Example sentences of "its [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the identity of the union remains closely tied to its agricultural as opposed to its ‘ allied ’ membership , and all the efforts of its organizers have not been able to arrest the gradual decline in membership that has accompanied the drift from the land . |
| 2 | Well , that 's , that 's what we 're doing , but I mean , it 's just a lot of its wasted as there is just one little bit on the second page that is a continuation of the client contact . |
| 3 | The snapping jaws missed , but he felt its far as it swung around and scampered away . |
| 4 | The Dobermann really came into its own as a domestic dog in the 1980s and , subsequently , far too many were bred . |
| 5 | The fibrepile is either used as a liner to uprate existing sleeping bags or on its own as single or double layer bags . |
| 6 | If , on the other hand , a small but well-distributed population already exists , it will respond on its own as environmental conditions improve , although even here it might well be sensible to import new stock to speed up the process . |
| 7 | The business was established quickly and holding its own as the country plunged into recession . |
| 8 | Several times the steering wheel took on a wild life of its own as we crashed into an unnoticed pot-hole , and the windscreen wipers stuttered against the rain of dust and small stones that hurtled against the car in handfuls : it was if we were under fire . |
| 9 | That could only prevent the sheer miracle of grace from standing as it must on its own as God 's free and loving initiative and movement towards us . |
| 10 | Like big monsters and chariots they will become the target of every bowman and war machine that can fire at them , so it 's no use sending a Pump Wagon out on its own as it will just get shot up . |
| 11 | Althusser 's procedure has been to show that , within a notion of history that seemed as if it could be invoked on its own as self-evident , there rests an entire presupposition about the conception of the social whole that is not derived from Marxist theory . |
| 12 | Wellcome Foundation , which currently sells more than £200 million ( $ 300 million ) of AZT a year , dismissed the use of AZT on its own as ‘ old science ’ , but also claimed that the Concorde conclusions were not as black-and-white as they appeared . |
| 13 | Automation may just come into its own as global cross-border trading picks up . |
| 14 | The government then developed a momentum of its own as a focus of loyalty that ran against the party system . |
| 15 | It seemed to have a life of its own as the needle ate up the cloth . |
| 16 | In practice , the division may be honoured more in the breach than the observance ; the first Church Commissioner ( who is broadly responsible for its financial as distinct from political or pastoral duties ) is also chairman of the CBF . |
| 17 | It is with such men as it is with the English landscape seen at its best as I did this morning : when one encounters them , one simply knows one is in the presence of greatness . |