Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Rents should be related to the capital value of the property , thereby reflecting its popularity in market terms ’ . |
| 2 | It is human nature to advocate change in someone else 's affairs whilst vigorously opposing its necessity in one 's own . |
| 3 | It may or may not resolve America 's awesome economic problems , but there can be little denying its radicalism . |
| 4 | A second ditch was cut in the berm west of the palisade , presumably necessitating its removal . |
| 5 | Regulatory capture implies that the regulator gradually comes to identify with the interests of the firm is regulates , eventually becoming its champion , not its watchdog . |
| 6 | For a decade now the developed world has been celebrating African music while altogether denying its otherness . |
| 7 | Israel had announced in October that it would attend the Ottawa talks , thereby ending its boycott of the multilateral refugee negotiations [ see p. 39167 for Israeli participation in multilateral regional economic co-operation talks in Paris in late October ] . |
| 8 | Instead of a genet locally consolidating its occupancy of a site , individual stolons wander as linear extensions of the genet into surrounding vegetation . |
| 9 | But along the way Alice Thomas Ellis creates an ironic and vivid portrait of London , brilliantly catching its degradation and waste . |
| 10 | This not only leaves little for continued growth into the future , but also means that the society 's solvency margins have been reduced , so inhibiting its investment freedom and with it , investment performance . |
| 11 | If undue influence in the full sense is not made out but the element of pressure , surprise , misrepresentation or some or one of them combine with or cause a misunderstanding or failure to understand the documents or transaction , the final question must be whether the grounds upon which the creditor believed that the document was fairly obtained and executed by a woman sufficiently understanding its purport and effect were such that it would be inequitable to fix the creditor with the consequences of the husband 's improper or unfair dealing with his wife . |
| 12 | ‘ the final question [ is ] whether the grounds upon which the creditor believed the document was fairly obtained and executed by a woman sufficiently understanding its purport and effect were such that it would be inequitable to fix the creditor with the consequences of the husband 's improper and unfair dealing with his wife . |
| 13 | Further evidence , calculated to show that in so expressing its will , the House was duped , mistaken or careless , would run the risk of falling foul of privilege and would therefore have to be eschewed . |
| 14 | Aside from having the industry 's longest serving chairman , BMW today is the one big car company in the world without any cross shareholdings or collaborative links with other companies , fiercely guarding its independence . |
| 15 | The phrases in this second category can be completely eliminated by re-phrasing the sentence and so improving its construction and sense . |
| 16 | With Britain getting closer to Iran and with the US constantly improving its rapport with Syria , we felt that now we were all together , we could be released without having to wait for all the governments to restore relations . |
| 17 | A little over a mile from Lucca , a turning leads to a vast park of age old oak , cork and bay trees surrounding the Villa San Michele , jealously guarding its serenity . |
| 18 | South Africa 's second-largest mining group , Gencor , is to unbundle its non-mining interests , perhaps halving its market capitalisation of 16 billion rand ( $1 billion ) in the process . |
| 19 | Take , for instance , a small family business constantly renewing its plant and equipment . |
| 20 | In flight the wedge-shaped tail of the rook is supposed to help identification , but it 's hard to spot as the bird is constantly moving its tail . |
| 21 | The information was also accurate ; Nationalist Spain , based on the agricultural regions of Spain and constantly expanding its territory faster than its population , was never short of food . |
| 22 | ( More traditional pedagogy went for appreciation rather than analysis , urging the reader to a direct experience of the poem , perhaps inhaling its beauty like the scent of a flower ; but the underlying process was similar . ) |
| 23 | As Gray and Jenkins ( 1985 , p. 165 ) put it , the FMI ‘ might allow a change in the public image of accountability without much affecting its practice ’ . |
| 24 | Taylor opposed the ECOMOG intervention , apparently regarding its arrival as intervention on the side of Doe just when the latter was on the brink of defeat , and threatened reprisals against nationals of the countries providing troops for ECOMOG . |
| 25 | EC commission sources said that Sir Leon Brittan , competition commissioner , would be looking at the deal to see if Air France was breaking EC rules , in so tightening its grip on short-haul air services within mainland Europe . |
| 26 | Hirtle ( 1975 : 124 ) makes this successivity explicit when he diagrams his analysis of modal will in At one o'clock they will eat lunch : The role of will is described as that of " keeping the infinitive beyond the stretch of time containing the present of actual consciousness " and so situating its event in the future . |
| 27 | For the exasperated livestock farmer , with fears for the future of his pig unit or broiler house , for the fruit-grower alarmed by the possibility of a poisonous spray inadvertently finding its way into the metabolism of a casual passerby , and for the cereals farmer who does not take kindly to his best malting barley being trampled down in order to create an impromptu picnic site , the simplest solution is to go in for siege tactics . |
| 28 | If its policy seemed more or less radical at different times it was n't necessarily changing its view of land reform , but it was keeping its final goal of socialism in sight so it had to make short term expediencies . |
| 29 | Alternatively , p53 may interact more directly with the repair machinery , perhaps increasing its fidelity but delaying repair so that lesion-induced apoptotic signals are sustained . |
| 30 | It was bi-pod mounted , which kept its weight down to 11kg/25lb , so increasing its mobility . |