3 | The starter and distributor are probably its originals . |
| 4 | It is not only a conflict between old and new generations of activists , it symbolises a deeper malaise between the only mass party the working class has ever had and its working-class electors , who are also its clients . |
| 5 | But the young people do n't know , which is why they are often its victims . |
| 6 | to be right Its Comfort Soft |
| 7 | Politicians in all countries would accept the proposition that the system should be designed to serve the people but whatever the political philosophy behind the system , the people always seem to be more its servants than its masters . |
| 8 | However , despite its diminutive size , it is well able to fend for itself in a mixed community tank , protecting its territory against all comers , even if they happen to be twice its size . |
| 9 | In the same speech she said that she wanted her government to be remembered as one ‘ which decisively broke with a debilitating consensus of a paternalistic Government and a dependent people ; which rejected the notion that the State is all powerful and the citizen is merely its beneficiary ; which shattered the illusion that Government could somehow substitute for individual performance ’ . |
| 10 | It is all things to all men … and this is perhaps its number one axiom . |
| 11 | But what most impresses you about this phenomenal piece of theatre is less its class affiliations than its national attributes : a drama of mutinous impulses crushed by an authoritarian social system is given consummate rendering by a cast who very triumphantly unite energy and discipline . |
| 12 | It 's just its location but it 's nice . |
| 13 | Thus , whilst not discounting the possibility of a long-standing personality trait , the appeal for imaginative empathy with which this chapter began is also its ending . |
| 14 | What this singularity and uniqueness of the auratic work of art imply is also its isolation from the social , both in its inaccessibility and in the absence of political effectiveness ( Benjamin 1975b , p. 225 ) . |
| 15 | This legitimation function is also its limitation in as much as it is tied to the prevailing ideology of the family which will inhibit the articulation of problems as structural , societal deficits : children and young people will become problems because their parents failed them . |
| 16 | ‘ The superstructure is not the pure phenomenon of the structure , it is also its condition of existence . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It has a certain softness and richness , ’ he concluded , ‘ which is both its charm and its danger . ’ |
| 18 | The Formalist definition of literature is a differential or oppositional one : what constitutes literature is simply its difference from other orders of facts . |
| 19 | It seems unobtrusive , but that is undoubtedly its function . |
| 20 | The strongest argument for preserving the village school is undoubtedly its role in the community . |
| 21 | And it is precisely its predictability which renders it impotent . |
| 22 | The Lewisian thing about the first of his space stories is precisely its blend of literary originality and religious truth ; it is not ‘ theology ’ dressed up as ‘ literature ’ ; rather it makes its best literary effects when it is at its most religious because the religious matter is what most engages the author 's imagination . |
| 23 | The failure of the functionalist theory of stratification is ultimately its failure to locate normative and cultural dimensions of stratification within a framework of material inequality ; indeed , this reflects the complacent neglect of relations of domination and subordination characteristic of functionalist theory generally . |
| 24 | When this will be available has still to be announced , but Powersoft says it is part of a larger strategy in which PowerBuilder will embrace distributed network computing in addition to the client-server model which is currently its forte . |
| 25 | One of the first to join the society was Vincent d'Indy , who became its secretary in 1876 ; indeed , for many years he was effectively its head . |
| 26 | EUROPE 'S former top coal shipping port at Blyth , Northumberland , is switching to windpower as the trade which was once its mainstay goes into decline . |
| 27 | Its monopoly of the Asian trade was still its reward for being one of the main holders of the national debt , and after Robert Clive 's victory over the French at Plessey in 1757 it was the virtual ruler of Bengal . |
| 28 | It was also its insight into the a-rational nature of life itself . |
| 29 | Finally , Tom Johnston , a former Labour minister ( who had set up the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board and was now its chairman ) , had little interest in matters south of the border , and attended only intermittently . |
| 30 | Its ratio of indirect to direct costs was twice its competitors ' . |