Example sentences of "[vb past] its [det] [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 | The collective noun for each of these types is ‘ coffin' , but the trade maintained its own nomenclature for the constituent parts . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I never saw anything like it ; nobody ever saw anything to equal the infinite age which was graven on that fearful countenance , no bigger now than that of a two months old child , though the skull retained its same size ; and let all men pray they never shall , if they wish to keep their reason . |
| 16 | first , some peripheral areas were excluded from the new Greater London area ( see Map 2. 1 ) ; second , the number of boroughs was reduced to thirty-two ( plus the City of London which received the responsibilities of a borough but retained its own status ) ( see Table 2. 1 ) ; third , education became the responsibility of a new ad hoc body in Inner London and the enlarged boroughs in Outer London . |
| 17 | But it had been decentralised without attacking the big cost structures and without the addition of any procedures , with the result that two functional layers were beginning to develop business managers were starting to grow their own subsidiary boards with their own functional capability while the organisation as a whole retained its own capability . |
| 18 | The green light for the X100 brings to an end nine months of heart searching at Browns Lane while Ford invited its own design offices to submit plans for a new Jaguar sports car . |
| 19 | On the other hand , what they actually did was usually very difficult to relate to the requirements of socialist revolution , particularly since it typically victimised its own class rather than capitalists . |
| 20 | In 1979 , the Spanish government bent its own guidelines on pay increases in deficit public corporations . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Finally , from its privileged vantage point to diagnose any deterioration in the national character , the National Front described its own understanding of pre-war social realities in a leaflet offering advice to schoolchildren on Now to Spot a Red Teacher ( 1977 ) : ‘ Tell the Red Teacher the poor whites during the Great Slump did n't commit muggings on defenceless old ladies . ’ |
| 23 | So Hanson went ahead and brought in outside touring companies that offered simple sets , and a cast of up to ten people , who could stage a place that found its own level in front of people who did n't think twice about live theatre apart from taking their youngsters to the pantomime at Christmas . |
| 24 | Examples of underpresenting lots at Sotheby 's included lot 9 , ‘ Three figures at a table ’ by a follower of Caravaggio , which found its own price at £105,000 ( $168,000 , est. £20,000–30,000 ) ; lot 12 ‘ Christ in the house of Martha and Mary ’ by Vasari , ‘ the cheapest Vasari I 've ever seen ’ , was one comment , which made £9,000 ( $14,400 ) ; and lot 92 , ‘ The Annunciation ’ , a late work by Procaccini which made £92,000 ( $147,200 , est. £20,000–30,000 ) . |
| 25 | But to return to our historical account , as if the picture was not already complicated enough , the Ministry of Education found its own way of promoting drama — to align it with Physical Education , a policy which was gradually put forward by certain Inspectors for Physical Education over a period of 20 years from about 1945 . |
| 26 | But the fact that each group came into existence in its own time and for its own reasons , and found its own identity and direction , means that we need have no fear about it losing its autonomy vis-à-vis the other groups . |
| 27 | Thus the BEA ( though still constrained by annual capital budgets agreed with the Ministry ) found its own task in meeting the satisfactorily buoyant demand for electricity less constrained by physical shortages . |
| 28 | ‘ His hip had come out of its socket and found its own socket in the muscle . |
| 29 | The call was likely to go unheeded , however , as the BNP pursued its own policy of building up links to create an anti-Awami League alliance . |
| 30 | As pop 's glitterati edged towards maturity , the Prince 's Trust and Amnesty International , the thing called Rock pursued its own path . |