Example sentences of "[conj] be its " in BNC.

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1 Or is its main role to give stability to society ?
2 Or is its action based on a bodily skill whose exercise requires no computations ?
3 This had always been even more precious than love-making , or was its most precious part .
4 But there is a second possibility : beyond our planet 's computer , there may be others that are its superior .
5 According to 88open chairman Chuck Corley , Motorola 's man , the consortium 's budget is being ‘ adjusted ’ because the test suites that are its raison d'etre are done and members ' have no requirements for more — despite talk of Unix SVR4 ES/MP .
6 According to 88open chairman Chuck Corley , Motorola 's man , the consortium 's budget is being ‘ adjusted ’ because the test suites that are its raison d'etre are done and members have no requirements for more — despite talk of Unix System V.4 ES/MP .
7 A unique city — whose very construction is a marvel — it is linked in every way to the canals and lagoons that are its foundation .
8 A discipline , if you like , abstracts and selects from the totality of the world those features that are its own special province .
9 One must look to the contract as a whole to identify the kind of goods that the seller was agreeing to sell and the buyer to buy … where , as in the instant case , the sale ( to use the words of s13 ) is " by sample as well as by description " , characteristics of the goods which would be apparent on reasonable examination of the sample are unlikely to have been intended by the parties to form part of the " description " by which the goods were sold , even though such characteristics are mentioned in references in the contract to the goods that are its subject matter .
10 The Latin used in medieval documents likely to be of interest to readers of this present volume was not the classical language of antiquity , nor were its standards universally high , and it varied from century to century as time advanced .
11 The result was that in Russia the proletariat was not side-tracked into mere trade-unionism or reformism , nor were its energies dissipated in futile and ill-coordinated protests .
12 A place of historical interest in its small way , especially for its sudden death at the end of the fourth century , after the legions that were its life and its protection had been withdrawn .
13 There was a frightened gasp and the ghost rose , too , staring at him out of the two hollows that were its eyes .
14 But it is also apparent that that totality is not completely known , nor is its future shape even presumed .
15 It is not likely to lose that centrality , but nor is its meaning likely to become static or fixed .
16 Nor is its task
17 Since expression of SSRP1 is not inducible by treating cells with cisplatin , nor is its message highly expressed in cisplatin resistant cell lines ( 10 ) , a direct link between SSRP1 function and antitumor activity has not been demonstrated .
18 To it , God can only utter the dreadful ‘ No ’ which abandons sin to the nothingness that is its own real nature .
19 Informix also launched what it is describing as graphical framework services that is its OpenCase/Toolbus product based on Softbench technology licensed from Hewlett-Packard Co , an encapsulator for Toolbus so that third-party vendors can encapsulate their tools to run with this software backplane and the Informix 4GL for Toolbus .
20 This whole side seems an unnecessary gloss on a cycle that is its own justification and does n't need this kind of heavyhanded exposition .
21 But it is the breadth of the Trust 's accumulated experience and the integrated management of its properties that is its most important contribution .
22 Over the centuries the ’ safety-deposit planet ’ developed and refined all its amazing ways of maintaining the security that is its primary resource .
23 It is the DOC environment in Symphony that is its weak point .
24 Since then , it has come to designate what is clearly perceived as a property in its own right , which , when used in an adjective , is ascribed to the accompanying noun ( or , strictly , to the entity that is its referential locus ) .
25 The success of a system is often bound up with the success of the state that is its main proponent .
26 Example 2:6 Right of way : unlimited times and vehicles The right in common with the landlord and all others having the like right to pass and repass ( but not to park or except in emergency to stop ) with or without vehicles at all times and for all purposes connected with the use of the demised property ( but not otherwise ) over the road coloured on the attached plan Example 2:7 Right of way : limited times and vehicles ; right to load , etc The right in common with the landlord and all others having the like right to pass and repass on foot and with vehicles not exceeding … feet in length or … tonnes ( unladen weight ) at any time between 6 am on Monday and 8 pm on Friday in each week ( except public holidays ) for all purposes connected with the use of the demised property ( but not otherwise ) over the road coloured on the attached plan and to park any such vehicle for such period as may be reasonable for the purpose only of loading or unloading it Example 2:8 Right of way : right to load etc in loading bay The right at all times with or without vehicles to pass and repass over the road leading from to the demised property ( but not to halt or park any vehicle thereon except in case of emergency ) for all purposes connected with the use of the demised property and the right for the same purposes to use the loading bay coloured on the attached plan for loading and unloading any such vehicle ( b ) Stairs and passages In a lease of property on an upper floor of a building there will be implied an easement of necessity to use a staircase that is its sole means of access ( Altmann v Boatman ( 1963 ) 186 EG 109 ) .
27 Nor was its bare face the ethereally lovely , angular visage of that alien species .
28 Nor was its misfortune unique , for Norwich , the capital of East Anglia , returned a moderate 40 per cent under £2 , far less than the adjoining countryside , yet within a dozen years the worsted manufacture commenced a decline that was to contribute largely to the total of more than 500 unemployed males , and altogether upwards of 2,500 destitute persons by 1570 .
29 The membership of this minority was never defined , nor was its need for a fundamentally different kind of teaching explained or justified .
30 Faecal occult blood testing was not used as an entry criteria nor was its usefulness assessed during this study as the investigations to locate a possible source of bleeding would have been pursued even if faecal occult blood tests had been negative .
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