Example sentences of "[v-ing] its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dog measured its blond belly in the mud , agitating its stern . |
| 2 | A pall of smoke from the burning oil wells passing over the Indian subcontinent may have cooled the land temperature by 1 °C , reducing the land-ocean temperature gradient and so weakening the monsoon , delaying its onset , reducing its inland penetration and decreasing rainfall amounts ( Rao , 1991 ) . |
| 3 | If " Creole " is a second dialect rather than a second language , delaying its acquisition until adolescence will still have a limiting effect on how well it can be learned . |
| 4 | In explaining its operation , it is easier to describe a simpler arrangement that would actually be used in practice . |
| 5 | He rejects the criteria favoured by Thompson not , of course , out of mere dogmatism , but rather because he believes that the self-consciousness of a class is not a crucial factor in explaining its birth and development . |
| 6 | The geneticist 's language is no more nor less metaphorical when he calls the gene selfish than when he depicts it as though itself working out the solutions in games theory by which he is explaining its survival . |
| 7 | Essex Water is giving a presentation explaining its reasons for the application and answering questions on March 25 . |
| 8 | Indeed , if we fail to take such drives into account we shall fail more or less totally in accounting for his behaviour , and certainly in explaining its evolution . |
| 9 | ‘ Look here , Miss O'Brien , if you 're really serious , why do n't you write a few handbills , saying what ’ Factota Limited' is and explaining its aims , and send one to everyone in the village ? |
| 10 | This subjective impression among left-wing intellectuals such as Aragon and Nizan that the Soviet experiment would in some way resolve the contradictions of the writer/intellectual ensnared in the alienating social relations of capitalism is a key factor in explaining its attractiveness for dissident French writers in the 1930s . |
| 11 | Reportedly UI has spent the last six months explaining its vision to these companies ( UX No 391 ) . |
| 12 | Despite making good use of quotations and explaining its objectives clearly and quickly , the accounts lacked notes , and it also failed to explain one of its funds sufficiently . |
| 13 | Her husband vaunted what he called his ‘ poverty ’ , without , of course , ever explaining its cause . |
| 14 | Its cover goes some way to explaining its theme : an immaculately manicured female hand crushing a pair of golf balls . |
| 15 | The essence of the balance sheet is that the sum of the fixed and current assets shall equal the capital employed , thus explaining its use in the company . |
| 16 | The essence of the balance sheet is that the sum of the fixed and current assets shall equal the capital employed , thus explaining its use in the company . |
| 17 | The club issued a statement explaining its move : |
| 18 | The argument is , then , that a greater surplus can be extracted from this sector by not employing its members on a regular wage-earning basis . |
| 19 | From 1981 , Friends Provident also pumped money into the business , bankrolling its expansion until it was floated in 1985 . |
| 20 | Pregnancy It had been Louise 's pregnancy which caused the mole to appear , her change in hormones stimulating its growth . |
| 21 | Where the problem exists in one part of the country , or in one community , it is greatly magnified through the small screens in the sitting room , which multiply that problem by stimulating its imitation . |
| 22 | Though not in the ERM , its currency was pegged to it and in September Sweden toughed out wild currency markets by whacking its interest rates sky-high for just long enough to scare off the cowboys . |
| 23 | Was Titron weaving its spell ? |
| 24 | She was pressing it for dear life now as if she was in a panic , and she kept her finger on it until , through the glass door , she saw the flicker of a candle weaving its way down through the shop . |
| 25 | Suddenly , I see a boat weaving its way between the improbable pink granite rocks and I experience both relief and excitement . |
| 26 | Yet no election campaign has been as unctuously hostile to wealth as the Labour one of 1992 in justifying its policies about the poll tax , the health service , education , and national and local taxation ; and nothing in the public packaging operation left any reason to suppose the Labour Party had abandoned the assumptions of the 1960s . |
| 27 | This emerged as the Treasury took the extraordinary step of releasing internal letters justifying its decision . |
| 28 | It was this sort of situation the Agency committee had in mind in justifying its activities because ‘ provincial associations have become inert and inefficient ’ with the result that local groups concluded ‘ their own individual exertions were too little sustained by those of similar bodies elsewhere to be of real utility ’ . |
| 29 | " While each school will be different in terms of decision-making on computer and financial matters and different committees will exist , the mechanisms for acquiring a microcomputer and justifying its acquisition in educational terms , will be similar in all schools . |
| 30 | The NSPCC , an independent body incorporated by royal charter , claimed ‘ public interest immunity ’ as justifying its refusal to disclose the identity of its informants . |