Example sentences of "[adv] its [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps its last flowerings were in the events of May 1968 and in the punk revolution of the 1970s . |
| 2 | The family will have to decide on how much its teenage members will be allowed to spend , and how much discretion they have in making their own choice of clothes , records , holidays or motor cycles . |
| 3 | So it is essential to memorise your line of ascent as far as is possible , piecing together its major features and landmarks , even the times taken for each section , so as to smooth your downward passage . |
| 4 | Though only its rough foundations survived , the west gate turned out to be an impressive and imposing structure , comprising two towers with semicircular fronts , flanking a dual carriageway . |
| 5 | But : ‘ Arbitrary as it seems when only its individual terms are considered , the system becomes coherent when it is seen as a whole set ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 6 | Medicine 's growing number of critics were given important empirical support by the work of Thomas McKeown , which exposed not only its present limitations but threw doubt on its past successes . |
| 7 | And it can fly supersonically using only its normal engines ; with no gas-guzzling afterburners to feed , it can go much farther at such speeds than any of today 's machines . |
| 8 | It is believed that Lady Thatcher is considering advising Philip Morris on only its non-tobacco interests after public outcry . |
| 9 | 9 A rectangle is another special type of quadrilateral. rectangle Only its opposite sides are equal . |
| 10 | Only its formal subdivisions are known , despite the fact that the press was admitted to its open sessions . |
| 11 | The view we took was , in a nutshell , that the volatile nature of the South African political arena outweighed not only its magnificent facilities , but also the anti-apartheid emotional legacy of welcoming back the Springboks . |
| 12 | In the 1960s , W. D. Hamilton suggested that an individual should sacrifice itself to help not only its own children , but also its close relatives that share many genes . |
| 13 | It is not only its intrinsic qualities which have guaranteed Umberto Eco 's novel its prominent position in the Italian literary scene . |
| 14 | In January all its planned projects would have needed 22 billion roubles . |
| 15 | For a diagonal matrix D having all its diagonal elements different , it follows that C must then also be diagonal . |
| 16 | What influenced Hincmar most ( though his description idealised it a little ) was the regime of Charles the Bald , especially its latter years . |
| 17 | Fanon is surely right to stress the sexual component of racism , especially its destructive effects on ( hetero ) sexual relations across race . |
| 18 | With this rise to power of a single male deity and the concomitant lessening in status of the other members of the Israelite pantheon ( especially its female members ) , the role played by women in public religion began to diminish . |
| 19 | Once again , although an impression of youth united by universal licence is not given , practices and attitudes may be considered more generally advanced or permissive than among the bulk of the population — especially its older members — in Gorer 's study . |
| 20 | That evening , after dinner at our hotel , we walked along its reed-lined paths which lead past tykes and inter-connecting lagoons . |
| 21 | Energis is the name chosen by the UK 's National Grid Company for the telephone service it plans to launch next year , delivered along fibre optic lines that will run along its 4,200 miles of overhead power lines and 360 miles of underground cable : the company — owned by the 12 regional UK electricity distributors , hopes to get the go-ahead for its planned service in a few weeks , and has heavyweights Gordon Owen , formerly of Mercury Communications Ltd , and David Dey , formerly British Telecommunications Plc on board to run the business . |
| 22 | There is plenty to visit : numerous museums , including the Gothic Art and Picasso , its two cathedrals ( the Gothic and Gaudi 's Sagrada Familia ) , the Spanish Folk Village , the mountain of Montjuich with its castle and Tibidabo with its fun fair , or just wandering along its tree-lined boulevards , of which the most famous is the Ramblas . |
| 23 | Typically the central bank of the country facing downwards pressure on its currency would intervene for a time by running down its official reserves , but eventually might decide to devalue if there was no sign that domestic policies were likely to contain the situation . |
| 24 | The USA was eager to play down its close links with Israel in order not to alienate potential Arab supporters . |
| 25 | It was eager to play down its close links with Israel in order not to alienate potential Arab supporters , and made it clear that any Israeli military involvement in the crisis would cause a radical shift in the already unstable Arab ranks , possibly leading a number of those currently allied to the USA to side with Iraq . |
| 26 | Another set of problems at the level of institutional approval was created for the CNAA by the decision of the University of London to run down its external degrees , and the CNAA 's agreement to take up the reins where possible and appropriate . |
| 27 | Phillips to close down its European operations |
| 28 | Tumin concludes that in their enthusiastic search for the positive functions of stratification , the functionalists have tended to ignore or play down its many dysfunctions . |
| 29 | Rank closed down its smaller studios at Shepherd 's Bush and Islington ( the old Gaumont-British studios ) as well as Denham and Highbury . |
| 30 | The water began to trickle down its old tearstains below the taps : she hoped there 'd be enough hot to wash her hair . |