Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun sg] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Authority also maintained its faith in the existing gas-cooled design . |
| 2 | As Gregory Elliott has recently emphasized , although Althusser always presented himself as the figure of the rigours of orthodoxy against the eclecticism of the existentialists , in his own work he was just as catholic , allying Marxism with non-Marxist philosophy , even if it was a history of science to which , he claimed , ‘ French philosophy owes its renaissance in the last thirty years ’ . |
| 3 | It would be easier , he thinks , at dawn , to fix his gaze steadily on one particular light and then to establish its place in the returning landscape . |
| 4 | The Highlands and Islands Integrated Development Programme in the UK has its equivalent in the Lozere department but no IDP exists in the Auvergne and the implications for nature conservation of these programmes would have to be the subject of a specific study when their impact is clearer . |
| 5 | The aristocratic disdain for manual labour has its counterpart in the Situationist ’ attitude to the working class considered as the moronised victims of the spectacle . |
| 6 | His dance throughout has its base in the classical vocabulary but MacMillan has coloured it by gestures from cabaret and vaudeville dance traditions , which serve to reveal not only class differences in behaviour but also genuine feelings . |
| 7 | If uneven development has its foundation in the unequal division of labour in society , then over time regional inequality will change , not only in its geographical pattern , but also in its nature , as the division of labour in society changes . |
| 8 | The idea has its parallel in the ever-higher smoke stacks and ever-longer sewage outfalls which were designed to export pollution problems as far as possible from their source . |
| 9 | The idea has its parallel in the ever-higher smoke stacks and ever-longer sewage outfalls which were designed to export pollution problems as far as possible from their source . |
| 10 | Analysis of such situations shows that this defensive process has its origin in the infantile conflict with parental authority about some form of instinctual gratification . |
| 11 | It is possible that those who work in education , even at senior management level , lack the confidence to press for this sort of recognition ; a diffidence which has its origin in the perceived ‘ otherness ’ referred to above , combined with the erroneous view that education has little or nothing to offer a commercial board-room . |
| 12 | It has been noted that the quantum limit has its origin in the following expression of the uncertainty principle . |
| 13 | This has its origin in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when Japan realised it needed natural resources from overseas in order to industrialise effectively to compete with the West . |
| 14 | It has its origin in the academic institution 's need to justify the endless multiplication of commentaries , from undergraduate essays to doctoral dissertations and scholarly articles . |
| 15 | The word slum , first used in the 1820s , has its origin in the old provincial word slump , meaning ‘ wet mire ’ . |
| 16 | Painting , like all poetry , has its part in the divine … ’ |
| 17 | The idea seemed too melodramatically absurd , until I recalled that all melodrama has its basis in the lurid facts of earlier generations . |
| 18 | The present wave of Troubles has its basis in the Catholic grievances about discriminatory practices which have operated against them ever since the state 's inception ( cf. |
| 19 | Parties represented in Parliament include the right-wing Conservative Party ( Andries Treurnicht , l. ) , the largest opposition party in the white House of Assembly and committed to opposing De Klerk 's reforms ; the liberal opposition Democratic Party ( Zach de Beer , elected as its sole leader at its first national congress in September , replacing the " troika " of de Beer , Wynand Malan and Denis Worrall ) ; and the Labour Party ( Rev. Allan Hendrickse , l. ) , which has its basis in the coloured community . |
| 20 | The anti-conspiratorial rhetoric of the Vanguard argument has its place in the general National Front argument about tactics . |
| 21 | However , we need to adopt a balanced viewpoint and accept that the use of drugs can not be totally ruled out ; everything has its place in the holistic scheme of things . |
| 22 | Although intuitive aromatherapy is much derided by orthodox practitioners ( and even by a few scientifically minded aromatherapists ) , it too has its place in the holistic scheme of things . |
| 23 | Snowdon also has its place in the magical history of Britain . |
| 24 | Dickie the Great Dane has been entrusted with the unusual task of demonstrating that safe sex has its place in the canine world . |
| 25 | From an attitude that is greedy for possessions , and particularly from house price inflation , which has put the price of houses beyond the reach of many young couples starting out on their life together , contributing directly to homelessness , and which has its root in the increased demand for homes from family breakdown . |
| 26 | Expressed in this way , ‘ A Plan for Britain' was symptomatic of a mood of collectivist enthusiasm which seemed to find its opportunity in the shared perils and challenges of the early years of the war . |
| 27 | While ‘ planning ’ in these various guises seemed to find its moment in the Second World War , it also drew upon a long evolution of social and political thought which stretched back to before the Great War . |
| 28 | But in reporting this highly selective history of Scotland 's footballing campaigns Hampden Babylon remains loyal to the great myths of the game , and to the undoubted disgust of the Scottish Football Association , places its faith in the anti-authoritarian players who have come to Scotland 's rescue in the past and brightened our mediocrity with a touch of madness . |
| 29 | There was a shortfall in orders to carry the company into the 1990s — the famous ‘ black hole ’ — and it was vastly overmanned for the amount of work that was likely to come its way in the immediate future . |
| 30 | This was reorganised and changed its title in the following year , and again in May 1918 : like its British counterparts it drew its manpower from a variety of sources — the universities , the army and the professions — as well as from diplomacy . |