Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] its [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every one is different , everyone has its own pattern of possible rat runs and they take a great deal of er er |
| 2 | ‘ The Civil Rights [ Disabled Persons ] Bill , introduced by Alf Morris MP as a Private Member 's Bill earlier this year , which receives its third reading in the House of Lords today , could form the basis of the new Act . |
| 3 | The scenic elements in Corolla , Angels Margarit 's solo dance work which receives its British premiere as part of New Moves this week , are not in themselves remarkable . |
| 4 | The results indicated overwhelmingly that people are nowadays looking for a colour that has the versatility of white , but which displays its own unique warmth and character . |
| 5 | In contrast to an institute such as the Courtauld which offers its own degrees , the courses at the new centre will be run independently by the various departments of the Parisian and provincial universities which have , in the past , offered courses in the relevant subjects . |
| 6 | Rural institutions and local government in rural areas often tend to be dominated by a powerful and unrepresentative minority which represents its own interests rather than those of the majority . |
| 7 | In recent years , folk music has shed its woolly jumper and finger-in-the-ear image and reached a new audience which appreciates its wide range of styles and influences . |
| 8 | Exceptions are ‘ Handsworth New Silver ’ , whose leaf margins are silvery-cream , contrasting well against the purple bark on the young stems , and Ilex x altaclarensis ‘ Belgica Aurea ’ which produces its best berries when container grown . |
| 9 | But the Beecham drug company , which produces its own monitor of flu occurrence in Britain , says its scale of between 100 to 300 shows an epidemic rating of 200 . |
| 10 | Its 7-cm picture , which appears on a twisted nematic liquid-crystal display , is visible only in the dark because it is backed by an electroluminescent material which produces its own light . |
| 11 | A " works contractor " , on the other hand , is an organisation which supplies its own employees to undertake work at the premises of a client and which retains control over them whilst they are working there . |
| 12 | Thus , in spite of the problems involved in clearly identifying and measuring the contribution which education makes to economic growth , the balance of the available evidence suggests that an advanced industrial society which neglects its educational system does so at its own economic peril . |
| 13 | The box at Marske-in-Swaledale , which turns its blank stainless steel back to the main road , is a particularly sore thumb . |
| 14 | They presented a plaque to Rob Poynter on behalf of the British association which holds its annual swimming championships at the centre . |
| 15 | FOYLE Meats has given a big boost to the National Sheep Association , which holds its multi-breed ram sale at Antrim on September 21 . |
| 16 | One of the most popular has been carnelian , which owes its reddish colour to the presence of iron oxide . |
| 17 | As with other contributors , exaggerated claims are made for détournement ( the communication which contains its own critique ) , firstly because it was an inheritance from Cubism and Dada , and secondly , because , as the exhibition shows , its deployment by ‘ pro-situs ’ has made of it a commonplace , popularised in punk fanzines , and ‘ Biff ’ postcards etc . |
| 18 | Normally , though , sociologists have argued that these three strata have enough in common to make them components of one class , because they are all divided by a considerable gulf from the non-manual middle class , which contains its own strata . |
| 19 | But where the newspaper story has significance is in describing , and indeed representing , the limitations of a present position , which on one level is based upon an explicitly favourable stance , yet which contains its own implicit limitations . |
| 20 | The question now arises : can that rational animal Man ever become more than an animal which criticizes its own spontaneous tendencies in the light of its awareness of itself and of external conditions ? |
| 21 | ICL 's second trophy went to its Bracknell , Berkshire-based Mid Range Systems division for the volume of DRS 6000 series systems and associated Unix products and services shipped abroad — its revenues are reckoned to have trebled over the past three years to over £250m ; Cambridge-based IXI Ltd was recognised for its success in the open systems software arena with its X.desktop product for Unix , and Chalfont , Buckinghamshire-based Madge Networks Ltd , which ships its high performance Token Ring networking products across the world , and finds it necessary to kid the locals that it 's an American company when it is doing business in the US , also wins an Export award . |
| 22 | It receives a substantial recurrent grant from the University , which covers its operational overheads . |
| 23 | This is the Court of Chancery : which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire ; which has its worn-out lunatic in every madhouse , and its dead in every churchyard ; which has its ruined suitor , with his slipshod heels and threadbare dress , borrowing and begging through the round of every man 's acquaintance ; which gives to monied might , the means abundantly of wearying out the right ; which so exhausts finances , patience , courage , hope : so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart ; that there is not an honourable man among its practitioners who would not give — who does not often give — the warning , " Suffer any wrong that can be done you , rather than come here " . |
| 24 | It must be enough here to point to four main areas of debate , each of which has its political , economic , medical , and moral ramifications . |
| 25 | This is the Court of Chancery : which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire ; which has its worn-out lunatic in every madhouse , and its dead in every churchyard ; which has its ruined suitor , with his slipshod heels and threadbare dress , borrowing and begging through the round of every man 's acquaintance ; which gives to monied might , the means abundantly of wearying out the right ; which so exhausts finances , patience , courage , hope : so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart ; that there is not an honourable man among its practitioners who would not give — who does not often give — the warning , " Suffer any wrong that can be done you , rather than come here " . |
| 26 | Doubling in Dostoevsky , which goes back to the very beginning , to Mr Devushkin living and not living in the kitchen , which has its post-Siberian developments in the underground man 's now-you-see-me-now-you-don't ‘ flashing ’ of his consciousness , in Raskolnikov 's and Svidrigailov 's different ways of being among but not with us and Porfiry 's torture tune of ‘ There 's nothing here , precisely nothing , perhaps absolutely nothing ’ — doubling takes on a new form in The Possessed , closer to the I/We/They/Everybody/Nobody shifts of The House of the Dead than anything else before it or to come . |
| 27 | Sometimes the definitions can border on the eccentric : the American admiral who commands all his country 's ships , airmen , soldiers and marines in what the pentagon regards as ‘ the Pacific ’ — as in the admiral 's official title CINCPAC , Commander-in-Chief , Pacific — holds sway over an ocean which has its westerly shores oft Mombasa , and is arbitrarily cut off along a line running due south from the border between Mexico and Guatemala . |
| 28 | This is the Court of Chancery : which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire ; which has its worn-out lunatic in every madhouse , and its dead in every churchyard ; which has its ruined suitor , with his slipshod heels and threadbare dress , borrowing and begging through the round of every man 's acquaintance ; which gives to monied might , the means abundantly of wearying out the right ; which so exhausts finances , patience , courage , hope : so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart ; that there is not an honourable man among its practitioners who would not give — who does not often give — the warning , " Suffer any wrong that can be done you , rather than come here " . |
| 29 | In the republics or a country like Malaysia , which has its own monarch , she has by definition no function and receives no constitutional advice . |
| 30 | Which has its own story : Jagger 's lips , Hendrix 's cock , Bolan 's gin , Prince 's tongue , Morrissey 's nipple ( one of the few options of indecency left , to revel , to splay oneself-as-object , play thing ) . |