Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that [vb past] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | And each cough that forced its way past his throat brought with it more of the bright frothy blood , which dribbled from the corners of his mouth faster than his red-soaked handkerchief could mop it up . |
| 2 | Question time The BBC is still under attack from old Thatcherism that sapped its morale and split its audiences . |
| 3 | Overall the closer ties between European partners have been welcomed by a French salesforce that lost its manufacturing base at Calais . |
| 4 | In a week or so weather and growth would have sealed up again all the raw edges that betrayed its use . |
| 5 | Roosevelt quite deliberately extended the powers of central government in order to achieve a fairer society that offered its citizens greater security . |
| 6 | And it was this beauty that constituted its truth long before experiments could be made to prove it . |
| 7 | He was up and over to it , peering behind the wooden panel that blocked its panes . |
| 8 | For most of the 1975–76 civil war , the massive stone keep of the twelfth-century Castle of St Gilles that still towers over Tripoli was occupied by a Sunni Muslim militia that made its head-quarters in the crusader banqueting hall . |
| 9 | The port principally connected with this was Bristol , and it may have been the existence of surplus tonnage that led its seamen to turn their attention to new ventures in the fifteenth century , including both attempts to penetrate the Mediterranean trade and the later voyages into the Atlantic . |
| 10 | An individual bat that boosted its tickover rate would pay an additional price in energy , etc. , which would not be justified by the increased sonar acuity . |
| 11 | I noticed a slight discolouration in his left eye that betrayed its blindness , but otherwise he looked as fit as a cricket . |
| 12 | These lessons were contained in revisions to the constitution and in the explanatory legislation that codified its clauses . |
| 13 | But it would be wrong to suppose that the final community in such a sequence had some kind of privileged status that guaranteed its stability . |
| 14 | But it was a tense trio that made its way back to Surrey . |
| 15 | The car , a 1986 Chaika that owed its style as much to the 1958 Cadillac Eldorado as it did to the people 's revolution , sped along a country road . |
| 16 | It has been suggested that the growth of environmentalism was stimulated by the anti-materialistic philosophy that found its expression in neo-Lamarckism . |
| 17 | The Consortium agreed to attract into membership all bodies that shared its objectives . |
| 18 | He was an active member of the British Deaf and Dumb Association and one of the select band that received its Medal of Honour for services to the deaf . |
| 19 | A hungry nation that rationed its scanty food-supplies till 1952 needed to be fed , its industries built or rebuilt , a health service kept open to all . |
| 20 | My veins seemed full of a fiery substance that burned its way round my body . |
| 21 | It was released in December 1945 , to an overwhelmingly positive critical response that praised its ‘ maturity ’ and ‘ realism ’ , and also hailed it as the latest success from the Coward/Lean ‘ team ’ , which had , during the Second World War , produced three notably successful films , namely In Which We Serve ( 1942 ) , This Happy Breed ( 1944 ) , and Blithe Spirit ( 1945 ) . |
| 22 | Very little blood , surely from the first blow that felled its victim through hood and all . |
| 23 | Lynwood Scientific Developments Ltd , the Alton , Hampshire display terminal specialist that regained its independence via a management buyout from Hunting Group Plc , is to give it up again . |
| 24 | Nor are any reservations about Hawking 's work itself : on this score , Soul is more incisive than Errol Morris ' movie , in which the director has substituted a somewhat bemused deference for the confident spirit of critical inquiry that animated its forerunner , The Thin Blue Line . |
| 25 | The thecodonts , from this perspective , were one group that improved its locomotion and utilized its energy more effectively , and survived better . |
| 26 | To reach it he had to drive almost into Sandwich , between factories and yards where acres of cars awaited export , and find a small road that wound its way inland . |
| 27 | A WHITE Knight has galloped to the rescue of TVS Entertainment , the southern operator that lost its money-spinning TV franchise in the shake up . |
| 28 | As lord mayor ( 1732–3 ) he co-ordinated the City 's opposition to Walpole 's excise bill in 1733 , and vigorously defended the raucous jubilation that accompanied its withdrawal from the Commons . |
| 29 | This excluded any relaxation that had its onset within three seconds before or one second after the onset of a swallow . |
| 30 | A few hours later it was a merry band that wended its way back to the hall and marked out sleeping spaces for the night . |