Example sentences of "it retain its [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Essentially a single-breasted riding coat with the tails removed and the fronts considerably shortened , it retained its pronounced waist . |
| 2 | He also began to assert that capitalism would be able to survive class struggles in Europe while it retained its powerful economic base in the colonies . |
| 3 | LORD JUSTICE DILLON said that it was not in doubt that if the copy was privileged in relation to the employee 's then claims because obtained for the purpose of advice in relation to those claims , it retained its privileged condition in respect of the subsequent claims now being advanced by the bank : Pearce v Foster ( 1885 ) 15 QBD 114 . |
| 4 | It retained its old destination boxes and other appointments . |
| 5 | Always a big , fleshy animal , it retained its large frame when many other British cattle became fashionably short-legged and stocky in the 1940s . |
| 6 | It tenderises it and helps it retain its natural juices . |
| 7 | The façade is now Baroque , but inside it retains its simple Romanesque form , though it was extensively restored in the late nineteenth century ( 353 ) . |
| 8 | Instead it retains its relentless , forceful spirit — an ideal background to the tenor aria which sings of the breaking of the Lord 's enemies with a rod of iron , dashing them to pieces like a potter 's vessel . |
| 9 | It retains its original mosaic floor decorated with strips of marble and porphyry on a ground of multi-colour tesserae . |
| 10 | Apart from wartime damage , Worms Cathedral is the least altered of the three in that it retains its Romanesque plan and general layout ( 323 ) . |