Example sentences of "[vb past] its [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such an imposition created its own problems . |
| 2 | It is doubtful , however , how far the salt trade created its own lanes and tracks . |
| 3 | Plumford Grammar School , like all societies , mysteriously created its second-class citizens and Bill Coleby had been one of them . |
| 4 | The City of London itself , the square mile comprising the financial and commercial heart of the capital , retained its ancient privileges and independence . |
| 5 | The LDP 's largest faction , that associated with former Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita , retained its six portfolios , although its influence continued to be diminished by the current struggle for its control between Takeshita himself and his old associate Shin Kanemaru . |
| 6 | The Church looked to Jesus as the new lawgiver who had abrogated the ceremonial precepts of the Old Covenant or Testament but retained its moral precepts . |
| 7 | As a consequence , the condition of the peasantry in twelfth-century France varied markedly from community to community' , the extremes of contrast coming between those villages on the royal demesne protected by the customs of Lorris , and those in Champagne where serfdom retained its original rigours , where peasants remained the property of their lords , their labour services heavy , their safeguards against exploitative lordship non-existent . |
| 8 | Sinn Fein , including chairman Tom Hartley , retained its three seats in the Lower Falls and took a fourth from the SDLP . |
| 9 | In provincial elections in Vorarlberg on Oct. 8 , 1989 , the ÖVP retained its 20 seats and an overall majority in the Landtag ( provincial parliament ) , suffering only marginal losses of votes . |
| 10 | In 1979 , the Spanish government bent its own guidelines on pay increases in deficit public corporations . |
| 11 | This period of enforced idleness , however , was not wasted , as Stirling 's ever-fertile brain analysed the progress of the war in the Middle East and drew its own conclusions . |
| 12 | He recently vexed rumour-mongers , who bet on a bid for Midland sooner rather than later , by declining to disclose Hongkong Bank 's inner reserves when the bank reported its 1989 results on March 13th . |
| 13 | Robert Thornber of The Guardian described its three writers as authors of ‘ national stature ’ . |
| 14 | Thomson described its cut-price deals , which go on sale from Boxing Day , as a late Christmas present . |
| 15 | The civil service , like the private telegraph companies , found its female employees to be competent , ‘ docile ’ workers , with the additional advantage of being cheaper to employ than men . |
| 16 | Visitors in the nineteenth century found its columned halls crowded with mean hovels , the slums of Luxor . |
| 17 | Somewhere in the annexe on this side , where the Government Commission pursued its sober tasks , Summerchild lived out his working life . |
| 18 | The ‘ great divide ’ has been re-established , by the appeal to literacy , apparently on a ‘ scientific ’ basis and apparently without the offensive appeals to inherent cultural and intellectual superiority that discredited its early phases . |
| 19 | Fiona Reynolds , Director of the Council for the Protection of Rural England , warned that unless the government changed its economic priorities , " the effectiveness of economic instruments can only be marginal — like fiddling while Rome burns " . |
| 20 | While the concerto had sounded complete and satisfying in its original three-movement format , the additional movements opened up new horizons and changed its structural proportions without distorting any of its existing perspectives . |
| 21 | Thorngumbald was once renowned for its Agriculture and Flower Show until costs and age overtook its original helpers . |
| 22 | The dog sank its powerful jaws into the boy 's face when it suddenly turned on him as he played at his home in Alton , Hants . |
| 23 | Asparagus , ignoring the growth of weeds , sank its serpentine roots far down to where bones , once carrying flesh for foxhounds , now formed the foundation for the greatest asparagus beds in the county ; its spears were famed for their luscious , indecent appearance , when served at Sunday luncheon parties from early May to the end of June . |
| 24 | All titles , all baubles to be inherited , purchased or corruptly obtained , none needing the effort of virtue or the talent of merit , all the gift of a grateful country to a ruling body which ground its larger numbers into the dust . |
| 25 | As early as 1741 , St. George 's Church stopped its traditional bull-subscriptions and Harrod writing in 1785 commented that ‘ the Chief Magistrate will not suffer him [ the bull ] to set a foot in his barn , nor his stable , nor anything that is his ’ . |
| 26 | Integral to this research was an understanding of how the healthy body provided its own defences against invading bacteria by developing anti-toxins . |
| 27 | The CEGB devoted its considerable resources to submitting the claims of any acid rain damage to the greatest possible scientific scrutiny . |
| 28 | As the match entered its final stages Civil Service thrust forward again using the long ball into the circle . |
| 29 | The British Security Service used its ancient cellars as a training school for such delicate matters . |
| 30 | A stay in Traben-Trarbach is a restful experience , one known at least since the Romans first used its hot springs . |