Example sentences of "[noun] its original [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shadow Education Secretary Ann Taylor accused the Government of cutting back on spending on school repairs but spending £6.8 million — almost three times its original budget — on education publicity . |
| 2 | In 1885 France was in possession of a colonial empire which , in 25 years , had grown to three times its original size . |
| 3 | The factory has expanded to four times its original size and has become a showpiece of British industry . |
| 4 | The building is now worth a million times its original sale price ! |
| 5 | The classic example of AGR failure , the Dungeness B plant on the Kent coast , eventually took about twenty years to finish , cost £3.5 billion to build ( at 1988 prices ) — roughly five times its original estimate — and has never operated at even half its intended capacity . |
| 6 | For when a religion is put into a position where its , albeit necessary , business activities appear in the eyes of its followers , to be outweighing in importance its original purpose , it ceases to be of the slightest use in so far as it is able to fulfil one of its most important reasons for existence , that is , to provide a satisfactory code of behaviour to be observed in that area of human conduct which can be considered as being subject to moral law . |
| 7 | To ease my conscience I would like it to be recognised that I have five co-founders : Jock Lewes , Paddy Mayne of the original ‘ L ’ Detachment , George Bergé who started the French S.A.S. , Brian Franks who re-raised the S.A.S. flag after the war and John Woodhouse who created the modern S.A.S. during the Malaysian Campaign by restoring to the regiment its original philosophy . |
| 8 | The city soviet of Sverdlovsk , where Yeltsin had been Communist Party first secretary until 1985 , voted on Sept. 4 to return to the city its original name of Yekaterinburg , and reportedly requested approval from the RSFSR Supreme Soviet . |