Example sentences of "[conj] in its [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A poor Provençal family might find their great son 's version of a familiar dish lacking in savour , although in its original form it would have made , with a saucerful of olives and perhaps a dish of fresh figs , an entire meal . |
| 2 | Chemically , it is similar to cellulose and in its pure form it is flexible and permeable . |
| 3 | It was exactly as I had always imagined the Dark Ages to be , and in its terrible way it was apt . |
| 4 | And in its current form it would seem to be leading , at both regional and local level , to an increasingly unequal national geography ( Martin , 1988 ) . |
| 5 | This step is the preparatory part of the process and in its ideal form it produces an electron in one of those well-defined states of motion which we have learnt to think of as represented by a vector in a vector space . |
| 6 | It is hardly an inspired cast-list — it is characteristic that it includes no representatives from the community under investigation — but in its apparent breadth it is typical of an attitude of mind . |
| 7 | Of the four Constitutions , Dei Verbum is the most theologically concentrated ; but in its wider relevance it both undergirds and touches most of the Council documents — obviously those on the Church and the liturgy , but also all those with a mainly pastoral thrust . |
| 8 | This is an unusually clear and simple notion to come from Marxist theory , though in its factual basis it is also highly contentious . |
| 9 | Brought on to lowland pastures in kinder climates , it gains considerably in size though in its own environment it is almost the smallest breed in Britain : only the Shetland and the Dexter of Ireland are shorter . |