Example sentences of "[noun] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some ways it resembles a barchan ( see Chapter 11 ) , but the arms trail , whereas in a barchan the arms or horns lead : the barchan presents its convex face to the wind , the parabolic dune its concave face . |
| 2 | It took much restoration , in the remarkably enlightened years in the middle of the last century when conservation took hold in France , to give the cathedral of Lescar its present air of authenticity . |
| 3 | It was concern about prostitution , venereal disease , maternal mortality and the control of female sexuality that gave gynaecology its distinctive qualities . |
| 4 | We might well be inclined to call this intentional object the context of the emotional arousal for it is the cognitive relationship with a particular context that gives the emotion its particular characteristics . |
| 5 | Source of funds Its main source of funds is bonds and loans raised on a commercial basis on the capital markets in the EC and on other international markets also . |
| 6 | In electro magnetism , the repulsion between two electrons can be pictured as the exchange of a photon — a particle that has to be massless to give the force its infinite range , its inverse square law . |
| 7 | Lengthy instructions are best handled by way of an addendum sheet in order to keep the standard form as succinct as possible , bearing in mind its subsequent use as a contractual and financial document . |
| 8 | In the government 's mind its single-minded agency approach assumes an entrepreneurial ability that contrasts with the alleged inflexibility and bureaucratic ethos of local authorities . |
| 9 | According to InfoCorp figures believed to be close to the mark , it installed 10,000 units its first year in the business , giving it the number one slot in that market . |
| 10 | Using genetic engineering , the company Delta Biotechnology has inserted into yeast the human gene for the manufacture of haemoglobin , the protein that gives blood its scarlet colour and transports oxygen to tissues around the body . |
| 11 | MOTORSPORT : Benetton will give their B193 Formula One car its racing debut at next week 's South African Grand Prix — and then replace it with an even newer model after just three races . |
| 12 | London was the greatest town in England , and during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries its economic resources increased more markedly than those of most other parts of the country . |
| 13 | The plaintiffs made an application for an interlocutory injunction to restrain the defendant from disclosing to the regulatory body or to the revenue its confidential information or documents . |
| 14 | This is why we do not want to abandon the term inner city , either analytically or politically , only to ground it in the academic debates which have reproduced it conceptually , the political debates that have refashioned it discursively and , most significantly , the social injustices and inequalities that lend the term its emotive power and mobilising force . |
| 15 | By 1789 it had assumed in most respects its nineteenth-century form . |
| 16 | Apart from the obvious point that it fails to produce uniformity its principal defect is that it leads to the application of a particular national law which is likely to have been devised for domestic transactions and may well be ill-suited to those which are international in character . |
| 17 | In some animals its biological role is more clearly defined . |
| 18 | The rest of the audience cranes its collective neck to spot the guilty party . |
| 19 | The lobbying from the dyestuffs interest gave the programme its empirical direction . |
| 20 | Conveyor belting : Although often part of heavy machinery , belting demands its own method . |
| 21 | It was the combination of large circulation share and a large number of titles that gave concentration its distinctive character in 1990 . |
| 22 | I could see by the light of his torch that the cave was deep and spacious ; I could not make out from the beam of light its total dimensions , but clearly a man would have had no problem stretching out to sleep there . |
| 23 | When viewed in this light its theoretical position and its influence in relation to the social movements of Fabianism and New Liberalism may be revealed . |
| 24 | Situated close to the harbour its nautical connections ( it was once owned by a local shipowner ) are very evident — all the bedrooms are named after local sailing ships . |
| 25 | But Weber gives wertrational action its own standing and importance and , when we come to think about expressive rationality later , we shall return to the topic . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , they will continue to play a vitally important role in post-16 provision , a role which may well increase if , for example , West Glamorgan puts into practice its stated intention of creating tertiary colleges . |
| 27 | In practice its major consequences are : ( a ) the assignment of responsibility for assisting a team preparing a review to individual members of committees higher up the tree ; and ( b ) collapsing levels , e.g. by having MMRC members attend a department 's review of its own fields , so that there is no need for a separate event and the process of review can be observed . |
| 28 | Germany put in to practice its social ideology and policy in a much more vigorous way than Italy did . |
| 29 | Drawing on our discussion of paragraph organisation in general , and opening paragraphs in particular ( pp. 92 – 4 ) , revise the passage in ways that present to best effect its main points . |
| 30 | It is decadent literature , intoxicated with its own rarefication and artifice , its theatrical élitim mand its lofty decination inationto oblige . |