Example sentences of "to [be] [vb pp] [prep] its [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It wants a unitary authority and it wants it to be based upon its present framework . |
| 2 | A BUGATTI motor boat found resting in mud in France is to be flown to its wealthy owner in California next month , 10 years after work began on restoring it at a Thames boatyard . |
| 3 | It was arrogant and vindictive too , and quite clear enough to be heard above its musical accompaniment . |
| 4 | In the first place Washington desired sterling to be maintained at its current parity of $2.80 . |
| 5 | Then the Administration wants the more closely watched federal funds rate that banks charge each other for overnight reserve borrowings to be cut from its long-standing 4 per cent to 3.5 per cent . |
| 6 | Capitalism is thus to be opposed for its exploitative practices , rather than its non-utopian form . |
| 7 | The first drug to be recognised for its antimalarial effects was quinine , which found its way into the British Pharmacopaea as early as 1677 . |
| 8 | However , his view that each thing has an essence and that all its active behaviour is to be explained by its inbuilt conatus or striving to preserve its own essence has a strong Aristotelian flavour . |
| 9 | and that the learning situation itself needs to be examined for its possible contribution to children 's learning difficulties , instead of merely looking in the child for causes . |
| 10 | Furthermore , to pursue this metaphor , having selected a particular spiritual decor and furnishings , those who live in it come to be influenced by its stylistic and symbolic properties as well as its more obvious functional or utilitarian appropriateness . |
| 11 | It is not the affair that has prompted Bell Lawrie to withdraw from institutional sector research , notably pharmaceuticals and electricity ( but not Scottish Power and Scottish Hydro-Electric which will continue to be covered by its regional research ) . |
| 12 | Captain Ken Emmott , speaking of G-BJHS 's future said that ‘ the aircraft will have to be moved from its present base at Southampton , where the conditions are not really conducive to keeping a large flying-boat in good condition ’ . |
| 13 | This is why the issue needs to be evaluated for its pedagogic validity to be established . |
| 14 | But in order to be understood it needs to be seen within its original context of faith in one God who can only be spoken about by using metaphorical language . |
| 15 | Structural change always needs to be seen in its environmental context . |
| 16 | In other words , exactly the questions the nation wishes to be asked of its visiting rock stars . |
| 17 | The idea that the syntax of BSL has to be understood through its visual presentation also seems reasonable and in agreement with De Matteo . |
| 18 | You 're assuming it is going to be developed along its northerly perimeter . |
| 19 | Increases in applied voltage must be accompanied by proportional increases in phase resistance if the winding current is to be limited to its rated value when the motor is stationary . |
| 20 | In 1979 , J. A. G. Griffith , Professor of Public Law at the London School of Economics , made the point that : " it is still quite common to hear the constitution described — even lovingly described — as a piece of machinery cleverly and subtly constructed to enable the will of the people to be transmitted through its elected representatives who make laws instructing its principal committee , the Cabinet , how to administer the affairs of the state , with the help of an impartial civil service and under the benevolent wisdom of a neutral judiciary . |
| 21 | Farming , especially mixed smallholding , needs to be viewed in its interlocking whole . |
| 22 | In historical studies the actual quotation from the appropriate Act of Parliament or the speech from Hansard or the letter from the collected correspondence may be the vital piece of information which needs to be placed in its right position to fill in a sort of jigsaw pattern which gives what can only be the one consistent answer . |
| 23 | On May 27 , 1989 , the government announced that the name of the country , which had been changed in October 1988 from the Socialist Republic of Myanma to the Union of Myanma , was henceforth to be rendered in its vernacular form of Myanma Naingngan ( Union of Myanma ) for all official purposes [ see p. 36867 , where the date is wrongly given as June 18 ] . |
| 24 | But , in its own way , it could never be described as anything less than a remarkably articulate and detailed player , and certainly no-one will fail to be swayed by its fine engineering , or Linn 's track record in improving existing products in the field when the time comes , instead of merely replacing them . |
| 25 | Religion had to be integrated with its surrounding society , not in a subservient position , but forming the vital heart of the culture . |
| 26 | Adobe Systems Inc has licensed its PostScript software to Sony Corp so that it can offer a new software Raster Image Processor based on the Configurable PostScript Interpreter to be integrated into its existing News Unix workstations that drive output devices and are targeted for the Japanese market . |
| 27 | Smoke detectors may allow an incipient fire to be tackled in its early stages , before it develops into flaming and before its effects on vulnerable materials in store become significant . |
| 28 | Additional features are a number-coded locking device , a variable depth feature which allows the briefcase to be expanded from its usual 3½ inches to 5½ inches , individual gilt initialling on each briefcase , an ink-resistant interior compartment for pens , and three pockets inside the lid to take different sized papers/documents . |
| 29 | Here , ‘ symptomatic ’ reading is central : the literary text does not offer aesthetic or moral value , but is to be interrogated for its ideological implications . |
| 30 | Tight binding of E.coli RNA polymerase to the lac promoter was found to be correlated with its poor ability to escape from abortive cycling ( 32 ) . |