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

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1 She heard his sobbing tale with less sympathy than was its due ; it did not occur to her that she herself , by coming here , had brought about all his troubles and her own .
2 The present system is no more comprehensible to the public in this respect than was its predecessor .
3 The group is ordered and structured , as are its activities .
4 In short , the structure of the city , as we find it , is clearly just as much the product of the struggle and efforts of its people to live and work together collectively as are its local customs , traditions , social ritual , laws , public opinion , and the prevailing moral order .
5 He sees his college 's strength as being its pastoral system .
6 But never less than dangerous and unpredictable , as were its effects .
7 Independent Television undermined the BBC 's historical sense of privilege and security : with less than 30% of the national audience — it went down to 27% in the 1950s — the BBC 's position as the main instrument of broadcasting was clearly threatened , as were its claims to the full licence fee .
8 Finally , the concern with manipulation means that postclassical criminology is correctionalist , as were its classical and positivist predecessors ; that is why I have spent some time , in Chapter 3 , countering anti-correctionalist arguments .
9 His criticism of Oesterley 's work makes it clear that for Eliot a ritual 's origins may be as meaningless as is its present form .
10 Yet betrayal of the initial oneness — the harmonious whole , a glorious , bodily , yet undefined goodness in which there is no distinction between the me and the you — is part of human experience , as is its loss .
11 The style of the group is as foreign to Japan as is its appetite for argument .
12 The Castelnovo is well managed as is its sister residence La Panoramica , all of the apartments at the Castelnovo are named after trees and detailed below .
13 There is no information on the carriage rates for this organism but the apparent increase is of concern , as is its potential to cause invasive disease in some patients .
14 So also the size of the property may be relevant to the interpretation of the use covenant ( Basildon Development Corpn v Mactro Ltd [ 1986 ] 1 EGLR 137 per O " Connor LJ ) , as is its physical layout ( Levermore v Jobey [ 1956 ] 2 All ER 362 ) .
15 The role of Australia in all this is particularly important , as was its role in the successful campaign eventually to get a moratorium .
16 However , while the LEA maintained , as was its obligation , a global view of primary schools ' needs , heads and teachers in individual schools were less likely to do so .
17 The population sample was the largest ever for this kind of study , as was its timescale ( twenty-five years from 1960 to 1985 ) .
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