Example sentences of "its [noun] is [adv] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some chloride may come from natural sources , with occasionally large amounts from salt-bearing rock strata , but its presence is usually taken as indicating sewage contamination of the supply . |
| 2 | The idea that a film 's director is the primary , shaping source of its meaning is simultaneously inscribed as middlebrow commonsense ( see the film review columns of The Observer , City Limits , or any publication targeted at the bourgeois intelligentsia , with their umbilical linking of film title and director 's name ) and dismissed as hopelessly outmoded by every branch of recent critical theory . |
| 3 | Witness could not say how much help in this a girl would need from the men because it varied so much , but she did not think it amounted to much , and no special men workers were employed for it " Lifting is therefore not denied , but its importance is distinctly minimized when a woman is speaking , maximized when a man is . |
| 4 | Its magnitude is officially given as below 9 , so that it should be invisible with binoculars ; I have suspected it with × 12 or higher magnification , but it is difficult to be sure , as there are scattered disconnected stars around . |
| 5 | Its scenery is widely regarded as being among the best in the country . |
| 6 | The state and its machinery is generally viewed as beneficent in this context . |
| 7 | It is simply the case that the heroin use of the male partner places her in a situation in which the drug is not only readily available , but its use is also seen as socially acceptable . |
| 8 | Its purpose is best served if the person concerned can take up this attitude , be with it for as long as is required , and then let it go again when stepping back into ordinary life , then there is no risk of becoming over-identified with it . |
| 9 | Its purpose is better served if a bird , instead of making one visit and drinking deep , calls repeatedly every hour or so , day after day . |
| 10 | We have previously produced some evidence that the IL-6 dependent complex is at least partially independent of de novo protein synthesis because its induction is also observed when cells are treated with IL-6 in the presence of cycloheximide ( 20–21 ) . |