Example sentences of "its [noun sg] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen thought it a curious place to leave one 's car , blocking , or partly blocking , the northbound roadway , while taking it a farther ten yards on would have enabled its driver to pull in onto the bridlepath that traversed the Vale as far as the Reeve 's way . |
| 2 | This new dialectical relationship between spectator and screen image led some critics and film-makers to make large claims for the avant-garde film as inherently more progressive and political , because of its self-reflexiveness and because of its refusal to give in to the tendency of mainstream film to construct an ‘ imaginary identity ’ . |
| 3 | Bourgeois literature was unequivocally condemned on three counts : first , for its failure to voice opposition to the First World War , a failure in other words to disclose the true reality of the war as an imperialist struggle ; secondly , for its refusal to offer an accurate depiction of the Soviet revolution , a failure explained as the cowardly refusal of the bourgeois writer to disclose the deepening crisis of capitalism after 1929 , a crisis highlighted by the success of the five year plan in the Soviet Union ; finally , for its refusal to face up to the growing threat of fascism . |
| 4 | Novell Inc is putting another element in place in its quest to move out from the local network into the enterprise-wide network . |
| 5 | And , says the company , it has a joint marketing agreement with Hewlett-Packard in Germany , and in the US is working with both DEC and Motorola Computer Systems in its quest to pick up on the expanding downsizing trend . |
| 6 | He concludes that the effectiveness of a given system should be based on its ability to fit in with the external systems making up its environment on the one hand , and , on the other hand , on its competence in allowing its own sub-systems to fit in with each other . |
| 7 | If it has one significant advantage , other than its relatively low cost , it is in its ability to grow back into the complete XPS system should the user ever require such capabilities . |
| 8 | A giant Worm on Monument Hill ; a giant Worm somehow feeding off hatred and able to use its power to link up with the Glory 's computer and turn the car into its servant . |