Example sentences of "[conj] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The council receives reports from its police committee , but its control is possibly more tenuous than where its legal responsibility is clear ( Elcock 1986 : 169 ) . |
| 2 | This is an issue which we must now confront by considering what range of mystical activity the term religion includes and where its outer limits lie . |
| 3 | But what about the lower threshold of manslaughter , where its minimum requirements form the boundary with accidental ( non-criminal ) homicide ? |
| 4 | Compared to Auspex Systems Inc , where its technical people come from , it says preliminary LADDIS benchmarks indicates a response time of 7ms versus 21ms and a throughput with 2 Ethernets of 415iops versus 466iops at a price of $37,000 versus $200,000 . |
| 5 | ( The Atlantic , though dominated by an enormous mid-ocean ridge where new sea-floor is being created at a modest rate of about an inch a year , is home to only two very small subduction zones , with volcanoes and trenches , in the Caribbean and the South Sandwich Islands , and therefore is not being destroyed at its edges as rapidly as it is being created in the middle ; the Indian Ocean is similarly undramatic — a mid-ocean ridge once again , but a single subduction zone where its eastern plate collides with the Eurasian Plate and produces the volcanoes that — like Krakatoa — line the southern side of the islands of Java , Sumatra and Timor . ) |
| 6 | The unit moved to Loughborough University in 1976 , where its title was subsequently changed to the Centre for Library and Information Management ( CLAIM ) , and where its new objectives are to improve the effectiveness of service to users . |
| 7 | The light , clearing and brightening to the pure pale gold of primroses where its slanting rays could reach , still left the gatehouse and the court within the gates in shadow , and Tutilo kept his eyes on the cobbles and trod carefully , as though he could not see his way clearly . |
| 8 | The mountain poses perfectly for the camera from the head of the Kyle , where its arresting presence is gloriously displayed . |
| 9 | To consolidate this success the railway is currently carrying out an extensive passenger survey to find out where its existing customers come from and what they think of the railway . |
| 10 | Messages prints out to both dot matrix and laser , where its four-up format and the use of coloured paper stock can deliver the normal message slips , whilst the original data resides safely on the PC . |
| 11 | But Leeds neither was nor is such an LEA , at least where its primary schools are concerned . |
| 12 | The Harare Statement on Communication in Theological Education ( 1989 ) spoke of ‘ frustrations about communication in a hierarchical , authoritative and class-conscious Church , where its male clergy pay the piper and call the tune ’ . |
| 13 | Obviously when the agency claims allegiance to an established precedent where its formal interests in pollution control or its organizational interests are served , it lends further support to the principle of equity . |
| 14 | An international organisation will be directly interested in proceedings where its constitutive instrument , its actions , or its documents might be scrutinised . |
| 15 | It ran , high and level and almost straight , from the north , where its Precipitous crags dropped sheer from the edge , black against the pale , early morning light , to the south , where a jagged lump stood up , breaking its smooth run . |
| 16 | Though evidence of the Caledonian orogeny has been claimed from areas as remote as the Canadian Rockies and the Bohemian Massif , it is fairly obvious where its main effects were felt . |
| 17 | Sequoia 's current series 300 and 400 fault-tolerant multi-processors , based upon Motorola Inc 68030 and 68040 CPU technology respectively , address the mid-range of that market , where its main competition is Stratus Computer Inc 's Intel Corp 80860-based machines and Tandem Computers Inc 's MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC line . |
| 18 | Hazelnut oil is the secret ingredient of so many sumptuous French salads where its fresh flavour sparkles over the vegetables . |
| 19 | Most of its fruit had fallen in the long grass , where its rotting skin had been pecked and tunnelled by birds and worms . |
| 20 | An example of this would be the value of a piece of equipment where its gross book value would be represented by the total volume of water in the two reservoirs . |
| 21 | So we tried to look deeper , particularly for a way of applying our money where its unique lack of strings could help add most the eminent scientists on the Venture Research Advisory Council — the Chairman Sir James Menter , Sir Rex Richards , Sir Hans Kornberg and Professor John Cadogan — contributed their expertise to this slow painstaking process as did my colleagues in the Unit . |
| 22 | But here , luckily , you will be spared the difficulty that can arise through not having " seen " that murder since in all probability you will have begun your story by describing , in as much vivid and convincing detail as you can manage , the killing itself or its immediate circumstances as they affect the perpetrator . |
| 23 | Now in terms of whether it should be five thousand plus , that of course is a matter of whether there is demand , now my my conclusion , from my fairly extensive knowledge of Greater York , is that you just could not fit a new settlement that size satisfactorily into the settlement and landscape pattern of Greater York , or its immediate surrounds , I just can not identify a location where that could be where where the roads , the public transport , the landscape , or indeed the agricultural land quality , from now onto five an area , suitably large for that type of what would be a a new town . |
| 24 | The answer is that it is simply the degree of an experience 's pleasantness or painfulness taken at a moment , or its average pleasantness or painfulness over a period . |
| 25 | The best of deciding to be ordained is the knowledge that you dimly see your future and have the courage to embark on an irreversible way and feel that at least you commit yourself to help humanity in its suffering or its moral predicament . |
| 26 | advising a country or its monetary authorities |
| 27 | Functionalist Marxists continue to insist that rational comprehensive planning is only possible under socialism , despite a complete lack of evidence for this judgement in the operation of planning in the Soviet Union or its allied states ( Nove , 1983 ) . |
| 28 | Still prominent in art , folklore and literature , the live snake or its ubiquitous image influences millions of people in that country . |
| 29 | Williams has referred to ‘ a conception of literature as a series of authors to whom there must , must be ‘ personal evaluative response' ’ or its available facsimile . ’ |
| 30 | Furthermore , when dates are suggested for changes in these forms , they are usually given , without comment , as the dates at which the changes took place in this standard variety or its unilinear precursor , and not the dates at which they might have taken place in some other variety . |