Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the context in which John XXII told the king c.1318 that ‘ the state of ecclesiastical dignity is in the realm of England more notably depressed , or rather its liberty crushed , than in all other parts of the world ’ . |
| 2 | Secondly the archive base became much more than the database ( or rather its constituent tables ) . |
| 3 | There was a limit to what she could make out , given the angle and that she was trying to see the page upside-down , but what she saw was enough to confirm that this book , or perhaps its predecessor for the previous year , had the potential to tell her exactly what she most needed to know . |
| 4 | A proper discussion of a football match can not occur if one of the participants is quite ignorant of the rules of the game ; and the kind of assessment of a restaurant meal that would involve the possible insertion of the establishment into a good food guide ( or perhaps its deletion from it ) will not get very far if one of the diners does not care for the meal because his idea of a gastronomic treat is a cheeseburger and french fries ( though within the order of the burger discriminations are possible ) . |
| 5 | JUST when you may been ready to despair , it seems that this country of ours may have found something of its heart , or perhaps its soul . |
| 6 | The usual rule of thumb is that a model may be hit if half or more its base area is covered by the template , while a model whose base is only grazed is not hit . |
| 7 | The net result is that the slowdown in the production of fixed capital will also cause a reduction in the rate of growth of , or even its reduction to zero . |
| 8 | Loss of colour can even be related to its status or even its mood . |
| 9 | It is probable that the Commission will suggest radical reform of the Court , or even its replacement . |
| 10 | Thus a 10-month-old baby who failed to respond to its name , or to betray signs of recognition towards its mother , twin sister , or even its rattle , might well give therapists cause for concern ; which is not to say that the normal baby , who does succeed in reacting appropriately , is thereby yet self -conscious . |
| 11 | The touch of menstrual blood on the male penis is feared as causing impotency or even its rotting away , obvious castration fantasies . |
| 12 | So they are observations and it is my feeling that this motion has taken on significantly more importance than its content or indeed its effect . |
| 13 | The prestige of Oswiu 's family , or else its capacity for intimidation , must have been very considerable for Aldfrith to return and rule in what seems to have been domestic peace . |
| 14 | I am not sure why this quarter was called ‘ Chinese ’ except that perhaps its apartness from the regular secular and religious life of Salamanca made it seem like another country , and a far-off , exotic one at that . |
| 15 | So take notice at once that only its CD remastering is new . |
| 16 | A pub , like any other old building , is far more than just its principle facade , or its four walls . |
| 17 | Based on popular lectures at Boston Science Museum , 13 Massachusetts astronomers present their personal slants on research problems ranging from heating of the solar corona to Einsteinian gravitation , emphasising the complex interplay between theory and observation and the problems and frustrations of research , rather than just its outcome . |
| 18 | The meaning of the document , rather than just its appearance , is captured . |
| 19 | On the contrary , I shall maintain that this distinction demands the existence of such objects , and that moreover its applicability to such objects presupposes the possibility of certain criteria . |
| 20 | Devenish is to spend up to £180million to more than double its pub chain . |
| 21 | Direct Line Insurance , which first located in Glasgow in 1988 , purchased one of the new office developments in the central business district and expects to more than double its employment in the city . |
| 22 | Max Pechstein 's painting ‘ Sunset ’ of 1929 provided a surprise success , selling to the USA for more than double its estimate at DM440,000 ( £176,000 ; $281,600 ) . |
| 23 | The auction opened with Daniel Chodowiecki 's watercolour ‘ Frederick II on horseback ’ of 1777 , which went under the hammer at DM78,000 ( £31,200 ; $49,920 ) , more than double its estimate ; it reached its first highpoint with Max Liebermann 's ‘ Garden on the Wannsee ’ of 1916 , for which a north German collector paid DM480,000 ( £192,000 ; $307,200 ) . |
| 24 | THE University of Southampton announced plans yesterday to more than double its student numbers over the next 35 years by building an additional campus . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , Barclays has announced plans to more than double its network of wipe-through machines . |
| 26 | Kohlberg Kravis Roberts paid $15 billion for RJR Nabisco ( more than double its book value ) ; Philip Morris bought Kraft for $12.9 billion ( four times book value ) and Nestlé spent $1.5 billion for Rowntree ( five times ) . |
| 27 | While there are some aspects of the redraft where it might be argued that the law has not been accurately expressed , there is no doubt that both its language and typography suggest that there are considerable improvements which could be made to the present drafting and printing of statutes in the UK . |
| 28 | Accordingly , if the business is hived up from Target to Newco at less than both its cost and market value , this will depress the value of Newco 's shares in Target , so that a subsequent disposal of Target would , in the absence of s32 TCGA , not realise a gain . |
| 29 | The Democrat-controlled House budget committee , therefore , had little opportunity to redraft the budget in a radical fashion , although overall its budget proposal did redirect some $13,0000 million of the spending embodied in the Bush plan . |
| 30 | The possibilities for recasting the UK accounts are being examined , with the intention of making them reflect the real resource use , or output contribution , of the public sector , rather than simply its share of expenditure . |