Example sentences of "its [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the spring of 1991 the reconciliation was sealed when the Chinese party leader Jiang Zemin visited Moscow , the first visit of its kind since the days of Mao Zedong . |
| 2 | Although he had a magnificent view from the top of the Mount Lofty range of the Murray River , winding its course across the flats through a belt of dense dwarf eucalypti , there is no mention of his ever having reached its banks , let alone the remote western bend 100 miles away . |
| 3 | The first relates to the power of the court : in appeal proceedings the court has the power to substitute its decision on the matters in issue for that of the body appealed from . |
| 4 | It was the second of the new Abbasid caliphs , Abu Jaafar Mansur ( 754–75 ) , who founded the city of Baghdad , a resplendent centre-piece for the empire until its sack by the Mongols in 1258 under Hulagu Khan . |
| 5 | EVER since Greece won its freedom from the Turks in the 1820s — no , ever since the Turks took Constantinople on that black Tuesday at the end of May in 1453 — the Greeks have had a Megali Idea , a Great Idea . |
| 6 | ‘ The freak would do well to keep in mind that we have preserved its existence on the grounds of its intelligence alone . ’ |
| 7 | HCIMA publishes and regularly updates a list of centres offering its programmes including the modes of study which each centre offers . |
| 8 | HCIMA jointly awards the Level IV NVQ but has also pledged its support for the qualifications at Levels I-III . |
| 9 | The Group extended its support for the arts during 1992 , in particular sponsoring the revival of Xerxes at the English National Opera and the Royal Academy of Arts ' Summer Exhibition in London , which is the premier event of its type in the UK . |
| 10 | Together with the London boroughs , the LAB attaches a high priority to helping to nurture the audiences , performers and producers of the future through its support for the arts in schools and for organisations which work for young people . |
| 11 | Ask yourself why , for example , no one has made The Pete Townshend Story , with its denouement in the offices of Faber & Faber publishing , or Jagger ! , complete with barnstorming finale in the pavilion at Lord 's . |
| 12 | In bringing its fight to the streets of New York , Virgin also hope to win an injunction restraining B A. B A say there 's no basis for the claim . |
| 13 | The result of all this was that the Government 's claims about the march and its defence of the actions of the police carried very little conviction outside the ranks of its own supporters . |
| 14 | In its sympathy for the families of the victims , the public was inclined to forget that any passenger aircraft with the Stars and Stripes on its tail would have served as a target as well as another . |
| 15 | The Somerset and Avon Railway , which is working towards reopening the railway between Radstock and Frome , holds its sponsored walk and fun day at its headquarters in the sidings in Radstock . |
| 16 | The international legal identity of the inhabitants of a mandate territory was also raised in Namibia , where the International Court of Justice recognised that ‘ the injured entity is a people which must look to the international community for assistance in its progress towards the goals for which the sacred trust was instituted . ’ |
| 17 | That is why we have pursued its progress in the changes of society , as well as through individual story-telling . |
| 18 | The pageant , though it rolled and wallowed , groaned and scraped its underbelly on the crests of every ridge , did not overturn or suffer any collision . |
| 19 | When the story begins Marco , a strong , handsome lad of twelve , is beginning to see more meaning in the oath he has so often sworn on his father 's sword , brought out from its hiding-place under the floorboards of their lodging : |
| 20 | The skin of his face hung on its framework like the hides of the penthouse , and weariness and anger and pain scored his brow as if done by a hatchet . |
| 21 | In the field of addiction to alcohol and other drugs , the Board has been glad to see the wholly responsible position taken by the National Union of Students in its response to the pressures on young people to drink . |
| 22 | The practice of the Court of Appeal ( Civil Division ) is to confine its judgments to the facts of the instant case . |
| 23 | The European Court frequently refers in its judgments to the preambles of legal texts for this purpose . |
| 24 | Rights , which constitute the groundwork of the State , inhere in individuals by virtue of their being members of society : ‘ A State which neglects them fails to build its foundations in the hearts of its citizens . ’ |
| 25 | In appreciating the contemporary cultural mosaic , therefore , we must appreciate its foundations in the accommodations between communities and their environments in the creation of social structures as ‘ machines for living ’ . |
| 26 | That is the way for the South to grow and pay off its debts to the banks of the North . |
| 27 | Expressing its disappointment with the decisions of the official summit , the Global Forum drew up a set of alternative treaties designed as " working documents for a post-summit era " . |
| 28 | It was 1963 and as David started his new job , ‘ Mersey Mania ’ was taking its stranglehold on the charts with The Beatles , Gerry and the Pacemakers , Freddie and The Dreamers ; everything with a Liverpudlian accent tasted success . |
| 29 | On publication of the findings , Carriers , a leading US air-conditioning and refrigerator manufacturer , announced that it would inform its clients of the dangers of HCFC-123 and was considering advising its service engineers not to work on machines containing the material . |
| 30 | Before the US Justice Department brought its indictment of the Libyans on 14 November , 1991 , the intelligence community 's working theory was that the bombing of the Boeing 747 had been a co-ordinated effort of Syria , Libya and Iran . |