Example sentences of "its [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was the sort of person who might , after much hard study , have finally learnt two phrases from the language of flowers : the gladiolus , which when placed at the centre of a bouquet indicates by the number of its blooms the hour for which the rendezvous is set ; and the petunia , which announces that a letter has been intercepted . |
| 2 | By using a set of standard terms for all its contracts the business can achieve many of the benefits of a detailed contract for all its transactions , without incurring the costs and trouble which individual negotiation would involve . |
| 3 | On that occasion it set out its views the impact wider rights of audience for solicitors and lawyers employed by the Crown Prosecution Service and Government Legal Service ( GIS ) would have on the Bar and particularly the Young Bar . |
| 4 | Unless Labour develops its policies the next election will be a battle between two parties with virtually identical economic policies . |
| 5 | With the apparent disinclination of the Cambridge Board to consider any major modification to its proposals the District sought to make similar appointments in Essex and Norfolk . |
| 6 | But far from resting on its laurels the company now plans to make major inroads in the American market . |
| 7 | If the ion is attached through one oxygen , so that its symmetry is reduced from T d to C 3 ν , splits into two components ( a 1 and e ) , while if the ion is attached to one or more metal atoms through two of its oxygens the degeneracy is entirely removed and three components of ν 3 ( a 1 , b 1 and b 2 ) appear , as well as ν 1 . |
| 8 | In April a report issued by the US State Department made it clear that the USA also did not intend to rejoin the organization , citing as one of its reasons the organization 's lack of budgetary restraint [ see p. 37888 ] |
| 9 | The Neue Sachlichkeit ( ‘ New Objectivity ’ ) movement in Switzerland and Germany included among its dogmas the belief that ‘ the world is beautiful . ’ |
| 10 | As part of its declared aim to present art in all its forms the museum gave twenty performances of ‘ Futurismus Collage ’ a theatrical experience of Italian Futurism with the title ‘ Tod dem Mondschein oder gelbe Ohrfeigen ? ’ |
| 11 | Spokesman David Reynolds said : ‘ Ireland is the only country in Europe that does n't give its emigrants the vote . |
| 12 | The Volga and its tributaries the Oka and Kama and the Ob and its tributaries Irtysh and Tobol are the most polluted . |
| 13 | There we have in one of its aspects the likeness of the old country society that has just passed away to the society described by Chaucer : a cool , matter-of-fact treatment of a subject that could have so many overtones . |
| 14 | The reputation of number eighty-two was widespread , and prior to the outbreak of the Great War , it ranked as highly as any of the European brothels , and was reputed to number amongst its clients the very highest in the land . |
| 15 | The first , in the West End , had as its clients the peerage and gentry rather than the mercantile classes . |
| 16 | In the intervals between its sessions the king was watched by a Deputation . |
| 17 | The island spans over 200 miles by road from north to south and within its borders the proud Sardinians are happy to boast their own language , customs and intriguing culture . |
| 18 | To many within its borders the rambling diocese of Salisbury — inspiration for Trollope 's Barsetshire — is the rural heartland of timeless Anglicanism , a place to which bishops retire . |
| 19 | The old kingdom of Valencia contained within its borders the contrasts typical of Spain . |
| 20 | And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber |
| 21 | When it was chopped down it became the Amazon , its branches the many tributaries . |
| 22 | As a monthly , the magazine can not offer its readers the overnight scores , nor preview the week 's to matches . |
| 23 | John Urquhart 's article ‘ Polonium : Windscale 's most lethal legacy ’ ( 31 March , p 883 ) must have given many of its readers the impression that polonium is an abnormal constituent of man 's environment and with an impact that is therefore unpredictable . |
| 24 | For its readers the paper listed the ingredients of a 5-cent theatre : |
| 25 | When a bream sucks a bait to its lips the unwanted material is taken into the mouth and filtered off through the gills . |
| 26 | ‘ With all its eyes the creature-world beholds |
| 27 | And Ukraine 's new army , even while it honours , with much fanfare , those who died fighting Hitler 's invasion , holds up also as a model to its recruits the Ukrainian insurgent army of the epoch , which fought Germans and Russians alike . |
| 28 | To the Colonisation Commission and its supporters the start of the First World War offered a solution to all their problems . |
| 29 | Accordingly we can ask its supporters the same question we addressed to our friends from Copenhagen . |
| 30 | Ginguene 's most valuable next sentence suggests that the director 's baton had been waved all the time : it ‘ indicated by its strokes the end of each so-called bar and , by the various signs that it traced in the air , the various interpolations or divisions of that bar . ’ |