Example sentences of "its [noun] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its text survives in a Fulda manuscript of c .820–30 , and Fulda was a monastery founded by St Boniface as a convenient centre from which to preach to several Germanic peoples including the Saxons . |
| 2 | Much of its stealth comes from a design that minimises the chance of radar waves bouncing back the way they came . |
| 3 | Its hope lies in a return to its Christian basis . |
| 4 | Well , the school with its rules sounds like a POW camp . |
| 5 | NAG has been used extensively to identify and monitor potentially nephrotoxic drugs , its excretion increases in a dose dependent manner following the ingestion of aspirin and sodium salicylate and high concentrations are found in patients with established analgesic nephropathy . |
| 6 | Its croak sounds like a smoker 's cough . |
| 7 | Its engine acts like a vacuum cleaner by removing pollutants to become a smog buster . |
| 8 | Its publication coincides with a film being shown in Jakarta and other cities that depicts a larger-than-life Suharto fighting the Dutch in the war of independence , his crushing of the 1965 attempted communist coup , and other exciting matters . |
| 9 | Word of total closure came just one week after the society had revealed that it had taken a controversial first step toward meeting its operating costs with a loan of $1.5 million from Sotheby 's secured by $3.5 million worth of works from its vast collections . |
| 10 | ( Some suggest that part of its secretiveness arises from a fear of becoming involved in the litigation instituted by injured patients . ) |
| 11 | Secondly , although the belief we are denying poses as an affirmation grammatically or verbally , yet its content refers to a non-recognition of people , a negative judgement in this case of mammoth proportions on a whole people . |
| 12 | During the preparation of this article Professor Howard Mayer Brown was constantly in my mind ; indeed , its title alludes to a phrase coined by him ‘ The English a cappella heresy ’ The news of his death came only days after the final typescript had been submitted to Early music . |
| 13 | Its life-cycle starts with a spore , of which there are countless millions in the atmosphere . |
| 14 | Farthest away its surface acts as a mirror and the sky 's colours will be almost identical to those of its reflection — almost but not quite . |
| 15 | There are obvious reasons why not , but its absence contributes to a continuation of failed projects because authors make heroic assumptions and quantify them to produce fanciful targets . |
| 16 | Eight years later , the group still has neither a title to the 32 hectares , nor a formal guarantee of its right to occupy : its tenure rests on a letter from the National Agrarian Institute which simply acknowledges its presence . |
| 17 | Its Constitution provides for a President as head of state , elected by Parliament every four years . |
| 18 | Ramsey cried to the Church to be itself ; to know that its being rests upon a death and an empty tomb ; and to be itself whether modern Britain will listen or close its ears . |
| 19 | ‘ Its strength rests on a contrast between before and after ; and the deeper the contrast the more traffic the event . ’ |
| 20 | If the sun is shining the focal length can be measured just as easily as for a converging lens : the lens is held so that its shadow falls on a sheet of paper . |
| 21 | A detailed study of the Knossos Labyrinth ( Castleden 1989 ) shows that its design resolves into a number of distinct functional areas ; using this kind of analysis , it is possible to identify several separate sanctuary suites within the temple . |