Example sentences of "[adj] its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government more or less completed its price deregulation programme on March 1 when it freed most fixed prices for food and daily necessities ; only bread and flour prices remained controlled . |
| 2 | Lee Kuan Yew , 67 , had ruled Singapore since its expulsion from the Malaysian federation in 1965 , guiding its development into a thriving and effectively one-party city-state . |
| 3 | For it is the vast number of differing denominations within those religions , each with its own interpretation of the teachings of its ‘ god ’ or chief philosopher , and each thus guiding its adherents along its own course of action , almost invariably in conflict with another , which has again and again sown the seeds of dissension and ultimately of war . |
| 4 | The functionality division of XTC acts as an internal technology consultant which has four enduring themes guiding its activities . |
| 5 | This overview sets out the origins of case management , its transformation into care management , and the principles guiding its practice . |
| 6 | World Cup assistant coach Bob Templeton , an indomitable figure in most things rugby for more than 20 years , is outspoken about the game guiding its future . |
| 7 | It has an extremely long radioactive half-life ( the time it takes for half its activity to decay ) of up to 24,000 years . |
| 8 | Though the official figures are not easy to interpret it seems that at the outbreak of the Seven Years War about half its manpower was drawn either from the jails of London and other cities or from the crews of foreign ships . |
| 9 | Nearly three decades later a British publicist had no doubt that ‘ the refinement of modern ages has stripped war of half its horrors ’ . |
| 10 | CB is also most unlikely to reach its ambitious goal of generating half its earnings outside France by 1992 , despite having started 20 new businesses in Europe over the last few years . |
| 11 | There are many systems that you can install for yourself if you 're keen on DIY , but professionally installed bedroom furniture can cost about £2,500 per room , and should add at last half its cost to the value of the house . |
| 12 | More than half its students are from Liverpool and the surrounding areas . |
| 13 | A fair city , something dishevelled after uneasy times , and hampered and straitened now -by the loss of the thriving Welsh trade which was half its life , but still capable of living on its own fat for some while yet , and still hard to take and invaluable to hold . |
| 14 | A person or animal inherits half its genes from each parent . |
| 15 | Serious answer : Condense the soup by boiling off half its water content . |
| 16 | Currently , the Navy runs half its school at Aldershot and the other half at Devonport and is believed to be keen , for financial reasons if nothing else , to re-locate on to one site . |
| 17 | A third aircraft attacked a MV , was badly hit and landed with half its elevators and hydraulics shot away . |
| 18 | A good rule of thumb is that a model may be considered a potential hit if at least half its base area lies under the template , while models whose bases are only touched or grazed can be ignored . |
| 19 | It holds between 3,000 and 4,000 altogether , but it can also be divided up by electronically controlled , walls to give one area of half its size and two quarter areas . |
| 20 | On Dec. 17 in The Hague , 45 states and organizations signed the European Energy Charter ( agreed in November 1991 — see p. 38602 ) , described as " the key to unlocking the resources of the former Soviet bloc countries " in which 35-40 per cent of the world 's gas , half its coal and half its petroleum were located . |
| 21 | Nowadays , Britain relies on imports for about half its consumption of tin . |
| 22 | Even in industrial Babergh hundred , Suffolk , stripping the surface layer from the record exposes the original economy of the wood-pasture country — specialised dairying , pig fattening and horse breeding , in almost half its villages , which preserved this traditional system , the top people accounted for not more than 14 per cent of the wealth , a solitary £100 man for just 4½ per cent . |
| 23 | Close to a rocky outcrop were discovered the remains of two bronze statues covered in marine concretions a draped figure 170cm high with no base and only half its head preserved and a bust with a badly corroded head . |
| 24 | The metal employers ' federation says half its members may resort to the escape clause . |
| 25 | The lower Bundestag was elected every four years and under the electoral law of 15 June 1949 had half its members from constituencies and half its members elected under proportional representation . |
| 26 | The lower Bundestag was elected every four years and under the electoral law of 15 June 1949 had half its members from constituencies and half its members elected under proportional representation . |
| 27 | Just by coincidence , half its members are sponsored by the public sector trade unions — there may be a connection between the two facts . |
| 28 | The Association of Education Committees would lose , at a stroke , half its members and most of its political clout , since the remaining authorities — the municipal boroughs and the counties — already had associations which dealt with education . |
| 29 | There was a sharp fall in interest rates , while the foreign exchange market stabilized , and the month-on-month inflation rate fell to half its February level . |
| 30 | Unemployment rose dramatically , while the manufacturing industry declined steeply , producing in 1932 only just over half its output in 1929. wheat fell from $1.05 a bushel in 1929 to 39 cents in 1932 , and similar falls occurred for most other agricultural products . |