Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] its " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Rather than fall , she clung to my arm — a gesture so trusting in its way as to melt the remains of my anger . |
5 | During employment the employee may damage his employer 's business in the following ways : ( a ) working for a competitor during his hours of employment ; ( b ) working for a competitor in his spare time ; ( c ) making preparations in order to compete with his employer after he has left ; ( d ) disclosing or using the employer 's business secrets ; or ( e ) failing to disclose information which may be of use to his employer and in some instances personally profiting from its use . |
6 | However , there are numerous communities where the Lubavitch rabbi has revived a community that was literally dying on its feet . ’ |
7 | For a terrible nine hours , the bombardment continued , constantly intensifying in its ferocious impact . |
8 | This is an imposing structure , somewhat resembling in its frontage on two streets the keep of a Norman castle . |
9 | The Ego is constantly chattering about its fears , worries and doubts , cluttering up our head with thoughts that go nowhere — just in case we decide to think for ourselves , to question , to explore new possibilities , to feel our suppressed emotions , to reach beyond our old ways of being , to develop a new vision . |
10 | Last night a large majority approved a motion to that effect by Mikhail Gorbachev , who admitted more bluntly than ever before that reforms , far from strengthening the economy , were merely adding to its immediate difficulties . |
11 | Swallows mix their mud with grass so adding to its strength , and pile pellet on pellet to build cup-shaped nests on ledges beneath house eaves . |
12 | Professor Cunliffe 's conclusions were that it was the rising water-table and neglect of the drainage system which caused serious and periodic flooding , so leading to its abandonment . |
13 | I have been a connoisseur of speech-making for a quarter of a century , but never before , in any country , had I met a personality so terrifying in its dynamic force , so vituperative , so vitriolic . |
14 | Her elder sister rebukes her : ‘ It 's only providing for its family ; it has a right to them . |
15 | Our rotten mainmast began whipping sickeningly to and fro and required five men constantly clinging to its lee mainstay to cushion the strain . |
16 | Perhaps then Britain is only losing from its delay in moving to ‘ post-Fordism ’ , and creating the flexible small modern factory . |
17 | Discretionary policy-making at a number of levels in the organization is thus the key to this system , perhaps corresponding in its internal fluidity to some of the features of Burns and Stalker 's organic model of organization . |
18 | In the production of surplus-value the state played no direct role , merely intervening in its division . |
19 | The city 's mayor , Vincent Schoemel , who is white , is constantly squabbling with its leading black politician , the comptroller , Virvus Jones . |
20 | On the left side the leaf rose a little , gently swaying from its own tensions , for there was now no breath of wind . |
21 | This is a hazard of taking a single community as the centre of a sociological universe , rarely venturing beyond its conceptual boundaries and , possibly , uncritically accepting the commonsense distinctions of our informants as being sufficient for analytical purposes . |
22 | Declaration of a republic , by the monarch or by Ministers , could have no legal effect upon legislation recognising the monarchy and would be revolutionary thus depending for its constitutionality upon acquiescence and effectiveness . |
23 | This was the usual practice when mail was given out : a recipient of a letter would normally get 150 , two letters 300 , and the penalties for a parcel were 500 and above depending on its contents . |
24 | 45755 : As before , Mravinsky 's Tchaikovsky Fifth is utterly compelling in its desperate urgency and irresistible momentum ; like the 1963 Olympia version ( 8/88 ) it is a fraction less fanatical , more humane than the famous DG issues . |
25 | In his address , the bishop who had confirmed Patrick and his year had urged compassion in sexual matters upon them , which had decided them all finally that the Church was a refuge for old women , and that Christianity was somehow neutering in its effect . |
26 | At a strategic level , Pearl is already looking beyond its immediate needs . |
27 | For the cabinet as a whole , though , talking about the need to replace or reform the poll tax proved easier than finally deciding on its replacement . |
28 | It was just lying on its poor back with its legs stuck up and a dreadfully resigned look on its dear face ! |
29 | Once the spit starts to form material is pushed along it by longshore drift , thus leading to its continued growth until it reaches water so deep that wave action is destructive . |
30 | Her eyes went straight to the wicker chair by the window where a baby was just waking from its morning sleep . |