Example sentences of "it gets its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this will happen only if it gets its act together in the three areas of service provision , education , and research . |
| 2 | On reflection , the catering industry may well be much better off as a result of the Government 's proposals for a self-regulatory approach , but it all depends at the end of the day on how well it gets its act together , using Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment systems to identify the problem areas . |
| 3 | It gets its name from the very large , sail-like , first dorsal fin . |
| 4 | It gets its name from the strengthening threads which run across warp and weft to create small squares in the otherwise close-woven nylon . |
| 5 | It gets its name from being slammed against the bar-top and downed in one go . |
| 6 | It gets its name from the Silurian Epoch — a period around 450 million years ago when the rocks which make up the skeleton and the soil of the Grizedale Forest were formed . |
| 7 | It gets its name because of the one-time importance of the weaving industry in the area . |
| 8 | Its mile-long street , continuously built up along the side facing the loch from which it gets its name , has many shops , banks , garages , hotels and guest houses , patronised by customers from a wide area and by the touring motorists who pass through and invariably halt . |
| 9 | It gets its name from what you can see in the far distance , provided the weather is right , which is the first peaks of the real Pyrenees . |
| 10 | The hawthorn is the oldest of the hedgerow trees , for it gets its name from the Old English word haga , ‘ a hedge ’ or ‘ an enclosure ’ , and it was used from Saxon times onwards to make impenetrable fences — the hedge-thorn . |
| 11 | It gets its name from an analogy with a chain of firefighters passing buckets of water . |
| 12 | It gets its name from the letter M which originally was as wide as the type size . |
| 13 | It gets its name from the belief that such a flower could only come from the home of a god — Mt Parnassus . |
| 14 | It gets its name from the fact that it requires a fighter simply to raise his hands in a defensive position and bend his legs slightly , almost as if he were walking down the street . |
| 15 | It gets its description ‘ sensation of heat ’ simply from the causal conditions of its production . |
| 16 | To understand why damage to Broca 's area impairs speech we need to know both where it gets its input from and what it does to that input . |
| 17 | Because the typification is very inclusive , covering known criminals and people who look as if they might be , it gets its meaning partly from practical experience of people who typically commit crime in Easton , but also from prejudices that derive from middleclass notions of respectability . |