Example sentences of "its [noun] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recently took my beloved Washburn EA30 out of its case only to find that , somewhere between a local theatre and home , I 'd managed to lose one of the plastic slide covers from the EQ ; a tiny thing , I know , but unless you 're Superman , totally unnoticeable from more than a foot away . |
| 2 | The Restaurant , although renowned for its seafood also boasts and good selection of meat and poultry dishes as well as vegetarian dishes e.g. the special vegetarian paella . |
| 3 | Mambo Leo was popular not for its opinions but because it was well produced , entertaining and readable ; nevertheless , its popularity did not mean that its readers either believed or trusted it . |
| 4 | Labour was still in deep disarray , its campaign badly led and generally disorganized . |
| 5 | The next thing I saw was my kite diving away from me , the roar of its engine gradually fading as it plunged earthwards . |
| 6 | The Press Complaints Commission is now in operation , and we will monitor its work carefully to see if self-regulation succeeds . |
| 7 | Its preamble eloquently asserts that the ‘ recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom , justice , and peace in the world . ’ |
| 8 | Its distribution again emphasises that the dispersal of some rare imports may have been governed by social or political factors . |
| 9 | There was a trench running down this one , too , its contents so foul that he walked with his feet astride it . |
| 10 | Home-school links did not feature prominently in this booklet although its content clearly implied that the Authority wished to : |
| 11 | It collapses dramatically on to its side , its body limp and lifeless , its back slightly bent and its head turned down , so that it has a half-curled-up appearance . |
| 12 | Its name also implies that the mineral springs , which have continued in use until now , were once presided over by a patron deity called Arnemetia , goddess of the sacred grove . |
| 13 | With England now the enemy , this was inevitably one of the most vulnerable places in the northern kingdom — and indeed had been captured early in the Wars of Independence by Edward Plantagenet and remained in English hands ever since , its garrison readily supplied and reinforced from over the nearby Border . |
| 14 | The A.838 leaves Rhiconich , its surface recently improved and widened , to cross colourful foothills to Laxford Bridge . |
| 15 | But its neighbours still question whether this weight will be thrown behind efforts to build a more secure and more stable Asia . |
| 16 | Dioxin was indeed found at one Rhone-Poulenc dump in France , its manager nervously explaining that it was good French dioxin , and not a nasty Italian import . |
| 17 | But , once it has spread so that its dimensions parallel to the wall are large compared with the boundary layer thickness , the motion over most of its area closely resembles that in a fully turbulent boundary layer to be described in Sections 21.5 and 21.6 . |
| 18 | The Saint-Saens comes in the chamber version using single strings , with its wit well caught and the Swan done with stylish restraint . |
| 19 | In true natural selection , if a body has what it takes to survive , its genes automatically survive because they are inside it . |
| 20 | Indeed its members often denied that they belonged to any ‘ group ’ ; they were , they said , primarily friends , with certain family connections , who found some definition ( and their group name ) from the district of London where a number of them lived . |
| 21 | Christopher Harvie , Professor of British Studies at the University of Tubingen in Germany , has observed : ‘ Britain , after a decade of Thatcherite greed-is-good radicalism is , in many respects , less competitive than it has ever been , its society bitterly divided and disorientated . ’ |
| 22 | The early problems of the PFF gave its critics much to enjoy since the Force was Pathfinder in name only , The four initial squadrons , each with a different type of aircraft , had essentially different operational capabilities . |
| 23 | So it 's trying to get this tied down and get its limits clearly defined so you know what you 're talking you know exactly |
| 24 | Some theorists believe that hydrogen becomes a metallic solid where its electrons freely flow when compressed by two or three million atmospheres pressure ; there have been speculations that metallic hydrogen could be useful as a fusion fuel . |
| 25 | A group is coherent in so far as it has a certain continuity in its consciousness , its organisation and its action ; but its coherence also implies that its members do actually support one another in practical ways that are consistent with the objectives of the group . |
| 26 | Its citizens presumably believed that their interests would be better served if Henry won , for he stood for the preservation of a single sovereign authority ruling in Poitou , England and Normandy , in other words over both ends of La Rochelle 's trade , over wine-growers and wine-drinkers . |
| 27 | Under pressure from Congress and the media , he said , the agency had reviewed its files and questioned its agents overseas to see if there was any basis in fact for the NBC and ABC newscasts and other media reports asserting that Khalid Nazir Jafaar had been involved in a DEA operation known as Corea or Courier . |
| 28 | Each quartier felt , and wanted to feel itself , self-sufficient , which indeed it often was , since many of its residents both worked and lived in it . |
| 29 | Rolls-Royce wrote personally to all its employees yesterday claiming that either a strike or a cut to a 35-hour week would be ‘ disastrous ’ for the company . |
| 30 | In the general election of February 1985 the Human Rights Protection Party ( HRPP ) won 31 seats in the Fono but 12 of its MPs subsequently defected and , in January 1986 , entered into a coalition government with the rival Christian Democratic Party . |