Example sentences of "[vb past] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten days after the inspection of the Musée Jacquemart-André , however , the Cour des Comptes caused further amazement by publishing a communiqué which contradicted its own inventory of April 1991 and simply ignored the one ordered by the instructing magistrate . |
| 2 | The ISSC proposed its own work programme in the Human Dimensions of Global Change in late 1990 . |
| 3 | Addressing what is called ‘ The Jewish Question ’ , the magazine proposed its own answer . |
| 4 | This feudal system was replaced by the capitalist mode of production , which created its own state system to serve the interests of the owners of the means of capitalist production . |
| 5 | Such an imposition created its own problems . |
| 6 | Each generation created its own myth of stability and fastened upon disorderly juvenile elements in its own culture to prove the thesis . |
| 7 | Three files were full , now , and Yggdrasil created its own spellcheck to access and deal with the problem . |
| 8 | The Word of God , he held , makes its own ‘ point of contact ’ , created its own space in which to work , and must be allowed to do so freely . |
| 9 | It is doubtful , however , how far the salt trade created its own lanes and tracks . |
| 10 | Although the Hervert Laming letter of 13 December 1992 created its own furore about what should be written down , senior managers had already been debating for six months about whether care managers should bluff users and relatives about the money available for them . |
| 11 | This is , of course , very different from the classical model where ‘ supply created its own demand ’ : in the Keynesian model , it is demand which determines how much is supplied . |
| 12 | So mestizo culture — reluctant to let go of tradition — created its own deity to host the yearly handout . |
| 13 | Plumford Grammar School , like all societies , mysteriously created its second-class citizens and Bill Coleby had been one of them . |
| 14 | Odd that our participants rated its financial soundness below that of Land Securities , one of Britain 's few financially secure property companies . |
| 15 | In the Land elections in Bavaria on Oct. 14 , the first since the death on Oct. 3 , 1988 , of the CSU 's charismatic leader Franz-Josef Strauss [ see p. 36496 ] , the CSU maintained its absolute majority . |
| 16 | The Israeli government maintained its absolute refusal to grant the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) a direct role in the second-stage talks . |
| 17 | Indeed , even when the Schools Council diverted its attention to the whole curriculum , in contrast to its preoccupation with individual areas or aspects , it maintained its non-recommendatory stance . |
| 18 | The refurbishment was overseen by the Property Department in London whose brief was to ensure that Drummonds maintained its traditional character and ambiance while creating a ‘ state of the art ’ working environment to equip the Bank for its fourth century . |
| 19 | Under his direction , the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee maintained its traditional line that O'Neill was not responding to the legitimate demands of a disadvantaged section of the population , but giving in to the demands of rebels who would never be satisfied with anything less than the destruction of Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | While The Saturday Review maintained its critical viewpoint with several incisive articles . |
| 21 | The North Korean delegation maintained its established position that issues such as nuclear inspection could be discussed only when relations with Japan had been normalized and could not be included within the normalization process itself . |
| 22 | The collective noun for each of these types is ‘ coffin' , but the trade maintained its own nomenclature for the constituent parts . |
| 23 | Indian patronage was further divided by the intended destination in India , for military cadets were not appointed for service in India at large , but to a particular presidency , each of which maintained its own army . |
| 24 | The opposition SDPJ failed to repeat its 1989 triumph , although it won 22 seats and maintained its pre-election strength of 69 upper house members . |
| 25 | Although a record 2,200 people were killed in New York City , Washington DC maintained its unofficial title of " murder capital of the USA " with 483 killings , the highest per capita rate in the country . |
| 26 | They exercised power in the name of the emperor , and the imperial family maintained its nominal supremacy and its role as the nation 's highest religious authority . |
| 27 | The ruling Baath Party maintained its dominant position in the Assembly , although its proportion of seats fell from 66 per cent in 1986 to 54 per cent . |
| 28 | The City of London itself , the square mile comprising the financial and commercial heart of the capital , retained its ancient privileges and independence . |
| 29 | Acute medicine retained its traditional dominance and the DHSS almost openly acknowledged its inability to make central objectives stick when it watered down its projected growth rates for the priority services in The Way Forward , produced in 1977 . |
| 30 | On its fiftieth anniversary in 1940 the BDDA therefore still retained its traditional image of an organisation run by dedicated volunteers . |