Example sentences of "its [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emile Al-Uzaizi , deputy leader of the council 's Tory opposition group and a social services committee member , said this was the first case of its kind he had known in his eight years on the council . |
| 2 | Emile Al-Uzaizi , the deputy leader of the council 's Tory opposition group and a social services committee member , said that this was the first case of its kind he had known in his eight years on the council . |
| 3 | This was a shrewd political gibe , but like so many of its kind it entirely missed the point at issue . |
| 4 | Of its kind it was unique because of its importance and because it covered the period from 1906 to 1914 , from Modigliani 's arrival in France until the general call-up in 1914 . |
| 5 | If the word Gruyère on the packet can induce people to buy the product in question ( I have tasted it ; and it seems only fair to say that of its kind it is of a matchless ignobility ) then it becomes clear that it is a too innocent belief in authenticity and the efficacy of the ancient formula which has made us such easy victims of the purveyors of the farmyard-fresh Surrey chicken from the battery house , the mountain-brook trout from the breeding tank , via the deep-freeze , the hedgerow-ripened blackberry pie-filling out of the cardboard box . |
| 6 | It had cream-washed walls , brown shutters and beyond its rooftop he could see the tip of the Munster spire . |
| 7 | Bookings are coming into the Academy of Culinary Arts for its course which begin this month . |
| 8 | It would probably be necessary meantime to adopt a tougher line with the rightists : ‘ The only safe alternative would be to arrange with the Soviet Union for mutual withdrawal of troops and let nature take its course which will eventually mean another Soviet satellite state in Korea . ’ |
| 9 | The difficulty with any kind of platonism that claims the ontological primacy of qualities — or any kind of universals — is that in presenting its case it implicitly relies on certain assumptions about existentially unique particulars , which no sooner are made explicit than the whole platonist case is shown to be built on sand . |
| 10 | By the time I had replaced the telephone in its cradle I had realized in a sudden , terrifying swoop of misery that I was in genuine danger . |
| 11 | It took four months to reach its decision which issued on 11th September 1992 . |
| 12 | Because in reaching its decision it takes account not only of the technical merits in terms of traffic relief but also , the wider impact er the other factors in terms of the route and also public opinion . |
| 13 | Mrs Cullam put the baby on the table among the crumbs , removing its napkin which she dropped on the floor , and said in the same low economical tone , ‘ Get me another nappie , Georgina . ’ |
| 14 | I have already initiated public and parliamentary debate of its proposals which were discussed in considerable detail in the Scottish Grand Committee on 24 February . |
| 15 | Example 3:7 Landlord 's power to break ( 1 ) The landlord shall be entitled to determine this tenancy by not less than six months ' notice in writing expiring on or after [ date ] if he intends at the expiry of such notice either : ( a ) to demolish or reconstruct the demised property or a substantial part of it or to carry out substantial work of construction on the demised property or part of it ; or ( b ) to occupy the demised property for the purposes or partly for the purposes of a business to be carried on by him ( 2 ) The service of a notice under s25 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 shall be sufficient notice and good service for the purposes of the preceding subclause Example 3:8 Tenant 's power to break on refusal of planning permission The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy by not less than three nor more than six months ' notice in writing served not more than one month after the happening of any of the following events : ( 1 ) the refusal or deemed refusal by the local planning authority to renew the planning permission dated [ date ] permitting the use of the demised property for ; ( 2 ) the dismissal by the Secretary of State or an appointed person of any appeal against any such refusal ; ( 3 ) the expiry of the said planning permission Example 3:9 Tenant 's right to break preventing exercise of rights under Landlord and Tenant Act The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy on … by giving not less than thirteen months ' previous notice to that effect Example 3:10 Tenant 's conditional right to break The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy on … if : ( 1 ) he gives thirteen months ' written notice to that effect ; and ( 2 ) both at the date of the notice and at the date of its expiry there are neither any outstanding arrears of rent nor any subsisting breach of covenant by the tenant for which the landlord would be entitled to recover damages of more than a nominal amount |
| 16 | After the Civil War Bolshevik control expanded easily from its bastion which had been reduced to the size of medieval Muscovy . |
| 17 | Flysheet : the flysheet has eyelets at its base which , once it is draped over the inner , fix onto the poles at ground level so that both inner and fly are attached to the poles . |
| 18 | The flysheet also has eyelets at its base which , once draped over the inner , then fixes onto the poles at ground level . |
| 19 | The ceremony is at its base one that celebrates opposition and division , the division between the genders , between the clans , between the moieties . |
| 20 | At its base it was a mere score of yards across . |
| 21 | It employs 1,000 people now , just as it did in 1981 , but in the intervening years it has had to take on far more duties — most notably the upkeep of its building which was looked after by the government from 1816 to 1988 . |
| 22 | Whatever the origin of the benefit , it is its existence which validates the trust . |
| 23 | During the first two decades of its existence it was one of many organisations which argued insistently for the creation of National Parks . |
| 24 | During the first six months of its existence it recorded 156 combats and seventeen confirmed victories ; most of these at Verdun , where it fought intermittently from May to Though still only partially fledged , the Lafayette 's direct contribution to the Battle of Verdun had been significant ; but this was nothing to what , indirectly , its presence there did for the French cause . |
| 25 | In the three centuries of its existence there have been a number of changes , notably in the equipment used . |
| 26 | The interpretation of wrestling that I treat here as ‘ accepted ’ is presented in Barthes 's own utterance as an absent speech with which he is dissenting — without its existence there would be no need for his interpretation because the meaning of ‘ wrestling ’ would not be an issue . |
| 27 | It overlooks the fact that it is the public character of science and of its institutions which imposes a mental discipline upon the individual scientist , and which preserves the objectivity of science and its tradition of critically discussing new ideas . |
| 28 | Then from one of its airlocks something began to be extruded , like a giant worm stretching out — an expanding Manport passage , to connect the airlocks of the ships . |
| 29 | The bare infinitive in exclamations evokes therefore an incidence of the infinitive 's event to its support which can only be represented as potential since the speaker feels it has little or no chance of being real , of finding a place in real time . |
| 30 | Without its support we still have no reason to believe that any agreement will be reached behind the veil of ignorance . |