Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [prep] its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Ruth 's bed lay a brown-haired whimpering female child , also draped in a shawl and with dabs of make-up less hectically or successfully applied to its face . |
| 2 | I did not know enough about painting to recognise it , or even guess at its value , but in the present-day crazy art market even a relatively modern painting might well be very valuable , and this one was apparently worth the trouble and risk that Ewen Mackay had taken . |
| 3 | It is an embryonic concept in a fast-changing environment and we have to be realistic about the limits of our power to forecast or even speculate about its future . |
| 4 | Payment was never made for a vessel taken from its owner for royal service ; nor was compensation for loss of a ship , or even damage to its equipment , normally given . |
| 5 | From the mid-1970s in particular the CNAA became increasingly involved in organizing and participating in conferences directly or indirectly related to its role in broadening access , widening curricula and enhancing standards . |
| 6 | The SPG was , however , highly controversial and widely criticized for its behaviour at demonstrations in particular . |
| 7 | Did television marginalize the Alliance and thereby contribute to its failure ? |
| 8 | As part of the investigation into attitudes to mass electricity , the project explores the reception by the public of plans for a National Grid and looks at the way in which this programme was presented to those most likely to be environmentally and economically affected by its construction . |
| 9 | It begins with the fetid and claustrophobic ‘ Atrocity Exhibition ’ and slowly works towards its grave and deadly conclusion ; the dank and timeless sadness of ‘ The Eternal ’ and the twilight romance of ‘ Decades ’ . |
| 10 | We must now consider the role of the ‘ demagogues ’ , and the way their rhetorical and other skills enabled them to manipulate the Assembly and so detract from its sovereignty . |
| 11 | The University of Bradford Management Centre is one of the largest MBA schools in the UK and highly rated for its research tradition and professional relevance . |
| 12 | He cleaned its nose and gently blow into its mouth while he pressed tenderly on its tiny ribcage . |
| 13 | One of Watson 's main contributions to the development of the Modular Course has been to build in evaluation mechanisms at many levels , to foster positive attitudes to evaluation by using evaluation data in course development and not to shrink from its application to his own roles and activities . |
| 14 | Where was the concern for the thousands not coming anywhere near the church and not caring about its ethos either , but who were bound to an eternity without God ? |
| 15 | The final consideration is whether the particular radiation is absorbed by the living material , and thus passes on its energy to it ; or is reflected from the surface , leaving little energy behind ; or simply passes straight through , without interacting with the atoms of the living flesh . |
| 16 | In this procedure each model is entered into the reference space and separately connected to its attachment node . |
| 17 | Though Todi in later centuries was to be a Ghibelline city — and still wears on its face some Ghibelline emblems — it was one of many in Umbria in earlier centuries which was loosely embraced by the papal umbrella . |
| 18 | But if we want to consider how life arose , we have to look back a further thousand million years beyond even the earliest micro-fossils , to a time when the earth was completely lifeless and still cooling after its birth . |
| 19 | In this , Positive economics is typical of other ‘ Positive ’ sciences , although perhaps clearer and more developed in its approach . |
| 20 | The government itself became larger and more concentrated in its operation as it assumed increasing responsibilities in areas such as education and defence . |
| 21 | We took a tripod , but it fell into the sea shortly after our arrival , and thereafter twisted on its axis with the serenity of a chain saw . |
| 22 | The Germans , already in the country in large numbers , had seized Rome , and Hitler had ordered the setting up of a political system which would take effective control of the country and also take under its wing any future Fascist administration . |
| 23 | Further provisions ( which are discussed in detail in Chapter 8 ) will be included to deal with the financial consequences of a partner 's death in such a way as to quantify the deceased 's share in the business and also provide for its payment without the need for any forced sale of partnership property . |
| 24 | Both men helped found the First International Working Men 's Association , and both contributed to its collapse after twelve years by their attacks on all other forms of socialist thought and their feud with the anarchists over maintaining full-scale industrialization . |
| 25 | It looks and performs like a pro unit , and even allowing for its reliance on unbalanced connections ( avoid long cables ! ) it 's an all-rounder which amply suits any home or semi-pro studio . |
| 26 | The Statute of Treason , passed in 1352 , set out a limited definition of the crime , and implicitly excluded from its scope political offences of the kind that had brought so many families to destruction between 1322 and 1330 . |
| 27 | As well as its anti-microbial activities , an anti-proliferative function has recently been shown for L1 and tentatively ascribed to its inhibition of casein kinase II . |
| 28 | And when it goes down to a water hole to drink it crouches down and awkwardly sips with its mouth . |
| 29 | He helped to create the idea of a modern movement with his own " difficult " poetry , and then assisted at its burial . |
| 30 | Apparently the unknown craft had switched on a powerful searchlight to identify us and then gone on its way , still without lights . |