Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are acquiring a cross-breed , try to establish its parentage as far as possible . |
| 2 | It holds its shape very well since it does n't get broken springs , lumps or bumps . |
| 3 | So long as it could prevent news of discontent travelling from one region to another and igniting a bush-fire of revolt , the Party was able to restore its control relatively quickly and with little loss of life . |
| 4 | The world , apparently , did not feel its shame so strongly that it moved its hand to its wallet . |
| 5 | It is astonishing that it should have preserved its character so well when it is close to Zurich . |
| 6 | I 'll reiterate here that the complexity — or at least the perceived complexity — of the Alpha 's operation could limit its market as far as first time buyers go . |
| 7 | In the mid-1980s this connection showed its value even more when the Centre services the annual Manchester-Southport steam specials from 1985 to 1989 , the first steam locomotive to be serviced being appropriately enough , a Black Five , No. 44932 . |
| 8 | Some countries monitor its use more strictly than others , which is why jaundiced Trading Standards Officers sometimes call it the ‘ Cover Everything ’ mark . |
| 9 | Yet ITV regards its competition so seriously that it refuses even to allow Sky the traditional news access to its exclusive sponsored events or permit the EBU to pass on its pictures from events such as athletics ' European Cup . |
| 10 | When we had a chance to view the boat from a distance with the wind at the bottom end of Force 6 , we noticed that the overlapping headsail lost its shape quite badly when half-furled . |
| 11 | Accused in its time of being a scandalous affront to bourgeois morality , La Ronde in fact pinpoints its hypocrisy most acutely and in retrospect reveals its author as ( among other things ) a perceptively premature feminist . |
| 12 | We will propose appropriate Parliamentary reforms to ensure that the House of Commons conducts its business more efficiently and effectively , taking into account the benefits of modern technology , the increasing constituency demands upon Members of Parliament and the need to attract more women to stand for election . |
| 13 | The sunflower does not learn by experience to turn its head more effectively as it matures , or not to turn at all if it is repeatedly electrically shocked every time it does so . |
| 14 | An odd volume , acquired for a few shillings , tells its story as adequately as a complete text . |
| 15 | HIV changes its structure very easily and different strains can be found in one individual , making vaccine development difficult . |
| 16 | It will now be essential for Sony and its allies to maintain the gathering momentum and to spread its influence as widely as possible if their impressive new platform is to become — as they hope and intend — the de facto world standard for electronic book publishing in the 1990s and beyond . |
| 17 | Expansione the financial daily excuse me also increased its circulation once again and its profits . |
| 18 | A firm or college can change its culture quite markedly if the chief executive of either is replaced , and new priorities or new perspectives could kill off a partnership very rapidly . |
| 19 | It too articulated social reform , but in spite of popular appeals to the people and to the common good , its narrow sectional base was sharply exposed by discourses around the struggles of the unemployed , The Alliance advocacy of cuts in relief undermined its support so drastically that the ground it lost on the council was never recovered . |
| 20 | Lothian Catering Services decided to launch its own cookbook to raise its profile both inside and outside the Region . |
| 21 | Julie Ride , of Walthamstow , London , said as she landed at Heathrow airport after a five-day visit to the Iraqi capital : ‘ The Government has got to get its act together now and get Paul and Michael out . ’ |
| 22 | The most obvious clue to its presence is its movement , so in order for its camouflage to work it must be prepared to remain very still for long periods of time , or at least to alter its position very slowly and gently . |
| 23 | And dangerous for the goat : a myotonic goat picking himself up from his umpteenth collapse of the day might wonder why natural selection had not taken its course long ago and dispensed with his unhappy breed . |
| 24 | Such craft have been in use since humanity 's very earliest days ; they are an example of an invention which serves its purpose so well that there is little need to improve upon it . |
| 25 | The alliance is the first of a series of strategic partnerships Scopus is looking at to complement its functionality as far as automatic testing , test management , source code control , automatic phone call distribution equipment , project planning , software licence management and front-end design CASE tools . |
| 26 | The Committee has not , however , shifted its position so far as the crime of incest is concerned . |
| 27 | There are aspects of the scheme which appear either to distort information or to offer less sophisticated information than is required , and which would cause library authorities to examine its cost-effectiveness very closely before theory could be put into practice . |
| 28 | Small powers seek also to come to terms with a particular great power either to guarantee themselves against the overwhelming strength of another great power or in order to prevent the great power in question from asserting its strength more directly and imperiously over them … |
| 29 | The path stretched from their current position , winding a little through the uneven clump of trees , to make its way as far as a bridge , before it dissolved into the distant shred of mist . |
| 30 | In fact it makes its point more powerfully if it is seen as prose but heard or read as poetry since the meditation then enacts for the reader that speech-become-song meditation-become-poem that Rolle talks of in The Fire of Love . |