Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] its " in BNC.

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1 A head with two huge eyes and antennae pressed over its back pushes through the pupa at one end .
2 However , the growing budget deficit and lax credit policies led to its devaluation from parity with the rouble and caused a near breakdown in trade between Ukraine and Russia .
3 Logica Plc is letting the Callserver Unix-based speech and call processing activities developed at its Cambridge research lab go in a management buyout for £187,000 and up to £1.3m over the next five years .
4 Logica Plc is letting the Callserver Unix-based speech and call processing activities developed at its Cambridge research lab go in a management buyout for £187,000 and up to £1.3m over the next five years .
5 MAFF is to allow scientists proposed by consumer groups to sit on its Advisory Committee on Pesticides .
6 WHEN walking across the upland fells of Britain , it is not uncommon to find the whitened jawbone of a long-dead sheep , teeth rattling in its sockets .
7 These are things that we can measure ; we can make measurements of the welfare of an animal ; the term ‘ welfare ’ refers to its state , and its state in particular in respect of its attempts to cope with its environment .
8 It also at various times gathered into its ambit important figures within general educational administration ( for example , Haddow , Sadler , Barker , Curzon , Mans bridge , and a host of college Heads , Registrars Provosts , and Vice Chancellors ) .
9 Love 's enemies profit from its unspecific claims , its grand capacity for isolationism So where do we start ?
10 The dog is given special tablets or capsules added to its food .
11 The first female is then shot a second time , and as the confused baby attempts to suckle from its dying mother , it too is despatched with a single bullet . ’
12 These will include : Does the scheme comply with the policies contained in its local plan ?
13 No other work of reference attempts to contain within its covers such a complete record of the English language , past and present .
14 The neurotoxins contained in its thousands of little venomous darts are strong enough to cause both extreme pain and sometimes even death .
15 Is it because of this herb 's insect-repelling oils and if so , were the birds attracted by its smell ?
16 It seems to be one of the valves sticking in its guide and the piston just tapping it as it reaches the top of its stroke .
17 Yet doubts remain about its heavy lending to property developers and over-borrowed companies .
18 When the BUF developed it created something of a stir as the various political parties adjusted to its presence .
19 Figure 6.5 Ants follow pheromone trails by balancing the concentrations smelled through its two antennae .
20 His lips pressed to its coolness
21 Mr Parkinson told the Commons yesterday that BR would be given three months to report on its progress .
22 The machine works by shining a light on subjects placed on its conveyor belt and the area of the shadow is measured .
23 Whether or not The Times did seriously entertain the possibility of vigilante self-defence , there were indeed serious considerations placed before its readers during the alarms of 1856 .
24 There was some kind of housecat in there , but it was the size of a moose , had white skunkmarks down its back , and the buds of vestigial extra heads hanging in its neckfur .
25 Ridgery Butts was a slovenly , poor village , clay and thatch hovels clustered about its church and windmill .
26 Established around 1230 by the Welsh prince Llywelyn the Great , the castle stands perched on its rocky peninsula over the little seaside resort and commands superb views over Tremadog Bay .
27 Earlier this year the SFO was forced to increase the value of frauds qualifying for its attention from £2m to £5m .
28 MI6 remains to this day a secret organisation that does not officially exist despite the fact that in recent years there have been numerous books written about its activities .
29 Ford imports the Merkur , a line of cars made by its West German subsidiary , while GM fabricates the body of its Cadillac Allante in Italy .
30 Chapter 6 formalises a decision-making model in which a household may take up a number of different income opportunities according to its capability and the ‘ entry costs ’ of such opportunities .
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