Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when the Assembly met for its first session on 5 January 1918 it immediately became clear that a majority of the deputies were hostile to the government and the Assembly was forcibly disbanded . |
| 2 | Figure 6.5 Ants follow pheromone trails by balancing the concentrations smelled through its two antennae . |
| 3 | When the state sold off its industrial interests or sponsored new ventures in the 1880s , it favoured the zaibatsu who tended to accumulate specialized industrial holdings , rather like the more recent French strategy of creating large firms as sector leaders . |
| 4 | IT WAS a full year before he made the break — but eventually , on August 21 , 1984 , he went over to one of the more independent local magazines , Cauce , and asked for its leading journalist Monica Gonzalez . |
| 5 | It also contained a clause which effectively provided for its continued validity should the Soviet Union be dissolved or reconstituted . |
| 6 | When she placed Morndun across her face and peered through its ghostly eyes she saw the air shimmering with elementals , sharp-faced , wraith-like , coiling and twisting above the river , streaming out of the mouths and eyes of the men by the water and from the piles of skulls by the trees . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | What is implied by the notion of the super-ego is that the child may react less to the actual external forms of its parents , and more to its own projection of them , interiorized as its moral order . |
| 9 | Following the recommendations of the Report of the Royal Commission on the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge in 1922 , the Board of Extra-Mural Studies was established in 1924 and moved into its new premises at Stuart House in 1928 . |
| 10 | On a ‘ Factory Walk About ’ , the most recent developments are as follows : — at the ‘ top end ’ , the old Wilton winding areas has become the pattern room which moved into its new location in April . |
| 11 | The Natural History Museum in London moved into its present building in the 1880s , and a statue of Owen still greets visitors as they enter its main hall containing the great dinosaur skeletons . |
| 12 | They sank under its cool weight . |
| 13 | He waved her to a comfortable old armchair , and she sank into its deep cushions , curling up apprehensively on the big seat , her eyes watching him guardedly , trembling at the thought of what he had in store for her . |
| 14 | Again it rose from its leafy perch and soared up into the sky . |
| 15 | As dusk drew in its final flecks of gold |
| 16 | She glanced from one end of the kitchen to the other , noting the sparkling sink without a cup or plate in sight , and the gleaming table top , then the freshly scrubbed floor that was still damp in the corners ; the coconut matting beneath her feet bristled from its merciless thrashing . |
| 17 | In 1914 , Mr J. F. Gairns of the Railway Magazine visited the Works which he described in its final form . |
| 18 | The fireplan would be under the control of the company once it moved from its final assault position on to the enemy position . |
| 19 | Although much of its growth may be accounted for by the rapid increase in headhunting in financial services in the mid-1980s , the firm 's capability and success in this market stemmed from its secure reputation established over the preceding decade . |
| 20 | ‘ Jessa — myn ! ’ it shouted from its dry mouth . |
| 21 | In the 1950s it was only occasionally activated , with nominal headquarters in London ; and indeed any proposals on defence that emanated from its Consultative Assembly were invariably ignored by the member governments . |
| 22 | Like a cat , Constance luxuriated in its sensual heat . |
| 23 | Much of the Alliance advance occurred in its traditional heartlands of the north , where it successfully exploited economic and political insecurities of the local bourgeoisie . |
| 24 | Little can be made of this , although the biographer of Edward the Confessor speaks of Danes preparing to rebel against Cnut early in his reign , and Henry of Huntingdon thought that an English and Danish attack on the Wandali ( the Wends , the Slav peoples on the southern shores of the Baltic ) occurred in its third year . |
| 25 | Below the 102/2 comes the 101/2 ( £495 , reviewed by John Borwick last September ) and above the 104/2 lie the 105/3 ( £1,995 ) and 107/2 ( £3,195 ) which I reviewed in its original form in August 1988 . |
| 26 | The Chihuahua strained on its narrow leather lead to be clear of the shooting , and the shouting , and the crying of the little girls . |
| 27 | The brightest point for the capital has been the performance of the Traverse since it moved to its new £3.4 million home close to the Lyceum and Usher Hall . |
| 28 | The clashes in January 1987 followed the sacking of print workers by Mr Murdoch 's newspaper group when it moved to its new print plant at Wapping , east London . |
| 29 | Cortex Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co have signed a joint marketing and development pact that will see Cortex' CorVision application development tool , previously available only on VAXes , moved to its first Unix environment HP-UX on an HP 9000 Series 800 server : CorVision will be encapsulated so it runs with HP SoftBench Framework ; availability is expected this year . |
| 30 | The space problem was relieved to some extent when the museum moved to its modern site in the late I820s , but natural history still rubbed shoulders with art and archaeology . |