Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though consent , if valid , has normative consequences , and can only be explained through its purported normative consequences , it does not bear its normativeness on its face . |
| 2 | But when the Assembly met for its first session on 5 January 1918 it immediately became clear that a majority of the deputies were hostile to the government and the Assembly was forcibly disbanded . |
| 3 | The commercial , scientific and industrial world of capitalism ( or socialism ) does not need religion in order to go about its business . |
| 4 | Figure 6.5 Ants follow pheromone trails by balancing the concentrations smelled through its two antennae . |
| 5 | Having been synthesized it has to be transported to the part of the cell in which it is required ; there it will remain for its lifetime of hours , weeks or months until it is due for renewal , when it is pulled out of place in the cell and broken down by enzymes as quickly as it was previously synthesized , its building blocks ( the amino acids ) being recycled in the synthesis of other proteins . |
| 6 | the exercise of power is not the unconditional outcome of a Mechanical clash of wills but has definite social and material conditions of existence and is circumscribed through its links with other determinations in a social formation . |
| 7 | Its foundation as the capital of Scotland in the late eleventh century , and its development in the following centuries into a distinctive city crowded on a hill within a defensive wall can be traced through its buildings . |
| 8 | The laity , therefore , became reluctant to invest in their local churches , while an impoverished ecclesiastical establishment had few resources to spare for its buildings . |
| 9 | Sir Leon said there was no need for the United Kingdom to wait for its inflation rate to reach the European average before joining the exchange rate mechanism , nor to hold back until the further removal of capital and exchange controls next summer . |
| 10 | But until manufacturers and club professionals come to realise that a significant number play the game left-handed , the world of golf will just have to wait for its Gower , Seles , McEnroe and White . |
| 11 | Real boulevard creation , making what is now the centre of West Berlin , around Kurfürstendamm , had to wait for its beginnings in the 1920s and its maturity under Allied rule in the 1960s . |
| 12 | It was sent to the lost-luggage office to wait for its owner . |
| 13 | The SPG was , however , highly controversial and widely criticized for its behaviour at demonstrations in particular . |
| 14 | The scientific management approach was criticized for its naive preoccupation with financial or extrinsic rewards , and for ignoring intrinsic needs for affiliation , self-esteem and self-actualization . |
| 15 | Content analysis is often criticized for its ‘ merely quantitative ’ findings , but its data , while often needing further interpretation , are essential to any developed sociology of culture , not only in modern communications systems , where the large numbers of works make it inevitable , but also in more traditional kinds of work . |
| 16 | The study of landscape is one of the oldest sub-disciplines within geography , but during the quantitative revolution of the 1960s and early 1970s such work was roundly criticized for its descriptive nature and its search for uniqueness . |
| 17 | Kew was criticized for its fidelity to bedding-out and Latin plant names . |
| 18 | Although his regime was credited with having introduced a degree of economic prosperity , it was widely criticized for its disregard for human rights . |
| 19 | The HDI was widely criticized for its complexity and for a system of weighting data which gave the United States the lowest HDI of any developed country ( owing to its high illiteracy rate ) . |
| 20 | The French government was consequently widely criticized for its presentation late on Jan. 14 of new proposals , of which no inkling was given at the EC ministerial meeting . |
| 21 | Although the investigation had resulted in the conviction of 34 individuals and four corporations and secured damages of nearly $32,000,000 , it was increasingly criticized for its slow pace . |
| 22 | The theory of the new international division of labour has been criticized for its uncompromising condemnation of TNC operations in the Third World , on the grounds that there is not very much that is new about it and that it relies on an empirical base that is far too limited ( see , for example , Cohen , 1987 , ch.7 ; Jenkins , 1984 ; Gordon , 1988 ) . |
| 23 | The Indian government has been strongly criticized for its slow response , but a bill has now been introduced in parliament which should speed up the processing of claims . |
| 24 | The NAC " was severely criticized for its policy towards the Abyssinian war . |
| 25 | Its contribution has in part been developed through its critical understanding of what a working-class adult education might be , drawing on the best elements of the liberal adult education tradition to produce an education that respects people 's culture and experience , but also subjects it to analysis and questioning . |
| 26 | The maths he produced in the six short years before his death in 1920 is treasured for its originality . |
| 27 | Harvard 's new pathway got through its pilot years relying on the motivated staff and fellows . |
| 28 | Second , despite the state 's vast law-enforcement apparatus it appears increasingly incapable of securing and maintaining for its citizens the wholesomeness and amenity of their physical environment , or even the long-term physical well-being of the citizens themselves . |
| 29 | Anyway , in the present context , it serves to characterize two different personal via : one achieves its clarities by way of charitas , the other goes about its business blind , achieves its clarities by way of what you might call confusio . |
| 30 | MI6 is still controlled by the Foreign Office but the Foreign Secretary neither admits to this publicly nor asks any questions about how MI6 goes about its daily business . |