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 | But this will happen only if it gets its act together in the three areas of service provision , education , and research . |
| 7 | Finally , weary of its enforced nomadism , it tipped its cargo overboard into the Indian ocean . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And perhaps it will find its place also in the coming Museum of Scotland . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He recalled the way it had been parked , its nose halfway inside the open |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Its relationship both to the Gaussian curvature of two-dimensional surfaces and to tidal forces is discussed . |
| 16 | The US government continued its efforts to explain the aims of its policy both to the international community and to US domestic opinion . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In the eighteen months since Mrs Thatcher had taken up employment at Dickins and Jones , the mood of the Party had perceptibly changed for the better , the great bulk of the membership having transferred its loyalty smoothly from the old Leader to the new . |
| 19 | York 's annual Jorvik Viking Festival reaches its climax today with the traditional boat burning ceremony on the River Ouse and a firework display beginning at 7.15pm . |
| 20 | There would be no buildings or other structures on the breakwater extension which would raise its height significantly above the existing breakwaters and thereby interfere with the radar station . |
| 21 | Where , on the other hand , the third estate was still weak and only in a budding stage at the beginning of the nineteenth century , as in Germany , Italy , and among the Slavonic peoples , nationalism found its expression predominantly in the cultural field . |
| 22 | Its survival far into the next century is unlikely . |
| 23 | The ocean which appeared to stretch across all our visible horizon was in fact a loch , Ultima Esperanza , a sea-loch that reached 200 miles inland and from where Pacific shipping could , in theory ( if the master was good and the compass correct ) navigate its way deep inside the Andean chain . |
| 24 | Megadeth 's fifth and finest LP , ‘ Countdown To Extinction ’ slammed its way straight into the upper reaches of LP charts all over the globe ( it entered the US chart at a staggering No. 2 ! ) and its first single , Symphony Of Destruction , was such a hit in the UK that a Top Of The Pops appearance was simply unavoidable . |
| 25 | ‘ The consciousness secretly indwelling in matter , the occult inhabitant , is able to make its way upward from the lower to the higher gradations , taking up what it was into what it is and preparing to take up both into what it will be . |
| 26 | I paddle quickly , aware too that the Ocean 's cold has gnawed its way uncomfortably through the thin GRP of the kayak and into my poorly protected flesh Tony waits for me , to point out a small brown luck that is lurking among some rocks to our right . |
| 27 | Much of this capital found its way directly into the non-agricultural sphere , funding administration , the provision of armed forces , the building of a national infrastructure and production capacity . |
| 28 | This means that silviculture of spruce on a 55-year rotation is less conducive to vegetation diversity , which attains its maximum only in the early years when light conditions are favourable . |
| 29 | Provided that the Tenant shall be entitled to mortgage or charge its interest hereunder with the previous consent of the Landlord ( such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed ) and |
| 30 | The capitalist class became dominant , and although the feudal aristocracy maintained aspects of its power well into the nineteenth century , it was fighting a losing battle . |