Example sentences of "[noun sg] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some ways it resembles a barchan ( see Chapter 11 ) , but the arms trail , whereas in a barchan the arms or horns lead : the barchan presents its convex face to the wind , the parabolic dune its concave face . |
| 2 | It was concern about prostitution , venereal disease , maternal mortality and the control of female sexuality that gave gynaecology its distinctive qualities . |
| 3 | We might well be inclined to call this intentional object the context of the emotional arousal for it is the cognitive relationship with a particular context that gives the emotion its particular characteristics . |
| 4 | In electro magnetism , the repulsion between two electrons can be pictured as the exchange of a photon — a particle that has to be massless to give the force its infinite range , its inverse square law . |
| 5 | Lengthy instructions are best handled by way of an addendum sheet in order to keep the standard form as succinct as possible , bearing in mind its subsequent use as a contractual and financial document . |
| 6 | In the government 's mind its single-minded agency approach assumes an entrepreneurial ability that contrasts with the alleged inflexibility and bureaucratic ethos of local authorities . |
| 7 | Using genetic engineering , the company Delta Biotechnology has inserted into yeast the human gene for the manufacture of haemoglobin , the protein that gives blood its scarlet colour and transports oxygen to tissues around the body . |
| 8 | MOTORSPORT : Benetton will give their B193 Formula One car its racing debut at next week 's South African Grand Prix — and then replace it with an even newer model after just three races . |
| 9 | The plaintiffs made an application for an interlocutory injunction to restrain the defendant from disclosing to the regulatory body or to the revenue its confidential information or documents . |
| 10 | This is why we do not want to abandon the term inner city , either analytically or politically , only to ground it in the academic debates which have reproduced it conceptually , the political debates that have refashioned it discursively and , most significantly , the social injustices and inequalities that lend the term its emotive power and mobilising force . |
| 11 | Apart from the obvious point that it fails to produce uniformity its principal defect is that it leads to the application of a particular national law which is likely to have been devised for domestic transactions and may well be ill-suited to those which are international in character . |
| 12 | The lobbying from the dyestuffs interest gave the programme its empirical direction . |
| 13 | It was the combination of large circulation share and a large number of titles that gave concentration its distinctive character in 1990 . |
| 14 | I could see by the light of his torch that the cave was deep and spacious ; I could not make out from the beam of light its total dimensions , but clearly a man would have had no problem stretching out to sleep there . |
| 15 | When viewed in this light its theoretical position and its influence in relation to the social movements of Fabianism and New Liberalism may be revealed . |
| 16 | Situated close to the harbour its nautical connections ( it was once owned by a local shipowner ) are very evident — all the bedrooms are named after local sailing ships . |
| 17 | But Weber gives wertrational action its own standing and importance and , when we come to think about expressive rationality later , we shall return to the topic . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , they will continue to play a vitally important role in post-16 provision , a role which may well increase if , for example , West Glamorgan puts into practice its stated intention of creating tertiary colleges . |
| 19 | In practice its major consequences are : ( a ) the assignment of responsibility for assisting a team preparing a review to individual members of committees higher up the tree ; and ( b ) collapsing levels , e.g. by having MMRC members attend a department 's review of its own fields , so that there is no need for a separate event and the process of review can be observed . |
| 20 | Germany put in to practice its social ideology and policy in a much more vigorous way than Italy did . |
| 21 | Drawing on our discussion of paragraph organisation in general , and opening paragraphs in particular ( pp. 92 – 4 ) , revise the passage in ways that present to best effect its main points . |
| 22 | It is decadent literature , intoxicated with its own rarefication and artifice , its theatrical élitim mand its lofty decination inationto oblige . |
| 23 | Another skitter of light behind his eye broke the hold of sensation , and he was once again entire — his prick its modest length — and she not darkness but a body through which waves of iridescence seemed to pass . |
| 24 | It is the characteristic chemical products of such enzymes that give a cell its individual shape and behaviour . |
| 25 | This would stop , say , Sears putting on a Prime Option Visa card its own store account numbers or numbers for other financial services that it offers through its Dean Witter subsidiary . |
| 26 | Penury , moral as well as physical , is signified in the Barton household when money is wanting to purchase the soap and brushes , black-lead and pipe-clay which had given the houseplace its cheerful look in more prosperous days . |
| 27 | Economics has been roundly dismissed as a miserable science , and to the layman its contradictory conclusions and evident practical inabilities are more likely to provoke scorn than respect . |
| 28 | Fru Møller , who resented the embargo on her taste within the house , and frequently complained of the frustration she endured at having to maintain the past in all its detail , enjoyed the discipline the White Garden imposed , the contacts that it brought her in the gardening world , and the admiration its unusual beauty reflected upon her . |
| 29 | For an instant its bright light glistened on a thousand shades of wet green leaves . |
| 30 | no particular reason for the rise its general movements and not a serious movement as far as we 're concerned includes the whole element of debtors from ourselves to our wholesale debtors which is our own manufacturing operation where they 're selling to outside customers there 's nothing particularly significant in that . |