Example sentences of "its [noun pl] [conj] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its beauty lies not in its architecture , but in the magnificence of its views as it sits in splendid isolation on top of a steep hill looking down the unencumbered views across fields , moors and woodland to the river valleys of the Wye and Elan . |
| 2 | Central government provides information on its activities when it publishes its various expenditure statements . |
| 3 | The manufacturer could impose full-line forcing , obliging the retailer to take a whole range of its products if it takes one , or tie-in sales , no X sold without Y. It could impose exclusive purchasing ( no products of a certain description to be bought from anywhere but itself ) , and may offer selective and exclusive distribution agreements ( suppliers have to meet certain criteria in order to be selected to distribute a product , and may be offered an exclusive territory or even absolute territorial protection ) . |
| 4 | Another is that the UK is abandoning its plans as it slides further into economic and technological turmoil . |
| 5 | We created something here , something live and good and untrammelled by the rigor mortis of this dying , stinking society clinging with its preying claws so hard to its privileges because it knows it 's dying , only it wants to kill everything else too , only able to say thou Shalt Not because it 's envious , because it 's cold and impotent — they only have to sniff a little bit of genius , of freedom , of life , and they 're on to it with the , lackey hounds tearing it up , and for why ? |
| 6 | The idea of the bond is both to demonstrate the financial security of the firm and to provide funds to rescue its clients if it goes out of business . |
| 7 | The authority of civil association is an endowment which is not traceable to any particular source and which lies only in ‘ continuous acknowledgement ’ based not on acts of obedience ‘ but in the continuous recognition of the obligation to subscribe to its prescriptions because it has a certain shape ’ . |
| 8 | Drink up : Euro Disney has begun to serve alcohol for the first time at four of its restaurants as it seeks to stem heavy losses from weak attendance . |
| 9 | The family , he maintains , has not so much lost its functions as it has become more specialized in its functions . |
| 10 | The BM can flog off the contents of its cellars if it needs money . |
| 11 | There are plenty of birds to be seen : near the salmon cages a red-throated diver patters along the surface with its feet as it gets airborne . |
| 12 | The ocean changes its colours as it sweeps towards where I lie . |
| 13 | It sculptures caves in its banks as it falls into a deep ravine , and becomes sedate only in its later stages as it leaves its dale to lose its identity in the River Lune . |
| 14 | This closed architecture does have its drawbacks as it becomes hard , if not impossible , to expand the system outside the manufacturer 's original specification . |
| 15 | If a large customer is late in making payment , a firm may be unable to pay its suppliers unless it has spare liquidity . |
| 16 | BREWER and retailer Whitbread has begun advising more than 1,000 of its tenants that it has arranged deals to lease their pubs to a string of brewers and pub groups as part of a move to comply with the Government 's beer orders . |
| 17 | One of the speakers was suggesting that a proposal should be judged on its merits when it comes forward for approval to the registering authority and that if it does n't fit into the set pattern , that should n't necessarily debar it . |
| 18 | Angola has its problems but it has no ex-colonial links with this country . |
| 19 | The pure pop act also has its problems when it comes to exposure . |
| 20 | Using ‘ natural ’ units of behaviour is not without its problems as it begs the question as to what constitutes ‘ natural ’ as well as sidestepping the issue of why particular parts of the nervous system are important for particular behaviours . |
| 21 | PYRAMID TO TAKE $23m HIT AGAINST ITS FIGURES AS IT CUTS 110 JOBS |
| 22 | It is not only that , as with industrial relations generally , it is multidisciplinary in its dimensions but it reaches across cultures — thereby exacerbating the difficulties of finding appropriate bases for making inter-country comparisons . |
| 23 | On this page , Nick Roe visits a plant which , despite strenuous public relations efforts , has failed to convince its neighbours that it has come clean . |
| 24 | Getting its feet into the black binliner is difficult but I manage by laying it down on its stomach and pretending to play this little piggy with its toes till it goes into its silly reverse-crawl routine . |
| 25 | It can not see how good or bad it is in reaching its objectives unless it engages with them for most of the manager 's time . |
| 26 | It is worth noting that the Compact will not be fulfilling all of its objectives if it does not regularly ask participating companies to contribute to a wide variety of activities in the Compact schools . |
| 27 | Since it is made from local material , it exactly matches its surroundings and it fits so neatly with a bevelled edge that it is almost impossible to detect it . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , the BBC SSO is holding fire on balloting its members until it receives more information about the merger to create a National Orchestra of Scotland , which would double as the orchestra for both the BBC and SO . |
| 29 | For though the machine has its critics and it seems clear that not everybody can adjust to its speed and voraciousness , one incontrovertible fact emerges : the machine can generate wealth of such volume as the world has never dreamt . |
| 30 | The Trust will be able to dispose of its assets as it thinks appropriate . |