Example sentences of "[noun] its [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was concern about prostitution , venereal disease , maternal mortality and the control of female sexuality that gave gynaecology its distinctive qualities . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Economics has been roundly dismissed as a miserable science , and to the layman its contradictory conclusions and evident practical inabilities are more likely to provoke scorn than respect . |
| 9 | And if the appeal does n't give Swindon its million pounds , it 'll leave a bitter taste when they have to defend against Hoddle 's playing skills in the Premier League next season . |
| 10 | no particular reason for the rise its general movements and not a serious movement as far as we 're concerned includes the whole element of debtors from ourselves to our wholesale debtors which is our own manufacturing operation where they 're selling to outside customers there 's nothing particularly significant in that . |
| 11 | This agreement , however , foundered upon the failure of the two sides to agree upon the details of the plan , and upon the refusal of the USA to depart from its practice of neither confirming nor denying the presence of nuclear weapons on board its naval vessels . |
| 12 | In the main , the college has produced little radical comment or research of note during the four decades of its existence , for the various chief officers have jealously ensured that any consolidation of ideological excellence at this location has been neutered , and under Home Office direction its senior courses have primarily been used to provide a stream of suitably acquiescent candidates for the ACPO ranks , who readily take on the symbols and metaphors of dominance which feed the appetite for power Stead warns against . |
| 13 | The town is proud of its cultural reputation , it boasts a philharmonic orchestra , a modern dance company , an annual summer music and theatre festival , and of course its medieval tapestries of the Apocalypse . |
| 14 | In the streets of Madrid and other cities its blue-shirted militants stepped up anti-leftist terror in an attempt to de-stabilize the Republic . |
| 15 | The benefits that actually count are the benefits to those genes that give the shell its protective properties . |
| 16 | Before the Treasury was rehoused at the end of Whitehall its junior clerks were scratching here at their ledgers . |
| 17 | Firstly because , by giving the EEC its own resources from agricultural levies and customs duties , it would give the Commission greater independence ; and secondly because it proposed to widen the budgetary powers of the European Parliament , again strengthening the supranational element in the EEC to which the General was opposed . |
| 18 | Only when Benazir its strict rules within its walls , so each household also has a well defined ‘ parish ’ where its members are allowed to operate . |
| 19 | All madeiras are blended and the blender is an artist , giving the blend its distinctive characteristics . |
| 20 | Under Mr Levin its high-tech ambitions are bigger than most , and so are its debts . |
| 21 | The Yellow Book imposes on listed companies its own obligations regarding secrecy and announcements ( see para 17.5 below ) , which mirror much of what the Code imposes . |
| 22 | Yet treachery was the greatest crime in the feudal code : loyalty and generosity its supreme virtues . |
| 23 | The police followed from a distance its blue lights flashing . |
| 24 | It is this essentially dynamic experience — energy releasing energy , which gives medieval Christian mysticism its special characteristics , many of which were directly derived from the teaching of St Augustine ( fifth century ) , the most seminal figure in the West for orthodox mystical theology . |
| 25 | It is their understanding and experience of the meaning of this story of the Incarnation transmitted to them in the Bible , and in the interpretations of the Scriptures by the Church Fathers , which gives their Christian mysticism its definitive characteristics . |
| 26 | Tyneside has its Metro , Liverpool its underground lines , Strathclyde a lavish electric system . |
| 27 | During the decade its combined imports and exports have totally five million tonnes , involving the loading and discharging of some 2,000 ships from the Cliff Quay site at Ipswich . |
| 28 | Government controlled Straits Times newspaper last year ran as an invaluable community service its own toilets of shame campaign listing each day the country 's most offensive loos . |
| 29 | In Derry its elected representatives were , as in rural areas , mainly drawn from the ranks of small businessmen . |
| 30 | Yet although the old company was largely moribund its legal powers were still extant and this had resulted in a decline in milling since the Civil War , here and elsewhere , for it was plainly an obstacle to private enterprise . |