Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story goes its designers drew up the plans in millimetres and the maker mistook the measurements for inches . |
| 2 | Amphetamine produces its effects by causing certain neurons to release more of the neurotransmitter , dopamine — one of the many chemicals used in the brain to transmit signals from one cell to another — suggesting that schizophrenics either produced too much , or were too sensitive to the actions of the transmitter . |
| 3 | DEC UNLEASHES ITS BET-THE-COMPANY ALPHA BLITZ |
| 4 | Galerie Pels-Leusden turns its attention to painting by the mentally ill with an exhibition of large-format works in coloured pencil by Friedrich Schroder-Sonnenstern . |
| 5 | The computer turns its interpretation of what is going on into a television picture — healthy tissue is coloured green , tumours show up red . |
| 6 | The minister is to be regarded as head , and part of , his department , and his decision represents its collective wisdom . |
| 7 | It is here that the notion of contract plays its vital role — not the doctrines of contract law , which in many respects are as arid and unsupportive of commercial activity as a dedicated anti-capitalist could imagine — rather , contract as practice , as putting into words what the parties can and must do , and if need be adjusting , or excluding , particular rules of law . |
| 8 | But Oxford University insists its experiments are necessary . |
| 9 | The grain is sealed before a basecoat is applied ; solid colours or tints are put on next , then the guitar receives its top coats of clear polyurethane . |
| 10 | Motivation of course plays its part and in Hunt 's case , lamentably , it was quite clear that the overriding motivation was waning fast . |
| 11 | In contrast to such ‘ an increasing grammatization of discursive and textual operations ’ , analysts such as De Lauretis ( 1984 , p. 45 ) want instead to examine how cinema produces its specific effects on spectators through what is specific to images . |
| 12 | GOVERNMENT GIVES NOD TO USE OF 2.4GHz , SO NCR LAUNCHES ITS WAVELAN WIRELESS NETWORK IN THE UK |
| 13 | Among speakers , a new bitterness , some said the suicide was a cry of despair as the west turns its back on Lithuania . |
| 14 | It does n't even matter if the art director thinks of the headline and the writer contributes its visual expression . |
| 15 | Representation is redefined as a kind of quotation : When a text turns its attention to giving a physical description of a character it resorts to various strategies which give its presumed object the status of a representation . |
| 16 | Now the cottage displays its original circular brick bread oven which , at Withern , had been hidden behind a Victorian cast-iron fireplace . |
| 17 | Overlooking the Daily Express building has its advantages for Drury House staff . |
| 18 | If Cypress Semiconductor Corp has its way , Sparcs will really begin to fly over the next couple of weeks . |
| 19 | Inactive Supplement text has its status marked so that it makes no further demands upon lexicographic time and effort , and is not selected for composition or transfer to the Working-Set . |
| 20 | Every poem or text has its main point of climax , and probably several less important ones . |
| 21 | Every self-respecting ideology develops its own complex defence mechanisms which cunningly conceal , or paper over , the glaring discrepancies and inconsistences which inevitably arise between what ought to happen and what actually does . |
| 22 | Furthermore , British Rail has its eyes on the Bankside site for bringing up the spoil from the tunnel for Channel traffic which it is , so absurdly , driving under the middle of London at astronomical cost . |
| 23 | Each of the nineteen states has its own radio station . |
| 24 | The basic point is that the language of conscious states has its primary ground in the interaction of humans , and of other beings that behave like them , and the question of the inferential access to inner worlds of ‘ subjective feelings ’ is not raised . |
| 25 | ‘ Privilege has its obligations . ’ |
| 26 | The story has its ups and downs . |
| 27 | But the story has its fallguys , says Brian Worth — notably McAvoy . |
| 28 | CPRW has its feet firmly on the ground , but at the same time we need a ‘ sustainable ’ view that is far-sighted , since decisions taken today will have repercussions for good or ill in the years ahead . |
| 29 | AS Big Ben bings its last bong at midnight tonight it will be out with the old ITV and in with the new . |
| 30 | Have you anything to declare such as love desire ambition or a glimpse that in this air-conditioning and other circumstantial emptiness freedom has its sudden attractions as the body floats in willing suspension of responsibility to anyone . |