Example sentences of "[subord] it be [prep] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the law of property , a child conceived , but not yet born , will be treated as born , at any rate where it is for its advantage that it should be so treated . |
| 2 | Although ‘ laicisation ’ is a process that has become universal in the Western world , it is in North America where it is at its most advanced . |
| 3 | ‘ I know if I happen to find a bunch that 's been thrown out 'cause it 's past its best , I can likely get a threepenny piece for it at the railway station . |
| 4 | One sometimes gets the impression that IBM Corp is more solicitous over the needs of its Stamford , Connecticut-based IBM Credit Corp subsidiary than it is over its own , and yesterday , in the wake of the parent 's big $285m loss , IBM Credit was able to announce that profits actually rose 0.3% at $58.3m ; the return on average equity was 20.2% , compared with 21.3% in the first quarter of 1992 and in the first three months of 1993 , IBM Credit originated financing for $1,700m of equipment , software and services for IBM 's customers and distribution channels , down 22% on the figure for the first quarter 1992 — financing for end users decreased by 45% to $600m while financing for distribution channels decreased by 1% to $1,100 , the company noted . |
| 5 | Christianity , as we know it , is in many respects actually closer to those pagan systems of belief than it is to its own Judaic origins . |
| 6 | All amphibians shed their skin from time to time , but because the burrowing frog remains immobile once it is inside its burrow and cocoon formation has begun , the successive layers of shed skin remain attached to each other . |
| 7 | In the case of a private company , a pre-1982 pre-emptive requirement is to be treated as if it were in its memorandum or articles so long as it remains a private company . |
| 8 | And when you look at L P G , while it 's in its canister , okay , it 's a liquid but when it meets normal atmospheric temperature and pressure it converts to a gas . |
| 9 | The neighbour we sent it to died while it was on its way . |
| 10 | He says you can still go out and enjoy yourself in the sun but it 's important to wear a hat and protective clothing — and to avoid the sun altogether when it 's at its height . |
| 11 | Actually , providing your timing is reasonable , this is not too dangerous , because you will be interrupting the attacking technique close to its source , when it is at its weakest . |
| 12 | The Lewisian thing about the first of his space stories is precisely its blend of literary originality and religious truth ; it is not ‘ theology ’ dressed up as ‘ literature ’ ; rather it makes its best literary effects when it is at its most religious because the religious matter is what most engages the author 's imagination . |
| 13 | Because of the priority given to these ‘ fixed costs ’ , mothers typically draw on the household income when it is at its most depleted . |
| 14 | If , however , thermal diffusion occurs , without a corresponding concentration diffusion , the particle will be cooled when it is above its equilibrium position and thus surrounded by cooler fluid . |
| 15 | Even when it is near its best , the call to faith in modern preaching can often border on idealism . |
| 16 | As someone who worked in the BMC when it was at its height , and who has very long acquaintance with both protagonists , I can vouch for the veracity of Dennis 's story as told here , and can only lament the nit-picking which has continued even after its publication in this book . |
| 17 | The struggles in the West Indies in the 1690s were probably less devastating than those of the 1660s , and the French missed a chance to press home an attack on Jamaica when it was at its most vulnerable , just after the great earthquake of 1692 had destroyed the original capital of Port Royal . |
| 18 | The present inflation rate is , of course , precisely one half of the inflation rate when it was at its very lowest — just briefly — under the previous Labour Government . |
| 19 | Devastating though it is in its presentation of the destructive power of guilt , Macbeth may be thought a comforting play , finally , in that hypocrisy exposes itself . |
| 20 | ‘ It looked as though it was on its last legs when you gave me a lift yesterday . ’ |
| 21 | It is hard for science to verify such an idea as it is beyond its scope to understand certain aspects of the unborn personality . |
| 22 | And , naturally a leather suite is as notable for its longlasting looks as it is for its enduring comfort . |
| 23 | But this is the way er puts it , and I think it is a very good way of , of , of putting it , as both and say , the point is , that every individual offspring is twice as closely related to itself , as it is to its , to its siblings . |
| 24 | This sad , artificial division between the theoretical and the empirical is quite unnecessary , but reflects the structure of the sociological profession itself , affected as it is by its history and its own peculiar form of development in Britain . |
| 25 | It is explained as much by Aden Arabie 's colonial , third-world dimension , as it is by its lyrically explosive and liberatingly destructive style which undoubtedly held more appeal for Sartre in 1960 than the more prosaic , communist militant style of Les Chiens de garde , with its undertones of Stalinist party dogma . |
| 26 | Every tale — depressing as it is in its own right represents another body blow to the leasing industry . |
| 27 | The strong views expressed on both sides of the House — which in itself is unusual , divided as it is in its political structure — on the way that the right hon. Gentleman has carried out his job should send a clear message to the IRA : that it will not bomb its way to the conference table ; it will not affect us now ; it will not affect us during the general election ; and it will not affect us after the general election . |
| 28 | The famed croaking is more likely to be heard in such tanks , as it 's at its most audible when males meet and display as a threat to other intruding males — or during the mating season as the male pursues the female . |
| 29 | Many artists would only wish to portray Windermere in sunny weather and would turn it into a different place , but he managed to evoke any real day in the Lake District as it were in its right clothes . |
| 30 | For it is in its spirit and outlook that McDonald 's has really shown the way forward . |