Example sentences of "that its " in BNC.

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1 It should be seen for what it was , and especially by those who feel like regretting its erasure , and alleging that its replacement has made an environment which may be even worse — of tower blocks filled with heroin and despair .
2 I do n't think that its readers can have had much trouble in finding in the life and work the responsiveness Ackroyd finds in them .
3 From de Valera 's point of view — and the majority of the nation and its politicians would have concurred — the fact that the Free State was over 90 per cent catholic meant that its moral and social outlook would reflect catholic beliefs .
4 And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head .
5 Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to .
6 Though , as I mentioned , I was unable to make contact with Mr Mint , a letter accompanying his essay did make clear the unfortunate fact that its standard — or perhaps the startling originality of its thinking — did not meet with the examiners ' approval .
7 It can be argued that its success with critics and failure ‘ at the box office ’ both stem from that fact .
8 Sir Kenneth Newman — then commandant — suggests that the book 's claim to attention is that its contents are contributed by insiders ; while in their introduction , the authors claim it goes some way to challenging Holdaway 's claim ( 1979 ) that ‘ research from the Police Staff College has not resulted in a major project on the police ’ .
9 They were so enthusiastic for these that its pupils regularly walked off with all the trophies on sports days .
10 The negative side of all this was ben Eliezer 's polemics against straight-faced , over-serious rabbinism ; against those whose understanding of God 's nature was austere and unfatherly ; those who , while seeking to elevate the Most High , merely put him out of touch with his own children ; debarred them from his welcoming presence by a system or learning that became ‘ frivolous ’ in its intensity : not that its perpetrators could be frivolous : black was their colour , even as severity was their posture — as becomes the frozen-in-soul .
11 By ‘ externalist ’ in this context I mean any theory which denies that a mental episode has any meaning-content intrinsically , and affirms that its content consists in some external relation to other things .
12 Choreographers who are inspired to interpret music can do so in many ways , all of which can be successful , but only if they remember that its overall rhythm is not merely a mechanical guide to the timing of the steps within the dance design ( see page 68 ) .
13 In every enchaînement each step an/or pose must be given its appropriate value by way of beginning , climax and end so that its place is justified by its importance to the whole sentence .
14 Leavisism assumed that its rewriting of the canon had a once-and-for-all quality , so that it was inconceivable that anyone could come to admire Shelley again , though this is precisely what has happened under the influence of Harold Bloom , who is dedicated to overturning the Eliot-Leavis version of poetic history .
15 If we ask what it was about this society which made Pound and also Lewis affront it more or less deliberately , to ensure that its doors were closed to them , I think only one answer is possible : it was ineradicably vowed to the idea of the artist as the amateur .
16 The play 's chief problem lies in the fact that its Russian aspects , and particularly Slava 's mysterious second wife , refuse to become real .
17 In those discussions BIIBA claims that it was agreed that its members would be allowed to renew their existing policies up to 31 October 1990 .
18 A misunderstanding then seems to have occurred with Fimbra writing to its members last week saying that its scheme had not been altered in any way and that members could not renew existing policies if the renewal date was after 1990 .
19 Ferranti has said that its revised net worth will have to be reduced by £185m forcing the company to abandon the final dividend payment for the year to March 1989 .
20 Officials at the exchange said yesterday that its current investigation was a matter of routine .
21 AMP argues that its proposed acquisition of Pearl represents a significant step in its plans to become a major force in international life insurance markets .
22 The province has since been in the forefront of China 's efforts to reassure foreign businessmen that its door will be staying open for ‘ business as usual ’ .
23 To those who see China in primarily economic terms , the ‘ golden goose ’ argument comes most easily : that its government would never be so foolish as to constrict or repress Hong Kong , the tiny territory which has proved such a powerful catalyst for the growth of its hinterland .
24 THE GOVERNMENT admitted yesterday that its pollution inspectorate lacked almost a quarter of its quota of professional inspectors , nine months after saying it was recruiting 13 extra staff , writes Nicholas Schoon .
25 Cricket had the fourth largest aggregate audience on television in 1988 , according to the figures of AGB Sports Watch/ BARB , but over so many hours that its audience at any one time is insignificant .
26 THE FUTURE of the Channel tunnel was in doubt last night after confirmation that costs have escalated by 50 per cent to at least £7bn and a warning that its bankers may not provide fresh loans unless the financial crisis surrounding the project is resolved by Christmas .
27 Those who design , develop and approve this marginally acceptable architecture must be delighted that its very banality keeps critics and hostile public opinion at bay .
28 It says a ‘ fundamental requirement ’ is that its retail acquirers should be issuers too .
29 Only she can phrase her movement so that its rhythm speaks so legibly of high spirits or despair .
30 City analysts are forecasting that its contribution could be as much as £80m for the full year .
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