Example sentences of "its [noun sg] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ILLNESS played its part this week in throwing up some distinctly unusual , unanticipated performances . |
| 2 | The company says its experience this time through is different from when the first Snakes were delayed by shortfalls in the Texas Instruments Inc-produced floating point unit because it 's controlling all design and all fabrication . |
| 3 | Burundi , a wretchedly poor country , manages to service almost all its debt , but doing so gobbles up 30% of its budget each year . |
| 4 | The council will balance its budget this year but it 's only getting an increase of 6.5 per cent and it needs 8 per cent . |
| 5 | Jones 's patent-pending leaping back-foot force , notable by its absence earlier in the series , was there in all its glory this time , and Wright 's unbreakable defence was interspersed with the odd hard-hit pull from Tufnell 's bowling . |
| 6 | No Party has been victorious three times running increasing its majority each time . |
| 7 | As part of its programme this year , the National Gallery has organised Poetry and Painting . |
| 8 | Another stool lay on its side some distance away . |
| 9 | When the printing operation of Mr Maxwell 's quoted company Maxwell Communications was taken over by its management this year , 24 per cent was retained by the former parent . |
| 10 | If you have six Mobs , for example , then on average one unit will fail its test each turn ; if you have twelve Mobs then two units will fail , and so on . |
| 11 | Designed to ensure , in John Major 's words , that wealth will not ‘ cascade down the generations ’ , this tax system envisages that a wealthy family will hand over approximately 40% of its wealth each generation . |
| 12 | The group , calling itself Free Colombia , is the second such undercover organisation to have announce its formation this month . |
| 13 | It does n't squeeze very hard , Laba explained , but tightens its grip each time you exhale , making it increasingly harder to draw the next breath . |
| 14 | It has to do with Italy 's terrifying national public deficit , estimated at L 34,000 billion , which on 26 May led to the money voted by Parliament at the end of January being frozen until October ; this means , for example , that Venice , Italy 's most fragile urban and artistic organism , which was to have had L450 billion spent on its infrastructure this year , is once again unable , for example , to dredge its canals , essential if the city is to avoid being flooded next time there is a high tide . |
| 15 | ( 6 ) The licensing board , if in its opinion any objection to the renewal of a licence is frivolous or vexatious , may find the objector liable in the expenses caused by such objection to such extent as the board thinks fit , or , if in its Opinion any such objection is unauthorised , may find the agent of the objector liable in the expenses as aforesaid ; and the amount of any expenses so found due may be recovered in the sheriff court having jurisdiction , and a certified copy of the finding of the licensing board shall be sufficient evidence and authority for discerning for the said amount with expenses . |
| 16 | It made no forecast for its business this year , but given the state of the German economy , it is likely to be worse than last year at the operating level . |
| 17 | It made no forecast for its business this year , but given the state of the German economy , it is likely to be worse than last year at the operating level . |
| 18 | THE Liverpool Competition has struggled with its conscience this year through the debate over overseas players . |
| 19 | There was the black coffin with its silvered ornaments and the mourner who sat at its head this time was a widowed husband ! |
| 20 | The whooping crane , one of North America 's largest birds and an endangered species , suffered a record loss during its immigration this year . |
| 21 | Even Glyndebourne has its novelty this year , with the British premiere of Michael Tippett 's New Year , first staged in Houston last autumn . |
| 22 | Recall that a bond is an asset that earns a fixed sum of money for its owner each year . |
| 23 | IBM 's announcement that it expects to slash its workforce this year by more than the 25,000 first planned will not affect its European operations , said a spokesman at the company 's Greenock plant . |
| 24 | It is this stress that keeps the fluid closer to the wall moving ; in its absence this fluid is slowed down by viscous friction at the wall . |
| 25 | THE glamourising of Virginia Bottomley reached its pinnacle this week . |
| 26 | It says that unemployment has doubled in its area this year . |
| 27 | The board had hoped that , when it lost statutory monopoly power to buy all milk in its area some time next year , it would retain 100 per cent loyalty from its dairy farmers . |
| 28 | By the end of its life this prototype was controlling over 11,000 software modules , organised into some 500 packages . |
| 29 | I do n't know why its spelt that way either , perhaps the typist slipped at the US Patent Office ! |
| 30 | The same research also shows , however , that the ‘ class ’ basis of support for the parties is now weakening significantly , and that even at its peak this phenomenon fell a long way short of the Marxist conception of political ‘ class consciousness ’ . |