Example sentences of "its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the point of view of its spatial support , we can understand as well the use of the to infinitive as what Jespersen calls the " infinitive of specification " ( 1940 : 262ff ) . |
| 2 | Christians had a sacred history : in the fourth century they acquired a sacred geography which was its spatial reflection . |
| 3 | His design solution achieved its ends through its spatial ordering of relationships , and through its emphasis on unimpeded and unrestricted communications , both as aids to good management and as counters to misconduct . |
| 4 | When the stress is removed the chain segments will diffuse back to their unstressed positions even though the whole molecule may have changed its spatial position in the meantime . |
| 5 | Whereas , in a crystal we may choose the axes of symmetry , in an amorphous polymer there is by definition no symmetry and all we know about the atom in a chain is where its topological nearest neighbours are but not where its spatial neighbours are , except that they lie within a " van der Waals radius ' of the chosen atom . |
| 6 | An important theme of empirical and theoretical work on contemporary social structure is that of social differentiation , and its spatial aspects . |
| 7 | The description of an ecosystem may include its spatial relations : inventories of its physical features , its habitats and ecological niches , its organisms , and its basic reserves of matter and energy ; the nature of its income ( or input ) of matter and energy : and the behaviour or trend of its entropy level . |
| 8 | Restructuring health care provision in England : its spatial implications |
| 9 | If a form of association is declared , its spatial effect in the geometric domain must be checked and preserved . |
| 10 | This allows you to say where the receptive field lies and a little bit about its spatial organization but , unless you are very lucky , it would not allow classification into X- , Y- , and W-categories with any confidence . |
| 11 | By that time , the tarnish on its once-genteel image was murky . |
| 12 | Essentially it is the ultimate perfection — a hostile critic might say ‘ emasculation ’ — of Netherland polyphony , its florid elements pruned , its dissonances disguised or mollified by preparation and other devices which so lend themselves to codification that ‘ the style of Palestrina ’ has become the ideal model for students of sixteenth-century composition . |
| 13 | She was never to think of that dream without some of its investing emotions , shame and irritation , even after a man at a party in 1969 had told her such dreams are dreamed typically by those unlikely to fail plausible and real exams . |
| 14 | A sunny , spa town famed for its health-giving qualities , Merano is blessed by the sun and protected by stunningly scenic mountains from the fierce northern winds . |
| 15 | I saw nothing strange in his behaviour , but it is evident from the literature that the families of anorexics often include a member who either suffers from a psychosomatic complaint or shows an obsessive interest in food and its health-giving properties . |
| 16 | Garlic is well-known for its health-giving properties , but did you know that it 's every so easy to grow ? |
| 17 | The first signs of its waning authority can certainly be perceived ( with hindsight ) in earlier novels , particularly Jane Austen 's ; but novelists before Dickens do not write as though they are aware that the failures they criticize are irreversible . |
| 18 | The government had insisted that the measures were crucial to the success of its anti-inflationary policy launched in March [ see pp. 37312-13 ] . |
| 19 | The characteristic which singles out a species ; its idiosyncratic style of flying , perching , feeding , ground-moving , preening , posturing which , once observed in the field , identifies it from the rest . |
| 20 | During the years 1926 to 1935 , when , with her husband , she was a leading member of and exhibitor with the Seven and Five Society , her work was consistently praised for its idiosyncratic approach to light and colour , which can be seen to be her most important artistic legacy . |
| 21 | Wessex Poems , with its idiosyncratic drawings , introduced him to a startled public as a poetic writer of great originality and — in ‘ Neutral tones ’ , ‘ Friends beyond ’ , ‘ I look into my glass ’ for example — a potential master of the lyric form . |
| 22 | Amos Tutuola 's ( Nigerian ) novel The Palm Wine Drinkard had its idiosyncratic English modified by its British publisher , Faber and Faber . |
| 23 | Where the book falls down is in its idiosyncratic layout and the poor quality of the colour reproductions ( I refer to the Flammarion edition ) . |
| 24 | The family sought to legitimize its power by fostering a belief in its divine descent , claiming the first emperor , Jinmu , as a descendant of the sun goddess ; his reign was dated to 660 BC . |
| 25 | Yet again , the idea is that once created the watch is self-sufficient and requires no further help from its divine craftsperson . |
| 26 | Apart from the Ukrainophile Kirillo-Methodian Society , which the regime thought particularly dangerous because of its obsessive concern for the unity of the empire , no circle of intellectuals was treated as harshly as the Petrashevtsy in the period between 1826 and 1848 . |
| 27 | Tacked to the square wooden pillar was the hand-written pub-grub bill of fare , with its obsessive permutations of pie-mash and fry-up , the ands and ors underlined , the " coffee " and " tea " in their exotic inverted commas . |
| 28 | And the Government declared the dam project illegal — in spite of its expressed faith in co-operative ventures . |
| 29 | Its expressed view , that the Uprising was part of that violence which the United States now wished the PLO to bring to an end , indicated it wished to eliminate the source of the new political reality , against which it had laboured so long through its preference for negotiations through Jordan . |
| 30 | The process is thus usually described in its anatomical form simply as the relationships between a number of development activities . |