Example sentences of "[vb -s] its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For soon after descending from their international express at Zurich 's main station , new arrivals may be standing on the bridge where Zurich 's river , the Limmat , joins its lake , the Zurichsee , looking up at green fields and trees , at ancient towers , or perhaps down-lake to a wide expanse of blue water criss-crossed by the wakes of pleasure steamers , decorated by the white sails of holidaying yachtsmen . |
| 2 | Today , when the victim of an allegedly defamatory statement challenges its maker to report it outside the House , he is acknowledging that it is privileged and therefore unactionable in the courts and daring the Member to abandon the protection of parliamentary privilege . |
| 3 | So the universe he is trying to build is one which offers its inhabitants the possibility of moral action ; one which challenges its inhabitants to transcend it . |
| 4 | The work of Askew and Ross ( 1982 ) stresses the ever-present fantasy images of the tough , macho heroes and challenges its appropriateness as a sole model of manhood . |
| 5 | Indiscriminate use of praise devalues its power as a motivator and reward . |
| 6 | Unlike its classic American predecessor , from whom Rudner and Bergman have shamelessly pinched not only the basic scenario but also many a vignette along the way , Peter 's Friends never unfolds its characters with any psychological depth or surprise . |
| 7 | However illogical it may seem , a void decision will become valid unless it is challenged within any time limit for challenges , by an applicant with sufficient standing , and unless a court exercises its discretion to award a remedy to the applicant . |
| 8 | And , of course , unless an applicant with standing applies in time for certiorari and the court exercises its discretion in the applicant 's favour , the decision , though wrong , will remain valid for ever . |
| 9 | There are certain other circumstances in which this problem of unduly encouraging an authority to reach a particular decision does not arise and in which a scheme of compensation might be feasible and desirable : where there is no question of a decision being re-made , notably where the time-limit for challenging an allegedly illegal decision has run out ( through no fault of the applicant ) ; or where a citizen has suffered loss by relying on a representation by a public body that it will act in a particular way , in circumstances where the law will not require the body to make good its representation because it has undertaken to act illegally ; or where a court exercises its discretion not to quash an illegal decision In such cases the problem of causation does not exist because the decision in question will not be reconsidered . |
| 10 | By contrast , the time limit for actions in private law is at least three years , and for judicial review applications made outside Ord. 53 there is no fixed time limit : delay in applying is just a factor to be taken into account when the court exercises its discretion whether or not to award a declaration or injunction . |
| 11 | The Supervisory Authority exercises its supervision not only over the operation of the stock exchange but also over all public buying and selling of securities . |
| 12 | ( e ) If the House of Lords exercises its power of delay , it ensures maximum publicity for the measure in question . |
| 13 | Or there may be a requirement that before the body exercises its power , a certain state of affairs must exist as a preliminary requirement , the correct state of affairs is a prerequisite to the exercise of the power . |
| 14 | It is through the London money market that the Bank of England exercises its control of the economy . |
| 15 | A deeply rutted track , it crunches its way up to Monket House Crags , skips over a V in the skyline , and up some more . |
| 16 | Now , foreign dogmatism threatens to drive the government down a road it abhors — forcing it to oblige industry to take back and recycle the packaging it ships its product in . |
| 17 | The male bicolour damselfish flexes the muscles attached to its swim bladder as it patrols its patch of coral reef . |
| 18 | Certainly Earth needs its Sun and moon , and neither could exist without the Milky Way first coming into being , and so on . |
| 19 | No wonder the island needs its music . |
| 20 | The English novel needs its senses to be violently deranged , and this piledriver of a book , cousin to Scarfe and Steadman , might just provide a kick-start . ’ |
| 21 | County Durham needs its pockets of green land and wildlife habitats for endangered species . |
| 22 | Though apparently free , it needs its controller ; but the controller must release it to the natural powers , the wind and the air-thermals , if he wants to enjoy its flights . |
| 23 | The Royal Navy needs its chefs to know how to bake at sea , the RAF uses local bakers on contract . |
| 24 | Reading between the lines , insiders say Unix International needs its ABI and branding effort to succeed — see front page — to justify its continued existence . |
| 25 | Outside , in the street , her car is parked , a red six-year-old Renault Five with a yellow sticker in its rear window , ‘ BRITAIN NEEDS ITS UNIVERSITIES . ’ |
| 26 | Approaching the tube station at Notting Hill Gate , I saw a number 88 bus go by with a bright yellow advertisement proclaiming ‘ Britain needs its universities ’ . |
| 27 | A dynamic RAM needs its contents refreshed after a standard interval . |
| 28 | Prosodists should take it as a manifesto for investigating the links between those intuitions and the linguistic surface of texts , particularly at the phonetic level : rhythmic analysis still needs its empiricists , and Cureton has given them plenty of work to do . |
| 29 | scrapes its thatching of sticks . |
| 30 | If it stimulates you to dissent , it is precisely because it is so closely pondered in its own terms and it never , throughout its four hours , loosens its grip on you . |