Example sentences of "its [noun sg] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | v. avoiding working with food in its preparation or serving . |
| 2 | The second assumption is that the stream can not move backwards on itself , that is , reverse its direction or join itself . |
| 3 | It yearns to feel ‘ special ’ to someone , to nourish its self-importance or relieve its sense of inferiority . |
| 4 | Will he explain why he wrote to UKIAS on 7 October threatening that unless it accepted the Government 's proposals he would withdraw its funding or curtail it completely ? |
| 5 | In the early 1980s , the society began operating deficits , paying for its expenses by either liquidating chunks of its endowment or selling securities that had been donated in trust . |
| 6 | We can hardly begin to discuss a novel without summarising or assuming a knowledge of its story or plot ; which is not to say that the story or plot is the only or even the main reason for our interest in a novel , but that this is the fundamental principle of its structure . |
| 7 | Where the practice is found to be anti-competitive the Minister can then accept voluntary undertakings from the firm to modify its practice or invoke extensive powers to proscribe the practice . |
| 8 | Mr Yeltsin could either plead with Congress when it resumes tomorrow to reconsider its vote or go over its head and call a referendum on a new constitution that would effectively dissolve it . |
| 9 | When such information is submitted to tutors or course directors etc. , there is no guarantee of its circulation or copying . |
| 10 | At the back there is a horizontal belt sleeve which allows it to be attached to a belt up to 70mm wide and there is also a vertical sleeve 50mm wide which permits it to be worn on its side or slid down over a vertical post for use as a permanent fixture at a centre or clubhouse . |
| 11 | To fall within Article 85 an agreement must have as its effect or object the restriction of competition in the EC or a substantial part of it and there must be effect on trade between Member States . |
| 12 | the company does not commence its business within a year from its incorporation or suspends its business for a whole year ; |
| 13 | Do n't paint the red apple as seen , brighten and lighten its mood or subdue and cool its expression . |
| 14 | Is it when i t has been built , or completed its testing or hauls its first train ? |
| 15 | Nigel Lawson then proposed we should either scrap SERPS and put nothing in its place or leave the whole issue until the next Parliament . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , if you pick the required specimens carefully , you 'll be able to remove several leaves or flowers from , for instance , a bush in full bloom without spoiling its appearance or harming it . |
| 17 | Mogulof ( 1974 ) sees a dialectic in which the establishment and the change agent system determine how much participation they will allow , while the client system decides how strong is its desire or demand for participation . |
| 18 | When a second nonsense syllable was given following two instances of tiv , mixed in with several instructions containing more and less , the same children typically queried its meaning or responded with ‘ Do n't know . ’ |
| 19 | Many teachers , whose schools had been early in the reporting cycle , also said that they had considerable difficulty in remembering their review and its outcome or had been so little involved that they felt unable to say much about it . |
| 20 | She had the sort of belly that has produced perhaps three or four children and never managed to forget its importance or let go of its previous function or recover from its distension . |
| 21 | Scott J concluded that if this were a case in which there was any question or threat of general disclosure by the defendant of confidential information concerning the way in which the plaintiff carried on its business or concerning any details of the affairs of any of its clients there would be no answer to the claim for an injunction ; but it was not general disclosure that the defendant had in mind . |
| 22 | He was only sensation now , and she its supplier , his body enslaved by bliss , unable to remember its making or conceive of its undoing . |
| 23 | D4 ) is both easier to write accurately and understand than its Lotus or Excel equivalent . |
| 24 | Presented with the noise of a tuning fork , the dog will respond , by turning its head or cocking its ears , but will not salivate . |
| 25 | A station clashed by so fast she could neither read its name or discern the pattern of its ironwork . |
| 26 | It is not prepared to answer its predicament or disclose its recent whereabouts . |
| 27 | The child is introduced to pain in the contexts of burning its finger or comforting the dog injured in an accident . |
| 28 | ‘ Mortmain' , or dead hand , refers to the fact that the church was an undying institution so that any land which it held in fee ( or freehold ) was never vacated by the death of its owner or came into the possession of a minor or an heiress ; thus it would never revert ( or escheat ) to the chief lord for the duration of the vacancy or minority , so depriving him of the valuable rights of wardship and marriage appertaining to feudal tenure . |
| 29 | We 're out of the Cup so now we can concentrate on the league … in other words its promotion or bust again … |
| 30 | I wake up in the night — and always , its music or love : you ca n't imagine your life without them . ’ |