Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] its [noun pl] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old kingdom of Valencia contained within its borders the contrasts typical of Spain . |
| 2 | Political realism is the oldest , and potentially the most influential , approach to global politics , having its origins in the wars between the city-states of ancient Greece and claiming among its antecedents the writings of Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes . |
| 3 | The train will then head for London , bearing amongst its passengers the winners of the Scotsman competition , details of which are in the previous column . |
| 4 | But at the same time , away from public scrutiny , many of these same stores reduced the risk of their credit being abused through a semi-secret organization known as The Mutual Communications Society which circulated to its members the names of habitual defaulters . |
| 5 | Sybaris had been destroyed by its neighbours the men of Kroton in 510 BC ; the mid-fifth-century recovery , organized by Athens , coincides with a attested corn-shortage in mainland Greece : an Egyptian pharaoh , in revolt from Persia , gave Athens 40,000 sacks of corn in the 440s . |