Example sentences of "its [noun sg] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The APU Working Party rested its case firmly on the philosophical groundwork of Best ( 1980 ) , who over recent years has pioneered the argument that the arts are amenable to judgments that are as ‘ objective ’ as those employed in scientific research . |
| 2 | We 've come to do Merry Monk , an HVS at its left-hand end which requires us to traverse carefully along its base just above the slow-moving water , grasping strange iron spikes driven into the rock . |
| 3 | Baden 's railway station is the oldest in Switzerland , and owes its existence partly to the Swiss love of hot rolls for breakfast . |
| 4 | The anticipated strong showing for candidates affiliated to the nationalist Moldavian Popular Front appeared to have been matched by an equally strong showing for the rival Yedinstvo ( " Unity " ) movement , drawing its support largely from the Russian and Ukrainian minority communities . |
| 5 | On Jan. 8 the pro-Soviet Yedinstvo ( " Unity " ) group , drawing its support mainly from the Russian and Polish minorities , staged a demonstration outside the Lithuanian Supreme Council building , ostensibly to protest against planned price rises of 200-300 per cent . |
| 6 | By 1980 , with the IPC ‘ H ’ line to Haifa long since closed , there remained the 1.4 million b/d ‘ T ’ line to Tripoli on the Lebanese coast , with its branch off to the Syrian port at Banias . |
| 7 | At the time it seemed as though the Midland had miraculously got its money back from the ill-fated venture . |
| 8 | For all the apparent scepticism levelled at these bodies from other quarters , the senior financial officers canvassed for their views of the ICAS research study found little to question in its setting out of the existing problems and the responsibilities for central elements of corporate governance . |
| 9 | I am sure that West Yorkshire will welcome any assistance that the schemes can give , and will also appreciate that its rate support grant has increased by 16 per cent. , but that does not mean that it can bring its force up to the required standard . |
| 10 | But this will happen only if it gets its act together in the three areas of service provision , education , and research . |
| 11 | Several key factors will influence just how quickly Ireland can get its rugby back on the right track : fitness , tough competition and coaching . |
| 12 | Some of this , such as traveller 's joy ( Clematis vitalba ) , has extended its range on to the alkaline mortar-rich soils of the urban wasteland . |
| 13 | Finally , weary of its enforced nomadism , it tipped its cargo overboard into the Indian ocean . |
| 14 | The Munn Report examined the structure of the curriculum in the last two years of compulsory schooling in Scotland , and carried out its work almost at the same time as the Dunning Committee considered the aims , purposes and forms of assessment for the whole ability range . |
| 15 | I am aware of most of its history in America , its formation out of the Pontiac Buggy Company , its takeover by General Motors and its sibling Pontiac — that is all fairly well documented . |
| 16 | And perhaps it will find its place also in the coming Museum of Scotland . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , the second capacitor passes its charge on to the third capacitor . |
| 18 | Some 500 psychologists from all parts of the world meet in Scarborough next month when the British Psychological Society holds its conference there for the first time . |
| 19 | He recalled the way it had been parked , its nose halfway inside the open |
| 20 | Yanto shouted at the beast to attract its attention away from the fleeing threesome , while at the same time squeezing himself into a tight batch of young saplings . |
| 21 | Party activists also point out that Labour 's attempt to move its agenda away from the constitutional issue and on to ‘ bread and butter ’ issues such as jobs and water , has in effect led to a policy commitment which gives even greater weight to the role of a future Scottish parliament . |
| 22 | So I drove to Portsmouth expecting a great camel of the ocean , a small luxury liner even , at least a boat that could hold its head up in the seafaring world . |
| 23 | Pincher Martin performs an extreme form of modernism 's abbreviation of the span of narrative into single days , reflecting the whole life of its protagonist supposedly within the single moment of his death . |
| 24 | Its relationship both to the Gaussian curvature of two-dimensional surfaces and to tidal forces is discussed . |
| 25 | The US government continued its efforts to explain the aims of its policy both to the international community and to US domestic opinion . |
| 26 | Firstly , the USA experienced low inflation in its economy up to the early 1960s due to ‘ conservative economic policies . |
| 27 | Behind the horses , the curricle , its hood up against the piercing March wind and the oncoming rain , shifted on the cobbles , and settled again . |
| 28 | The whole strength of Rococo decoration was its movement away from the formal motifs of Palladian classicism towards a humorous appreciation of the natural world and of storybook fantasy . |
| 29 | Through the mist he could see the vague outlines of the priory church and followed its outline round to the ruined oak stump where Lady Eleanor had received her mysterious messages . |
| 30 | The merlin establishes its territory up in the heather-covered hill areas , and searches out suitable hooded crows ' nests from the year before which it will appropriate for its own brood . |