Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general conclusion which we have reached is that there is no clear evidence in any of the figures we have examined that the abolition of capital punishment has led to an increase in the homicide rate , or that its reintroduction has led to a fall . |
| 2 | The UK 's relative lack of success in exploiting innovative technology is not , therefore , because the country 's engineers and scientists lack good innovative ideas or that its R&D is not of the highest quality . |
| 3 | Some archivists/records managers have shown concern over the loss of correspondence between historically important people ; others that e-mail encourages ‘ garbage ’ or that its tenor discourages sufficient development of ideas between contributors . |
| 4 | Few , however , would dispute either the inevitability of the process or that its effect on the 320 million European citizens will be real and lasting . |
| 5 | This is of course not possible , and we should rather conclude that any intermediate , formed by the initial attack of Cl - on , must have no significant absorption in the spectral range studied , or that its concentration is never so great that it contributes significantly to the spectrum . |
| 6 | Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to . |
| 7 | If it appears that the prosecution has failed to prove an essential element of the offence , or if its evidence has been discredited in cross-examination , there is no case to answer and the defence does not respond . |
| 8 | The problem , as with inclination in the case of questions of value , is whether reason ever quite lifts itself out of reach of spontaneous analogizations , or whether its function remains limited to organizing , criticizing and choosing between them . |
| 9 | There has also been a political debate over whether the state should play a role in production or whether its presence should be reduced in order to clear the way for greater private initiative . |
| 10 | She stayed awake for a long time wondering uneasily whether cruelty was a natural part of her character , or whether its expression was merely an aspect of growing up . |
| 11 | The court is to decide ( among other things ) whether the company may continue to refuse to hire fertile women for jobs that require exposure to lead , or whether its policy is discriminatory . |
| 12 | The Pittagora women did not yet swim , and airless midsummer found them sequestered in their shuttered , marble-floored apartment in Rupe , emerging only before the sun gathered strength to go to market or to Mass , or after its heat had dimmed in the evening to stroll under the acacia trees with the rest of the town 's gentry , while their servants sat in doorways on wooden chairs , commenting aloud . |
| 13 | Everyone will have their own ideas about what lost Labour the election , or when its campaign began to lose its cutting edge . |
| 14 | The War Wagon fights in hand-to-hand combat in the same way as a chariot , except that its crew are armed with a variety of experimental weaponry as described below . |
| 15 | This has exactly the same internal format as a FONT except that its ID number is unique and not , as was the case with the FONT resource , the result of a calculation based on the font number , the size and a constant . |
| 16 | In 1844 Youatt described two types of Sussex : one closer to the Devon stock , being smaller , light and agile , the other larger and more like a Hereford except that its coat colour was whole . |
| 17 | Hermione Lee pinpoints what I feel about this novel — that although its subject is depression and waiting for death , it does not feel gloomy because of its own formal delight , its interest in language , including the contrasted languages of the sophisticated ‘ writer ’ , the Professor , a historian of the European exploration of America , and Tom Outland , the indigenous traveller , discovering the primeval inhabitants , but teaching himself to read Virgil , and thus exploring in the other direction . |
| 18 | On the highly publicized issue in AI 's December report of the baby deaths , Amnesty said that although its team was shown alleged mass graves of babies , it was not established how they had died and the team found no reliable evidence that Iraqi forces had caused the deaths of babies by removing them or ordering their removal from incubators . |
| 19 | than that its colour |
| 20 | Aristotle added that the manticore 's voice was ‘ like a small trumpet ’ and that it was very wild , although if its tail was bruised it could be tamed without any trouble . |
| 21 | Defence workers turned out in force at Westminster , a reminder to the government that if its determination to curb spending means cutting the defence budget , jobs as well as the armed forces will suffer . |
| 22 | The bank is advising the Australian group and it has been calculated that if its bid succeeds Morgan 's commission will add 6.5 per cent to its earnings . |
| 23 | Consequently , consumers demand more of the good than if its price reflected all social costs and so too much of the good is produced . |
| 24 | Sears says that because its solution conforms to general rather than inhouse standards , suppliers using Ensemble will be able to use the same approach to trade with other partners , so that the proprietary ‘ lock-in ’ is avoided . |
| 25 | The reason is simply that since its meaning is more abstract than that of see , hear , watch , etc. , it lends itself more easily to the inference-type sense than do the latter . |
| 26 | Indeed the EC has in the past been more concerned with the question of whether national aid programmes contravened its competition policy rather than whether its competition policy might have any adverse consequences for the regions of member nations . |
| 27 | It is not clear when the right actually arises , nor whether its basis is the sovereign will of the treaty parties or the assent of the third party . |
| 28 | It made him see that before its power all of this was nothing and yet , at the same time , without him , or Slorne , or Minch or any of the creatures , imprisoned and free , its power would be nothing . |
| 29 | In actual practice , except when its life was extended in the World Wars , that limit has never been reached in modern times . |
| 30 | In practice , however , the BBC knew that as its audience share fell , the case for a compulsory fee would become weaker and that getting the fee raised at the regular three-yearly review would be trickier ( no government was going to win votes by raising the licence fee , even during the years of monopoly ) . |