Example sentences of "its [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whites have retreated to the comfortable suburbs , whence they contribute to a city 's costs but avoid paying its taxes or providing work for its underclass . |
| 2 | The famous chandelier , with its thousand lights , broke away from its ropes and crashed down on to the people below . |
| 3 | Moses , in the following verses , gives advice about its infectivity and suggests a period of withdrawal from social intercourse during the infection . |
| 4 | EMERGENCY talks will be held today over the future of Monktonhall Colliery as it struggles to fulfil its contracts while carrying £1.7 million in debts . |
| 5 | This is the largest and most comprehensive of its kind and does address the very real problems people have to cope with in the event of a major disaster . ’ |
| 6 | It is one of the first of its kind and won the COMDEF award in 1991 for the most innovative software solution . |
| 7 | The unit , costing £3.3 million , is the first purpose-built facility of its kind and provides a creche , playroom , lounges , garden and kitchen facilities as well as counselling rooms . |
| 8 | Established in 1984 , Infolink 's Payment Profile Service was the first service of its kind and has played a particularly valuable role in support of responsible lending decisions in the consumer sector . |
| 9 | It then measures the thickness of the wall by pressing it with its mandibles and detecting how much it bends . |
| 10 | This challenge provoked the government to offer its resignation and to warn that aid offered by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) before the opening of the Congress [ see p. 38888 ] was being jeopardized . |
| 11 | If he therefore demonstrates why socialism in one country was historically necessary , he ends up by apparently justifying Stalinism : in showing how anti-labour produces deviation , he seems to endorse its course while rejecting any overall schema which can provide the basis of a claim that it will be ultimately corrected . |
| 12 | Recession in the U.S.A. has run its course and left an aftermath of uncertainty in its wake . |
| 13 | It seemed , too , that the fusion thing had run its course and become fuzak , which made for too easy listening . |
| 14 | We plead with the House to allow the Bill to take its course and reach the statute book . |
| 15 | Like the weather moving in from the Atlantic , we can at best track its course and make reasonable preparations for its coming . |
| 16 | You hit the bottom of the valley , wait for the arms to stop shaking from the effort of holding the bike 's front wheel to its course and take on food from the station de ravitaillement . |
| 17 | Seeing Nicandra flinching on the cut grass verge of the avenue , he took the long , supple driving whip out of its case and flicked his horse into a more dashing trot . |
| 18 | He took it from its case and opened it . |
| 19 | This group must put across its views and gain popular support and understanding for its campaign . |
| 20 | The free Church Council , special emergencies apart , will therefore best serve the administration of its city or town , neither by meddlesome interference with it , nor by attempting to be represented as such in its political caucuses , or even on its administrative boards ; but by training men who , representing its views and coming under its influence , have at once the strength of character and the breadth of conception , which will cause them to secure its great ends … in the ordinary arena of public life . |
| 21 | The Tory party used that atmosphere to its advantage and combined it with its Organisational skills to produce a Conservative victory . |
| 22 | The resulting Palache Report , named after its chairman and published by the CFC in 1944 , articulated Balcon 's concern that the British cinema was becoming a ‘ channel for disseminating the ideas and aspirations , no matter how worthy in themselves , of one or two dominating personalities in this country , ’ and backed his view that the British industry should concentrate on a regular output of low-budget , authentically British films . |
| 23 | If they wish to do so , companies should be able to have non-executive directors who do not have the same legal responsibility for its activities as do other directors . |
| 24 | It is really one of the foundations of any executive power group that it maintains secrecy about its activities and avoids the possibility for its antagonists to subsume that power . |
| 25 | By this means the church is preserved from ‘ analysis paralysis ’ , with the church curtailing its activities and returning its plans to cold storage while it contemplates its navel . |
| 26 | To consider how the structure of an organisation comprises all its arrangements for dividing up its activities and co- ordinating them . |
| 27 | The move is intended to allow Wharfedale to rationalise its activities and to concentrate on developing the Cambridge and newly announced Leak ranges . |
| 28 | If a Simulium black fly is infected with nematode worms , their larvae migrate into its muscles , then into its salivary glands , and finally , when it feeds from a host , pass out of its mouthparts or burst out through them and into the mammal host . |
| 29 | As his eyes fell on the crucifix he realized that he 'd always loathed it , and in a small gesture of defiance he lifted it off its hook and set it down on top of the filing cabinet . |
| 30 | She dropped the phone back on its hook and rolled back on to the bed , her eyes tight shut . |