Example sentences of "[pron] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | When our entry was confirmed the Society was already getting up steam , so the obvious thing was to consider ourselves its representatives . |
| 2 | Hence Hercules remained the Deity to propitiate in order to find treasures , whose god was Dis ( identical with Pluto ) who carries off Proserpine ( another name for Ceres or grain ) to the underworld described by the poets , according to whom its first name was Styx , its second the land of the dead , its third the depth of furrows … |
| 3 | It stands today in need of rescue from commercial interests to whom its traditions mean nothing , and likewise from administrators who would subordinate all else in deference to the supposed interests of the England squad . |
| 4 | The idea of a political kingdom was something as easily understood then as now : a territory ruled over by a king to whom its citizens are subject . |
| 5 | This alone testifies to the passions that the war aroused among non-Spanish contemporaries , for many of whom its significance went well beyond Spain itself . |
| 6 | What conclusions could have been usefully drawn from sales which did not include major works by Jackson Pollock , Willem de Kooning , Jasper Johns , Robert Rauschenberg , Francis Bacon and other masters by whom its temperature is usually gauged ? |
| 7 | For whom its freedoms had proved stifling . |
| 8 | Harrods has the final say in whom its concessions may hire , even down to the lowliest positions , and Sally may have seemed the obvious choice to impress them . |
| 9 | Competition among the owners of a particular resource may tend to force its price downwards ; those owners for whom its sale involves the greater sacrifices will tend to drop out of the race as the falling price makes it worthwhile for them to sell only fewer and fewer units of the resource . |
| 10 | FoE is heavily involved in the rainforests ; WWF considers them its ‘ major international priority ’ ; Greenpeace started its rainforest campaign in 1989 and pondered the possibility of seaborne harassment of ships carrying timber exports . |
| 11 | For them its most significant feature was freedom from fear . |
| 12 | Yet the development of the law of trusts had taken place within a period in which it alone could offer these advantages ; to them its rise owed much . |
| 13 | Two things happened , however , to divert trade unionism from the adoption of that role and to lead it instead into what has been called its revolutionary period , one which for a time made the ownership and control of industries by the people who worked in them its main objective , which sought in short to displace the organisation of industry on the capitalist model by an industrial co-operative commonwealth . |
| 14 | For example , suppose you are clear that you are trying : — to introduce teachers of English in secondary schools to the microcomputer and show them its potential as an aid to their teaching objectives , and — to produce a teaching unit that will generate a great deal of hypothesising and discussion amongst the children . |
| 15 | If an organisation does not , either by accident or design , choose one of these approaches , them its performance will suffer . |
| 16 | Flupper tells them its story : not just what happened , but also about what it is like to live on Positos VI PH . |
| 17 | To them its power to revive tired bodies and falling spirits , to drive out the chill and rekindle hope was a gift direct from God … which may not be entirely fanciful , since the art of distilling is said to have been brought to Scotland by the first Christian missionary monks . |
| 18 | We may then arrange the things that are required for making a commodity into whatever groups are convenient , and call them its factors of production . |
| 19 | director International Group , told them its technology was ‘ the envy of the nuclear nations of the world ’ . |
| 20 | Obviously if the club wants to sell them its a different matter . |
| 21 | The sisxth grade at Little Rissington elementary school are getting their report cards … and if that was n't enough to upset them its the end of an era . |
| 22 | And when Pickerings supplies them its reputation appears to be flawless . |
| 23 | These men are going to spend two weeks installing desperately needed cooking facilities within several orphanges and the Region is pleased to give them its full support . |
| 24 | The company is pleased to give them its full support , which includes supplying a 38 ton lorry . |
| 25 | Nobody could tell me its correct name and it was known simply by the Greek equivalent of ‘ night-bloom ’ . |
| 26 | Annie Lennox 's first solo LP Diva ( an ironic title , she claims ) will comfortably pick up the Eurythmics ' many fans , but to me its high-quality designer soul has a sterile scent . |
| 27 | Like a human-being it talked to me — and gave me its power … |
| 28 | My free associations about wealth changed dramatically : ‘ Prosperity flows through my heart as a channel of pure light — the Light of the universe , which offers to me its vast abundance . |
| 29 | Never are we invited to a reading of ‘ The Beast in the Jungle ’ in which that figuration is followed to what seems to me its logical conclusion . |
| 30 | Just give me its name and tell me the place where I can find it . ’ |