Example sentences of "and its " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , taking account of the value of a house and its contents and personal savings and investments it is not surprising that a great many people have estates that exceed the inheritance tax threshold . |
| 2 | The death penalty was excluded from the Brazilian Penal Code in 1890 and its abolition is enshrined in the 1988 Constitution . |
| 3 | Professional fundraisers utilize the powerful medium of advertising in their national press , an advertisement issued by the British Section in autumn 1990 about Iraq 's treatment of Kurds and its human rights record over a decade , was the most successful advertisement ever run by the Section . |
| 4 | Some stress has been thrown thus far on modernism and its advocacy , but a traditional critic may write as well or better than a modernist . |
| 5 | Terry Friedman 's book contains fourteen chapters , which chart the development of the work and its public reception — a stormy one . |
| 6 | A list can even rise to evoking the mood of a picture , as in this description by the Goncourt brothers of Chardin 's subjects ; ‘ He introduces into his pictures his wash-basin , his mastiff puppy , the objects and the creatures to which he is accustomed in his home … the pure simple features of the working middle class , happy in its tranquillity , its labour and its obscurity . |
| 7 | The critic who pays little notice to perspective or other means of representing the natural world will deprive a reader of help in enjoying the exceptional beauty of the natural appearance of Impressionist pictures , whose qualities are inspired by scientific understanding of light and its effects . |
| 8 | Its old times are brilliantly rendered , and its appeal is in part generic . |
| 9 | Revolution , and its betrayal by a regime which both prescribes and proscribes literature , are described in both works . |
| 10 | We have liked him for being into free speech and free love , and for what he has to say about convergences of the two , and about the curbs which revolution and its regimes has placed on them . |
| 11 | In the later years of the Eighties a series of events and episodes has served to direct the attention of British readers to the issue of authorship and its autobiographical character or constituent . |
| 12 | His first book , If this is a man , about his months in Auschwitz , and its sequel , The Truce , were hard to fault , and the successive publications of his middle age have been greeted by an admiration responsive both to his skills as a writer and to his character as a man.i In October 1985 , however , the chauvinistic American Jewish magazine Commentary did succeed in performing the outlandish act of disparaging Levi and his books . |
| 13 | He is against ‘ Greatbritain ’ , with its aristocratic capitalists , its MI5 and its MI6 . |
| 14 | Radio acting makes specific technical demands on an actor , and classes are usually held by professional tutors who have a wide experience of radio drama and its production . |
| 15 | What does stand out is that everyone believes that the profession , its standards and its aims , matter , and they all feel an excitement about the job of acting . |
| 16 | But improvising round a text and its written characters , finding out about their intentions is very exciting too . |
| 17 | From de Valera 's point of view — and the majority of the nation and its politicians would have concurred — the fact that the Free State was over 90 per cent catholic meant that its moral and social outlook would reflect catholic beliefs . |
| 18 | Similarly , the de facto existence of the protestant enclave in the North and its pursuit of protestant dominance in that state may have even reinforced a similar , though integralist , approach in the South . |
| 19 | Secondly , through the enactment of a special powers Act in 1922 Stormont gave itself and its police force the powers of detention without trial . |
| 20 | However , in the interests of Western European stability and its own financial position , the British government is perhaps still putting off the final offer — either British withdrawal or some form of power-sharing with catholic nationalists — in the hope of loyalists coming round to what is seen as a more reasonable position . |
| 21 | In the North , the belief comes via the British parliamentary tradition of the two-party system and its accompanying electoral process of ‘ first pass the post ’ . |
| 22 | There can also be little doubt that the devotional revolution had a significant impact on the life of local catholic communities , especially as social life came to have a very strong relationship to the local parish and its priests . |
| 23 | Whereas in Britain , with the growth of suffrage , catholics could never be perceived as a political threat because of the smallness of their numbers , in Ireland , with the growth of the home rule movement and its accompanying nationalism , they could only be perceived as politically , religiously , and nationally subversive and suspicion of them remained . |
| 24 | Wright is also correct to distinguish between a general interpretation of ‘ salvation by grace ’ — the teaching of the reformers — and its fundamentalist variant , which he terms ‘ salvation by grace through faith ’ . |
| 25 | The clearest example of law as mediator of political religion in Ireland is the Irish constitution of 1937 and its subsequent interpretation . |
| 26 | But this will not be the main focus of attention here ; to make the general point requires tracing only the impact of the specific church teaching of the period on constitutional law and its implementation in Ireland . |
| 27 | The church was acting on behalf of all , and had a prime obligation to push for a public morality which matched its perception of the natural law lest the very fabric of society be torn asunder and its members cast on the road of moral decline . |
| 28 | Aspects of the Irish constitution and its implementation are clearly oppressive as well as offensive to other minorities besides the protestant ones . |
| 29 | To be more precise , the conflict was between the felt need of interventionism by the majority of the population and its politicians and the particular social theology of the churchmen . |
| 30 | The family had changed , and its various functions of education , food production , and the manufacture of clothing were already in part relinquished to a variety of institutions whose smooth functioning rested on the intervention and guidance of the nation state . |