Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] in its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | for the animal in its mud burrow , valuable time will be lost if it can not prepare itself for foraging until after the tide has left the shore . |
| 2 | Observers said that if the Nasir faction had indeed taken Malakal , this was a major setback for the government in its campaign to hold the south , since the town had contained a substantial arsenal of weapons . |
| 3 | The ways forward for the CNAA in its relationships with the institutions were articulated in various forms in the 1970s , and a perspective on the complexities may be helped by taking two of them . |
| 4 | In addition , the heavy tax rates of the late-Seventies would have made it virtually impossible , had one or other of the pair died , for the company in its entirety to be passed on to the children , Laura 's most cherished ideal . |
| 5 | Combe Bank could be regarded as an attempt to reduce the four-corner-towered form of , for example , Lord Burlington 's Tottenham Park to the scale of a villa ; at Whitton Place he appears to have been one of the first Palladian architects to employ the three-sided bay-window motif ; and his stable block at Althorp , Northamptonshire ( 1732–3 ) , with its portico derived from St Paul Covent Garden is exceptional for the time in its exploitation of the bold simplicity of the Tuscan order . |
| 6 | Organizing prisoner labour is , in fact , a very demanding job and one reason for the decline in its use was the effort it required of staff , including high level staff , to make it work properly . |
| 7 | The vote for the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano-Destra Nazionale ( MSI-DN ) slipped back from 5.9 per cent in 1987 to 5.4 per cent — giving it 34 seats in the Chamber of Deputies — in spite of the fact that Alessandra Mussolini , the 28-year-old granddaughter of Benito Mussolini , stood successfully as a candidate for the MSI-DN in its Naples stronghold . |
| 8 | But for the glass in its windows , which originally would have been in small leaded panes , it remains unaltered on the outside . |
| 9 | It is for a local authority to decide the mix of family centres which is appropriate for the children in its area . |
| 10 | It should be emphasised , however , that one major reason for the growth in its use has been the effect in recent years of the additional legislation bearing upon employment and the increased cost and risks of employing operatives direct . |
| 11 | I shall first look at a conservative response to the gap which exists between the past in its understanding of women and the present . |
| 12 | Since it gives only a single output there will be no distinction between the zero in its output due to an edge being properly located in its receptive field and a zero due to the absence of an edge altogether . |
| 13 | A white dwarf is supported by the exclusion principle repulsion between the electrons in its matter . |
| 14 | Heisenberg showed that the uncertainty in the position of the particle times the uncertainty in its velocity times the mass of the particle can never be smaller than a certain quantity , which is known as Planck 's constant . |
| 15 | However you tried to measure the particle , the uncertainty in its position , times the uncertainty in its speed , would always be greater than a certain minimum amount . |
| 16 | The axe bludgeoned its life out through the holes in its skull . |
| 17 | An old boat lay half-submerged against the bank with reeds pushing up through the holes in its hull . |
| 18 | That it was also the major provider of adult education in the region was evident through the growth in its classes and courses from 156 in 1938–39 to more that 350 by the end of the war in 1945 . |
| 19 | Section 36 of the Partnership Act assists in this connection : ( 1 ) Where a person deals with a firm after a change in its constitution he is entitled to treat all apparent members of the old firm as still being members of the firm until he has notice of the change . |
| 20 | After an interruption in its activities from 1928 to 1951 , it was revived . |
| 21 | It was impossible to hold back the enthusiasm of the church in its infancy . |
| 22 | Up to the commencement of school life , the major gratifications of the child in its interactions with others have been based largely on the overt and tacit approval of its parents its activities have been categorised in part according to the extent by which maternal and paternal love has waxed or waned as a result of them . |
| 23 | Without internal means of communication the group can not be united in its performance , and without the common objective the group lacks the rationality and purposive control that would unite the actions of the elite in its efforts to establish , maintain and strengthen its own power . |
| 24 | This case was notified to the Black Advisory Group during the course of its investigation and does not appear in any of the analyses in its report . |
| 25 | The Namoi having widely overflowed its banks , rolled along with impetuous fury , sweeping away the huts of the stock-keepers in its course , tearing up trees , and hurrying affrighted men and flocks to destruction . |
| 26 | When the Conservation Department proposed the establishment of the sanctuary in its discussion document , the public response was overwhelmingly favourable . |
| 27 | Clearly , the only totally adequate indication of the content of a document is the text of the document in its entirety . |
| 28 | This characterizes the prey assemblages of the three larger species of canid studied , but the bat-eared fox has only 19 per cent of the incisors in its prey assemblages lightly digested , the lowest of any of the mammals and making it equivalent to categories 1 or 2 . |
| 29 | In contrast both to traditional views of form , and to some Formalist statements about the device , it calls attention to the organization of the text in its totality , the structure of the text being simply the totality of the relationships that obtain within it . |
| 30 | ‘ This was deleterious to fly life and seriously interfered with fly fishing in particular , apart altogether from defacing the beauty of the river in its progress through the delightful countryside . |