Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They were getting well clear now , even allowing for its unnatural speed . |
| 3 | It looks and performs like a pro unit , and even allowing for its reliance on unbalanced connections ( avoid long cables ! ) it 's an all-rounder which amply suits any home or semi-pro studio . |
| 4 | These include the incidence of the tax system , the allocation of the benefits from public spending , the dynamic impact of policy ( allowing for its effect on accumulation of capital ) , and the extent of intergenerational redistribution . |
| 5 | It is worth seeing for its two marble medallions which show the Annunciation , with the angel on the left and the Virgin Mary on the right , the work of Agostino Busti . |
| 6 | EXPECT news this week that Arcadian International ( 62p ) has clinched financing for its £10 million luxury hotel at Gressy-en-France near both EuroDisney and Charles de Gaulle airport . |
| 7 | Kapre Software Inc , Boulder , Colorado has won $3.5m second round of financing for its object application software and C++ development environment from Hill , Carman , Kirby and Washing , Boulder , Institutional Venture Partners , Mohr and Davidow Ventures , and Stanford University . |
| 8 | In fact a recent readers ’ survey commissioned by the relatively diminutive Sunday Telegraph found that the average Telegraph reader spends 61 minutes skimming its 48 pages while the Sunday Times reader spends on average just 10 minutes more wading through its vast encyclopaedic bulk . |
| 9 | The Roberts ' garden reaches a peak of colour in early May when the yellow flowers of the laburnum contrast with the violet-blue flowers of the Clematis alpina , tumbling through its branches . |
| 10 | Liberation does not mean slaying the dragon , but rising above it , growing beyond it , seeing through its tricks and laughing gently and lovingly when it snorts fire at us . |
| 11 | Her book is not a comprehensive history of English garden design , but a much chancier , though equally delightful narrative depending for its emphasis on what happened to find its way into the collection . |
| 12 | Declaration of a republic , by the monarch or by Ministers , could have no legal effect upon legislation recognising the monarchy and would be revolutionary thus depending for its constitutionality upon acquiescence and effectiveness . |
| 13 | Adopting and extending the Gothic taste for punctuating walls with large windows , he built a skeletal structure depending for its stability on the skilful use of flying buttresses . |
| 14 | It is rather a display of witty dexterity , depending for its effect upon a sharing of specialized learning between author/narrator and readers/listeners . |
| 15 | This concept of a community or culture struggling for its existence is not something attributed to it by academic observers , but one expressed in the community 's actions and statements . |
| 16 | A showcase for science struggling through its adolescence , the federally funded programme suffered both from environmental science 's immaturity and from a sometimes unhappy marriage between political goals for ‘ managing ’ the bay and the scientific means for determining how to do this . |
| 17 | Apart from preventing the helicopter from rotating about its vertical axis , this also makes the model drift to its left and requires some right cyclic trim to balance it . |
| 18 | As Rune 's hard , caressing hands slid up and down her body , Gina automatically raised her arms around his neck , her fingers reaching for his hair , winding through its golden thickness , oblivious to everything save the heavy clamouring of her heart , the new-found responses of her senses to Rune 's compelling masculine power . |
| 19 | Clear examples of it would be the cat leaping for its ball , or a lion in pursuit of a zebra . |
| 20 | Compensating for its disadvantages , New Yorkers live the city for all it 's worth . |
| 21 | Honey bees , for example , regularly use the Sun as their compass , compensating for its changing azimuth as it moves from east to west . |
| 22 | To take a fairly dramatic example , honey-bees are capable of extremely sophisticated mathematical computations that enable them to navigate from their hives to sources of nectar , using the sun 's position as a guide and compensating for its movement during the course of the day . |
| 23 | Earlier this year the SFO was forced to increase the value of frauds qualifying for its attention from £2m to £5m . |
| 24 | How far depended on a firm 's skills at trading for its own account . |
| 25 | He told a joint meeting of the authority with Clwyd Family Health Services Association ( FHSA ) in Mold , that the authority will be bidding for its share within the next two weeks . |
| 26 | The research of Rowe and Lambert ( 1973 ) undoubtedly led to a major reform in child care policy and practice by documenting through its research findings the plight of children in care , of whom more than 50 per cent were accommodated in residential settings . |
| 27 | This group must put across its views and gain popular support and understanding for its campaign . |
| 28 | Each central village was probably reasonably self-sufficient in terms of weaving for its own clothing , although the wool may have come from downland farms specialising in sheep . |
| 29 | Outline the arguments for and against the late heavy bombardment of a terrestrial planet occurring after its formation . |
| 30 | But if we want to consider how life arose , we have to look back a further thousand million years beyond even the earliest micro-fossils , to a time when the earth was completely lifeless and still cooling after its birth . |