Example sentences of "[to-vb] its [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The theory only requires that the learner should be a kind of humanoid receptacle in a maximal state of receptivity so that the input can enter to work its mysterious way .
2 In contrast the Pacific , being so huge , and travelled across by aircraft that tend ( at least for now ) to fly principally between East and West and back again , manages to contain its major routes within a few distinct bands .
3 The difficulty is that every handful of weed that 's pulled out is likely to contain its fair share of aquatic creatures too .
4 Banbury Lane , now in part a main motor road , is the oldest of the roads on the map , though there is little about it today to indicate its great antiquity .
5 Though there is much evidence to indicate its increasing popularity as a news medium , radio 's impact on the popular press has yet to be taken into account when examining this period .
6 An ancient aphorism , ‘ Energy Follows Thought ’ , is most applicable to the understanding of the problem as well as the nature of those who have had the misfortune to suffer its terrible consequences .
7 The lizard loses fat stoned in the tail , and yet has to find the wherewithal to repair its wounded body and regenerate its tail .
8 THE church can pay to repair its own crumbling towers , Middlesbrough councillors have decided .
9 Ireland was told to pull its equal pay socks up or else .
10 ICI shrugged off a decision by house broker Hoare Govett to pull its current year forecast back within the market average ( cutting from £1.04 billion to £900m pre-tax ) , the shares ending the session 9 higher at £12.58 .
11 Preservation is about to pull its biggest rabbit out of an amazingly copious hat .
12 The development of the Clos des Galées at Rouen , under the patronage of the French crown ( notably in the reign of Charles V ) , is matched by the steps taken by Henry V to develop a royal shipyard at Southampton , so much better positioned than the traditional one at the Tower of London , and by the appointment of royal officers to supervise its working and administration .
13 Bishop Patrick Kelly wrote to the Foreign Secretary , Mr. Douglas Hurd , on 26 February , also urging the government to revive its former policy of actively promoting a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty .
14 Bishop Patrick Kelly wrote to the Foreign Secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , also urging the government to revive its former policy of actively promoting a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty .
15 The recent decision of the Russian government to revive its nuclear-energy programme indicates that the Soviet common joint energy grid , once the largest in the world , may help Russia to restore at least some economic control over its former empire .
16 But one person , however , is undaunted by the corporate blood that has been spilled over La Cinq : Silvio Berlusconi , the Italian media owner is now bidding for Britain 's Channel 5 after twice failing to revive its French namesake .
17 In an effort to improve its image before the UN Human Rights Commission passed judgment on Guatemala later in the month , and to revive its diminishing foreign aid income , the government of President Jorge Serrano Elías in mid-February announced a seven-point plan to safeguard human rights and revive the peace talks , while Guatemalan diplomats visited other Latin American countries and Europe .
18 A project to revive its Eurochemic plant for reprocessing nuclear fuel , at Mol in the northeast of the country , has just obtained the senate 's approval .
19 A survey was conducted in five countries which were critical cases for the hypothesis : Britain and the United States of America as countries which had the most successful democratic states , Germany and Italy as countries that had experienced fascist regimes within twenty years , and Mexico as a less well-developed country struggling to establish its democratic process ( Almond and Verba 1963 ) .
20 We also bought Marioff Nortest at the beginning of this year , allowing the Group to establish its first operating base in Norway .
21 In early 1993 , the acquisition of Marioff Nortest was also concluded , allowing the Group to establish its first operating base in Norway .
22 When a patient is admitted the nurse should observe the skin to establish its normal colour and tone and identify any problem areas .
23 So too is Homi Bhabha 's scepticism about the way cultural theory uses the ‘ Other ’ to deconstruct ‘ the epistemological ‘ edge' ’ of the West' ; the problem being that ‘ the ‘ ‘ Other' ’ is cited , quoted , framed , illuminated , encased in the shot-reverse-shot strategy of a serial enlightenment' while at the same time losing ‘ its power to signify , to negate , to initiate its ‘ ‘ desire' ’ , to split its ‘ ‘ sign' ’ of identity , to establish its own institutional and oppositional discourse' .
24 The failure to arrive at an agreement sufficiently alarmed the District to establish its own sub-committee to examine the District 's future relationships with the Cambridge Board and LEAs in the region .
25 In addition , the LEA was beginning to establish its own network of evening institutes at secondary schools and J. K. Revans , the Assistant Director for Education , wished to learn how the proposals for the rural areas scheme were to operate in the county .
26 That the court is entitled to establish its own classification system has been seen already .
27 One is General Magic , an alliance of Apple , AT&T , Matsushita , Motorola , Philips and Sony , which aims to establish its own software standard for PDAs and a family of related devices , ranging from PCs to multimedia machines .
28 That acquisition could have scuppered the whole effort , given AT&T 's long-standing efforts to establish its own Tuxedo as the de-facto standard for Unix TP .
29 My family health services authority is making plans to establish its own primary health care research ethics committee .
30 In order to establish its own inner world it must dislodge and abolish the surrounding one .
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