Example sentences of "its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In that case , every big country apart from Britain will need to raise its taxes ( or cut other spending ) by an average of 3% of GDP by 2030 to pay for extra spending on old people and to prevent a rise in the ratio of public debt to GDP . |
| 32 | But Britain , with few more old folk to care for and a debt-to-GDP ratio already on a declining trend , will have room to cut its taxes by 2.2% of GDP . |
| 33 | Whites have retreated to the comfortable suburbs , whence they contribute to a city 's costs but avoid paying its taxes or providing work for its underclass . |
| 34 | Otherwise , the tolerant British public is paying three times over for its cheap food ; once in the shops , twice in its taxes , thrice in its support of the common agricultural policy 's dumping practices . |
| 35 | Its taxes will hit those with the heaviest exposure to debt , creating the risk of property meltdown in the South of England . |
| 36 | He said new businesses were fleeing Belarus to other countries because of its taxes of 22 per cent on profits and 28 per cent VAT . |
| 37 | Its Powerbridge is a wide area networking product for NetBIOS-compliant machines . |
| 38 | The wave had had its ropes cut and was erupting in an avalanche of fury that would bury everything in its path . |
| 39 | The famous chandelier , with its thousand lights , broke away from its ropes and crashed down on to the people below . |
| 40 | Hazily through his sense of nightmare and unreality Harry knew the long shape of the rack with its ropes and pulleys , and the blackened irons laid by the brazier , and the whips dropped into sconces on the wall . |
| 41 | The product certainly scores well in the initial ‘ small object of desire ’ stakes , but its overall success will largely depend on the quality of its handwriting recognition software . |
| 42 | It 's a reflection on sadomasochism , and on negation , and on the Underground throughout these novels , that the true gambler 's urge to lose is as strong as and not ultimately separable from its opposite . |
| 43 | It is hard to avoid thinking that the hope of ‘ Thy Kingdom come ’ finds its opposite in |
| 44 | Such a theory would seem to support the notion of two distinct orientations of dramatic playing and performing , but Stanislavsky 's theory of acting seems to embrace both modes , leading us to consider the model as dialectic , each mode containing the seed of its opposite . |
| 45 | The history of the nationalities of the former Russian empire is complex , and here only a few details can be given to illustrate how doctrine was radically reshaped by events until in content , if not in form , it became its opposite . |
| 46 | Somatostatin , a hormone that inhibits the release of growth hormone , is now well know , but its opposite proved elusive . |
| 47 | Therefore the simple conflict between accumulation and unproductive consumption which appears at the micro level may be transformed into its opposite at the macro level . |
| 48 | ‘ I do n't know about discontent , ’ said John le Grant , ‘ but I know what its opposite is . |
| 49 | He is the unchallenged master of ‘ pishogue ’ , the art of bemusing a man 's sense , and can cast spells turning day into night , men into women , food into dust — in fact , everything to its opposite . |
| 50 | This forgiveness of her and of everyone had called up its opposite . |
| 51 | Beauty that denies its opposite becomes shallow and artificial . |
| 52 | But the cult of ugliness can become just as fake as the cult of prettiness if it is a denial of its opposite . |
| 53 | Iago can turn anything into its opposite : under his tuition even Othello becomes a hypocrite , with difficulty — ‘ O , hardness to dissemble ! ’ he says ( III.iv.34 ) , like Coriolanus , feigning ‘ a salt and sorry rheum ’ so that Desdemona will give him the handkerchief ( III.iv.51 f . ) . |
| 54 | When we approach the problem in this open-ended , context-sensitive way , probing deeper into linked relationships , we notice that the permissive relationship is paralleled by another which is its opposite in some respects . |
| 55 | The ability to enjoy , create and teach literature does not at all imply an equal ability to organize recorded knowledge for retrieval , though it is not necessarily its opposite . |
| 56 | We can refer to this division of language into parts as an atomistic approach , and its opposite — an approach which involves all the parts working together — as holistic . |
| 57 | For each cognitive skill which humans possess , they must also possess its opposite . |
| 58 | Another one would be reaction formation , turning something into its opposite . |
| 59 | In this case , the writer 's revisions have turned the meaning of the original into its opposite : the original ( a ) says that stylistics is rarely an exercise in describing what use is made of language ; but the revision ( b ) says that stylistics should be defined as an exercise in describing what use is made of language . |
| 60 | Up until now , movie makers have been quick to quote the ‘ art imitates life ’ argument or , without flinching , its opposite : ‘ just a piece of fantasy ’ . |