Example sentences of "of its original [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Type 2 : Semi-specialist machinery which is expected to be productive for ten years and have a residual value of 10% of its original cost . |
| 2 | The exact date of its original building is disputed but it probably stems from the late fifth or early sixth century . |
| 3 | Enid Bagnold 's creepy comedy is dated in more subtle ways as well — ‘ She 's behind the escallonia hedge , ’ sounds like a line dropped from a Beatrice Lillie sketch — but , in this strongly cast production , it also retains much of its original charm and piquancy . |
| 4 | The aid programme , as it has developed over the last thirty years , has failed in terms of its original objective , i.e. the promotion of a pattern of economic growth in which the injection of external finance on soft terms was no longer necessary . |
| 5 | The Perkins 4 ( no of cylinders ) 236 ( size in cub inches ) will fit into a LR but in a four cylinder such as yours space is limited and it is a tight fit The six cylinder with the extra room in the engine bay allows the engine to fit more easily The 189 Ibf h torque as compared to the 103 Ibf h of its original engine will certainly find any weakness in the transmission , the S2A gearbox will handle it better than an S3 |
| 6 | An extraordinary little trilobite looking like an ancient medallion , preserved in shale , with some of its original exoskeleton retained , coloured by iron compounds . |
| 7 | NorthWest Digital Systems , Seattle , California , was demonstrating an X Terminal design based around the new chip , called Wildcat 2 — the second generation of its original Wildcat design launched at last year 's show . |
| 8 | He says that when a jet of ‘ inflammable air ’ [ hydrogen ] was burned in a receiver filled with ‘ common air ’ … ‘ the common air is contracted a full fifth of its original dimensions ; immediately after the flame is extinguished , there appears through almost the whole of the receiver , a fine powdery substance like a whitish cloud ’ . |
| 9 | The defenders need to ask whether the system that once gave Europe stable currencies and helped many of its original members to bring down their rates of inflation can continue to serve those ends . |
| 10 | The National Socialist League won few converts and lost most of its original members . |
| 11 | However the king-emperor allowed his wife , Isabella of Portugal , in 1526 to have a chapel of Spanish and Portuguese musicians and it was among the instrumentalists of this body , which was taken over by Philip II when he became regent of Spain in 1543 , that we find the innovators : the blind organist Antonio de Cabezon ( C. 1500–1566 ) , who was one of its original members , the clavichordist Francisco de Soto ( c. 1500–1563 ) , who joined soon after , and Luis de Narváez ( d. after 1555 ) , a player of the vihuela de mano ( the Spanish lute ) who was recruited by Philip . |
| 12 | The building dates back to 1510 and , whilst it has been sympathetically modernised , it retains much of its original character . |
| 13 | This is one of the best preserved in Blockley and retains much of its original equipment . |
| 14 | Built in 1881 to accommodate the employees of the nearby Rocksavage railway station , it was a straight terrace of some thirty tiny one-storey houses , each fronted by a strip of grass and hedged railings betokening the gentility of its original occupants . |
| 15 | After the defeat of the German Revolution of 1848 German Nationalism lost much of its original liberalism . |
| 16 | When the marathon was originally started in 1981 , one of its original aims was to raise money to provide recreational facilities in London . |
| 17 | In Cote d'Ivoire , West Africa , which has lost most of its original cover of rainforest , the ODA contributed towards a project which was meant to maintain existing plantations and create new ones . |
| 18 | Though Carcassonne is more picturesque , Aigues Mortes , built in the thirteenth century at the mouth of the river Rhône near Montpellier , retains much more of its original work . |
| 19 | The species is beautifully preserved , retaining something of its original lustre , and all the fine details of its ornament . |
| 20 | This species retains much of its original shell , giving it a beautiful pearly lustre . |
| 21 | The bases in India , of which Surat founded in 1611 and Madras founded in 1642 were the most important , kept going even when the Company in London was at its lowest ebb and the current stock had sunk to 60 per cent of its original price . |
| 22 | Giotto was launched in July 1985 and almost 70 per cent of its original instruments remained intact . |
| 23 | A line of real-life secretaries would degrade a text to 99 per cent of its original letters by the 20th member of the line of 20 billion . |
| 24 | Her husband Trevor and son Andrew are also involved in the concern and happily the firm has retained many of its original customers . |
| 25 | It may also have a capital gains tax ( CGT ) liability if it sells a capital asset in excess of its original purchase price . |
| 26 | Inside , the Hall retains most of its original panelling . |
| 27 | One of the members went one better by telling us she had made a shadow pleated skirt which , by mistake , was put into the ‘ whites ’ wash and finished up a quarter of its original size , ruined beyond restoration — so everyone though . |
| 28 | Yet at Stamford , thirty miles away , not an industrial town but indeed always a market town for a very rich countryside , the market place has shrunk to a fraction of its original size . |
| 29 | Once an image has been scanned it can be scaled from ten to 200% of its original size , rotated or cropped , and then saved in a format such as TIFF , PCX or IMG. , for example . |
| 30 | Once an image has been scanned it can be scaled from ten to 200% of its original size , rotated or cropped , and then saved in a format such as TIFF , PCX or IMG. , for example . |