Example sentences of "[adv] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps its prime message is the crucial role that Rosat is likely to play in our understanding of these issues . |
| 2 | The chargé , Everett Drumright , countered by reminding Rhee that the ECA was spending more than 100 million dollars in Korea at present and had perhaps its largest staff in Korea . |
| 3 | Such people were the most irreducible problem for the Communist system everywhere and perhaps its ultimate downfall . |
| 4 | Perhaps its wider implementation in early pregnancy should be an aim of all obstetric departments . |
| 5 | Perhaps its greatest advantage is its ability to point social workers to the simple , practical steps they can take to improve the quality of life for children whose other difficulties may prove impossible to remedy . |
| 6 | Solemnity is perhaps its greatest defect . |
| 7 | Perhaps its last flowerings were in the events of May 1968 and in the punk revolution of the 1970s . |
| 8 | I would therefore argue that one of the chief tasks of education , perhaps its overriding task , is the education and encouragement of a child 's imagination , so that he may not be a slave to a perception confined solely to the present , a perception that is little more than blindness . |
| 9 | The legislation in no way addresses the desirability of such publicity , merely its commercial outcome . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This brought to an end the short life of the Basque Republic of Euskadi , which under its president , Aguirre , had been waging what was very much its own war . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This will liberate much needed space in one two one , and enable the Board to bring together its central administration in one place for the first time ever . |
| 14 | but Geoffrey says it , cos I says you got ta hit back you got ta do it , he says yes its all very well but its not just Stuart , its been Blankley , Da , Ja , erm Daniel its a load of them and they all get together its this Daniel bloke , bash his head in , I would really , I wish somebody I 'll bloody threaten him , I really do you know your big mates , bloody , he 's got no older brothers , I mean all your bloody six formers , I 'm sure they could frighten the little twat |
| 15 | When Bradford College put together its 6 AFE courses into a single scheme . |
| 16 | This was a halfway house in which Sweden used no coal , and only its existing biomass , without the energy plantations . |
| 17 | In the past , Informix 's resellers sold only its standard engine to small and middle-sized companies as a low-end offering , while a direct sales team focussed on selling the more advanced Informix On-line database to larger accounts . |
| 18 | The 1975 example was a simple post-built construction measuring c. 13 by 8 m ( 43 by 26 ft ) , though only its southern wall and aisles had survived later disturbance . |
| 19 | The most northerly was apparently undivided , though only its southern ditch lay within the excavated area . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It is believed that Lady Thatcher is considering advising Philip Morris on only its non-tobacco interests after public outcry . |
| 25 | The non-fiction division yielded sales of £3.9m in only its second year of publishing , while the fiction division grew by 19% to produce £10.1m of sales . |
| 26 | MILLWALL Football Club , which is playing only its second season in the First Division in its 104-year history , is to obtain a Stock Exchange listing . |
| 27 | Mercury is one exception , offering only its managed portfolio , which operates in the style of a private client service . |
| 28 | It was well after midnight and the cold surface of the Thames had only its elemental nature in common with a desert pool , and although she was once again sitting in the shadow of the Sphinx it was on cold , wet stone and not on sunbaked sand . |
| 29 | Only its natural decay product , polonium , is more toxic . |
| 30 | The principal effect of referring to rules of private international law to extend the scope of a Convention would seem to be to displace a possible presumption that the parties , in choosing the law of a Contracting State , intended only its domestic law to apply ( that is , without the Convention ) and to impose on them the onus of displacing the Convention . |