Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lotta cooking in the fabulous kitchen ; Lotta relaxed on the teak and leather couch of the living-room enjoying the vista of the sea beyond the great beeches ; Lotta naked in the elegant bathroom , laughing beneath the shower , beckoning her handsome blond lover to join her ; Lotta sprawled on the black and white striped duvet cover of the large double bed , her shining gold cap of hair gleaming against its darkness , her body a pearly invitation … |
| 2 | Reference to pre-Chelsea days are rare , but Miller described in the Dictionary how he grew Monthly Roses ( the Autumn Damask ) in his original Southwark Nursery ; under glass against a warm wall , ‘ using dung placed against its backside , as practised by raising early fruits ’ , to produce roses in February , for which there must have been a ready market . |
| 3 | There is no automatic award given to its . |
| 4 | Just imagine going into a court of law to argue a case depending on its provisions . |
| 5 | The computer goes through its list of 7000 engineers and site workers , classified into five groups depending on location and qualifications , and decides how many to call . |
| 6 | As the play builds to its climax , loyalties are strained , and it is only when Alec decides to cast aside the chains of a lifetime 's obedience that his character truly comes to life . |
| 7 | This explains why English has recourse to a preposition , a word whose function is to establish a relation between two words when no mechanism of incidence is provided for by the words themselves , in order to make the infinitive incident to a support situated outside its event time . |
| 8 | Her book is not a comprehensive history of English garden design , but a much chancier , though equally delightful narrative depending for its emphasis on what happened to find its way into the collection . |
| 9 | Close by is the picturesque village of West Malling with its high street of protected buildings , scheduled as places of architectural interest . |
| 10 | It moves by jet-propulsion , squirting water through a siphon in a variation of the current-creating technique developed by its filter-feeding relatives . |
| 11 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's hot property for the Cebit computer fair in Hannover this year is the Active Badge system , an infra-red badge developed at its Cambridge research laboratory here in the UK and designed for access control and location applications . |
| 12 | If the idea itself is more important to you than the glory reflecting from its success , then raise the idea at a meeting so that it becomes an idea generated by a team . |
| 13 | Thus any construction with an adjective in postverbal position should differ in its semantic value from one using predicative position insofar , but only insofar , as the verb differs in its semantic value from zero . |
| 14 | There were ladders in both her stockings today and her hair spilled from its bun at all sides . |
| 15 | The problem remains of how to get the existing parliament to connive at its own demise . |
| 16 | Each case turns on its own facts but once the boundary between protectable secrets and general skill and knowledge is crossed the employer can not , even by way of express covenant , restrict the employee 's ability to use those skills once employment has ended ( Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler [ 1985 ] 1 All ER 724 ) . |
| 17 | However , whilst the decided cases may offer some guidance as to the general approach , their precedent value is limited because each case turns on its own circumstances . |
| 18 | ‘ The emphasis is upon the need for the board to include among its members persons with the skills and experience required to assess the risk of early release . |
| 19 | As in the case of the central government , the new Bihar ministry relied for its survival on the outside support of the two communist parties and the BJP . |
| 20 | The new award differs from its predecessor in that it includes management studies and also a module in ‘ Control and care of prisoners ’ . |
| 21 | THE Courtaulds Coatings site at Felling , UK , now has a Heartbeat healthy eating award to go with its sparkling new restaurant . |
| 22 | * The Pacific island state of Kiribati is suffering from growing water pollution problems as a result of sewage and animal effluent leaching into its already restricted freshwater supplies . |
| 23 | In order to test the coverage of the lexicon , the test part of the LOB corpus was retrieved and each word in the text checked for its existence in the lexicon . |
| 24 | Overland says it is to merge the Cipher Model M995 nine-track tape drives and Model T480 3480 cartridge drives with its own line . |
| 25 | The fearful noise abated in its intensity , trailed away and was gone . |
| 26 | The Cambridge board clearly perceived the Circular ; s exhortation as an opportunity to provide through its Rural Areas committee ( RAC ) both the forum and the mechanism called for and thus to develop its own role and expand its activities within a triumvirate of providers . |
| 27 | Certainly there can be no doubt that Islam looks at its most impressive in a great urban cathedral mosque , especially on an occasion like Id . |
| 28 | Again and again , we have found the key to the successful re-use of a building lies in its setting . |
| 29 | The fact that Paris was so rich a source of books — from de luxe manuscripts to ‘ soiled tracts and battered codices ’ — in part stemmed from its position and reputation as the greatest northern European centre of learning . |
| 30 | Paradoxically , the world governing body lags behind two of its member federations in implementing a measure recommended by its own specialist committee . |