Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] its " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | However , at the outset it may be said that to some extent the political objective of requiring the Community legislative institutions to bear those considerations in mind would appear already to be being observed ; for example , Council Decision 92/421 on tourism policy expressly refers in its recitals to ‘ the need to comply with the subsidiarity principle ’ . |
| 2 | Although still used for storage , the mill is slowly deteriorating and largely silent , long since stripped of its fulling stocks , its Boulton and Watt steam engine and water wheels . |
| 3 | Pitts Mill , now sometimes known as Oaklands Farm Mill , has been luckier and has , at least structurally , survived , although long since stripped of its manufacturing machinery . |
| 4 | Cattle , herded down to it along drove-ways used from time immemorial , slowly graze across its moist levels . |
| 5 | MOSCOW — Nagorny Karabakh , already effectively partitioned between its feuding Armenian and Azerbaijani communities into two armed camps , was yesterday facing further turmoil after the shooting by troops of an Armenian demonstrator in the capital , Stepanakert , on Tuesday , Rupert Cornwell writes . |
| 6 | The SPG was , however , highly controversial and widely criticized for its behaviour at demonstrations in particular . |
| 7 | Although his regime was credited with having introduced a degree of economic prosperity , it was widely criticized for its disregard for human rights . |
| 8 | The HDI was widely criticized for its complexity and for a system of weighting data which gave the United States the lowest HDI of any developed country ( owing to its high illiteracy rate ) . |
| 9 | The French government was consequently widely criticized for its presentation late on Jan. 14 of new proposals , of which no inkling was given at the EC ministerial meeting . |
| 10 | STYLISTICS , simply defined as the ( linguistic ) study of style , is rarely undertaken for its own sake , simply as an exercise in describing what use is made of language . |
| 11 | A related problem with copying other people 's arguments can be seen by comparing an excerpt from a plagiarised text ( a ) with the essay version derived from it ( b ) : ( a ) Stylistics , simply defined as the ( linguistic ) study of style , is rarely undertaken for its own sake , simply as an exercise in describing what use is made of language . |
| 12 | For some time , the mill stood idle and decaying , but was eventually stripped of its machinery and converted to two cottages . |
| 13 | There he had been rapturously received by its inhabitants , over whom his house had ruled for generations . |
| 14 | As Ras Makonnen 's son , he had been rapturously received by its inhabitants , and by his justice and humanity he soon merited this acclaim . |
| 15 | And now the Enstrom was rattling above the towers and spires of Cambridge , and they could see the shining curve of the river , the bright autumnal avenues leading down through green lawns to miniature hump-backed bridges , King 's College Chapel upturned and slowly rotating beside its great striped square of green . |
| 16 | The Witcombe reservoirs ( where the Horsebere originates ) opened around 1860 and were responsible for depleting the water supply to the mill , which eventually led to its downfall . |
| 17 | The All Black mean machine , battle-hardened if a little bruised from its Bledisloe Cup exertions , cut a clean swathe through South African provincial rugby . |
| 18 | It implies that the ‘ content ’ of a course may be intimately intertwined with its ‘ process ’ : the way it is taught , the staff who teach it , the environment it takes place in . |
| 19 | The aircraft has since departed for its new base at East Midlands Airport . |
| 20 | Since it gives only a single output there will be no distinction between the zero in its output due to an edge being properly located in its receptive field and a zero due to the absence of an edge altogether . |
| 21 | Much remains to be learned of their activities , but what is certain is that they had converts in high places — notably Edward Wood ( of whom more anon ) , Leo Amery , and Lord Hailey of African Survey fame and immense Colonial Office influence — and that through their publication of a journal widely respected for its seriousness they kept before the eyes of the political establishment the idea of a new kind of empire . |
| 22 | So , while McDonald 's is powerfully committed to its core values , it is constantly looking beyond the practices that made it successful in order to explore new opportunities . |
| 23 | It also contained a clause which effectively provided for its continued validity should the Soviet Union be dissolved or reconstituted . |
| 24 | In terms of an automatic ‘ welfare consensus ’ , the social contours of British society have been altered irrevocably , partly by the Thatcher revolution , partly by deeper economic trends , which Thatcherism did not create but successfully harnessed to its political project . |
| 25 | In response to the austerity measures introduced after the OPEC ban , including a three-day working week , they struck against the Conservative government of Edward Heath in 1975 , eventually contributing to its defeat . |
| 26 | A thick stolon was much delayed in its passage ; at one place it was forced to turn at right angles to its former course ; at another place it could not pass through the pins , and the hinder part became bowed ; it then curved upwards and passed through an opening between the upper part of some pins which happen to diverge ; it then descended and finally emerged through the crowd ’ ( Darwin , 1880 ) . |
| 27 | Although it is somewhat limited in its applications it is easy to operate and above all it is fun . |
| 28 | To begin with , its uses are somewhat limited by its bland taste — even enthusiasts agree that it needs to absorb flavours in a recipe such as a stir-fry or casserole to draw out its best qualities : though arguably it has slightly more taste and texture than tofu , tempeh and TVP . |
| 29 | She was quite uncritical of the sad , grand dress ; she understood only the pale , still doubtful , beauty , so wrong for its present period , so touching in its failure to be recognized or to please . |
| 30 | On Coricancha , the Inca sun temple , the Spaniards imposed the church of Santo Domingo : yet Coricancha , though long stripped of its golden sheathing , was still Samson — blinded , chained , but with all his dignity intact . |