Example sentences of "of its " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our programme has been extended to parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland making it the largest of its kind in the UK . |
| 2 | In our opinion the financial statements give a true and fair view of the company 's affairs at 31 March 1991 and of its deficit and source and applications of funds for the year then ended and have been properly prepared in accordance with the Companies ACT 1985 . |
| 3 | Kosovo , a province of the Yugoslav Republic of Serbia , borders on Albania and most of its population are ethnic Albanians . |
| 4 | The Sri Lankan government has moved to try to counter the criticisms of its human rights record . |
| 5 | In some cases of ‘ disappearance ’ the whole family is held responsible for the ‘ crime ’ of one of its members . |
| 6 | In suggestiveness , only the Melancholia of Dürer is comparable to it ; and no crude symbolism disturbs the effect of its subdued and graceful mystery . |
| 7 | The goal of art history is first to place the work of art in history and then assess it in the light of its unique position . |
| 8 | Natural and more than natural , beautiful and more than beautiful , strange and endowed with an impulsive life like the soul of its creator … |
| 9 | The whole surface of the sea included in the picture is divided into two ridges of enormous swell , not high , not local , but a low broad heaving of the whole ocean , like the lifting of its bosom by deep-drawn breath after the torture of the storm . |
| 10 | The author may choose to use a characteristic work , something typical of its time and place . |
| 11 | The history of forms in art has had some distinguished advocates , some of whom have been concerned with the transformation over time of one form to another ; others have been more attracted to problems of values , arguing either that styles in art change and decay , or that in a particular period there is an artistic will to produce work in a style of its own . |
| 12 | The central figure , St Cecilia , seems rapt in such inspiration as produced her image in the painter 's mind ; her deep , dark , eloquent eyes lifted up ; her chestnut hair flung back from her forehead — she holds an organ in her hands — her countenance , as it were , calmed by the depth of its passion and rapture , and penetrated throughout with the warm and radiant light of life . |
| 13 | The art discussed may still be in situ , or at least in the country of its origin ; hence the immense attraction of travel to the sites of great civilisations such as Egypt or Mexico . |
| 14 | The ultimate synthesis of a design was never revealed in a flash ; rather he approached it with infinite precautions , stalking it , as it were , now from one point of view , now from another , and always in fear lest a premature definition might deprive it of something of its total complexity . |
| 15 | How beautiful , how devoid of everything like the handicraft of art it is — the largeness , and yet ingenuity of its effect — the purity of its colour — the truth , yet refinement and elegance of the action , particularly of the hands ( in which he particularly excels ) ; and then , a lesson to all high-minded slovens , the patient vigilance with which the whole is linked together , by touches , in some instances small almost as a miniature , but like the sparkling of water . |
| 16 | How beautiful , how devoid of everything like the handicraft of art it is — the largeness , and yet ingenuity of its effect — the purity of its colour — the truth , yet refinement and elegance of the action , particularly of the hands ( in which he particularly excels ) ; and then , a lesson to all high-minded slovens , the patient vigilance with which the whole is linked together , by touches , in some instances small almost as a miniature , but like the sparkling of water . |
| 17 | Historians can point to the philosophical views which underlay this ambition , and artists and sculptors were in various ways affected by the demonstration of its realisation in the theatre built for the composer at Bayreuth . |
| 18 | Several features of its history are worth notice . |
| 19 | A still life is in some ways an ideal picture to describe , as a firm basis can be found in a catalogue of its components . |
| 20 | Then he says something about the formal appeal of this sculpture to twentieth-century Western taste , because of its freedom from the canon of realism : |
| 21 | For much of its course , the later novel takes all this for granted . |
| 22 | He had hit on the ‘ aim of combining two different modes of enquiry — oral history and psychoanalysis — to uncover the past in as many of its layers as possible ’ . |
| 23 | But it rises to many of its ferocious and grievous occasions . |
| 24 | Ackroyd has given some readers the impression that the modern narrative , the paler of the two , is paler on purpose — in obedience , presumably , to the doctrine of time , of its runnings-down and recurrences , which figures in the novel . |
| 25 | With the James , we are told who did it ; in the Ackroyd , the matted fellow who is the chief suspect is never very securely identified as the author of the crimes — it is almost as if the inspector could have done it : so that Ackroyd 's is an authorially uncertain work in which the authorship of its crimes is uncertain too . |
| 26 | The lordship in question is the novelist 's , not only in the usual sense , often forgotten , that every word of the novel is his , but also because the speech of its characters can be like that of the narrator , and indeed like that of the writer of Kingsley Amis 's discursive prose . |
| 27 | These considerations affect the difficulties which attend Difficulties with girls , and which come to the fore with the most Amis-sounding of its characters , the male lead . |
| 28 | The report that Eliot was eventually to say of The Waste Land that ‘ to me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life ’ is no more a licence to treat the poem as totally and unreservedly autobiographical than it is a conclusive estimate of its significance . |
| 29 | Zuckerman 's proposal of marriage to Maria in The Counterlife is an indication of its importance , and of the importance of escape both for the tradition and for the unsatisfiable Roth . |
| 30 | But about many of its manifestations there can be something ominous — something that is acutely understood and eloquently exposed in The Counterlife . |