Example sentences of "[verb] in its " in BNC.
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| 1 | The menu along the top of the screen is , of course , a pop-down , mouse-driven affair , but the shades of the DOS version still linger in its layout . |
| 2 | This was an extremely important distinction that Bukharin was making in his debate with Preobrazhensky , since it entailed the question of how the Soviet state should act in its relations with the peasant population . |
| 3 | He 'll put a coin or a note in a charity box : he uses money to salve his conscience : the very money that causes in its plenty the rich man 's grief , in its absence the poor man 's woe : it is the symbol of our failure , not our success . |
| 4 | And when in 1973 the Lord Chief Justice was asked to ‘ give some guidance upon the phrase ‘ cohabiting as man and wife ’ he swiftly handed back the poisoned cup , saying that the phrase was ‘ so well known that nothing I could say about it could possibly assist in its interpretation hereafter ’ . |
| 5 | For a terrible nine hours , the bombardment continued , constantly intensifying in its ferocious impact . |
| 6 | Brookes introduced the concept of ‘ periodical utility ’ , which he defined as the number of references a paper could be expected to attract in its particular library context during the period it remained in the library . |
| 7 | The suggested Directive 's objective is to protect minority shareholders against abuses of power by regulating the way in which the controlling undertaking exercises its dominant influence over the public company by interfering in its management . |
| 8 | China criticized Kung 's appointment and accused the Vatican of interfering in its affairs . |
| 9 | The ILP was able to get assurances that the Communist Party would stop interfering in its affairs . |
| 10 | Motivated by a selfless desire to assist an ailing firm back on its feet , without interfering in its structure , its established systems ? |
| 11 | Poor , poor language , attacked in its innocence by feminists intent on destroying its virtue . |
| 12 | However , a UNPROFOR ( UN Protection Force in Yugoslavia — see p. 38849 ) convoy from Belgrade was attacked in its attempt to reach Sarajevo to prepare the opening of the airport . |
| 13 | THE sickened owner of a horse which was attacked in its stable at Newton Bewley , near Hartlepool , is appealing for help in tracking down the thugs responsible . |
| 14 | The proposal sought to balance German preference for a politically independent Eurofed , committed in its statutes to an anti-inflation policy , with French and other countries ' preference for greater government control . |
| 15 | This was the first time we had returned to Eggleston Burn since a summer visit in search of the Grass of Parnassus and butterwort that grow in its boggy flushes . |
| 16 | This indicates in a practical way that the Boeing company , at least , is sincere in its concern for the safety of people who fly in its aircraft . |
| 17 | Only tonight she 'd left her hair loose , brushing it straight back from her forehead and letting it fall in its natural soft waves to her shoulders . |
| 18 | CAMRA 's strength lies in its style of organisation . |
| 19 | Maybe part of the daisy 's popularity lies in its shape , a yellow disk fringed with white petals ( correctly ray-florets ) , a simple arrangement which reminds us of the sun . |
| 20 | One indicator of the SLD 's campaigning strength lies in its performance compared with that of the Greens . |
| 21 | Its charm lies in its basic simplicity , a hemispherical structure of birch trunks , wind-proofed around the outside with turf bricks . |
| 22 | Of course , the whole thrust of the historic avant-garde , and particularly its celebration here , lies in its being associated with a liberation from bourgeois ideology ; but this is not quite the same as having your revolutionary commitments tested by your aesthetic judgement . |
| 23 | Part of its sorcery lies in its ability to instil the same exhilaration from a short run up the road on a Sunday morning , but most of it comes from that aggressive thrust of power that is always more than enough for any driving situation . ’ |
| 24 | Its significance lies in its double message : that the aim of the Palestinian struggle is the establishment of Palestinian independence , and that this independence is regarded as being not at Israel 's expense . |
| 25 | Mr Pavey says the secret of his project 's success lies in its unobtrusive design . |
| 26 | The importance of the Cosmeston project lies in its scale . |
| 27 | I argued that drama is not in itself direct , that indeed its power lies in its seeming directness . |
| 28 | The great advantage of a steam engine lies in its ability to exert its full power at low revolutions , and it does not require a clutch . |
| 29 | Firstly , modernist fiction 's most obvious and celebrated innovation lies in its focalization of the novel in the minds or private narratives of its characters . |
| 30 | Perhaps the value of this single word lies in its being repeated by another whistling beak , in its not being forgotten during the interval of silence . |