Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] its [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But how and why this atomistic temporal concept , which Buddhism used for its own purposes , was adapted to the very different objects of Islam remains an open question . |
| 2 | Half-points will also be upgraded to full points for techniques which catch the opponent as he attacks ; for deflecting the opponent and scoring on his undefended back ; for techniques which immediately follow a sweep or throw ; for an onslaught of continuous and effective attacks , each component of which scored in its own right . |
| 3 | The Order , when he came across its several agents down by the waterside , was civil for no doubt the same reasons . |
| 4 | The crucial breakthrough came in 1854 , with the purchase of the United Kingdom rights of an American patent for the manufacture , by steam machinery , of a revolutionary wood-screw with a pointed end which acted as its own gimlet . |
| 5 | Thus each biopsy specimen acted as its own control . |
| 6 | Quite possibly it reverted to its former use . |
| 7 | She was acutely embarrassed suddenly , but her body still glowed with its own heat , as if some white-hot reactor had been ignited inside her ; she was still melting and longing inside , her senses way beyond recall . |
| 8 | So too wealth should be used as a means to good ends , but never be sought or enjoyed for its own sake . |
| 9 | The European Community originated in three distinct organisations , the European Coal and Steel Community , the European Atomic Energy Community and the European Economic Community each governed under its own statute . |
| 10 | This , it is claimed , provides at the same time a clue as to the meaning of fiction ; for fiction really is the result of treating that which can exist only derivatively , or " parasitically " , as if it existed in its own right . |
| 11 | And from the start both divided and joined : two panels , one frame , yet each panel also enclosed in its own frame . |
| 12 | It was rebuilt after a fire in the thirteenth century , altered and restored in contemporary style in the seventeenth , but returned to its former state in the 1920s . |
| 13 | A human mind dulled by its own self-absorption may fail to perceive this , but in stillness , this awareness automatically comes into our consciousness , without any effort of intellect or will . |
| 14 | But the fight broke of its own accord . |
| 15 | At home , the Japanese government has spearheaded a campaign to discredit reports that originated from its own news agency , Kyodo . |
| 16 | EFFORTS to get Cleveland scrapped and Yorkshire restored to its former boundaries are being stepped up with renewed efforts by white-rose enthusiasts . |
| 17 | In keeping with its standing as an independent body with a built-in majority of teachers , the Council was committed to the thesis that ‘ each school should have the fullest measure of responsibility for its own curriculum and teaching methods based on the needs of its own pupils and evolved by its own staff ’ . |
| 18 | The rise of unemployment led to its own set of enquiries , initially into the condition of the depressed areas and eventually , more in the '30s than in the '20s , into the problems of the unemployed themselves . |
| 19 | Fresh molten amber must be added subsequently to the shaved toes to replenish what was taken — unless , unless the amber grew of its own accord like veritable flesh due to the miraculous proximity of those bones . |
| 20 | A kitten , deprived of its own mother and reared by people , may fail to learn to purr or miaow . |
| 21 | The main failings of the nation lay within its own boundaries , not in the outside world or such phenomena as bourgeois liberalism' , which the authors did not view in the same threatening light as did the more conservative party members . |
| 22 | Each army , it seemed , lay in its own sodden , rat infested dug-outs for days , sometimes months , waiting for the other side to make a move . |
| 23 | When we were out on the street , we followed section by section , and each section went to its own beats . |
| 24 | Forms of alliance were developed to enlist the service of nobles whose lands lay beyond its own lordships . |
| 25 | Having placed these matters on record in its minutes , the London committee proceeded to its own business : ( i ) a prize of 10 guineas was offered for the best description of not more than 20 cases of glanders ; ( ii ) the circularisation of honorary and subscribing members , asking for their ‘ communications on the veterinary art ’ . |
| 26 | Even in the dismal gloom , strobed by laser flashes , the boy 's green eyes gleamed with evident intelligence … and with fierce enmity … and with a kind of fascination , as he weighed the mask in his hand and stared at its former wearer , now revealed . |
| 27 | As each beast ambled at its own pace along a farm track , the team collected its breath with the help of a gas-tight mask and a weather balloon . |
| 28 | It is decadent literature , intoxicated with its own rarefication and artifice , its theatrical élitim mand its lofty decination inationto oblige . |
| 29 | KPMG , for example , being an authorised person , would not be permitted to take advantage of the exemption so as to avoid the need to approve an advertisement ( or Information memorandum ) issued in its own name . |
| 30 | Indeed , much of the film has dated badly , by comparison with the better American films of around the same time ( Wild River , Psycho , The Hustler , El Cid ) , or to put it more neutrally appears less attractive than it did in its own time . |